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Tigger889

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Axellenium said:
I'm in Atlas at the moment here's a system map
I'm on my way to surface scan the approachable planets.
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I tried the top three planets in Atlas yesterday (about 8 hours of game play). Really hope you're more successful than me. Lots of rocks... rocks.. and more rocks... the occasional data terminal and of course some tea.
FYI if it helps, I center the blue POI circlein front of me at around 2Km, then descend - normally what was to be found at the POI pops up in front of me around 30% of the time (a crashed ship, a small outpost etc) at around 200-500m. The other times when nothing has come up, I've landed and found... rocks!
 
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wizzpig

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CMDR Corlas said:
I think you're right on the money with this. I've personally tried to focus my searches on interesting geological features of planets; scout out an impact crater, a canyon, or a mountain range, or whatever.

I think that there is probably going to be a specific planet type / geological region / habitable zone or something that will end up tying these locations together.
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My thoughts exactly. Either these "barnacles" have been injected into the planetary equations so the stellar forge then calculates and distributes them, or FD have (or haven't!) manually added them.
Notice also, that in the trailer, it's pitch black. Maybe they're like mushrooms and only grow in the dark. So then we look on the dark side of tidally locked planets. Or maybe it was just edited like that for dramatic effect :)
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
T-Dog said:
My thoughts exactly. Either these "barnacles" have been injected into the planetary equations so the stellar forge then calculates and distributes them, or FD have (or haven't!) manually added them.
Notice also, that in the trailer, it's pitch black. Maybe they're like mushrooms and only grow in the dark. So then we look on the dark side of tidally locked planets. Or maybe it was just edited like that for dramatic effect :)
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I wish people would stop with this dark side nonsense.

There'll only be a permanent dark side if a body is tidally locked to the star!
 

Axellenium

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Tigger889 said:
I tried the top three planets in Atlas yesterday (about 8 hours of game play). Really hope you're more successful than me. Lots of rocks... rocks.. and more rocks... the occasional data terminal and of course some tea.
FYI if it helps, I center the blue circle at around 2Km in front of me, then descend - normally what was to be found at the POI pops up in front of me around 30% of the time (a crashed ship, a small outpost etc). The other times when nothing has come up, I've landed and found... rocks!
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I've spent so much time roaming in Merope that I need a change of scenery!, will keep posted if I have any luck!
 

xdeath

xdeath
Nutter said:
7k ly may be a bit to far out for a mission timer. I would expect the mission to take no more tham a 2kly round trip
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Depends on your playtime, jump range, and how efficient you are.
On my trip to SAG A* I found I could do 1kly in an hour(at a 29ly jump range).
There are many other factors, but 6 days should be more than enough for most people.
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
J'Zargo said:
I got a meta alloy mission from Dahan 2 days ago and have since been to he shell, Maia, the Polaris region and after seeing that the mission are somehwat clustered I conecntrated my search Dahan/Asellus Prime and Arcturus.

I have been to Opala, Styx, I Bootis and am currently in the Arcturus system.

I have searched quite a lot even on the night side in case the barnacles perfer darkness. I have found an enourmous amount of crashed nav beacons, gold cansters and other huge cargo deposits, but no barnacles so far.

I really hope they do show up on the wave scanner, otherwise it might be a bit hard to find them.

Anyway still have 4 days left for the mission and will stay a while in this region of space.
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Outfit mining equipment and go check out Merope's belt...
 

magillag

magillag
Garbarrage said:
I'm out 7k LY atm. I have an SRV with me. Any particular type of planet I should be looking for? Should I concentrate on any particular type of stars? B class maybe?
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Sorry, but I haven't got a clue.
There are several different theories hidden in this threadnought. I would just start landing and see what there is to see.

The views of the B stars from the sunrise/set edges are really spectacular :)
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
T-Dog said:
My thoughts exactly. Either these "barnacles" have been injected into the planetary equations so the stellar forge then calculates and distributes them, or FD have (or haven't!) manually added them.
Notice also, that in the trailer, it's pitch black. Maybe they're like mushrooms and only grow in the dark. So then we look on the dark side of tidally locked planets. Or maybe it was just edited like that for dramatic effect :)
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I found that you will not get pitch black unless you are in the shadow of a crater. The other side of a moon will be lit up by the nebula. I went into a crater in Atlas and it was so black I wasn't sure where I could land. SO it'll be in a deep crater.
 

magillag

magillag
Hey Guys, Could I get some help here.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=218735

I posted this bug report and It's not getting a response from FD. Any chance you could post a "me too" or "I think this is important" or some such to so that FD will look at it?

I'd really appreciate it & add some rep your way ;)

Update:
QA Mark says: "Thanks for the report, well spotted! I'll log this and we'll look into it."
 
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Axellenium

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Tigger889 said:
If you have any luck, there are many, many CMDRs here who will be at the edge of their seats! If you'll be around for a bit, I can join you in scouring.
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I've landed in Atlas B3 A and I'm about to take a quick break but I'll be back in a bit, also, I keep seeing these "dark side" ideas, interestingly enough, all approachable planets in Atlas are tidally locked to Atlas B except for B3 A, guess I'm gonna be looking around for a while.
 

Tigger889

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magillag said:
Hey Guys, Could I get some help here.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=218735
I posted this bug report and It's not getting a response from FD. Any chance you could post a "me too" or "I think this is important" or some such to so that FD will look at it?
I'd really appreciate it & add some rep your way ;)
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Oh dear I hope that's not the case... Not sure their staff is working right now though. If you're in a position to edit the base code to check if it makes a difference...
 

Hoboner

Hoboner
Man, being unable to search around with you all is driving me nuts! Just a few more days till I can get back in the mix of things.

Been thinking about the ua shell and what people have mentioned about them slowly traveling in a direction (unless I completely misunderstood what was said). Could it be that somehow, some way, the UA's were "ejected" from merope's main star itself?

Thinking of it as if the shell is a ripple, slowly increasing its spread through the galaxy, originating from one single source. This also somewhat lines up with the fact we haven't found any ua's in the pleiades in quite some time. It also doesnt make sense to me that if they were dropped or jumped in, that they would encompass merope in a circle, thus enclosing on the star, rather than the UA's heading away from a central location - Merope. If this is the case, then there's in fact something very special about merope that we havent figured out yet.

This could also mean we may be looking at the artefacts upside-down.

Summary of my nonsense:
-Could the UA's have been ejected from Merope itself?
-Are we looking at them upside-down?
-Could the UA's be scanning for the barnacles?
-We know they all point towards Merope with what we believe is the head, but what if it is in fact, the tail? This could mean that there is no direct system or star in which they are heading, because they may not have a specific target in sight other than scanning for a specific target/condition along the way.

I'm starting to lean towards the artefacts being "sperm" of sorts, looking for the barnacles to fertilize, OR possibly even planets to fertilize. The heads of actual barnacles look far too similar to the head of the artefacts. I'm also 100% convinced that the reproductive organs of the artefact lie within the "hatch" on the head, just like what can be seen of real life barnacles.

Like mentioned before about needing specific conditions to farm, I'm also willing to bet that in order to find what we're looking for, we need to find the correct "soil".

I also think my tinfoil hat is starting to fuse with my skull. This thing is getting itchy!

Thanks for humoring me while being away and unable to really contribute!
 

wizzpig

wizzpig
Colonel Kenney said:
I found that you will not get pitch black unless you are in the shadow of a crater. The other side of a moon will be lit up by the nebula. I went into a crater in Atlas and it was so black I wasn't sure where I could land. SO it'll be in a deep crater.
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Good point. Unless it's not in a nebula at all?
Though I'm not completely advocating the whole "found in the dark" idea, rather, just speculating. It wouldn't surprise me though given that FD are all to aware of the levels of utter genius and general sleuthery to be found in this community :)

TBH though, I'm thinking it would make more sense for something that 'grows' to have access to direct, or at least partially direct light from a star. Better chemistry happenin' an all that.
 

xdeath

xdeath
MadDogMurdock said:
I wish people would stop with this dark side nonsense.

There'll only be a permanent dark side if a body is tidally locked to the star!
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It isn't even on the dark side. It's in a shadow on the light side(misty canyon or crater most likely), where the light pollution blocked out the stars. The game actually brightens up the Dark Side so you can see. This also brightens the sky making stars more visible.
 

Nelson

Nelson
Colonel Kenney said:
I swear on whatever holy book you want...
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No offense intended bud, I just meant I haven't found a UA containing SSS, in a few hours of gameplay.

If there's one thing I wish we could have when POI hunting its marker smoke to deploy either from SRV or ship...
 
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I don't recall any binaries although I did find a couple of dark planets. I.e. the surface was dark even with the star overhead. I might head back there once I get back in game.
 
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