UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[Calaban]

Re: "Elder Gods"

[swap out hats for Cthulu tinhat]

[beware! haunting/cursed knowledge- the mere learning of the names is enough to curse you]

Spoiler

C'thulu was not an Elder God. It was an Ancient One. (The bad guys). Locked away from our physical universe by magic wards and locked portals... by the Elder Gods (good guys). Both sides are ancient and terrible, beyond any concern for us mere mortals.

Humanity is said to have been created by the Elder Gods, out of the blood of the defeated Ancient ones- As the method/pact/spell to lock the Ancient Ones away. we are the lock, the key, the name, and the number of ways to either keep Them Out, or, by nature of us being the key.. to let Them into our universe.

Some names of the Ancient ones and Elder Gods (to galaxy map search for, and to curse your remaining time left in this universe- you know, for lulz)

Ancient Ones:
Kutulu (Cthulu)
Humwawa
Pazuzu
Tiamat
Lalassu/Lalartu
Gelal
Lilit
Xaster
Ereshkigal

Elder Gods
Adar
Marduk
Nergal
Enki
Utu
Inanna
Ishtar

"good hunting"
.. and hope for your own sake that the fog is not ashes/incense to be smelled, for the Ancient Ones are not dead, but Dreaming!

Sleep well with that knowledge. [/cthulu tinhat] (eew- why is it always so oily?)

 

[fjw]

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.

No, you made that up. He said right "location".

I think rizal is right. It is not a good idea to put vague speculation on the front page. It could lead us all in the wrong direction. We have no clue whatsover what shape this thing has. I f you google up Barnacle you find images of them in hundreds of different shapes...

 

[CMDR Redcrest]

Hey folks! I'm on Electra (first landable) just now. Looking at what looks to have been river beds/fissures of some sort. Lots of green areas. Anyone care to join?

 

[TFW Primus]

Side note: When I'm jumping through witch space I really feel like I'm traveling through the inside of a UA "bulb". Really feels like moving through a brain or something similar with neurons firing.

Further to this, jumping through witch space also makes me think of what it would be like to fly through a nebula really fast...Nebula, barnacles, UA, witch space, Thargoids, something. Just can't put it all together.

 

[jjacobsson]

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 have been on landable planets all over the nebula, including Merope, Maia, Atlas, Pleione and others for *hours* each day for the last 3 days with the mission active.

I have found so much gold, escape pods, tea, coffee, personal weapons, battle weapons and I cant even remeber but no barnacles or meta-alloys. And for the entire time I have had the mission active. I have something like a day and a half left on the timer now, it started at 6 days.

For the reward of 400k cr this mission blows. And this hunt? With vauge useless clues posted on websites and pretty much nothing ingame is pretty bad if you ask me.

With rng on top of not knowing if the planet you are on can even spawn the POIs you are just never going to win. And handplaced? Even a small planet is huge. And you can't see them unless you are within POI spawn distance (probably less)? Give me a break already.

 

[Haramir]

We think much to complicated. There must be a huge constellation of planets or stars which give us a hint.
I don't think they put this stuff just somewhere hidden on the planets. Without hints it's not likely that we will find the manually placed barnacles in a long time.

Why did he use the term 'in the right position' and not 'at the right place' ? This is a hidden hint, i guess.

 

[rizal72]

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

If even the clear hints are being interpreted, there's no hope.
Not that it wasn't done already in the past: but it always been proved wrong. A clear hint is a clear int.

The Barnacles will show up BOTH in standard RNG POIs, but VERY rarely, and as Persistent POIs, manually placed. That's all.
There are three MB comments about that. Read the FrontPage. More rare than the UA he said: It took months to spot the first UA Convoy. And it took weeks for someone to find his one. Many did not ever find it, giving up.

The rest is assumption or misinterpretation.

 

[MoarDan]

Hey folks! I'm on Electra (first landable) just now. Looking at what looks to have been river beds/fissures of some sort. Lots of green areas. Anyone care to join?

that sounds interesting, do you mean the planet closest to the star?

 

[Han_Zen]

What else would you make out of the MB quote? "specifically placed" seems very specifc to me.

Some are placed by hand and some are placed by the RNG. All are probably in a fixed location.

 

[urmom306]

Anyone know how many Nebulas are in the game? Not known nebulas but literally how many physical nebulas.

 

[Duedy]

Does the top of the big end of the UA look like any planet surface? It looks like a mountain with river beds running off it similar to Electra. Just a thought. Might be something so obvious its staring us in the face.

 

[Von Shadow]

Some are placed by hand and some are placed by the RNG. All are probably in a fixed location.

Exactly, at this point we don't even know if the RNG placed ones are specific to high-metal, ice, high-g, low-g or will spawn weighted based on all factors or just 'anywhere in a nebula'
We're speculating based on ridiculously cryptic half-clues but right now ... even if MB said the world type we're still looking at dozens of planets and a low-chance search
And all being 'out of game' means that the vast majority of players aren't even aware of the (presumably) Thargoid story opening up....

If this were an in-game mission/cg or news item that had more meaning then we'd have potentially thousands of interested Cmdr's searching << this is how it should be happening imho

 

[Tunotemetas]

We think much to complicated. There must be a huge constellation of planets or stars which give us a hint.
I don't think they put this stuff just somewhere hidden on the planets. Without hints it's not likely that we will find the manually placed barnacles in a long time.

Why did he use the term 'in the right position' and not 'at the right place' ? This is a hidden hint, i guess.

Could it be POSition from Poseidon? It does have some relation with the pleiades. Gonna search for ancient/different names

 

[CMDR Redcrest]

that sounds interesting, do you mean the planet closest to the star?

Yes. Going to try a fly over. Forgot detailed surface scanner though. Get in touch in game. Company would be appreciated!

 

[Charles Erika von Hackbeil]

If even the clear hints are being interpreted, there's no hope.
Not that it wasn't done already in the past: but it always been proved wrong. A clear hint is a clear int.

The Barnacles will show up BOTH in standard RNG POIs, but VERY rarely, and as Persistent POIs, manually placed. That's all.
There are three MB comments about that. Read the FrontPage. More rare than the UA he said: It took months to spot the first UA Convoy. And it took weeks for someone to find his one. Many did not ever find it, giving up.

The rest is assumption or misinterpretation.

I didn´t see him mention "in POIs" anywhere. Did I miss that?

 

[CHOPP3R]

If even the clear hints are being interpreted, there's no hope.
Not that it wasn't done already in the past: but it always been proved wrong. A clear hint is a clear int.

The Barnacles will show up BOTH in standard RNG POIs, but VERY rarely, and as Persistent POIs, manually placed. That's all.
There are three MB comments about that. Read the FrontPage. More rare than the UA he said: It took months to spot the first UA Convoy. And it took weeks for someone to find his one. Many did not ever find it, giving up.

The rest is assumption or misinterpretation.

Fair enough. I wasn't trying to interpret it. When they said they had placed some and some where randomly generated I took that as the locations on other planets were also randomly generated when they put them in the game. I was surprised everyone took it to mean they were going to be the blue circle POIs.

One thing that is utterly indisputable is that there is more than one hand placed one in the Pleiades which is what I'm sticking to looking for.

 

[CMDR John Casey]

This isn't just a "search mission": land anywhere, hope to be lucky, find the barnacles...

There's a puzzle to be solved here, and in the puzzle we'll get the right coords.

I have to disagree with you, and I'm becoming a bit critic of all this thing. All we know has been literally fed to us by the devs, we didn't discover that they can be in nebulae, that they can't be spotted from orbital cruise, that there are some in Pleiades. The only clue that one could find in-game was the description of the meta-alloys. Which says nothing. They can be found in "some areas of space" - it's a very generic statement, not a piece of a puzzle.

The problem is that this puzzle has no pieces, has only some very generic indications. I'd like to have missions that give you some pieces of the puzzle and that you can finally combine. In this case, we have a box with the final image but no pieces inside. Instead we are being told that there is a big piece corresponding to the complete resolved puzzle, somewhere, in Pleiades.

 

[neliodv]

My very ugly paint to represents our quest to find the Barnacles.

 

[rizal72]

Some are placed by hand and some are placed by the RNG. All are probably in a fixed location.

Yes, but until now, the "fixed location" is the whole Pleiades Nebula.

Something cannot be placed in a fixed location RANDOMLY. I'm a programmer.

The RNG ones will spawn everywhere in the Nebula, the fixed are fixed somewhere.
He did not said RNG but with under some conditions. The only condition, until now, is being inside the Nebula. That's all.

 

[CMDR Redcrest]

Lots of rocks that look to have been displaced by either seismic or 'fluid' activity on Electra 1.