I am 5 jumps out in my FDL and have a few brave souls signed on with me but it's going to take a lot more to be even noticed against 20 of them haha..
my honorable death cries won't even be heard
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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I am 5 jumps out in my FDL and have a few brave souls signed on with me but it's going to take a lot more to be even noticed against 20 of them haha..
my honorable death cries won't even be heard
It sounds strange, maybe you could post a screenshot of the wave scanner output? I can pretty much identify anything that comes up on it now.
So um... Regarding the "eye" message about Thursday's game, Section PR5, Row 2, Seats 5 & 6...
I think I may have solved it, and you might be disappointed...
I think I may have solved it, and you might be disappointed...
Since one of the CMDRs received the message after doing surface missions in Cubeo, I went there. There's only one landfall planet. The largest surface port, called Roskam Enterprise, looks a lot like... wait for it... A STADIUM.
I think the message may be nothing more than a little humor injected into the game.
Admittedly, I have no idea where the other CMDR received his identical message, but wouldn't be surprised if it was from a stadium-looking surface-port.
I think the message may be nothing more than a little humor injected into the game.
Admittedly, I have no idea where the other CMDR received his identical message, but wouldn't be surprised if it was from a stadium-looking surface-port.
FYI the T Tauri (proto stars) in the nebula have no planets or no landable planets, so you can write them off the search.
There is a red dwarf, HR-W D1-74 with 14 landables, they are all ice balls with very low temperatures (range 40-80K)
I started looking at warmer stars, K and G specifically.
There is a red dwarf, HR-W D1-74 with 14 landables, they are all ice balls with very low temperatures (range 40-80K)
I started looking at warmer stars, K and G specifically.
call anyone you know, in the name of science.
cmdr general yankee is assembling some friends and will be inbound soon. i'm still about 30 jumps out.
Pirating is doing illegal things for profit. There is no profit in what this scum is doing.
The Smiling Dog Crew have gone too far, it's time to take these guys out. If you're willing to protect the innocent explorers bring any combat ship to Maia, wing up with us, the kittens of Maia and send these guys back from where they came from!
For those of you that want to join the fight come to the Kitten Deathsquad discord here: https://discord.gg/0lK97kWVdqV7MhHd
For those of you that want to join the fight come to the Kitten Deathsquad discord here: https://discord.gg/0lK97kWVdqV7MhHd
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Yes they respawn there. And they aren't going to run out of money. Quote from voice chat in the livestream - "I have 2 billion credits worth of griefing to do here." Yes, that's Billion with a B.
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True and good point, but all this searching for barnacles has hardly been for profit. An activity of pleasure and reward more so. I suppose the opposite extreme would be to stop us from searching which results in the same thing? With an agenda or not. Not advocating it, cus yeah it sucks hardcore, still though. Space madness isn't friendly for anyone.
I don't have the time tonight to get involved in this battle, but if you guys do manage to get a good fight going, please record it! I think it would make for great watching. We already know they're streaming it, but I'd like to see it from our side.
Just make sure to dock at Obsidian Orbital before engaging them... if you can, that is.
So for those interested you can in fact run Horizons on a late 2012 Mac Mini dual booting windows 10. And, it turns out I can land on planets even though it doesn't say anywhere that I have the planetary landing module installed. However, I probably will not be landing on a planet again anytime soon. I touched down on an icy body, landing seemed fine, and my ship went from 93% to 71% immediately. Also, does anyone know when you're descending from "DRP" to "SRF" what the big blue circle is? It almost filled up the whole radar. That's not a POI is it? Because if it is I had a POI 23,000 LY from Sol. Would that be normal? When I got close to the surface it disappeared.
This is the signal just before it cuts out. If I roll forward 10 feet from this point, the wave scanner is empty. Roll back 10 feet, and I get this signal again. Go forward 20 feet and turn 180 and it's not there, go forward 20 feet and 180 again (so I'm back to the start) and there it is again.
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The indigo glow around here makes me think i'm on to something - is it the star that's causing it? something in the surroundings, as I move around it does seem to be a glow - sort of like the reddish one in maia from the nebula - the color is definitely intriguing. The music here also seems quite different than I've heard before
This is a huge opportunity being handed to us on a silver platter. I'm quite sure there are more of us than there are them. They have bounties to give us, we have nothing to give them except a higher bounty to their head. To me, they're a resource waiting to be collected. Can you imagine if the amount of people dedicated to finding these barnacles switched focus to this blockade for even a moment, what effect that could have? I honestly cant even imagine the numbers. Open play is for us all, sure dock in solo thats a no brainer, but play in open. NPC pirates are boring anyway.
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Problem that I see with it is that even if we coordinated and dropped into the instance in wings of 4 combat outfitted ships, 10 of them (2 corvettes, some FAS, otehr combat ships) will take you down so fast that I'm not sure you could kill even one of them before your whole wing is wiped out. If it was one wing vs. one wing (ie a fair fight) then maybe, but these guys have purposely stacked the odds ridiculously in their favor. Add to that the fact that they respawn right there and have billions of credits worth of rebuys, and it hardly seems worth even trying to fight them. I'm in the "ignore them until they get bored" camp myself. IMO we'd need to be able to drop into the instance in a wing of 8-10 to stand a fighting chance, and we can't do that...
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we need to do a show of force and carry out this mission
Agree, as long as we have fun.
Sadly some people enjoy ruining other's people fun so I do hope this is not what this so called "blocade" is about.
Anyway I met them twice already in Maia.
A Cmdr in a black Imperial Clipper was attacking another Cmdr in an Imperial Courrier right outside the space station's letterbox (it was an ambush).
So I tried to help and I engaged the Clipper to give time to the Courrier to escape.
But I was no match so once I got the attention of the Clipper and the Courrier escaped I went to SuperCruise.
Then I met another Cmdr in a Federal Corvette asking me if I attacked the grifiers back at the station.
I did not reply at once. I waited and after a while I reply "I tried to help".
Bang he interdicted me and I had to run from 3 a full wing of Cmdrs...
2% hull left. Canopy breach.
Well... Maia is no longer a scientist "paradise" for Cmdrs.
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I had the exact same thing on Maia B 2 A B. It's pretty weird but I couldn't work out what it meant. The fact that you couldn't see it from the "reverse" side suggested to me that it was not a real thing. I have a video of it if anyone wants to see.
Recall your ship, get in, and scoop them using that.
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