Good grief, this thread is going fast! And I've had too much Jack Daniels to search through the last 'few' pages. Has anyone found anything yet?
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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I've been on the old westerns vintage cider and I'm still trying to contribute, bad idea. Long and short of it though is "no"
I'll be off now, I wish you all luck with you hunting and I'll probably be ready to rejoin you tomorrow!
so its the crappy materials "ghosting" on your sensors... just go there and take a look
Oh my God, I'm such a fool. I've been flying around for ages without getting a POI, then I read the suggestion above about adjusting the scanner range. Did so, and 2 POIs immediately show up, just outside the normal range the scanner's usual display range. D'oh!
And double-d'oh - the same applies in the SRV. It's so much easier to find the contact within the POI circle simply by zooming out the scanner. I'm such a dolt!
And double-d'oh - the same applies in the SRV. It's so much easier to find the contact within the POI circle simply by zooming out the scanner. I'm such a dolt!
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Just as likely?... I think that's probably true when it comes to non-fixed barnacle POIs. But, I think it's highly likely that somewhere in merope there is a fixed barnacle POI just waiting for us. Now, which one is easier to find? No idea. But, I'd like to rule out Merope rather than just searching all over the place. And, since I can't search myself yet, I'm trying to get some fellow Canonns (Canonners, Canonnites?) to...
SEARCH IN MEROPE!
(How many have blocked me now, I wonder? I'm done for now. Just gonna leave it in my tag and go actually play the game. I've spent more time reading this thread than actually playing the game in the last month.)
Cheers for the update. I daren't log on and join in as I think I'd be instant pancake at the moment. I think I'll just grab another JD and sit back and watch
Bulleit Bourbon myself.
*arf*
Done bunny-hopping from POI to POI for tonight...
So far, nothing except the standard POI spam - small wrecks, countless Cargo stashes and many Data Links. Everywhere.
At times I felt like POIs were more frequent than Bronzite Chondrites.
I have to admit : I hated the spammy POIs before I went into the Pleiades. Now I hate them even more
Agreed - POIs and Signal Sources should be reduced to about 10% of their current spawn rate, unless they become more varied, and worth stopping-for.
I'm not saying we exclude Merope. I'm not even saying they aren't connected. Just that we don't know. We've been at this for how long now? I think a bit more structure in this search is called for. I feel like I've gone from gamer mode to tester mode. I'm not playing anymore, I'm using techniques I normally only use when testing games. As such, I prefer to fault on the side of logic.
We need facts now. What we need to look for, who is doing what, where we need to be. Narrow down the possibilities. Focus some of the team on the most likely possibilities, the rest on the team on the remaining possibilities. We are looking for one solution here - the discovery of meta-alloys. Finding barnacles would be a great breakthrough but the mystery here is meta-alloys. Those are the things that actually matter to the people with that mission. Barnacles may lead us there, but we don't know. If they don't, Barnacles are just a rare and fascinating piece of scenery.
What we know: (facts)
* Meta Alloys are in the Pleadies (MB said this)
* Meta Alloys are in nebulae (MB said this)
* Meta Alloys are on planets (The mission says this)
* Meta Alloys can be found in Randomly Generated (blue) POIs, as well as dev-made (fixed) POI's
Theories:
* Meta Alloys are probably not in Merope, because if they were, given how much time and effort has gone into exploring that system, they would probably have been found by now
* Meta Alloys are probably not found in any of the common POI's, but rather a new type of POI that hasn't been seen yet (by participants), if they could be found in common POI's they would probably have been found already
What we need to know:
* What's actually been searched - Coodinates or regions on surfaces of planets, and which planets
* Who's searching where, specifically
Strategies:
If individuals or teams focus their search in specific locations with a minimum of overlap, we can expect to cover the most ground the quickest. This will help in locating the fixed POI's where the meta-alloys can be found.
Search Merope: Searching here reduces Merope as a possibility the more searching is done (unless we actually find success here), but it should be noted that the probability of success is very low given the amount of searching that has already been focused here, but the UA's are pointing here, suggesting there IS something here.
Search Maia: Similar to Merope, this system has already been searched for quite a while, however Maia is well within the nebular portion of the Pleadies and there are a few clues in recent CE's and Galnet pointing to Maia as a place where there IS something to be found.
I'm getting to the point where I think we need a wiki for this investigation. Organization will not hurt anyone.
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Simple question to dwell on before bed...in FDs description, that these propogate in nebular (Seven Sisters being a big hint to a hand crafted instance?) does anyone else think this also means they should also spawn randomly in other nabula? And if this is correct do we know of other small nebular close by with a lower number of stars / moons. The lower the number of stars, the more favourable the chances being?
Only a hunch but I'm staying put in the Seven Sister for now...
Have a better one.
Only a hunch but I'm staying put in the Seven Sister for now...
Have a better one.
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I'm not saying I think you're wrong. I'm saying we really need to get things in perspective and organize this search. Simply saying go here or go there isn't going to help - too many voices doing that at the same time. It's all just turning into noise.
Uh, that's why it was underlined, bolded, and italicized.
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On a slightly more serious note though, if not Merope then where? It's literally the only place in game that has a trillion little bugs pointing at it. People keep posting about needing more clues, but FD have given us as many clues as they can in the form of the UAs. I'm open to suggestions of where else to focus our efforts. But, Merope is still our only real clue.
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Well I just pancakes into one of the planets in Atlas. I had my power priorities wrong and deployed hard points instead of boosting away from the ground and lost all power lol .
RIP my little Asp.
RIP my little Asp.
well maybe this makes you fell better... my thruster UP is "Q" and may Boost is "TAB" , yesterday i just boosted myself to the ground with 4 pips.. insta wreck...
Mooched around Maia B moons tonight trying out orbital cruise eyeballing for distinctive features.
Nothing to report apart from one patch of distinctively different coloured terrain on Maia B 1 B, lots of craters, fantastic canyons on one of the Maia B 3 moons, mountains, ridges, and such.
Oh, and darkness, lots of darkness - if you don't get the nebula/surface lighting here, you can't see anything.
I'll likely continue with this method in various systems. Mainly because I don't think we can eyeball enough terrain in surface flight and partly because POIs suck balls and I don't want to do them.
Nothing to report apart from one patch of distinctively different coloured terrain on Maia B 1 B, lots of craters, fantastic canyons on one of the Maia B 3 moons, mountains, ridges, and such.
Oh, and darkness, lots of darkness - if you don't get the nebula/surface lighting here, you can't see anything.
I'll likely continue with this method in various systems. Mainly because I don't think we can eyeball enough terrain in surface flight and partly because POIs suck balls and I don't want to do them.
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Here is the ED Wiki page on Meta-Alloys: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Meta-alloys
May I suggest we use that Wiki as a place to coordinate our search? If you have a better idea, please let me know!
May I suggest we use that Wiki as a place to coordinate our search? If you have a better idea, please let me know!
Ok so I'm back at Obsidian orbital and falling asleep so calling it for tonight. Will have another few hours looking around merope tomorrow .
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