UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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If UAs can learn Morse and FTL travel, barnacles can learn it. We have lost quit a lot of technology out there.
Oh...thanks really! But please be sure to add that this is only personal thoughts and I can be wrong in SO many things, I'am really dont want to be the guy who send all the pilots to the wrong direaction...
I thought that was what you were alluding to!
Well in retrospect I guess it might have been, but it only came conscious for me after you said what you did, about the birds and seeds
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I hadn't noticed the Maia blockade thing going on, haha.
I wish I could rep on Reddit but I don't have an account. The person who made the ''Time for Han Solomode'' gave me a good chuckle.
I can't play until later tonight, as usual, and most of these guys seem to have gone to bed by my prime playtime (11pm - 3am) so I'll stick to Open. I might fly back to the bubble and get a better ship for exploration though. The Asp Scout seems like something I'd enjoy a lot.
I wish I could rep on Reddit but I don't have an account. The person who made the ''Time for Han Solomode'' gave me a good chuckle.
I can't play until later tonight, as usual, and most of these guys seem to have gone to bed by my prime playtime (11pm - 3am) so I'll stick to Open. I might fly back to the bubble and get a better ship for exploration though. The Asp Scout seems like something I'd enjoy a lot.
Short answer no, not yet.
I should have said, after I saved the video, I spent some time travelling forward in the same direction, it never resolved into another signal. Those 'dots' you refer to is just a static I get everywhere on that planet
Just did the same yesterday after finding out that a B class Python isn't very good in making long jumps, so I went back to bubble (Jameson Memorial) and invested in brand new design, Cobra MKIV. Somehow I can't get over Cobras, they just look too cool. I fitted an mk3 first but it couldn't fit AFM with shields and other relevant exploration equipment like adv. and detailed scanners. MKIV has a nice amount of internal slots compared to other ships of similar class. Managed even to have some cargospace for meta-alloys once I find them in my destination.
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This very similar to a theory that a mate and I have. The UA is a parasite. It's intention is to get itself on a ship and intentional crash it into a planet by making the systems malfunction. Once crashed the UA feeds off of the ship and creates the barnacles.
However, it doesn't explain why they point to Merope
No, those dots are a POI, I can't remember which kind, probably skimmers and canisters. You probably veered off to the side and missed it. (Not trying to be a jerk, just saying it like it is).
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@Michael Brookes
Is it possible that the spawn mechanics for barnacles are not working correctly due to some bug?
I know you mentioned you had asked and received confirmation for dev/test that all appeared to be working correctly but dev can display initial arrogance in reporting something as working. I say this from experience, Ive been in software development for over 20 years now and have lost count of the amount of times dev have responded hastily that somethings working, in deeper analysis they have sometimes been proved wrong, the world of code is a complex one after all!
Just a thought
Is it possible that the spawn mechanics for barnacles are not working correctly due to some bug?
I know you mentioned you had asked and received confirmation for dev/test that all appeared to be working correctly but dev can display initial arrogance in reporting something as working. I say this from experience, Ive been in software development for over 20 years now and have lost count of the amount of times dev have responded hastily that somethings working, in deeper analysis they have sometimes been proved wrong, the world of code is a complex one after all!
Just a thought
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I don't think it is a parasite any more than any organism that needs food.
I think the lifecycle is barnacle -> release UA seed pod -> release spores
If this is correct then it makes sense for the UAs to be arranged in a sphere around their source (that might have since died). It also makes sense UA to be aligned so that the spores propagate away from the source.
This doesn't explain why the UA makes noises, copies morse from beacons and can understand geometry.
Maybe Merope is a system they for some reason want to inflict and prepare, as a base of operations? By pointing there they ensure that an UAs will eventually end up there... Just maybe.
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Why everyone assume that UA are pointing to Merope instead of From Merope?
I remember once 1.4 launched that some people mentioned about stars disapearing (not pressent) [can't remember if it was Merope] and I also remember MB mentioned "not a bug" but I don't remember if that was in the same conversation [I think both were related with the scanners and explorers] Can anyone help me to context both memories?
I remember once 1.4 launched that some people mentioned about stars disapearing (not pressent) [can't remember if it was Merope] and I also remember MB mentioned "not a bug" but I don't remember if that was in the same conversation [I think both were related with the scanners and explorers] Can anyone help me to context both memories?
OK, OK, I think a few things need to happen ASAP, due to the huge amount of player time being spent on this and the importance of consistency.
1. FDEV to test Barnacles on a 'clean machine' (Clean install on a PC which has not been used in development of ED)
2. Correlation of information provided by the Great beard that is MB in this thread, into GALNET / Barnacle Missions. (Nebula reference)
3. More detail on the Barnacles... Size, Colour and possibly preferred planet type / surface (if any)
IMHO of course.
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1. FDEV to test Barnacles on a 'clean machine' (Clean install on a PC which has not been used in development of ED)
2. Correlation of information provided by the Great beard that is MB in this thread, into GALNET / Barnacle Missions. (Nebula reference)
3. More detail on the Barnacles... Size, Colour and possibly preferred planet type / surface (if any)
IMHO of course.
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I agree. I just want to update the lifecycle a bit: large barnacle -> release UA seed pod -> release spores -> grows in to barnacle spike -> grows in to large barnacle.
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My theory on the UA are that they are just a detection system - kind of like an early warning system. The Thargoids retreated "home" to the Pleiades and set up the UA's in a sphere perimeter around them to detect any human ships aproaching their area of space. They scan nearby ships and transmit the data back "home".
I don't think there is necessarily any direct link between UA's and the barnacles other than they both relate to the Thargoids in some way.
I don't think there is necessarily any direct link between UA's and the barnacles other than they both relate to the Thargoids in some way.
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I agree with points 2 and 3 for sure. We are spending too much for a game, but assuming that FD don't know how to do its work as in 1. is a little too much, or not?
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