^ This is worth a test, right there & no UA needed. Someone wing up with someone else, get close to each other, one drops down. No beacon, don't select the wake, chill for a bit. If no signal source shows up there, that informs a lot about how safe it is for a UA bearer to play in Open & perhaps about detecting a deployed UA in supercruise.
Should be in the DDA somewhere (no link handy). Although WSS and SSS were added after release, so it likely only mentions USS (which were supposedly placeholder content).
As for those "empty" Strong Signal Sources, if I hang around for a minute or two, something usually spawns in. I had a Halfnium convoy do that, and have seen Wedding Barges as well as big Pirate wings (7 ships w/ an Anaconda) come in. Not sure what causes that delay.
Come to think of it, you're absolutely right - I've been out in the black so long I'd forgotten that you do get someone appear in the end. Good catch.
In that case, too - it would surely mean that you'd expect to see some other ships coming in to share the UA love if the UA itself was not the SSS trigger.
I'm happy to take the UA as being the 'source' in the SSS - and, as explanation (apart from the fact that it means we can bag 'em and tag 'em), I'd go with what Han_Zen said, to paraphrase: it's because of all the weird stuff they do.
With regards the sounds, has anyone thought to speed such things up and maybe play them backwards?
Bit random I know but communication is usually a two way thing.
Half we understand, the rest not so much.
What we don't understand seems lost in translation.
Sorry for my naivety but I don't know where to post about this...
I believe that I had an unconfirmed UA sighting in HYADES SECTOR HR-U B3-2 (This was on the Xbox One).
I followed the convoy from that system to HYADES SECTOR GR-V C2-15 to... apparently back to the first system?
OK guys, made it to the closest system to Polaris (about 5.2 LY away). Have been sitting here in SC for close to 15 minutes now, and have seen hide nor hair of any sort of *SS. Which is weird actually, cos when I came out this way some weeks back there were some WSS spawning - now there seems to be nothing at all. I'll hang here for a another 30 mins or so just to be sure, then off on the final leg of nursing my poor TMBILOTS VII homewards.
So I think I've scoffed at the fish/whale reference plenty enough times already; but with the, admittedly meta, Nimoy reference and the Elite lore referencing Leviathan and the Dolphin I'm not sure I can dismiss it quite so easily any more.
I was supposed to have gone to sleep over an hour ago... Damn this puzzle.
So far as I can attest, everybody's favourite cyborg booze-monger has been sat in Gliese 1269 for some weeks now. I have been checking on and off for some time, though my checks are no longer daily. I doubt, however, that it has moved and returned there between my checks. Apparently from others' better informed information, it requires a server reset to move and it would appear that FDev no longer see it as worthy enough content to continue doing owt with it.
It doesn't just require a server reset, it requires a client patch. Or at least it did when it was first added. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't move until 1.4 is released.
Sorry for my naivety but I don't know where to post about this...
I believe that I had an unconfirmed UA sighting in HYADES SECTOR HR-U B3-2 (This was on the Xbox One).
I followed the convoy from that system to HYADES SECTOR GR-V C2-15 to... apparently back to the first system?
Visiting some systems in the Pleiades in my asp. Visiting all the recently unlocked ones mentioned in thread 2, as well as black hole systems nearby. After an hour I've seen one unidentified signal source which I missed when dropping and didn't reappear (because I have the piloting skills of a drunk otter) and have not seen one other signal source anywhere.
Phew! Never have I been happier to see a new outpost. Landed at one of those shiny new Sirius stations. Probably covered around 25000LY round trip, 68% hull, 50% canopy, most core modules in the mid-80s, one AMU still mostly unused. If I had not blown my canopy I would have been a lot more comfortable the last 3800LY...most of the damage due to drinking and posting whilst flying. Off to repair, and have one of those lovely Sirius sandwiches and coffee, and then decide where to go to sell my data. I am thinking somewhere federal around LFT 509 or Witch's Reach, and then tomorrow I will outfit for UA hunting and head out again.
The first response talks about Morse code in a song but the next would talk about hiding dots/dashes in a dot or dash. The underlying dots/dashes would only be heard slowing the audio way down.
Probably nothing but just throwing it out there...
Yup - other than repeated hints from FD or FD-like people that there is still something to find. And someone (Kerrash? When I can't remember I blame Kerrash) definitively said that it was not a red herring at Gamescom.
Pretty sure you're talking about the comments from Eddie during the Gamescom Q&A stream. He specifically says "It is not a red herring... It is solvable." And of course he's surprised no one has figured it out yet. He does go on to say that things with the UA "will be evolving through Horizons". So it won't be just AHA! and that's the end of it. The mystery is solvable, but most likely not as satisfying as we hope.
Now I'm a strong proponent of focusing on the sound element of the UA. Our best clue coming from the creator himself, Mr. Braben Michael Brookes, is to listen to "them". The above quote got me thinking of the order in which the UA makes it's sounds. Has anyone done any test/research into the pattern of which is created by the separate sounds? I'm trying to focus down the individual sounds into a basic theory, but having difficulty with the randomness (read: confusion of when a UA "starts" and "stops" making a noise) of all the video recordings of UAs.
Are they random? Does a honk happen more often closer to a star? Does a purr always come after a "light explosion"?
Maybe if we figure out a pattern to the different sounds themselves, we'll have more of an insight. There is also a persistent thought I'm having; multiple FDEV related people (i.e. Kerrash, Ed Lewis, Eddie Symmons) have said that we as the community have either over-thought the problem (spending too much time coming up with elegant theories, thus losing track of the supposed simplicity), come close [to solving it] in the past, cannot be given more clues as any more would give away the whole thing. With these comments in mind, it seems very "natural" that the different UA sounds are distinctly separated/different from each other. It might be that these sounds were made so distinct from each other so as to guide us into identifying a pattern (humans are very good at this) with the sound.
Edit: Sorry if this is confusing, I just reread it again and I've lost track of my own thought process. Certain smokable plants... onionhead....... send my mind off onto random tangents
The first response talks about Morse code in a song but the next would talk about hiding dots/dashes in a dot or dash. The underlying dots/dashes would only be heard slowing the audio way down.
Probably nothing but just throwing it out there...
edit: Ah nevermind, it seems this has already been explored. I haven't kept up to date on every little development with this, as it's quite a chore to comb through thousands of pages of posts.
When you look at all the designs on the Artefact - They appear to be showing the stages of metamorphosis.
Im not sure that there is any "code" in the designs -or that they are referring to the scarab beetle in particular (there are some similarities) - but the designs do seem to point to the artefact being some kind of transformative object. Either it morphs itself (and butterflies pop out?) or maybe it is a "seed" for a planet ?
