UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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K M Butler

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I'll try again here. Quoting myself from earlier:

possible coords to check on likely planets:
any shown in sneak peeks
any mentioned in space odyssey
+52.205, +0.119 (cambridge uk)
+28.4556, -80.5278 (cape canaveral/kennedy space center)
+0.6875, +23.4333 (location of first moon landing)
think of the locations as passwords of FD's your trying to guess.

Also: Horizons trailer began w/ the Kennedy (as in Kennedy Space Center) speech. "...were doing it because it's HARDER!"

Note without such clues, finding barnacles is like finding a specific person's house on Earth w/o an address, name or location, just a vague description. No exaggeration.
 

rizal72

rizal72
Tomtom said:
Oops, yeah, I think you're right. Well spotted, that man! I'll fix that in a minute.

To those who don't like the idea: I get where you're coming from. You make valid points, but you might be over reacting just a teensy bit (my subjective opinion, of course). This wouldn't be where all the barnacles spawn, just one out of... how many? Ten? A hundred? A thousand? We just don't know yet. And there's no in game reason why one shouldn't spawn at that location, on one random planet. Besides, the game is already littered with Easter eggs, and they don't spoil the experience do they?

Also, what LordZoltan said.
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You talk and think like a programmer Pal. I bet you are, aren't you? :D
 

Cmdr Delmonte[VR]

Cmdr Delmonte[VR]
rizal72 said:
I did a couple updates and modifications to the Front Page, to make it more FRIENDLY.
Now there is a NEWS and UPDATES section right at the top, plus MB comments.
My reasons were: Hottest things first.

PS: some of the Thread Seniors could like a couple of new infos I've added... :D
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Looks fantastic Riz ! well done o7
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
bitstorm said:
Just to say on "Barnacle Grind".

Frontier could have implemented this as, go collect 250,000 "research materials" from signal sources to allow some body to "locate the barnacles".

I much much prefer these things being out there and we find them ourselvse, much prefer it.

I know lots may be burning out a bit but as a PLAYER a feel there is no urgency, people of course want to find them asap but in the scheme of things they turn up when they turn up (on the other had there does feel like a sense of urgency coming from MB/Frontier).

Also I have to say that all this planetary exploring I'm doing while looking for barnacles, paying close attention to the landscape, I'm seeing some totally awesome sights and it's only giving me much more appreciation as to what an amazing job Frontier have done with the procedural generation.
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Right on, cmdr - the canyon I 'found' yesterday on Merope 5A had a nice steep gradient, deep enough to create a bit of mist, and opened out into a huge arena-style area. I flew up and down a few times in the Python, then jumped out into the SRV. Only then did I notice a conjunction of stars in the sky as I drove/floated/bounced/careered down - with Greenish Blue start blazing above. And I thought... 'nobody made this - it's just here'.

It is awe inspiring.
 

slashgoh

slashgoh
Tomtom said:
Oops, yeah, I think you're right. Well spotted, that man! I'll fix that in a minute.

To those who don't like the idea: I get where you're coming from. You make valid points, but you might be over reacting just a teensy bit (my subjective opinion, of course). This wouldn't be where all the barnacles spawn, just one out of... how many? Ten? A hundred? A thousand? We just don't know yet. And there's no in game reason why one shouldn't spawn at that location, on one random planet. Besides, the game is already littered with Easter eggs, and they don't spoil the experience do they?

Also, what LordZoltan said.
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Sorry for my reaction cmdr, but if we start to broadcast coordinates in the forum, most of the effort in game time will be spent to search that coordinates and this will delay the finding event.
The same already happened with that Staples Center hypotesis that lead many of us into a set of useless coordinates last night.
Better if who have an idea based on "strange" numbers like the location of FD HQ in England, search for himself (this is not your case due to 6000Ly trip required) and than report if he found something.

Thinking coordinates as FD password is another strange hint...
please do not concentrate cmdr efforts on strange points...
please MB let us know if we have to become psychanalyst to find the correct locatio/password
 
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coojw

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On a sad note, my girlfriend decided NOT to get into this game with me as a result of seeing this whole process pan out as it has.
 

Cmdr Delmonte[VR]

Cmdr Delmonte[VR]
Updates comming though to FD

Live photo of FD back office keeping up with this thread
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Lord Zoltan decoding back at Gnosis C&C
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rizal72

rizal72
A FEW POINTS:

remember that the hunt for UA convoys was a grindfest itself.
Even if we were told that they could spawn in "some region of space" we still don't know why they spawned there where we found them. Even now we still don't know the reason. Timocani? Why...

That said, here what will happen in the near future, it has already happened with the first UA grind:
lots of people will soon get bored, leaving the usual ones here on this thread. The posting madness will slow on.

Then the usual X-box casual gamer will pop up to tell us he found a strange alienish structure on some random planet in some random system close to the Pleiades Nebula.

And there we go again.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
rizal72 said:
A FEW POINTS:

remember that the hunt for UA convoys was a grindfest itself.
Even if we were told that they could spawn in "some region of space" we still don't know why they spawned there where we found them. Even now we still don't know the reason. Timocani? Why...

That said, here what will happen in the near future, it has already happened with the first UA grind:
lots of people will soon get bored, leaving the usual ones here on this thread. The posting madness will slow on.

Then the usual X-box casual gamer will pop up to tell us he found a strange alienish structure on some random planet in some random system close to the Pleiades Nebula.

And there we go again.
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All wise words ;)

No XBox players can save us on this one, though. We're all the way down the barnacle hole without a WavebladeTM Bottom Cleaning Tool
 

Tomtom

Tomtom
rizal72 said:
You talk and think like a programmer Pal. I bet you are, aren't you? :D
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Nope. But I have been accused of having a logical mind. I love science and have dabbled with programming, but not much beyond the basics. I'm actually unemployed right now so if somebody within 30 miles of Bolton would like to offer me a job that'd be awesome!


slashgoh said:
Sorry for my reaction cmdr, but if we start to broadcast coordinates in the forum, most of the effort in game time will be spent to search that coordinates and this will delay the finding event.
The same already happens with that Staples Center hypotesis that lead many of us into a set of useless coordinates last night.
Better if who have an idea based on "strange" numbers like the location of FD HQ in England, search for itself (thi is not your case due to 6000Ly trip required) and than report if he found something.
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No apologies necessary here, we are all entitled to our own ideas and opinions and none are more valid than any others. It is just unfortunate that there isn't much to go on at the moment, and the 'location of the FD studio' idea is the kind of thing that programmers like to do. Whether anyone wishes to put it to the test is up to them.
 

slashgoh

slashgoh
rizal72 said:
A FEW POINTS:

remember that the hunt for UA convoys was a grindfest itself.
Even if we were told that they could spawn in "some region of space" we still don't know why they spawned there where we found them. Even now we still don't know the reason. Timocani? Why...

That said, here what will happen in the near future, it has already happened with the first UA grind:
lots of people will soon get bored, leaving the usual ones here on this thread. The posting madness will slow on.

Then the usual X-box casual gamer will pop up to tell us he found a strange alienish structure on some random planet in some random system close to the Pleiades Nebula.

And there we go again.
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I fear that the UA example is not exactly the same.
UAs was randomly generated somwere for sure, not manually placed, so at a certain point nobody apart FD team, can exclude that when UA grindfest become too intense, FD rise the chance of UA spawn in systems where we was searching for.
Some Barnacles are instead manually placed and there are already ingame. So if it is all true, it si not a gringfest, it is really a search. We need to have a schema for optimizing the search, not to be millions to statistically trigger a random spawn.
 

CarnbY

CarnbY
I started circumnavigating Maia A2B along the equator last night. I travelled 100 degrees east from 0.0 with nothing to report. Altitude 2-5km. I guess I'll continue tonight and try to make it all the way around, unless something more promising pops up.

Oh, I came across some very interesting barnacle information:
[video=youtube;2NvGsrnit30]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NvGsrnit30[/video]
 

EddyRockSteady

EddyRockSteady
rizal72 said:
A FEW POINTS:

remember that the hunt for UA convoys was a grindfest itself.
Even if we were told that they could spawn in "some region of space" we still don't know why they spawned there where we found them. Even now we still don't know the reason. Timocani? Why...

That said, here what will happen in the near future, it has already happened with the first UA grind:
lots of people will soon get bored, leaving the usual ones here on this thread. The posting madness will slow on.

Then the usual X-box casual gamer will pop up to tell us he found a strange alienish structure on some random planet in some random system close to the Pleiades Nebula.

And there we go again.
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Yep.

That said, be honest with yourself: Do you really think that that was the best way FD could come up with to deal with the story, to let it unfold?

I cannot help but think that there is soooooo much lost potential.

Oh well, it is what it is I suppose.
 

rizal72

rizal72
LordZoltan said:
All wise words ;)

No XBox players can save us on this one, though. We're all the way down the barnacle hole without a WavebladeTM Bottom Cleaning Tool
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That was my subtle way of saying that this time we are DOOMED for real. :D

P.S.
If someone did not understand: X-Box player cannot play Horizons ;)

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EddyRockSteady said:
Yep.

That said, be honest with yourself: Do you really think that that was the best way FD could come up with to deal with the story, to let it unfold?

I cannot help but think that there is soooooo much lost potential.

Oh well, it is what it is I suppose.
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Yes I agree with you.
But that's what we have: ED is strongly based on grind activities, we knew it...
 

Starlanced

Starlanced
The idea of using out of game locations would be disappointing. I believe there is something in game that was missed.

On that note I did plug pr5 into Google and find that is the postal code for Preston, I the remembered there is a system named preston's star, so I headed off 700 lys from maia. It is almost center line of the galaxy and it's above for a great viewing angle but only 2 landable planets and I didn't see anything odd but who knows. Yes it's not a nebula buy I think I read that's where they are most likely but not alone
 
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