UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[RCKJD]

This might have hapened, depending on which story arc FD have chosen to follow.
Either way, Allliance reps. were in contact with Thatgoids.

But were they also in contact with their brethren, the Themgoids or the Thisgoids? At least we know they had contacts with the pirate faction the Tharrgoids

 

[Lumpus]

I am headed out in my FDL as is at least one other. The plan is to dock at Obsidian in solo and then leave and return in open and DEFEND SCIENCE

being that I am in the FDL you likely have time to design and build a ship, cook dinner, and the blockaide might be over before I arrive

just got to mine, 44 jumps lol.

There are so many people going to that station, i'm sure 15 Asp's could stop take a break for 2 days and fit rail guns and stack hull reinforcements to break the blockade.

Only issue is with the Robrigo money exploit, they probably have hundreds of millions of dollars, so dieing in an Anaconda doesn't really matter.

yeah i know some people who had fun with that one.....bit of a shame, but still, we have explorers out there that need help.

a mere 35 jumps away... Haha

yeah, you and i should be there some time early this weekend hehe

 

[Iridium Nova]

OK, I'm pretty new to all this planetary stuff - has anyone seen this before.

I'm following a signal on the SRV scanner, one of the 'tall' ones with activity at both the top and bottom of the scanner, the angle is narrowing like I'm getting closer, the signal getting stronger, and then suddenly, nothing. If I back up a bit, I can see it again, but as soon as I reach a certain point, it's gone.

Wierd thing is, if I drive past the point where it vanishes and do a 180, I still can't see it, but if I drive back over it again and do another 180, there it is. It's like it only appears from 1 side.

It's really strange. I'm fairly high up a mountain, so I'm wondering if it's somehow underneath me...

This is on Maia A2A

If it's a steep cliff, whatever you're finding might be embedded in the side of the cliff. I haven't seen anything like that happen on flat ground, but you might also be getting disorientated. Check your compass directions. Whenever I get a signal of interest, I always note the compass heading in case I get bounced around or do a crazy jump and lose my bearings after a hard landing.

 

[Four Muffins]

On a more science related note, I've asked Survey Contributors to start noting the location of game crashes to the survey results. We have a theory that the game crashes may be related to a bug in the barnacle LOD. If we can have multiple cmdr's game crash at the same coordinates, it verifies that something at that location is causing crashes. If not, then we can at least check the coordinates out and see what the crashed cmdr might have missed, if anything.

Keep onward, and it should resolve into whistles and beeps, and a really wide strong signal that will also narrow. The four ghostly vertical bars are static, tells you something cool is way over there.

 

[Nydo_Horth]

OK, I'm pretty new to all this planetary stuff - has anyone seen this before.

I'm following a signal on the SRV scanner, one of the 'tall' ones with activity at both the top and bottom of the scanner, the angle is narrowing like I'm getting closer, the signal getting stronger, and then suddenly, nothing. If I back up a bit, I can see it again, but as soon as I reach a certain point, it's gone.

Wierd thing is, if I drive past the point where it vanishes and do a 180, I still can't see it, but if I drive back over it again and do another 180, there it is. It's like it only appears from 1 side.

It's really strange. I'm fairly high up a mountain, so I'm wondering if it's somehow underneath me...

This is on Maia A2A

may be it is.. above =D

 

[Scruffy]

in my head it's more about the narrative of explorers/scientists turned combatants fighting back then it is actually impacting a band of griefers financially.

Plus us if we get thirsty I have found plenty of tea factories in the nebula

If it helps we could add each other and wing up. Part exploration and defense where its needed. Im trying to force myself to always play open. The interaction of players fill a gap in this game so I like it.

 

[hawkjon]

I must not be in the instance with the Obsidian Orbital blockade... I am only seeing friendly explorers here.

 

[Lane1572]

If it helps we could add each other and wing up. Part exploration and defense where its needed. Im trying to force myself to always play open. The interaction of players fill a gap in this game so I like it.

absolutely my friend- and anyone else interested in mix and matching exploring and combat

add me Cmdr Chris Lane (creative I know haha)

 

[Bungalo]

Its a common known fact that trolls thrive on attention and quickly die without it. These guys are trolls, if we completely ignore them they will get bored as there is no one to shoot and they will fornicate off leaving us free to use the station again. Their short attention spans can only last so long without things going "pew pew!"

BUT. I want to spill some troll blood, I really do. What they are doing is a excuse for bad behavior... I can't stand the thought of watch my fellow explorers fight and not being there to help them.

 

[Gameson]

If it's a steep cliff, whatever you're finding might be embedded in the side of the cliff. I haven't seen anything like that happen on flat ground, but you might also be getting disorientated. Check your compass directions. Whenever I get a signal of interest, I always note the compass heading in case I get bounced around or do a crazy jump and lose my bearings after a hard landing.

No, it's not that, it's not a steep cliff at all

 

[RedWizzard]

"obvious if you think about it" [why Barnacles would be found in nebulae] has me thinking- what do all nebulae have in common?

Supernovae remnants; literally the stellar sized debris cloud of its explosion.

Nebulae do not form naturally in the galactic landscape- they are the leftovers of dying stars. BIG stars, stars able to fuse all the heavier elements in its last dying breaths. and where you find the remains of one supernova-ed star (nebula) you are likely to find other supernova stars yet to come (the sisters), because few stars form in isolation- the environment that formed the first to detonate will also contain the sisters of those to detonate shortly- due to the very hot and fast lifecycle of the star types in question.

This isn't really right. Some nebulae are supernova remnants. Others are gas ejected from less massive stars late in their lives (planetary nebulae). Still others are ionized interstellar hydrogen gas clouds (emission nebulae). The Pleiades is actually a reflection nebula which is non-ionised dust reflecting the light of nearby stars. The nebula is not actually associated with the stars of the Pleiades at all, they just happen to be in the same place right now.

 

[crushdepth]

I must not be in the instance with the Obsidian Orbital blockade... I am only seeing friendly explorers here.

David Braben once mentioned that they could detect griefing behaviour and shunt griefers off into their own instance where they could happily grief each other.

 

[Bungalo]

David Braben once mentioned that they could detect griefing behaviour and shunt griefers off into their own instance where they could happily grief each other.

Oh and just like that problem solved. Thats very convenient. I'll go put the righteous anger back in the shoe box and stare at rocks on moons till my eyes bleed.

 

[mike123pro]

Greetings all, not sure if this has been discussed yet but upon reading the quotes from MB I started looking into planetary Nebulae and came across this:



I'm assuming the elements mentioned are a reason as to why barnacles are supposedly in Nebulae? Thoughts?

could this mean that the barnacles are terraformers?

 

[Scruffy]

Where does the line between pirating and grieving get drawn? Not all bad guys need to be fictional after all. Oh well, a small thought to a huge problem.

 

[Gameson]

OK, I'm pretty new to all this planetary stuff - has anyone seen this before.

I'm following a signal on the SRV scanner, one of the 'tall' ones with activity at both the top and bottom of the scanner, the angle is narrowing like I'm getting closer, the signal getting stronger, and then suddenly, nothing. If I back up a bit, I can see it again, but as soon as I reach a certain point, it's gone.

Wierd thing is, if I drive past the point where it vanishes and do a 180, I still can't see it, but if I drive back over it again and do another 180, there it is. It's like it only appears from 1 side.

It's really strange. I'm fairly high up a mountain, so I'm wondering if it's somehow underneath me...

This is on Maia A2A

This is decidedly Odd. And I think you guys will agree when you see my video of it. Unfortunately Youtube is telling me it'll take over 8 hjours to upload...

 

[RedWizzard]

Ok.
Here is my theory.
The UAs are found in a "shell" ~150ly from Merope.

That looks like an explosion to me, but it could just be a "spawning" event, I'll all it "the exodus".
We don't know how fast they can travel, but lets pretend that they set off at 1C (either a really big explosion, or thats the fastest they can go as they don't have FTL travel).
So that means the "exodus" occurred ~150 years ago.

This doesn't work unfortunately because the UAs were found in systems within about 100 Ly of Merope in 1.3. It was only in 1.4 that they moved to the current shell 135-150 Ly from Merope. So if "the exodus" is true then they are travelling much faster than 1c and therefore it didn't happen 150 years ago, rather much more recently.

 

[NecoMachina]

Just be careful. I've just noticed the griefer that killed me is in a wing of four.

Actually, it's worse than that. i dropped into that Twitch stream for a few min and they have 10+ ships out there. I believe some are waiting near the star trying to interdict people entering the system, and there is a group of 10 or so sitting right outside the station killing anyone that isn't them. The group outside the station had a couple of corvettes, some FAS, etc. Hearing them talk They openly admit to just being trolls using the "RP" as just an excuse.

 

[Iridium Nova]

Where does the line between pirating and grieving get drawn? Not all bad guys need to be fictional after all. Oh well, a small thought to a huge problem.

If you want to go fight them, I'm sure you could ask their resident streamer to invite you into a private group.

 

[Scruffy]

Time for a CG event?