UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

AlexVII · Jan 4, 2016

Dielos said:
Yes it is. But I have a problem now... I'm stuck inside some kind of cenote. Recalled the ship, but it landed outside!

Guess nobody can convince him to land inside this hole???

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I think I'm screwed.

[EDIT]: Well, the ship didn't even land. Is hovering outside the cenote... Can't even dismiss it.

If you can get under your ship, you can still climb on board. Height is not important.

Once my ship landed on the hills and the cargo hatch was about 20 meters above the ground. When I aligned with the hatch, SRV was lifted up to the ship.

Dommarraa · Jan 4, 2016

Ayal said:
Well well ... I see all you guys have expired your meta alloys mission ... Now do you agree that we need tips or you still wanna hunt for nav beacons and skimmers ?
I finaly started my trip to the neutron field .... However if you guys found anything do let me know and I will rush back to the bubble but for now I got an elite rank to reach and some meta alloys and barnacles to loocate in the neutron fields

No I dont agree. Someone will find them.

Grumtastic · Jan 4, 2016

Dielos said:
Yes it is. But I have a problem now... I'm stuck inside some kind of cenote. Recalled the ship, but it landed outside!

Guess nobody can convince him to land inside this hole???

View attachment 92240

I think I'm screwed.

[EDIT]: Well, the ship didn't even land. Is hovering outside the cenote... Can't even dismiss it.

What you do is you logout and log back in again. That will fix the ship being unable to dismiss/recall.

I got back in to my ship the other day and it refused to launch. So I logged out and back in and problem solved!

Dielos · Jan 4, 2016

Thanks AlexVII and Sentynal. Finally had to self destruct. The ship would just not descend into the 2km hole I was in, and landed outside every single try. Just could not reach it.

squiggsy · Jan 4, 2016

Ayal said:
Well well ... I see all you guys have expired your meta alloys mission ... Now do you agree that we need tips or you still wanna hunt for nav beacons and skimmers ?
I finaly started my trip to the neutron field .... However if you guys found anything do let me know and I will rush back to the bubble but for now I got an elite rank to reach and some meta alloys and barnacles to loocate in the neutron fields

I haven't expired mine, and I'm quite happy to hunt for nav beacons and skimmers, I was going on a Horizons exploration mission any way, so this is no different to what I already had planned. someone will find them eventually, some of you are so impatient!

dynamicbob said:
seems like barnicles might have been spelt wrong in the game file, so it doesnt query the database properly meaning the missions dont spell ( Fdev need to spell check all their code going forward) could be the background sim issues as well

There's no evidence to suggest this is the case yet, we'll have to wait for a response from them to know, until then I will continue with the assumption that the mission is working.

Debruys · Jan 4, 2016

Dielos said:
Yes it is. But I have a problem now... I'm stuck inside some kind of cenote. Recalled the ship, but it landed outside!

Guess nobody can convince him to land inside this hole???

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I think I'm screwed.

[EDIT]: Well, the ship didn't even land. Is hovering outside the cenote... Can't even dismiss it.

Haven't tried this myself, but quitting Horizons on the surface of a planet and then logging in with 1.5 should put you back in space.

Dommarraa · Jan 4, 2016

Debruys said:
Haven't tried this myself, but quitting Horizons on the surface of a planet and then logging in with 1.5 should put you back in space.

I keep meaning to write a sticky note for that. I know I will forget when it happens to me (again)

Han_Zen · Jan 4, 2016

I have a little green planet paranoia for you.

Searching the Galaxy map, I have found two systems that contains the name Palin.

The systems are 'Apaline' and 'Vasupalinni'. They both have stations called Greenland

Greenland Vision in Vasupalinni and Greenland Platform in Apaline.

And people say we don't get hints

squiggsy · Jan 4, 2016

Han_Zen said:
I have a little green planet paranoia for you.

Searching the Galaxy map, I have found two systems that contains the name Palin.

The systems are 'Apaline' and 'Vasupalinni'. They both have stations called Greenland

Greenland Vision in Vasupalinni and Greenland Platform in Apaline.

And people say we don't get hints

This is excellent, if this is pure fluke then that is the wonders of procedural generation at work, if it isn't, then that is the most vague clue hidden in the weirdest way I've ever seen.
Either way I love it.

rote1 · Jan 4, 2016

MB's answer to Meta Alloys being a bug just now:

Michael Brookes said:
They are exceedingly rare and should be working - however I am getting that double checked, just to be sure.

Michael

Edit:
Source - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=220730&p=3364781#post3364781

squiggsy · Jan 4, 2016

rote1 said:
MB's answer to Meta Alloys being a bug just now:

do you have the source? this is good news, i wonder what "exceedingly rare" means though, I begin to wonder if it really is just a stupidly rare POI on the planet the mission originates on (or in the UA shell/Merope). I planned to go back to where I got mine once I'd been though Barnard's Loop anyway so I guess we'll see.

Cmdr Delmonte[VR] · Jan 4, 2016

Another thread was started a few of us posted hoping for the response,
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=220730&highlight=bugged

LordZoltan · Jan 4, 2016

Dommarraa said:
No I dont agree. Someone will find them.

Absolutely right.

RedWizzard · Jan 4, 2016

dynamicbob said:
seems like barnicles might have been spelt wrong in the game file, so it doesnt query the database properly meaning the missions dont spell ( Fdev need to spell check all their code going forward) could be the background sim issues as well

It has been verified (though not by me) that the "misspelt" files are being loaded by the game. That means this theory about the spelling causing a bug is almost certainly incorrect. So can we please stop repeating it.

Cmdr Edard · Jan 4, 2016

I'm loving and loathing this barnacle/barnicle hunt. Just wanted to clarify if anyone had an leads on this "particular area of space"?

LordZoltan · Jan 4, 2016

RedWizzard said:
It has been verified (though not by me) that the "misspelt" files are being loaded by the game. That means this theory about the spelling causing a bug is almost certainly incorrect. So can we please stop repeating it.

At the risk of repeating myself, here! Bang on!

squiggsy · Jan 4, 2016

Cmdr Edard said:
I'm loving and loathing this barnacle/barnicle hunt. Just wanted to clarify if anyone had an leads on this "particular area of space"?

Well I for one am now returning to the place i received the mission. the mission is structured like any other surface mission where you find an item on the surface of the planet you received the mission from, it was only the "search the galaxy" that threw me off. now that Brookes has said "exceedingly rare" I think I'm going to consider spending a LONG time searching that one planet, and if not spend my remaining time for the mission searching the UA shell/merope.
While he didn't give us a clue as such, "exceedingly rare" means that just because we've searched a place, doesn't mean that was the wrong place to be searching.

rizal72 · Jan 4, 2016

That "exceedingly" is what is frightening me

I think we are very close to what was finding an UA Convoy back in 1.2.....

Cmdr Edard · Jan 4, 2016

'Exceedingly rare' contradicts 'common in certain parts of space'. Surely once we find that certain part of space it should be obvious.

CMDR GTR2014 · Jan 4, 2016

Sentynal said:
What you do is you logout and log back in again. That will fix the ship being unable to dismiss/recall.

I got back in to my ship the other day and it refused to launch. So I logged out and back in and problem solved!

Talking about bugs... last night i've just landed.... 6km high into the air... My HUE stincts were saying to launch the srv... thank god i don't listen to them...