UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[who?]

Yeah I can;t help feeling it's like this.

Which makes searching for them difficult, almost like patience is the thing.

Not that I'm advocating not searching for them but y'know.

I love the idea of roaming around on isolated planets, and I might roll over the brow of a hill and find..... SOMETHING.

It's pretty pointless though; even if we knew it's in the bubble, that's still probably several thousand planets on which we can land, each of which needs then to be searched. Best to just wander around and enjoy ourselves, chances are if there's anything to be found, it'll be found by someone not actively searching for (or even aware of) the barnacles or any other such mystery.

 

[beelzeblub]

What's (or rather, When...) happening with Palins new outpost to be? In the last news we heard on dec 23rd he said he hoped to be up and running within a week. It's closer to two weeks now. I'm hoping that will progress the UA story or the meta-alloy and/or barnacle hunt a bit...

 

[John Stoutbeard]

Ok, this needs reporting.

I landed on a 1G world out in the wild.
In the SRV, scanned around me for a few minutes, not moving to much. I wanted POI to establish (ramp up).

Found one artificial POI, went for it. Downed Nav-beacon. Normal so far.
Scanned it.
Turned around 180 degrees where I came from, suddenly I have another artificial POI nearby where I just came from.

Hm. Just maybe scanning some of these things may trigger something else. Hm. Needs more testing.
Chain of events perhaps.
Lesson to self, scan everything I come across.

 

[yoda711]

Turned around 180 degrees where I came from, suddenly I have another artificial POI nearby where I just came from.

surely it wasn't your ship?

 

[bitstorm]

Actually I think we just carry on as normal.

MB says : "exceeeeeeedingly rare".

Meta-alloy description says : "These appear to be common in certain parts of space"

The conflicting rare/common has gotta mean certain regions.

And I think it's quite comforting it says common, it almost implies 2-3 samples in the right area might be enough.

I'd like to think, like with the Maia finding, they'd stick it near something, rather than just in empty space.

I'm gonna go have a mooch around Chamaeleon.

 

[CMDR Corlas]

Actually I think we just carry on as normal.

MB says : "exceeeeeeedingly rare".

Meta-alloy description says : "These appear to be common in certain parts of space"

The conflicting rare/common has gotta mean certain regions.

And I think it's quite comforting it says common, it almost implies 2-3 samples in the right area might be enough.

I'd like to think, like with the Maia finding, they'd stick it near something, rather than just in empty space.

I'm gonna go have a mooch around Chamaeleon.

The "these" in "these appear to be common in certain parts of space" is referring to the barnacles, not meta-alloys.

 

[bitstorm]

The "these" in "these appear to be common in certain parts of space" is referring to the barnacles, not meta-alloys.

Aye but they're "associated with". The implication being you find barnacles you find meta-alloys.

 

[John Stoutbeard]

surely it wasn't your ship?

Shirley had taken my ship off planet, first thing I did before I went to make some coffee, while waiting for the rampup of POI.

Ok, this needs reporting.

I landed on a 1G world out in the wild.
In the SRV, scanned around me for a few minutes, not moving to much. I wanted POI to establish (ramp up).

Found one artificial POI, went for it. Downed Nav-beacon. Normal so far.
Scanned it.
Turned around 180 degrees where I came from, suddenly I have another artificial POI nearby where I just came from.

Hm. Just maybe scanning some of these things may trigger something else. Hm. Needs more testing.
Chain of events perhaps.
Lesson to self, scan everything I come across.

Scary, I just randomly came screaming past another Nav-beacon which doesn't show ANY signal on the scanner.
The reason I know its not the same is that I'm running directly headed towards the star.
Probably more than 2 km's away from the other. Aka, not running in circles here.

Strange is strong here. Hm.
So, we may find POI's which is not showing up on scanner. Whether it's a bug or a mystery to be solved, keep your eyes peeled.

 

[CMDR Corlas]

Aye but they're "associated with". The implication being you find barnacles you find meta-alloys.

True. I mis-interpreted what you wrote, I think.

My understanding is that where you find the common barnacles, you have a chance of finding the rare meta-alloys.

 

[CMDR Runcible Shaw]

Aye but they're "associated with". The implication being you find barnacles you find meta-alloys.

That's a possible interpretation. Clearly neither barnacles or meta-alloys are easy to find, but it's not necessarily the case that when you find a barnacle you will always find meta-alloys. It could be that barnacles are very common in certain parts of space, and that meta-alloys are only found with/near barnacles, but only rarely.

 

[CMDR Corlas]

That's a possible interpretation. Clearly neither barnacles or meta-alloys are easy to find, but it's not necessarily the case that when you find a barnacle you will always find meta-alloys. It could be that barnacles are very common in certain parts of space, and that meta-alloys are only found with/near barnacles, but only rarely.

Pretty sure "barnacles" are UA's though. FD seems like coming up with various names for 'em (as is fittingly realistic, given the multiple names for things we come up with on our single planet), and UA's have been referred to as barnacles (or parts of the UA referred to as barnacles, at least) in a previous Canonn UA thread. My guess is that FD just went with our own reference. Although it's entirely possible they made it on their own too, because hey, they are kind of barnacle-looking.

 

[bitstorm]

True. I mis-interpreted what you wrote, I think.

My understanding is that where you find the common barnacles, you have a chance of finding the rare meta-alloys.

Ahhhh!

You may be right, though I think in all honesty a bunch of us will be more interested in the barnacles than the alloys anyway. =p

 

[knowles2]

Aye but they're "associated with". The implication being you find barnacles you find meta-alloys.

Or it could be that they are all a part of the same storyline.

 

[bitstorm]

Pretty sure "barnacles" are UA's though. FD seems like coming up with various names for 'em (as is fittingly realistic, given the multiple names for things we come up with on our single planet), and UA's have been referred to as barnacles (or parts of the UA referred to as barnacles, at least) in a previous Canonn UA thread. My guess is that FD just went with our own reference. Although it's entirely possible they made it on their own too, because hey, they are kind of barnacle-looking.

I have a feeling they chose "large barnacles" specifically because....

 

[CMDR Corlas]

I have a feeling chose "large barnacles" specifically because....

http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/thumb/0/09/Thargoid.png/400px-Thargoid.png

Ok, your theory kind of blows mine out of the water.

 

[TFW Primus]

That's a possible interpretation. Clearly neither barnacles or meta-alloys are easy to find, but it's not necessarily the case that when you find a barnacle you will always find meta-alloys. It could be that barnacles are very common in certain parts of space, and that meta-alloys are only found with/near barnacles, but only rarely.

Right. I'm imagining a POI of barnacles, and you can shoot the barnacles and a meta-alloy pops out, kind of like when you hit a crashed ship POI and there is a cargo container and you can shoot the cargo container and an element or material pops out.

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I have a feeling chose "large barnacles" specifically because....

http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/thumb/0/09/Thargoid.png/400px-Thargoid.png

Wait, where is that from? The top kind of looks like those "hatch"/"silo" tops found at POIs...

 

[bitstorm]

Right. I'm imagining a POI of barnacles, and you can shoot the barnacles and a meta-alloy pops out, kind of like when you hit a crashed ship POI and there is a cargo container and you can shoot the cargo container and an element or material pops out.

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Wait, where is that from? The top kind of looks like those "hatch"/"silo" tops found at POIs...

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Thargoid_Warship_(Oolite)

 

[Han_Zen]

Aye but they're "associated with". The implication being you find barnacles you find meta-alloys.

Pearls are rare. They are asosiated with oysters, which are common in parts of the ocean.

It's still dificult if you find the oysters, but it's a hell of a lot easier than finding one in a fish.

By the way, I get the feeling FD is setting us up to exterminate a species here.
Thargoids want be pleased ;-)

 

[bitstorm]

By the way, I get the feeling FD is setting us up to exterminate a species here.
Thargoids want be pleased ;-)

How do you mean?

 

[PaulR]

What the..... i just got here in merope and got a really stragen bug/fenomena... when i get clos to the planet , it became PITCH black....

will up a video...

Fish are exceedingly rare at the top of mountains.
Wild geese are exceedingly rare at the bottom of oceans.

Both can be common in the right areas. But before we knew geese flew in the sky, the oceans were as good a place to look for them as any. Cue jokes about wild geese hunts.

I was going to use the penguin analogy, they are exceedingly rare in western Europe, yet can be found in very specific poi ( zoo) but they are exceedingly common in the Antarctic. Anyway we all get the drift. I think they are rarer than the hardest synth material and some have a very low spawn rate. So it must be under 0,1%.