There are some fixed and there are some rng
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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There are some fixed and there are some rng
What's your source for this info? I mean are you assuming they show as random POIs in nebulae? They may just mean they they're persistent/fixed but scattered around other systems in nebulae according to an algorithm.
This isn't that specific:
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More like "have we anything right past 'planet in/near a nebula'?" : /
On a sidenote, Maia A 7's northpole is definitely wonky, weird dark surface being all "this is not the surface you are looking for"... Even tried to swallow my SRV twice.
Didn't trust that stuff so I parked my Asp in orbit, faaar away from it's grasp.
Inb4 Maia A 7 is one large barnacle egg xD
Either way. So let's assume the spawn formula functions as it should, then where should we look unless not Pleiades? And thousands of CMDRs roaming that particular part of infinity, it is a small miracle that no-one has been able to found one, even that there should be manually placed ones! As have been suggested, those should be in quite obvious places, but obvious we all have been unable to find out what obvious is
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I think will be found in Pleiades, but the formula's random part of the Barnacles (not the manually) is closed in a little list of planets/systems we don't know what. They don't will random spawn in all places of all planets of Pleiades.
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What else would you make out of the MB quote? "specifically placed" seems very specifc to me.
The current Persistent POI of the crashed Anaconda does not show the blue circle on the radar from what I have read. I don't think that it has been confirmed one way or another if the randomly placed Barnacle sights are random Persistent POIs or just regular POIs so I don't think that we know if any barnacles will show on the radar.
From post 3:
- How will they appear? - Either a POI or a specific placed location.
Since it says POI OR specific placed location it means either.
I would also reference this post
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&page=117&p=3402872#post3402872
"ALthough unlike the UAs there are some that have been physically placed by us"
UAs had RNG spawn in a certain location
Yeah, but still. Probably all of the planets and moons (ones that can be landed) in Pleiades have been explored quite well by all the commanders about, so I would figure that somebody would already found one. No wonder why people asks, and have doubts, about the functionality of spawn parameters & code.
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Are you serious?
That's one of the very few FACTS we have.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&page=627&p=3386563#post3386563
Originally Posted by Fendalton
MB also said that Barnacles are randomly found although some have been placed in certain systems.
This is correct.
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For me the thing with the random POIs is clear to me. If you got the Meta-Alloy mission it is far more likely the poi spawns. It's the same with Nerve Agents or Escape Pods.
I know, MB said: "You don't need a mission!".
Yes, because some are manually placed. I don't how they placed them, but for the RNG ones I'am pretty sure it gets more likely to find them if you got the mission. Sadly, I don't get the mission offered anymore. (I had it two weeks before, long before I joined this search.)
I know, MB said: "You don't need a mission!".
Yes, because some are manually placed. I don't how they placed them, but for the RNG ones I'am pretty sure it gets more likely to find them if you got the mission. Sadly, I don't get the mission offered anymore. (I had it two weeks before, long before I joined this search.)
The specific bit is spot on but I wouldn't assume it would show up as a random POI from the randomly generated bit. They may have been randomly generated to appear in permanent location on the other planets. I think a lot of people are assuming that there will be the fixed POI barnacles and the blue circle POI barnacles and we can't come to that conclusion from what was said.
Sorry. Should have made it clearer that I was referring to your RNG comment which is what most people take as the blue circle POIs
Sorry. Should have made it clearer that I was referring to your RNG comment which is what most people take as the blue circle POIs
I have a 3D printer. Maybe if I send some of these to FD...
https://pinshape.com/items/13787-3d-printed-star-spawn-of-cthulhu
Tempting - there should be a statue to the elder gods on every street corner
Michael
Maybe what he means here is that on each corner (North, South, East and West) there will be an Elder god (Barnacle)?
The "specifically placed" bit is spot on but I wouldn't assume it would show up as a random POI from the randomly generated bit of the quote. They may have been randomly generated to appear in permanent locations on the other planets depending on certain factors e.g. they are in a nebula for starters. I think a lot of people are assuming that there will be the fixed POI barnacles and the blue circle POI barnacles and we can't come to that conclusion from what was said.
Sorry. Should have made it clearer that I was referring to the ", some are rng" part of the comment which is what most people take as the blue circle POIs
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I don't think we'll find anything rng related to the barnacles until we find the one POI. Why? Because we'd already found one if it was the case. We've been flying around these planets for weeks now and so far nothing.
Also, we find them. Eureka. Then what? Will trigger a galaxy changing event? There'll be aliens among us? We'll be facing alien ships from that moment on? There'll be a war of all three major powers (Fed, Empire, Alliance) against the barnacles? Then Enter the Thargoids?
Or the barnacles doesn't have space ships. Just spores... spread throughout the galaxy, among the planets and moons, just for players with Horizons to fight against (on the ground)?
It's almost the same thing as if we find alien lifeforms IRL.
It's a game changer. Or is it?
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Its to help everyone. Many people have different ideas and can follow them up. However... at the end of the day, it is "Barnacle shaped" and lives in a vacuum. So apart from pressure, the only reason it would be that shape is because it resides in high G environments. Micheal Brooks has consistently said that you will find them in the right planetary "Enviroment"
So far we have had no clues whatsoever apart from "nebula" This is in no way enough to find them. I honestly don't think FD would have designed them as they did carelessly.
I believe they are generated to be more likely in a certain area (specific). For example: river beds on nebula moons. (Maybe even more specific.)
I don't think they can be found at a set coordinate, although that would be cool, but we haven't seen something like this in Elite so far.
I don't think they can be found at a set coordinate, although that would be cool, but we haven't seen something like this in Elite so far.
Yep. Their shape. Built for high G's.
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