Well people like me in my Cobra are unlikely to gain an UA without assistance, so I see no reason to discredit the possibility of numbers making things easier.
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Well people like me in my Cobra are unlikely to gain an UA without assistance, so I see no reason to discredit the possibility of numbers making things easier.
That's interesting - I wonder if anywhere has one of these with 3, 6, 9 or 12 bits around it. Maybe in the right circumstances the 4 sets of 3 "arms" of the UA revolve to change the profile. Or keeping it simple just a 3 pronged one would do.
edit: given the paucity of ways to accurately manipulate the UA it's a long shot though
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Just to be aware the funny squelch pop sound is me taking salfies with a hot key on roccat
it stands put like a sore thumb so it can be ignored !
I'm not saying it would not make it easier to get one - just that I would be surprised if a wing of four was needed to reveal something once you have it.
Edit: As someone who usually flies alone (in Open or Mobius) I would be a bit peeved if this were to be the case, as it would set a precedent for other such in-game puzzles as well. Particularly if I could ever get my hands on a UA.
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I agree with you on the whole and like you said its an easy enough test, but some will get it and some won't. Odd clue phrases which I'm beginning to distrust.......
Yes it could, but the UA has never seemed to make any difference to the plauge.
I realy hope it can find Dark systems
As do I - or at least dark masses.
So how would that manifest?
1 - misjump into dark system. Method of triggering? Unknown, but all other attempts by brave CMDRs to do this have failed - so one would expect it simply to happen when carrying a UA. Most of the UAs are very well-travelled and it hasn't happened - so does this rule that idea out? I think so.
2 - New location on map available when UA stowed. Again, the things are well travelled and nobody's noticed anything like that yet... But... One wonders exactly how a CMDR is meant to know where to look on the map! Could be a place that definitely should be in a well-known place (from lore) but isn't, and only shows when you have UA onboard but also, possibly, when you're near the location. Lore-fiends? Any systems we can definitely place, relative to other locations we do have, that are missing?
3 - Picking up a new target in a system while in SC and UA stowed. I.e. the UA unlocks a previously hidden location from an ADS. Or, you have to re-do the ADS with it stowed for it to work. Again, though, we'd need likely systems to try this out.
4 - We come across a planet or other body in a system where it's name is 'unknown' or similar - I.e. where the standard system naming convention doesn't hold. Dropping the UA nearby might yield Morse for a proper name. Again, though - need likely system *and*, more importantly, no such body has been found by anyone ever that we know of.
5 - In some system or other (see above!) there is a substantial mass or other object the UA can identify that we cannot see. My biggest issue with this would be that there's nothing in the UA's behaviour that could read as a distance indicator, only identification - so at best all it could do is tell us there's something there that we can't see.
Have I missed anything? What do you guys think? Favourite ones from this list? Systems that should be visited based on this? Are our UA carriers willing to go on a stomp to a few places based on these ideas?
I've already suggested taking another good look in Soontill. Regardless of anything - it's an important location from lore, and a few of the ideas listed above could be carried out there reasonably easily
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Ok, I still have some catching up to do thread-wise, but in the meantime take a look at the first few episodes of Little Bob's Big Adventure here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYXnGp63e8G9M9YwN4lMwgQ/videos
(Jokes aside this will be the place for the collection of the UA tests I'm doing, lacking a better alternative. Enjoy.)
(Jokes aside this will be the place for the collection of the UA tests I'm doing, lacking a better alternative. Enjoy.)
Sorry for the CAPS but I cannot use bold from mobile.
BTW I'm wondering if you've watched the video I'm talkin about, before replying: it is a first time in 4 months. Only one Purr, no bg sound. I'm not saying that the solution will be revealed only to a wing of four, but that something interesting could happen. And remember the UA came out together with Wings.
Whatch the video, please.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6qsf525u...view=Desktop+08.09.2015+-+19.33.03.17.DVR.mp4
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This falls in with my theory that it's some sort of incubation chamber or cocoon for tharglets to mature. What if humanity is the "bacteria" that the thargoids want to destroy, and these pods are intended to be taken aboard stations / outposts / ships, where the tharglets emerge as thargoids and destroy the location?
Loose I know, in addition to the fact that based on the dark wheel, humanity is more than aware of tharglets, and as such would likely detect them before any "hatching" could happen.
As do I - or at least dark masses.
So how would that manifest?
1 - misjump into dark system. Method of triggering? Unknown, but all other attempts by brave CMDRs to do this have failed - so one would expect it simply to happen when carrying a UA. Most of the UAs are very well-travelled and it hasn't happened - so does this rule that idea out? I think so.
2 - New location on map available when UA stowed. Again, the things are well travelled and nobody's noticed anything like that yet... But... One wonders exactly how a CMDR is meant to know where to look on the map! Could be a place that definitely should be in a well-known place (from lore) but isn't, and only shows when you have UA onboard but also, possibly, when you're near the location. Lore-fiends? Any systems we can definitely place, relative to other locations we do have, that are missing?
3 - Picking up a new target in a system while in SC and UA stowed. I.e. the UA unlocks a previously hidden location from an ADS. Or, you have to re-do the ADS with it stowed for it to work. Again, though, we'd need likely systems to try this out.
4 - We come across a planet or other body in a system where it's name is 'unknown' or similar - I.e. where the standard system naming convention doesn't hold. Dropping the UA nearby might yield Morse for a proper name. Again, though - need likely system *and*, more importantly, no such body has been found by anyone ever that we know of.
5 - In some system or other (see above!) there is a substantial mass or other object the UA can identify that we cannot see. My biggest issue with this would be that there's nothing in the UA's behaviour that could read as a distance indicator, only identification - so at best all it could do is tell us there's something there that we can't see.
Have I missed anything? What do you guys think? Favourite ones from this list? Systems that should be visited based on this? Are our UA carriers willing to go on a stomp to a few places based on these ideas?
I've already suggested taking another good look in Soontill. Regardless of anything - it's an important location from lore, and a few of the ideas listed above could be carried out there reasonably easily
All good ideas and my favourites would be 1, 4 and 5, but I have the same reservations for each of them game-mechanic wise as you, I think.
PS: The ban doesn't count if I use all caps
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Im currently looking at the 19.31.58.14 Vid.
Anyone knows where the glitches at 1:02 and 1:30 come from?
that was a EMP pulse, keijo was testing it. It looked really cool when he timed it right
Aaah ok thanks. Looked nice indeedthat was a EMP pulse, keijo was testing it. It looked really cool when he timed it right
It could be a clue for the plague, not the UA. Walden was one of the characters in Allen Stroud's book Lave Revolution,
who was overthrown in said revolution in the book (which apparently occurred 36 years ago according to Galnet). He was an evil mastermind who planned to eliminate the Feds and Empire with plague carried by grain ships as I recall (hmm, sounds familiar from somewhere) and rule the universe through his many clones, which were kids mostly at the time of the book.
tl;dr possible plague connection and ongoing evil clone story, unlikely UA connection
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