UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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No worries. It's hard to keep track of who knows what in such a sea of posts. Sometimes when someone asks something I give a "dumbed down" reply because I don't know how up to date everyone is. I still often find out some "new" game mechanics that other players have known for ages.
Right when I dropped out it was empty.. but I could hear some beeping and unusual sounds but it was empty and couldn't see anything radar or otherwise so I thought it was bugged just kept going. I didn't want to deal with it I was so close to landing.
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They are all on vacation !
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I've already looked through the Crescent Nebula. I went because I noticed that it didn't require permits anymore, contrary to what the "updated permit list" thread says. All of the systems in that nebula have been claimed by other commanders, but I still poked around and landed on a few of the planets anyway. All I found were two crashed nav beacons on the same moon, and some SRV crash sites.
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Seeing plenty of SSS but slow spawning rate. MAIA . Merope and Atlas. Med convoy usual mix of pirates. No UA
That is why I didn't think much of it. Even if it is a UA who cares. Hasn't people dropped some right next to merope and they pointed specifically at the star? So even if we did find one nearby I don't think its a big deal.
Yes, it sounds like every other canister that you find on the surface, a high pitched 'ping' sound.
We can definitely put a maximum distance on how far away the planet in question could be based on the mission time. Let's say it takes two minutes to jump from one system to another and you have a 30 ly jump range (just using nice round numbers for this). If you played 2 hours a day for 6 days the maximum distance you could travel is 10800 light years. Since you have to get back to complete the mission the target planet couldn't be more than 5000 light years away from the system giving the mission. So that's at least an upper limit. We know it's not on the other side of the galaxy somewhere, but we might have to travel a fair distance to find one. I wonder if the mission might even have a minimum distance you have to travel before one of these will appear. That wold be an interesting wrinkle.
Do we know for certain yet if there is a required exploration/trade rank for the meta-alloy mission to appear? I may have missed it if so (i do follow this thread fairly closely, as with the previous 3 but everything moves so quickly) but that could match up with your theory of it being a specific distance before they appear.
I've scoured Merope, looked as much as I could stand at it's neighbors, I found nothing of scientific interest.
I have since decided it was time I went on a long trip into the black, and am loving it. I am now over 6000ly from Sol and still looking for Science! I haven't found any yet, but the search is beautiful, I'm travelling through systems no other CMDR has ever seen, one after another, and finding many treasures on my more than likely futile search. But the futility and inevitable lack of Science! are not dissuading me from my pursuit, this is the best time I've ever had in ED, and the furthest I've ever been from home.
Thanks to everyone involved in the search for Science!
You have inspired my most ambitious journey yet
I have since decided it was time I went on a long trip into the black, and am loving it. I am now over 6000ly from Sol and still looking for Science! I haven't found any yet, but the search is beautiful, I'm travelling through systems no other CMDR has ever seen, one after another, and finding many treasures on my more than likely futile search. But the futility and inevitable lack of Science! are not dissuading me from my pursuit, this is the best time I've ever had in ED, and the furthest I've ever been from home.
Thanks to everyone involved in the search for Science!
You have inspired my most ambitious journey yet
What about data-link scanning? Which is what I originally meant...
[video=youtube_share;f1kjQTDMoDg]https://youtu.be/f1kjQTDMoDg[/video]
I have another video where I data-link scanned the UA, and nothing happened, if you need me to upload that one.
Edit - Nevermind, I uploaded it anyway.
[video=youtube_share;yS7SZYOMqNI]https://youtu.be/yS7SZYOMqNI[/video]
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You must be new here.
Finding something where it has never been found is not a big deal?
Old but... you can see they are around merope too
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This is kind of interesting, because if you think about the UA and the 12 legs/canisters attached to it, they go out in all directions.
People find hundreds .. we know what it does.
Yes, an agenda completely empty of any discovery.
Putting SCIENCE under a flag is always a bad thing. And does not lead anywhere.
This is not the Canonn thread. The Canonn was born in these pages just to bring together all the people whose first love is science. I'm not an "official" Canonn-er myself, proudly being an independent researcher, so that's the right thread to be. Where things happen, and discoveries are made.
Yes, that's real science: "who cares?" if something different happens, in an hardly coded game? Wow.
No rank required. Mission found by Mostly Harmless players already.
I dropped it a few times, but only recorded during the time it landed right-side up because it looked especially creepy, standing and rotating there.
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