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Derthek said:
xD you read my mind. This is why i hang out here. I belong.
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If I may quote Niels Bohr...."Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

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mrtree said:
No, I did multiple drops in the same place a couple weeks ago. After each of the three drops, even after "settling" for a minute or two, the UA was pointed in a completely different direction. If it's a compass, it's a terrible one.
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Just to confirm my status as a total looney - what system were you in?
 

Derthek

Derthek
daygobah said:
Would it be illegal for someone to say extract the UA's sound files from the game directory? It would make it easier to hear the morse codes.
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This actually has been done. Not by me, but an associate.

He claimed that the UA file contained 100 sound files that ranged from 1 second to 10 seconds long.

This brought us to the theory that the sounds were stored client side, and arranged by the server to produce any sound the server desired. With 100, 1 second clips you could produce almost any word in the English language.

This theory was proved right when the UA was found to produce morse code based on which system it was in. Basically, the sound files are stored on your computer and the server puts them in an order that produces the correct morse code based on what system the server sees that you are in.

Having not had the chance (or the drive, really) to Scooby-Doo the UA files myself I can't say whether there is anything more to it.

As an aside, all this talk about tea makes me wonder.
Thargoid starts with the letter T. *twilight zone*
 

Wishblend

Wishblend
LordZoltan said:
So, like, this is a point. I said a while ago whether the UA identifies capital ships, but there are none in deep space to test it, thinking that it might help simply find the wreckage.

But, actually, we know the Morse broadcasts the nearest body, based on mass (& therefore gravity) attenuated by the distance. If there is a dark gravitational anomaly out there, and it has an identity, then the UA would identify it.

Back to the Dark object idea again, for which we have seen no other evidence in-game... Bah...
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There is a capital ship in Earth orbit at this time.
 

mrtree

mrtree
Nicholas Powell said:
Good. Keep up the good work terrorising the smug little git.

And on that spiteful and frustrated note, an idea for a test just sprang to mind. Another one designed to confuse and/or annoy the UA so I'm sure it can result in nothing of any value whatsoever. Other than getting one back on the sod.
On the plus side, it could be (literally) speedily done...

Has a Bearer achieved a loop-de-loop g-force red-out while lugging a UA around in normal space?

Honestly, there really is some quasi-reasoning behind this query but if it should delightedly shriek "Wheeeeeeee!" and ask to go again, it's obviously in the wrong FDev game.
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Consider the smug little git terrorized. I ran short on time tonight to play, but tested:

1. Red-out with the UA in the hold
2. Observed the ship through the UA's "cloud"
3. Tried a power surge of shields coming back online while nearly touching the UA

Nothing seems to have done much - https://youtu.be/KEMi23ORsSk - but there's the video for verification/examination.

I headed to I Bootis anyhow (with an in-system station named "Maher Stellar Research", how could I not?) but didn't get any testing done.

Also, for Han_Zen, a full-lit view of the top of the UA:

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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
mrtree said:
Consider the smug little git terrorized. I ran short on time tonight to play, but tested:

1. Red-out with the UA in the hold
2. Observed the ship through the UA's "cloud"
3. Tried a power surge of shields coming back online while nearly touching the UA

Nothing seems to have done much - https://youtu.be/KEMi23ORsSk - but there's the video for verification/examination.

I headed to I Bootis anyhow (with an in-system station named "Maher Stellar Research", how could I not?) but didn't get any testing done.

Also, for Han_Zen, a full-lit view of the top of the UA:

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Thanks for the pic.

It's two pairs of flippers and two pairs of lobster claws isn't it?

Strange stuff.
 

Kerrash

Kerrash
daygobah said:
Would it be illegal for someone to say extract the UA's sound files from the game directory?

Then we could use that info to help figure out what the UA's are saying? By cancelling out the gobbly gook sounds.

Just wondering?

Could a Mod say if we could do this or does this conflict with any user agreement we signed for the forum or the game itself?


It would make it easier to hear the morse codes.
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Extracting game data files is most likely against the EULA, I would advise not doing that :(
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Wishblend said:
There is a capital ship in Earth orbit at this time.
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Yeah, but there's also the 'Warrior', to which, I think, CMDR Branch took the UA. That's in orbit around a gas giant in Achenar, and the UA Morse was for the planet, not the ship.

I meant a cap ship that's in deep space - if we had one of those, then a nearby UA might tap out the ship's name - that would be something that might support the idea of it being a useful Spaceship One detector.

There's too many ifs though - and I don't believe there is a cap ship in deep space.

I've repped Rizal72's recent discovery of a UA along Halsey's route. Here's something: the exploration CG that kicked off after she disappeared was for locations at least 250ly from Azaleach.

Could be a cunning way to get CMDRs outside a bubble of space where UA convoys were appearing.
 

simulacrae

simulacrae
LordZoltan said:
Here's something: the exploration CG that kicked off after she disappeared was for locations at least 250ly from Azaleach.

Could be a cunning way to get CMDRs outside a bubble of space where UA convoys were appearing.
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Nice - I didn't remember that.... 250ly is a bit of a detour
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
simulacrae said:
Im seeing a four leaf clover ... and you know what that means ..... LEPRECHAUNS !
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The covers on the "corners" are only three leaf.
Or are those tea leafs? ;-)

There are eight "leafs" four big (flippers?) and four smal (lobster claws).

Or it's two LEPRECHAUNS. In that case we need to get the UA to blink in all colors of the rainbow :)
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
The text of the CG recorded on the ACG thread was :

One last contact with the President came from the XX system, just 75 ligth years from our current position. Unfortunately, information provided by the Sirius Corporation and Core Dynamics suggests that Starship One could now be anywhere within at least a 200 light year radius of Azaleach.
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The language is a bit tortuous, but that means within an unknown radius, that is at least 200ly.
 
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Grumbleweed

Grumbleweed
Mad theory #4528.

The UA acts as a temporary decoy system beacon, so when deployed somewhere, it appears to a ships computer as a nav beacon, and drops out of witchspace. Into the welcoming arms, for example, a federal President assassination party. Then it self destructs and nobody is any the wiser.

How to test this theory? Not sure, but maybe deploy one, then have a wingman fly around in supercruise to see what appears in the nav panel. Then deploy one in system x, and wingman jumps from system y to system x, and see what happens.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Dommarraa said:
The text of the CG recorded on the ACG thread was :



The language is a bit tortuous, but that means within an unknown radius, that is at least 200ly.
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Thanks for the clarification - and torturous it was, yes ;)

I remember I used it as an excuse to hit up the Pleiades. Nice nebula - but I too wasted time doing deep scans when all they were after was honks.

Got a mill I think from that. Not a bad day or three's work I suppose.
 

nilreb

nilreb
Kerrash said:
Extracting game data files is most likely against the EULA, I would advise not doing that :(
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To "teasing" you a little bit:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=141038&p=2174898&viewfull=1#post2174898
But with no doubts the most CMDR's would love to solve this in game without external book recommendations, reverse engineering or other externals.
How about my in game finding: "to the rim!" only submited to me (2th ASP was gone) after a starting chatter between two NPC ASP and a big jump? :D
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=162998&p=2572148&viewfull=1#post2572148
But i don't have had a UA in cargo at this time ...
We salute you!
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
LordZoltan said:
Thanks for the clarification - and torturous it was, yes ;)

I remember I used it as an excuse to hit up the Pleiades. Nice nebula - but I too wasted time doing deep scans when all they were after was honks.

Got a mill I think from that. Not a bad day or three's work I suppose.
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BTW the CG was FAILED, so a clue was probably lost
 
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