UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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I tend to agree. In the trailer, the green mist could be due to the green lights cast from the objects onto whatever vapour is in the area, the vapour itself not necessarily being green.

I think the green mist is releaced by the barnacle, not the planet.
That is what the UA does.
 
Spent the day surveying the pleiades. Maia, Merope and Electra. no success :( POI are stupidly common to do a propper search. cant believe the amount of human built structures you can find just going on a stright line.

Ive notice that sounds of the signals as you fly by change from building to shipwrecks, its either that or im going crazy. Can anyone confirm this? or am i just hearing the ship normal sounds?

Once I've heard a ticking sound while I was trying to locate POI, closing in. There was a couple of them around, but I didn't manage to locate any. I thought, my laptop fan has broken, or a glitch.
It was silent ticking, about two or three times a second. Had to check with SVR, but I wasn't thinking of it a that moment. Now I can't remember, which planet it was. (((
 
Instead of having to argue with you every couple of pages where you spam your idea, how about you add a note that the Canonn has officially stated that this is dumb and undesirable.

Catching up and avoiding bringing old posts back to the front; but this has to be echoed.

We are not encouraging selling UAs any more (if a group wants to sell to their own station, fair enough), we are not interested in spaffing Obsidian with UAs, it's old news, it's done - and there are enough people doing it alreafy. It's not research any more, it's shenanigans at best, warfare at worst.

If Sirius Inc want to focus on selling UAs, then they should do so. The Canonn, however, has moved on.
 
Harvesting interstellar gas to do... something?

They don't like to see stars in the sky?

They like the pretty colours?

The nebula is actually a giant brain and the UAs are some component of it?

*Shrug*

Navigation points. You aim for something you can see. They don't have a 3D map.
 
Once I've heard a ticking sound while I was trying to locate POI, closing in. There was a couple of them around, but I didn't manage to locate any. I thought, my laptop fan has broken, or a glitch.
It was silent ticking, about two or three times a second. Had to check with SVR, but I wasn't thinking of it a that moment. Now I can't remember, which planet it was. (((

I had this today, two POI on scanner at max range. I descended to check one and the sound vanished. Never returned when I climbed above 2km either :(

That was on HR-W d1-79 1 A
 
That would be amazing though. I'd even accept a handwavey loading screen if I could go into a high quality cave instance with the srv! A bit off topic but caves would be awesome.

Yeah me too. Large cavesystems, underground bases, Rare minerals like diamonds, maybe even lava. This sounds more like Minecraft but FD please I believe in you. <3
 
I had an UA-like sound yesterday during my SRV ride in MAIA B1BA and the same "howling" / "heavy breathing" noises like in the recently posted video.
I thought about an indicator to follow but the noise went silent and then back loud, so i figured it was only atmospherical background music/ noise.
Maybe I was wrong.

Edit: i had to turn up my volume to nearly max and avoid srv sounds
 
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Thargoids have figured out Skype?
Anyway, it's a little more audible with the sound up. Going to check it out now.

I had similar sounds from the scanner yesterday evening at Merope 2A. Followed them for some time and they resolved into consumer electronics canisters from an SRV wreck. The creepy part was the dead skimmers surrounding the SRV.

Also had an eerie background moaning in the ship too, again at Merope 2A. While standing still at about 2.5 km of altitude, staring into the parent planet. The moaning was in sync with the ship's sensor pulse so I just thought it was the echo of the signal coming back after the pulse.
 
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Is there any indication that the Barnacles would only be found 'in the dark' only ?

PS. Completely OT but having explored the Merope system I'm in awe at FDEV's skills. The terrain is awesome.

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Ok this concerns me, can someone please check my maths.

If we assume the Horizons trailer does show the barnacles.

It's on a 1g world (Due to SRV thruster angle)

Earth is a 1g planet and is 510,072,000 km squared

So if we say a SRV has a 1km scan range and travels at 30km per hour it would take 1,939.58 years to search earth for a Barnacle!!! (That's assuming we knew which planet to search).

Have I messed up somewhere or does FD expect a player to live 1,939 years? I must have my maths wrong? Help!

DB said 10 days: http://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dangerous/elite-dangerous-horizons-planet-size
 
Has anyone got "find meta-alloy" mission or something like that? If so, where did you get the mission?

-Shriver Platform - Ovid
-Baker's Prospect - Asellus Primus
-Nelson Works - Dahan x3
-Creamer Dock - Chias Vega
-Serling Town - Ngalia
-Herreshoff Prospect - Gliese 868
-Vittori's Progress - Theta Indi
-Laveykin Observatory - LHS 215 x2
-Drummond Installation - Tewi'xilak
-Carr Terminal - Meliae
-Paweiczyk Depot - Tegidana

(Copied and pasted from my thread HERE)
 
To those interested in analysing the purrs sound of the UA - there was tons of work done before, and as Rizal says you could go find the data collected from then. BUT - now there are new mechanics: free floating UAs that don't degrade, and UAs dropped from SRV that do not degrade. I suggest recording these will give you LOTS of fresh 0's and 1's to analyse. Bear in mind also that the number of purrs between honks changes according to whether the UA has been dropped from a cargo hold and is degrading, or is in it's free floating state, but it may be that the series remains the same. Also sometimes a purr is masked by a honk, so watch out for that.
 
Ok this concerns me, can someone please check my maths.

If we assume the Horizons trailer does show the barnacles.

It's on a 1g world (Due to SRV thruster angle)

Earth is a 1g planet and is 510,072,000 km squared

So if we say a SRV has a 1km scan range and travels at 30km per hour it would take 1,939.58 years to search earth for a Barnacle!!! (That's assuming we knew which planet to search).

Have I messed up somewhere or does FD expect a player to live 1,939 years? I must have my maths wrong? Help!

The size of a 1G planet will depend on its mass, density and radius. An all metal planet could be very small and still be 1G.
 
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