UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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wstephenson

wstephenson
EddyRockSteady said:
To rely solely on dumb luck to discover such an important aspect of the continuation of the Elite story seems to be a huge let-down, especially considering the pop-up. It's a pity.
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On the 'dumb luck' front, I am currently trying a few random planets within the Coalsack Nebula. Nothing to report, yet. I did find a canyon with a greenish colouring but it only had the usual Tea/Personal Weapons/Animal Meat crash sites and a few hermitages.
 

Ian Phillips

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Ian Phillips
Have removed the requests for assistance in breaking the ToS/ELUA.

Please do not start that discussion up again.
 
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bitstorm

bitstorm
Just on MB's recent comment :

MB said:
"And to those asking why nebulae - it's quite logical if you think about it :)"
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I'm no astronomer so am theorizing here about something I know very little about..

Is MB's stated association of nebula and barnacles actually direct, or is it indirect?

The Pleiades nebula has a bunch of blue (b class) stars.

As in, is the occurrence of these types of stars correlated with nebula, meaning the barnacles could be more to do with the properties of the star (and hence the planets) than the nebula as such, the nebula just being a likely side-effect of the type of star?

Been googling to see if b class stars and nebula are correlated, found this not sure if it's actually true though. =p

http://www.howitworksdaily.com/why-are-some-stars-blue/ said:
"In fact, these are rare ultra-blue stars – old red giants past their prime that have ejected most of their surface material to expose hot blue cores. This much ejection is unusual and likely happens because they are richer in chemical elements other than the normal helium and hydrogen, which makes it much easier for the star to slough more layers into space."
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So perhaps.... Some older blue star have ejected rich elements, often this will result in a nebula.

These rich elements are used by barnacles in the production of meta-alloy.

Blue stars + nebula being an indicator of an environment suitable for placing a meta-alloy production facility?
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Jmanis said:
This.

I'll keep saying it. Placing content into ostensibly random "selected positions" and hoping your players stumble onto them is just a plain bad idea.
MB dropping hints in here was the icing on the cake for me, and while some of the posts are in jest, some of the begging for more hints is just confirmation of this failing.

What a wasted opportunity for something which could've been so much more than an RNG grind...
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There is an element of realism in the random placement.

To combine this realism with enjoable game-play, you have a few options in my mind.

- Hints from those in-game that knows more than us. This would be 'the explorers that have fond them, the UA and possibly Palin.

- A very spesific environment that makes finding the second one much easier than the first.

- Hints from the lore.

MB have not given us much in the way of hints. He has confirmed an ingame hint and clarified some aspects of the game mechanics.

I realy don't hope it's random to the extent that finding barnacle two is as hard as finding the first.
 

Wabbitsand

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Originally Posted by Michael Brookes
It's the same galaxy on the Xbox One as PC and Mac.


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So does that mean there are no Barnacles in the Xbox Version however meta alloys are. I don't think I have seen anywhere in Mr Brookes comments so far that have confirmed they are ONLY found on planets. He has only said you can't find them in orbital cruise height. I smell a rat. His clues had led us to believe they are planetside but I think we have misjudged his comments to assume they are planetside. I repeat, Mr Brookes has never said they are planet based. We did.
 

coojw

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cmdr banannachops said:
heading to KN Muscae now to see if the mist is replicated for me, worth a go I guess
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Anything is better than more of this aimless searching. If we had more information, i'm all for it, but i've spent 30 hours since saturday on this, and all I have for my efforts is a UA eating my ship alive.
 

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bitstorm said:
Just on MB's recent comment :



I'm no astronomer so am theorizing here about something I know very little about..

Is MB's stated association of nebula and barnacles actually direct, or is it indirect?

The Pleiades nebula has a bunch of blue (b class) stars.

As in, is the occurrence of these types of stars correlated with nebula, meaning the barnacles could be more to do with the properties of the star (and hence the planets) than the nebula as such, the nebula just being a likely side-effect of the type of star?

Been googling to see if b class stars and nebula are correlated, found this not sure if it's actually true though. =p



So perhaps.... Some older blue star have ejected rich elements, often this will result in a nebula.

These rich elements are used by barnacles in the production of meta-alloy.

Blue stars + nebula being an indicator of an environment suitable for placing a meta-alloy production facility?
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I posted this yesterday: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&page=119&p=3402984#post3402984
 

Daddio

Daddio
I have one question for FD, do we need to be in the SRV to activate/see them or will flying your ship at lower then 200m also work?
 
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