Not sure, but isn't 'PR5, row 2, seats 5 and 6' just a hint for the crash site that was in the Sol news entry? The one with the Morse message.
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Not sure, but isn't 'PR5, row 2, seats 5 and 6' just a hint for the crash site that was in the Sol news entry? The one with the Morse message.
I don't know about the crash but that icon in the original picture is the same one used for the 'covert' missions you can. It wouldn't surprise if it was only one of those missions.
The relevant planet in the trailer, is in a system with a yellow/white star, not a blue star. The srv pair are consistently on the same light brown planet (yellow star) the whole time.
The single srvs are on separate blue star planets.
The big problem with using the trailer as a guide, is that it may have been recorded outside of the game itself and so nothing in it is relevant in terms of clues. We just can't be sure. But it doesn't hurt to look!
If the barnacles are in some way radiosynthetic (obtaining nourishment from radiation) then residing on atmosphere-less worlds would convey an advantage (more cosmic radiation). But what if they can't tolerate the intense radiation from solar proximity and can only thrive on world's some distance from their host star, in darkness?
In this case the extra background ionizing radiation from Nebulae might provide the Goldilocks zone for this species.
Maybe worlds further out from their host star are good candidates.
I'm no nuclear physicist or space barnie physiologist. Just some creative reflection.
Good luck commanders!
In this case the extra background ionizing radiation from Nebulae might provide the Goldilocks zone for this species.
Maybe worlds further out from their host star are good candidates.
I'm no nuclear physicist or space barnie physiologist. Just some creative reflection.
Good luck commanders!
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This, if it is something to go on, would also add credence to the fact that Maia A 7 is a world that *could* harbour them, as it also has very high gravity, and is within one of the prime suspect systems to Barnacles.
Yeah I have a hunch about Maia, especially those ones orbiting the black hole.
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My hunch has always been that what we are looking for is nothing more than a very rare POI which only spawns under certain conditions. Again I've got nothing to support this but it's just a hunch based on the hints the devs have supplied us so far, and Michael's latest would seem to suggest that it may be a rather sizable and hard to miss very rare POI, possibly even visible from the ship flying at low altitude.
I'm wondering if the best way to search for this is to simply do low level 2.5km high passes in the ship over the surface hunting as many POI's as fast as possible and looking for something very visible from the cockpit. Driving around in the SRV's hunting for these might just be too slow, not enough POI's per hour kind of thing. Hunting on the dark side of planets might make it easier to see from altitude too, especially if they are really glowing green like in the trailer.
I have been monitoring the threads for some time but I cannot find an answer.
Why are we looking for "high gravity" worlds?
I think the yellow star may be a secondary star. Like in Maia. In one shot you can see a blue star in the distance, next to the yellow.
BTW, it's not Maia. No planets orbits the yellow star there.
so there is a station there but we are unable to land in it?
Really interesting stuff! Thanks for this.
Earlier in the thread, I can see people looking for tidally looked planets / moons. I'm not sure what prompted that, but was it because of the idea of looking on a dark side of a planet?
If so, the "logical" reason for a nebula, could perhaps be the fact they produce light on dark planets even when the planet / moon is faced away from the local star. Could this perhaps be relevant?
*Sits in orbit, waving a "Go Canonn!" Flag*
Good luck guys!
Good luck guys!
Pretty much, some people have theorised that since the green glowing structures shown in the trailer are in darkness it may be that they can only be found in darkness. And that's were the dark side of a planet tidally locked to a star comes in handy. Of course, it may be that they are at the bottom of deep narrow canyons, where light doesn't get to, on "regular" planets. Or that they can be found in light as much as in darkness, but FD just chose to show them in darkness because it looked cooler for the trailer.
Because in the Horizons launch movie the SRV's had their 'wheel jets' angled slightly down, suggesting gravity (slightly) more than Earth standard.
Is a little settlment, somethink like you find in PoI not bigger. Couple of hangars, defend towers drones and lights post. Didint see any landing pad. But keep in mind was very late yerstay. I'm going there now agai i will make a screen
OMG, I completely missed a thread transition. That's what being on the other side of the galaxy gets you.
Keep searching.
Keep searching.
Great points. The bolded bit is a bit conflicting though. If they really wanted a very dark place, they wouldn't pick a system within a nebula to start with.
The only things I can think of as being significant for nebulae:
- They reflect light, which means <in game hat on> someone/something might like brighter places or <out of game hat on> the brighter light makes these places easier to search!
- They're visual landmarks that are a lot more appealing than a random system in deep space.
- They're the nurseries for stars and planets. Has anyone seen a brand new star or planet recently? Maybe if we hang around for a few million years something might show up....
Thank you
Hi folks; I just recently joined the hunt in the Pleiades, and I noticed some possibly useful clues in the game's data files. Looking at the files is kinda meta-gamey, so if you don't want to see I've spoilers'd it, but I figured meta-gaming for meta-alloys could be appropriate
You risk The Wrath of Dom. He might even travel all the way to Ceti Alpha six just to pick up one of the native inhabitants so that he can suggest not to post this kind of info...
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