UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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squiggsy

squiggsy
EddyRockSteady said:
I cannot help but wish, for the sake of the story and my journey in Elite, that searching and finding these barnacles relied on something a wee bitty more than flying around planets for hours on end relying on blind, dumb luck to spot a pop-up.

There has to be a better way, FD. Would be nice to be sat docked in a station and overhear surreptitious NPC comms chatter over a 'secure' channel, follow a clue overheard from the NPC to another NPC, sweat him over a laser sunburn to get more info, track another NPC to a planetary base where a search is conducted for a hidden stash containing coordinates for a system that 'something weird, green and alien' was spotted, although due to data corruption, coordinates are sketchy, said mission turning into a mercy-mission as well as said NPC Commanders Wingman was lost in a green fog that enveloped his craft upon closer inspection and so on and so on.

With a wee bit of imagination I would relish the search if couched in a wee bit of mystery.

Oh well, off to do what needs done before my now weary search continues. The lower left quadrant of my right Femur aches (I feel it in my bones :D) when I think of Electra......
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I'm pretty much convinced there was more to it we just failed to find it.
I fail to believe they would set up a system where we go " right we guess the area to look, it's an entire nebula! lets search the place!"
I do agree though that if none of us found it after all this time, it was to much of an obscure clue.
 
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simulacrae

simulacrae
Han_Zen said:
Hi Sim.

Do you think it's time to dig out the old Maya number drawings? Coordinates seem to be the way to find fixed POI.

Off course we need a system and a planet as well :-/
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haha - just this eve - was playing around with the possibility that the markings were system descriptions again ... now that we have a general area to look at :)
 

EddyRockSteady

EddyRockSteady
squiggsy said:
if none of us found it after all this time, it was to much of an obscure clue.
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Aye I agree, if this Forum with all these educated mix of individuals, passionate and otherwise, failed to find it then FD should have subtly intervened a loooong time ago and set us on the path that they wanted us to follow.

Unfortunately, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, ie there was nothing/no clue to find.

squiggsy said:
I fail to believe they would set up a system where we go " right we guess the area to look, it's an entire nebula! lets search the place!"
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Ironically, this is exactly what happened when MB stated that they could be found in the Pleiades. Granted, the UA's pointed there but again, that's all we had and nothing else.
 
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Nazdakka

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Traffic numbers at Obsidian Orbital are encouraging. We have 1226 CMDRs transiting through Maia at some point in the last 24h, which is considerably more searchers than I expected to see.


Unless they're here for the long-range smuggling missions that the station seems to get a lot of.


Could random poi only appear with mission?
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Hope not, given the rarity of the mission.
 

CmdrZaratan

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Good news for those hunting fixed PoI's in the Plaides. You can see them from more than 15kms away. The trick is to look on the dark side of the planets with your gamma set all the way up.

I'm currently on Orrere 2b. I went to the rough coordinates where the crashed Anaconda was supposed to be. It was light. There were shadows everywhere. I was about 9k up and I couldn't see squat. Shadows, haze, you name it.

I waited patiently for 3 hours or so for that sun to finally go away entirely (it still produces windscreen glare just below the horizon ****), and when it was completely dark I spotted it almost instantly. Stuck out like the proverbial dogs unmentionables.

I then flew up to over 20kms above it (23.5 to be exact) and I could still see it easily.

If we want to find these things then everyone fly at night with the gamma up. You can cover much more ground as you can be way higher up and you won't miss it because of haze or shadows because there are no haze or shadows at night. Obviously this only works for fixed locations rather than random PoI's....those you won't see from this high up.
 

squiggsy

squiggsy
OK GUYS!
All you who have been saying "I keep crashing to desktop I wonder if it's a bug and the Barnacles were right nearby" it might have some truth to it.
I went out to find the crashed Anaconda from OA's video to experiment with how fixed POIs work and just as i reached it, my lights shined over it and i crashed to desktop.
It doesn't mean anything for sure, but the game never crashes for me normally, so it could be a glitch for some people when it comes to fixed POI's.

EDIT: It'd appear I was mistaken, I'm at the exact coordinates now and it isn't here, I was sure I saw it but it must have not been it.
I think it might no longer exists, perhaps enough people showed up and it was counted as being completely salvaged.
 
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crushdepth

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squiggsy said:
I'm pretty much convinced there was more to it we just failed to find it.
I fail to believe they would set up a system where we go " right we guess the area to look, it's an entire nebula! lets search the place!"
I do agree though that if none of us found it after all this time, it was to much of an obscure clue.
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We still have the UAs pointing at Merope. I suspect that by saying 'Pleiades' Michael is obliquely validating the Merope clue, which many people were giving up on or discounting as unrelated.

Given that he has specifically told us that some barnacle instances have been deliberately placed, it would kind of suck if there weren't any in Merope. That's already a huge search space given the limitations of our sensors and the huge quantity of noise (random junk POIs).

Searches elsewhere in the nebula might get lucky but given zero additional info they are basically just random punting.

'Merope' is the closest thing we have to a solid lead, at present. I wish there was some galnet mystery post with some leads in it we could analyse, brute force searches of planetary surfaces is pretty frustrating, and after a few hours, not fun.
 
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Nutter

Nutter
Quick update - For those following the Horizons trailer hunch.. SRV thrusters are neutral (neither up or down) on a 1g world with a tolerance of 0.1g

Barnacle Facts
1. Are they in the Game? - They are in the game
2. What Region of space can they be found? - Can be found in the region of the Seven Sisters nebula (Pleiades). - or Likely to be found in or close to nebulae, specially the Pleiades
3. Where do they live? In the void of space or on a planet? – Planet
4. How will they appear? - Either a POI or a specific placed location.
5. How common are they? - They are exceedingly rare.
6. Has a player found a Barnacle? - No
7. Are they linked to the Meta-Alloys and Mission? – Yes
8. Do I need a Mission to find them? - No

Barnacle Unknowns
1. What do they look like?
2. Do they show up as a blue circle while flying over a planet?
3. Are they only found with a crashed ship?
4. Are they only in the nebula or could they be near it?
5. Are they only found in dark areas of a planet (Craters or Trenches)?
6. What star type will the planet orbit?
7. What type of planet do they ‘live’ on?
8. Do they prefer cold or hot worlds?
9. Does there need to be volcanism of any type?
10. Are they related to the Horizons trailer with the green glowing objects?
Theory (s)

Barnacles are shown in the Horizons trailer
1. Video shows SRV on a 1G +/- 0.1 world
2. In a misty dark area
3. At a crashed ship site
 
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Vasious

Vasious
So I might have missed in in the 40 odd pages

How has this been confirmed?
2. What Region of space can they be found? - Can be found in the region of the Seven Sisters nebula (Pleiades).
 

PanPiper.

PanPiper.
Cmdr Edard said:
What sort of large crashed ship? A t9? Anaconda? If so did you catch the grid location?
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More a large crash site but a medium ship.
Fed,vulture or one of the dropships.front left wing of the ship defiantly fed,rear parts of ship,multiple structure parts.
very large wave signal from 3-4km out.filled almost all bars,top mid bottom
Unless I screenshots the location,will check after work.should be still nearby on planet as didn't takeoff.
 

Zenith

Zenith
Good summary Nutter.

I just landed at OO in Maia. I'll sell my data then get on with the planetary surveying.
 

b_laiskiainen

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Han_Zen said:
It's something to think about. If the UA is the map, it points to Merope, but we don't know the planet.
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I was thinking about this yesterday.

What if the markings on the UA actually do point to a specific place? Mostly the repeating two dots and upturned V.

Maybe one of the paired moons in Merope?
 

Jorge

Jorge
Nutter said:
Quick update - For those following the Horizons trailer hunch.. SRV thrusters are neutral (neither up or down) on a 1g world with a tolerance of 0.1g

Barnacle Facts
1. Are they in the Game? - They are in the game
2. What Region of space can they be found? - Can be found in the region of the Seven Sisters nebula (Pleiades).
3. Where do they live? In the void of space or on a planet? – Planet
4. How will they appear? - Either a POI or a specific placed location.
5. How common are they? - They are exceedingly rare.
6. Has a player found a Barnacle? - No
7. Are they linked to the Meta-Alloys and Mission? – Yes
8. Do I need a Mission to find them? - No

Barnacle Unknowns
1. What do they look like?
2. Do they show up as a blue circle while flying over a planet?
3. Are they only found with a crashed ship?
4. Are they only in the nebula or could they be near it?
5. Are they only found in dark areas of a planet (Craters or Trenches)?
6. What star type will the planet orbit?
7. What type of planet do they ‘live’ on?
8. Do they prefer cold or hot worlds?
9. Does there need to be volcanism of any type?
10. Are they related to the Horizons trailer with the green glowing objects?
Theory (s)

Barnacles are shown in the Horizons trailer
1. Video shows SRV on a 1G +/- 0.1 world
2. In a misty dark area
3. At a crashed ship site
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See my post #523. I think your Barnacle Fact #2 should be edited to say something like "Likely to be found in nebulae, specially the Pleiades". I think it's important to establish what MB said, even if we mostly concentrate our efforts in the Pleiades for now.
 
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RedWizzard

RedWizzard
EddyRockSteady said:
No.

Michael Brooks confirmed that you do not need the mission.
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He said you don't need the mission to find. That could mean that you don't need the mission because there are fixed locations they can always be found at. But maybe you do need the mission to find one in a random POI.
 

Nutter

Nutter
Jorge said:
See my post #523. I think your Barnacle Fact #2 should be edited to say something like "Likely to be found in nebulae, specially the Pleiades". I think it's important to establish what MB said, even if we mostly concentrate our efforts in the Pleiades for now.
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Compromise :)
Likely to be found in or close to nebulae, specially the Pleiades
 
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