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UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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Yes the whole "instant gratification" thing, the reason why so many people play those online FPS games where you do the same few maps over and over again, they play for that reason and not for the experience of playing the game and letting it unfold in front of you. sad but each to their own.
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Would you mind elaborating a wee bit on the 'Barnacle mystery'?
I was previously referred to a wiki page which told me nothing about the Barnacles unfortunately. Wiki also seems woefully out of date re rarity of UA's as they are currently spawning one every couple of minutes in systems.
I'm out of town for the week visiting my ladies family, so I wont be able to contribute much this week. You can only imagine my excitement, sadness, and relief seeing that the barnacle "photo" ended up being a fake. Initial excitement someone found it, then sadness I'd have to wait a week to see it myself, then odd relief seeing it hadnt been found yet, so I can still participate in the barnacle hunt (assuming it still hasnt been found by the time I return home). Good work on the debunking, I'll be following the thread closely!
Perhaps there's scope to take a wider view...
If ED is the latest incarnation of the Elite gaming premise, then there will be Thargoids, and when they appear, it isn't going to be all cucumber sandwiches and cups of tea. Even if they just want to 'make contact' at first, it's a pretty good bet that conflict will arise sooner or later, whether it's instigated by us or them. If they turn up in human space, there will eventually be an invasion or war of some sort.
Before that can happen, the game needs to be sufficiently developed for there to be things like a war effort, organised strategies for attacking and defending, etc. At present, we have a ropey BGS, no player-driven economy or manufacturing of tradable goods, a very primitive clan system, and a mission framework which has somewhat arbitrary offerings (and maybe a few bugs). We do have people out exploring, mining and trading, rather a lot of people involved with combat in various contexts, CGs that focus on mass haulage of goods for specific purposes, and some strange unknown artefacts that behave rather suspiciously.
I can't see there being a Thargoid invasion until the weaker aspects of the platform are better developed. Not all war effort is about shooting things - support and logistics is a big part of it. If there are plans for looting/crafting and first person shooter, then I don't think there will be Thargoids until those at least are in place and working well. Maybe the mission and CG systems will develop further such that they have more effect (better BGS, in other words - missions that have real meaning with regard to the war effort, and CGs that have a real effect on how things develop).
For now, don't expect any Thargoids. Season 2 is about getting the next set of base features in place (planetary landings, loot/craft, beginnings of FPS). Season 3 may well be devoted to further development of the base system (eg, FPS, economy, clans).
Season 4?
At present, we have UAs that have an unknown interest in Merope, and which scan our ships and apparently transmit data about them to an unknown location or receiver. For anyone that's a Thargoid FTB (Foaming True Believer, for those that don't know), it's obvious that these are Thargoid probes. Their destructive properties would seem to be to discourage people from messing about with them. The conclusion that can be drawn so far is that the Thargoids have discovered human space, want to find out more about it, and would prefer to be left alone to get on with gathering information.
If my thinking is correct that they are Thargoid probes, that there will be a war with the Thargoids, and that there is still some development work to be done on the game before a war is feasible, then FD will gradually inject more stuff to keep our interest and suspicions simmering - we might be able to learn more about the UAs, or new objects could be discovered (wrecked Thargoid ships?).
For now, it seems that we need to keep our eyes open, learn as much as we can, and play the long game while development of the base features continues.
To be fair I wasn't referring to you specifically. I was referring to the amount of frustration and 'rage quitting' that has been going on here lately.
However, the wiki is not the primary source of what is going on. The Players are. The Wiki is out of date, yes, but given that people take time out of their day to bother updating it, I would never be annoyed by that. It's only out of the goodness of people's efforts that we have as a wiki at all.
As far as the Barnacle mystery goes, I'm referring to the mystery of what they are and where they are. We do not know these things. We only know, through the evil of data mining that they DO exist at POIs.
I don't disagree, but I can also totally understand the reason some people would not enjoy what we're doing here. It's worth considering that most stuff still got discovered fairly quickly and that back then games were unaltered after launch. This is a bit of a different case here as we've already invested more time into looking for these than a number of projects to discover old game secrets (even though I only recently started taking part), yet none of us really know just how much the devs are even allowing us to solve yet and what will require them to add the content first.
Whilst I enjoy having the UA mystery being as obtuse as it is, I do think that perhaps having other mysteries to unravel that don't require such through analysis would benefit the players overall and help keep new players invested.
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Ta
Where do we search? Is there any particular sector/system? Which POI's exactly? Planetside or signal sources or other?
Apologies for the questions - I want to get involved but am exasperated at the lack of info of exactly where to start
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Sorry, what system are you in? I'm somehow missing it.
Here's a short synopsis about the UA so far, from the Canonn site
http://canonn.science/home/ua-research-notes/
http://canonn.science/home/ua-research-notes/
I think the lack of info is kinda the point. if we were solving something in the real galaxy it would not be signposted.Ta
Where do we search? Is there any particular sector/system? Which POI's exactly? Planetside or signal sources or other?
Apologies for the questions - I want to get involved but am exasperated at the lack of info of exactly where to start
Look at it this way if there was more info i should imagine the main powers would be flooding Galnet with disinformation (because if i was FD it would be a part of the game plan), and then it would be just as hard and possibly even more frustrating. With regards to the Barnacles our only source of frustration there is the size of the galaxy.
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Ta
Where do we search? Is there any particular sector/system? Which POI's exactly? Planetside or signal sources or other?
Apologies for the questions - I want to get involved but am exasperated at the lack of info of exactly where to start
The only information we have is :
1) The shot in this video ~0:58 :
[video=youtube;VKWIJ-H-WxI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKWIJ-H-WxI[/video]
2) The "meta-alloy" commodity that's appeared in the marketplace which you can view yourself in-game :
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3) A new mission "strange alloys" or similar asking the CMDR to find 1 x meta-alloys for 450,000 credits with a 1 week timer on it and showing as a planet surface mission.
Probably worth saying it's only *believed* that meta-alloys & large barnacles are related to the bit in the video, they probably are but the link is just inferred.
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Not really.
People like me new to this do not even know what a Barnacle is, never mind how it fits into the greater scheme of things, hence the questions. In any event, never mind, I'll try and figure it all out.
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Thank you very much
Think its time i got my self out there and had a look my self for these blooming Barnacles, well right after a get myself a Cobra mkIV so i can have planetary landings and cargo space or its all a bit pointless searching.
On another note i wonder if its worth plotting out the locations of where the Meta Alloys missions turn up there could be some sort of correlation.
On another note i wonder if its worth plotting out the locations of where the Meta Alloys missions turn up there could be some sort of correlation.
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step 1. Double up on tinfoil
step 2. Have a large Brandy or 2
step 3. Make sure cat is in a safe place
step 4. Approach slowly and with care.
step 5. Pray they like biscuits too
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Ta
Where do we search? Is there any particular sector/system? Which POI's exactly? Planetside or signal sources or other?
Apologies for the questions - I want to get involved but am exasperated at the lack of info of exactly where to start
If we knew the answer to any if those questions, it would probably be solved by now.
Many people believe that meta alloys have some role to play, and from a mission, we know that they are found on planets. That's about the sum total of current theory.
Some are trying to decode information in the horizon trailer hoping to find the Green stuff, assuming it is meta alloys
If you find Barn(a/i)cle or Meta-Alloy:
1) Stay calm.
2) Record everything.
3) Do not leave the instance.
4) Make at least 4 screenshots from various angles (from the cockpit).
5) Report here (system, planet, coordinates + screenshots)
6) Wait until Canonn members will arrive.
And try not to touch anything if you are not recording.
7) If you lie - there will be consequences...
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I suppose a good place to start would be to accept one of these missions and take it from there.
I've seen a good few of them the last week or so in my travels but have ignored them/not taken note where they were offered as they were meaningless at the time. No bother, I'll find them again
Ps: Maybe you need a UA planetside to search/point out the new alloy. Might explain the sudden abundance of UA's.
I've seen a good few of them the last week or so in my travels but have ignored them/not taken note where they were offered as they were meaningless at the time. No bother, I'll find them again
Ps: Maybe you need a UA planetside to search/point out the new alloy. Might explain the sudden abundance of UA's.
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