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Stations where services have been suspended:
  • Gurragchaa Gateway, Warkushanui system
  • Gaiman Dock, 49 Arietis system
  • Weyn Dock, 64 Arietis system
  • Korolyov Hub, Arawere system
  • Lobachevsky Outpost, Pic Tok system
  • Carter Port, Rhea system
  • Gabriel Enterprise, Harma system

Stations experiencing technical issues:
  • Coats Hub, Warkushanui system
  • Bond Hub, Varati system
  • Hinz Hub, Ngobe system
  • Tsunenaga Dock, Iapodes system
  • Li Qing Jao, Sol system
  • Ray Gateway, Diaguandri system
  • Vizcaino Enterprise, Nganji system
  • Talos 2, Peregrina system
  • Saunders's Dive, Wolf 1301 system
  • Obsidian Orbital, Maia system

Taken from GalNet here:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/10-DEC-3301
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/14-DEC-3301
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/21-DEC-3301


Except Lobachevsky in Pic Tok was up and running, last I checked. Haven't been there for maybe a week though.
 
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There may be more or less, but these are the ones as far as I'm aware of
Anyway good luck with your wild hare.

Thanks! Much Appreciated! In the interests of communication, I want to determine if there is a second factor, other than UA sales, that determine station failures. Given we know that some stations that UAs have been sold in great numbers that have NOT malfunctioned, does it only occur when 2 factors collide? For that reason I want to check every malfunctioning station for the following:

Station Type
Body Orbited (Moon/Planet/Gas Giant etc)
System Economy
System Star Type
System Security Rating
Presence of Black Market (presumably this must always be true, if a UA was sold there?)
Commodities Sold
Ships Sold
Modules Sold
Missions Available

Any other ideas are welcome.

I'd love to examine the station audio to see if there is anything special to be heard, but alas my ears are not up to that job, I can't even hear the Morse.

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Stations where services have been suspended:
Stations experiencing technical issues:

And thank you also!
 
Thanks! Much Appreciated! In the interests of communication, I want to determine if there is a second factor, other than UA sales, that determine station failures. Given we know that some stations that UAs have been sold in great numbers that have NOT malfunctioned, does it only occur when 2 factors collide? For that reason I want to check every malfunctioning station for the following:

Station Type
Body Orbited (Moon/Planet/Gas Giant etc)
System Economy
System Star Type
System Security Rating
Presence of Black Market (presumably this must always be true, if a UA was sold there?)
Commodities Sold
Ships Sold
Modules Sold
Missions Available

Any other ideas are welcome.

I'd love to examine the station audio to see if there is anything special to be heard, but alas my ears are not up to that job, I can't even hear the Morse.

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And thank you also!
Interesting mission good luck but if you didn't discover anything don't be sad
 
Except Lobachevsky in Pic Tok was up and running, last I checked. Haven't been there for maybe a week though.

just confirmed.

Screenshot 2015-12-29 16.37.56.png
 
I wonder .... The UA scans all the ships within 1000 m right ? ( since we know mr Brookes said the types not being scanned is a bug as well ) what would happen if the UAs scan a ship that has a minimum amount of 1 Meta alloy in it ?

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Maybeeee ... Just maybe we if a ship has a UA inside it the UA starts morsing the nearest planet that has the barnacles on them ...

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I meant a ship with meta alloys of course
 
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Can anyone confirm if this station in Pik Tok did in fact have its services suspended at some point? Either the GalNet post on 10th Dec was wrong or it has somehow been fixed.

Lobachevsky Outpost up and running Sir. No issues.

It sells just Metals and Minerals + Hydrogen Fuel and Biowaste.
 
Hy guys, I'm new here, but i been gathering intel on UAs and meta-alloys.

I've got curious about the MAIA B1BA exploration, so i went checking the moon , i've found out that the moon have volcanism, so it shouldn't be abble to land ,right?

http://i.imgur.com/2Zlxy6J.jpg


Ok, i also found some tents on the moon. Then i found out that I HAVEN'T loaded a SRV ....
http://i.imgur.com/giXBndn.jpg
.

I've done some exploration, but i never saw anyting like this tents before....

Also saw a data link there.


 
I wonder .... The UA scans all the ships within 1000 m right ? ( since we know mr Brookes said the types not being scanned is a bug as well ) what would happen if the UAs scan a ship that has a minimum amount of 1 Meta alloy in it ?

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Maybeeee ... Just maybe we if a ship has a UA inside it the UA starts morsing the nearest planet that has the barnacles on them ...

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I meant a ship with meta alloys of course

I suspect this will have some kind of interesting effect but, as already mentioned, let's just focus on finding one for now. We can run all the tests we want once we know how to find them ;)
 
A ton of Meta Alloy and a UA. I'm afraid that might precipitate something like what happened in Ghost Busters with the Gate Keeper and the Key Master. This might awaken the Thargoids. Oh, wait. That's a good thing. Carry on:D
 
Lobachevsky Outpost up and running Sir. No issues.

It sells just Metals and Minerals + Hydrogen Fuel and Biowaste.

Not quite what I meant Riz but I think I've answered my own question. I've been back over every GalNet report for the last three months, Lobachevsky Outpost in Pik Tok is only mentioned twice. On 2nd December malfunctions were reported. There was no post saying the station was shut down until it was included in the summary of affected stations on 10th December. I think the 10th December post was wrong, Lobachevsky Outpost never had services suspended at any point and has not been quietly fixed in some way.

The corected list of affected stations is...

Stations where services have been suspended:
  • Carter Port, Rhea
  • Gabriel Enterprise, Harma
  • Gaiman Dock, 49 Arietis
  • Gurragchaa Gateway, Warkushanui
  • Korolyov Hub, Arawere
  • Weyn Dock, 64 Arietis

Stations experiencing technical issues:
  • Coats Hub, Warkushanui
  • Bond Hub, Varati
  • Hinz Hub, Ngobe
  • Li Qing Jao, Sol
  • Lobachevsky Outpost, Pic Tok
  • Obsidian Orbital, Maia
  • Ray Gateway, Diaguandri
  • Saunders's Dive, Wolf 1301
  • Talos 2, Peregrina
  • Tsunenaga Dock, Iapodes
  • Vizcaino Enterprise, Nganji
 
So the question is again - has anyone from Frontier said there is more to the UA mystery to find? We know they also seeded interesting stuff out there that hasn't been found. But there are literally no hints or anything. I think they are biding their time until they can get more work done on it by expanding it through community goals.

I really think we are wasting our time right now.

The mis spelled barnacle thing shows you how much thought went into it. It really can't be too important and is just a broken quest.

Michael has stated that we can prevent the spread of the "technical troubles" which appear to be caused by the UA. He also said we'd be able to cure them "SoonTM". DB said (in one of the Horizons Q&As) that things were going to get very interesting for us soon. He may or may not have been referring to the "technical troubles". Neither of them have said anything definitive AFAIK, but the implication is that there is more to do right now. And of course the barnacle files do exist. The fact that they are misspelt is largely irrelevant unless they are spelt inconsistently. We can not conclude that the content is inaccessible unless we can show that those files are referenced using a different spelling. The bug report is partly tongue-in-cheek and partly just-in-case, but it is certainly not proof there is actually a bug and neither is QA's generic response to it.

I'm really tired of this "we're wasting our time" meme that keeps being repeated here lately. We simply haven't searched long enough or widely enough to draw that conclusion. Again, I have to point out that the free floating UAs were not discovered until 2 MONTHS AFTER 1.3 LAUNCHED, and the shell was not discovered until 6 WEEKS AFTER IT APPEARED IN THE 1.4 BETA. Emphasis because apparently the message is not getting through. But hey, if you want to quit, then quit. Just don't try to convince others to quit, and don't bother with a ragequit post; we've seen it all before.
 
Keep an eye out here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=218735

I just can't help but feel that this is the issue.

Plug a reply in there to keep the pressure on em' :)

No one has found a Barnicle seed POI yet either. :(

Assuming what was shown in the trailer was a barnacle, FD must of obtained that footage by forcing a spawn of the POI in a particular location (it's obviously in-game footage). If the POI was broken that it seems near-certain that they would have noticed when they tried to obtain that footage.

I think the chances of this misspelling causing a bug is quite small. Far more likely that we just haven't found anything because the galaxy is a big place.

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Hello.

Is there a place where UA locations can be registered, to collect data about the shell?

Yes, here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nbAAtymsXCJib_plQtbjGPkVqlr3VuJxEE95N2n6Phs

Does anyone have a list of malfunctioning stations? Got a wild idea I'd like to test.

Yes, here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CIKcJOeydJ6O6aLgsvAmgrmFIliFWvDIAVnHzfebll4/edit?usp=sharing
 
I think the method to stop the spread of station shutdowns may be as simple and boring as accepting the charity missions and donating, at the ones experiencing technical issues. You know, the ones that say something like "help repair our station."
 
I think the method to stop the spread of station shutdowns may be as simple and boring as accepting the charity missions and donating, at the ones experiencing technical issues. You know, the ones that say something like "help repair our station."

It's also possible that what Michael meant was that if everyone stops finding and selling UAs the technical issues will stop spreading.
 
I'm really tired of this "we're wasting our time" meme that keeps being repeated here lately. We simply haven't searched long enough or widely enough to draw that conclusion. Again, I have to point out that the free floating UAs were not discovered until 2 MONTHS AFTER 1.3 LAUNCHED, and the shell was not discovered until 6 WEEKS AFTER IT APPEARED IN THE 1.4 BETA. Emphasis because apparently the message is not getting through. But hey, if you want to quit, then quit. Just don't try to convince others to quit, and don't bother with a ragequit post; we've seen it all before.
The fact the meme keeps getting repeated, coupled the most recent episode, means that there is some validity to it. I don't think these complaints should be dismissed outright. That would be, in my honest opinion, just as stupid as the recent rage quitting.

I don't think that issue is exactly as they(the rage quitters) say it is.

The issue is that the UA is the only story thread explorers get(I suppose the Antares wreck is one now too), and it's agonizingly slow paced(I'd rather that than blowing the lid off of everything Assassins Creed 2 style). But it is a concern none the less. And it literally feels like the whole story is looping back on itself with Meta-Alloys and Barnacles.
It was an exciting prospect, tracking down the original UAs. Now we have to do it all again, and it's just not as exciting as the first time.
 
The fact the meme keeps getting repeated, coupled the most recent episode, means that there is some validity to it. I don't think these complaints should be dismissed outright. That would be, in my honest opinion, just as stupid as the recent rage quitting.

I don't think that issue is exactly as they(the rage quitters) say it is.

The issue is that the UA is the only story thread explorers get(I suppose the Antares wreck is one now too), and it's agonizingly slow paced(I'd rather that than blowing the lid off of everything Assassins Creed 2 style). But it is a concern none the less. And it literally feels like the whole story is looping back on itself with Meta-Alloys and Barnacles.
It was an exciting prospect, tracking down the original UAs. Now we have to do it all again, and it's just not as exciting as the first time.

As someone that has in the past felt a little frustrated as well, here's what I would say... We need to keep in mind the devs are obviously pouring a ton of work on the game. Just look at the track record of their updates. Power Play, CQC, Planetary Landings, Community Goals, the SRV, planetside bases, Wings... Then look at all the other things that have already been announced, some of which we already have a sneak peek of...

If the game was fully finished then we would be fully justified in being upset. As it is, we don't know what's coming down the line, and we also don't know what's out there we haven't found yet. The way I play the game now is I keep an eye on the UA mystery, the Antares situation and a few other things like that which interest me. When I hit a dead end for a while I go do something else. Soon enough something new will pop up in Galnet or in the forums, or I'll get a moment of inspiration in the shower where I all of the sudden think "what if I try this?". Then I come back and take another crack at the UA mystery.

That has been working really well for me. Perhaps it may not work for other people, but I suggest those frustrated think of changing their playstyle a little to something that doesn't keep them focused all the time in one tiny part of this massive game. Just go somewhere else, try something else, then come back when you are ready to give the UA, or whatever else, another go. I really like what the devs are doing in creating a game which in my mind that has no parallel out there, and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. In the meantime... it's a big universe out there commanders!

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The fact the meme keeps getting repeated, coupled the most recent episode, means that there is some validity to it. I don't think these complaints should be dismissed outright. That would be, in my honest opinion, just as stupid as the recent rage quitting.

How so? People keep saying they think there is nothing to find. How does people repeating that idea in any way make it valid? Repeating an idea doesn't make it valid, evidence does. And absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

And again, twice we've taken more than 6 weeks to find something in game. Concluding there is nothing to find is clearly premature at this point.
 
Hy guys, I'm new here, but i been gathering intel on UAs and meta-alloys.
I've got curious about the MAIA B1BA exploration, so i went checking the moon , i've found out that the moon have volcanism, so it shouldn't be abble to land ,right?
http://i.imgur.com/2Zlxy6J.jpg
Ok, i also found some tents on the moon. Then i found out that I HAVEN'T loaded a SRV ....
http://i.imgur.com/giXBndn.jpg
.
I've done some exploration, but i never saw anyting like this tents before....
Also saw a data link there.

Hey there! Nice of you to join the hunt!

Volcanoes are pretty common AFAIK, not that I've seen any eruptions. I imagine they're all dormant. Don't worry about them.

Those tent-like structures are relatively common too. But, keep looking! We don't know what the 'barnicles' actually look like (we only assume the weird glowing things in the Horizons trailer are them), but we'll know for sure once we find them.

Thanks for your contribution.
 
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