UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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Exactly my point. I've seen a few posts already that mention the "barnacles in the Horizons trailer". When in fact we have:
Two separate things as far as we know, so we should probably stop getting them mixed up or people are going to make the wrong assumptions. Like finding the structures and then waste time throwing meta-alloys at them to see if something happens. We have all recently seen how much some people hate to be sent down the wrong line of investigation.
- Something called "Large Barnacles" in the meta-alloys description.
- Large mysterious structures with green-glowing patterns in the trailer.
It's science dammit, let's do it properly!
Well said that man!
No. It only means that mere POIs (the content, not the blue circle) will be visible from the ship. Not only from SRV.
At the beginning of the beta, no POIs were visible until you entered the SRV. This was to avoid that people shot all the skimmers before landing. It was changed because it felt very strange that buildings popped up just because you entered the SRV.
Only very small POIs should now be invisible from the ship.
2.6 solar masses are at the low limit of black holes. It's small but not unnatural.
All stellar black holes are much lighter than the star they originated from.
Shooting skimers from the ship???? Who would do that????
Ahem... ***shuffles feet and looks distracted***
The ED galaxy is static, systems do not change positions. So Maia and Merope will not move relative to each other.
You might be able to tell if B will eclipse Merope from supercruise. Get yourself into the plane of the orbit of B1 then target Merope. If Merope is not close to the plane of B1's orbit then I think it won't be eclipsed.
The real question is : Do you think FD will add a line in the changelog saying : "fixed unknown POI not showing correctly in Maia and Merope system" ?
I'm affraid that it will become mandatory to check again everything after any patch...
Despite some claims this makes POIs too easy (they're already fairly easy in an SRV anyway), it only makes the immersion aspect better.
The first POI I landed at in Beta when you couldn't see them had me (luckily) land dead on top of it. I was glitched inside a wreckage and "stuck". Plus fined and all that jazz for breaching the exclusion zone...
(I'm the person who got the 'find meta-alloys' mission)
Someone upthread (can't remember who) suggested that given meta-alloys are supposedly only found in certain areas of the galaxy, a good approach to find them would be to spend a few hours each on planets in a bunch of different places and see if anything turns up. Given that, does anyone have any ideas for target search areas.
My current list is as follows:
1) Merope (done)
2) UA shell (done)
3) ...where next?
Someone upthread (can't remember who) suggested that given meta-alloys are supposedly only found in certain areas of the galaxy, a good approach to find them would be to spend a few hours each on planets in a bunch of different places and see if anything turns up. Given that, does anyone have any ideas for target search areas.
My current list is as follows:
1) Merope (done)
2) UA shell (done)
3) ...where next?
You have to be 2km above the surface to see a blue POI in your ship scanner. If you're flying close to the ground you won't be able to see them.
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Ngc 6357?
Yes I know but after taking off I checked at 2km and no blue circle... Maybe smallest POI are hidden from ship sensor ?
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OK CMDRS.
I'm doing this just because far are the days when people did not get discomforted so easy, days where 100 and more hours of searching were needed to spot an UA Convoy for the first time.
So here you are: the Barnacles POI are in game 100% sure. I don't now where, obviously, but I know they are in game, and in many different configurations.
So please stop complaining and keep on searching
They will show up eventually, like any other thing in game so far.
And if we fail, hints will come in the form of cryptic Galnet posts.
Hmm.. Do you know how many planets and systems there are out there to search? Together with the 400 billion systems, and the trillions or more planets, and the further gazillions of POIs (where you find tea and coffee) I think its not unreasonable to consider how long this might actually take. At present even if the entire population of the planet were searching we could still be here for a very long time and never find anything. Forgive me if I look at the reality and ask myself if this is a task which seems somewhat daunting.
And we really have VERY little to go on.. Maybe its Lupus. :/ A puzzle to solve is one thing, creating a mirage akin to chasing the dragon is very different indeed. I'm becoming rather skeptical.
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I landed on Musca Dark Region HM-V c2-37.
This is a very strange signal (and audio too).
Cargo, Sensor and POI in one.
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Broken cargo?
Has anyone found something like this before?
This is a very strange signal (and audio too).
Cargo, Sensor and POI in one.
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Closer
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Broken cargo?
Has anyone found something like this before?
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It's never lupus.
It's possible. The change log in on of the betas described small POIs as invisible from ship. I thought it meant visually not hidden from scanner, but who knows.
Send a bug report and see what they say about it.
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