Excellent, really helpful thanks. I've already visited 28 of these (happy to share if you think it would be useful). I will start to work my way through the remaining!
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Excellent, really helpful thanks. I've already visited 28 of these (happy to share if you think it would be useful). I will start to work my way through the remaining!
https://community.elitedangerous.com/node/327
Read Carefully.
Especially this part "There are points of interest that don’t neatly fit into those two groupings, but we can leave them for you to discover for yourselves"
Cheers.
Speaking simply.... natural occuring ... rocks and similar... fair enough ..
Man-made (factories/basis/mining ops)
'Other' = alien origin (we know there are at least 2 non-human species in-game). Thargoids being 1 ... unknown for other.
An alien structure/object/UA/barnacle wouldn't fit neatly into natural or man-made ... my 2p/2c
So you do know better
If I were to put my programmer hat on, I would say the spawn area is the same as the 1.3 UA spawn area.
Code recycling is nice.
I'd say you found a planet in its puberty phase.
Has anyone has seen this big rocks with triangle shapes on them?. I thought they were natural formation but they really look like hand made Egyptian style , triangles over triangles, I took a picture of them but since I took them looking through my ED tracker looking to the left looks like the game took the picture of the front of the rover and not were I was actually looking. Might try to find them again. I found them in a planet in merope but I can't remember where.
+1 for Krull reference.
So you do know better
If I were to put my programmer hat on, I would say the spawn area is the same as the 1.3 UA spawn area.
Code recycling is nice.
Exactly. But being in the Nebula is already reusing code from the UA, don't you think? A region of space already.
We are now focused on them because MB was so kind to tell us.
Some are saying there is another region inside the region: I don't exclude it, being it a kind of planet, for example, but I think there we'll find the persistent ones, not the RNG.
The RNG ones, will spawn everywhere inside the nebula. Very rarely. Like the Convoys.
Imagine us to find it all for ourselves.
Emphasis mine. Maybe I am reading too much into it. But, where in the plaides would we have a reson to be other tan randomly searching for barnacles?
If you place something, specifically for it to be found, you would place it somewhere where you would expect people to go anyway, right?
I'd like to ask a bit of clarification on some of the previous hints from Mr. Brookes: namely, do the barnacles have the chance to spawn in all the nebulae? Or are they affected by the distance cut-off as well? (After a certain distance, only wreck POIs appear to spawn.)
Also, do we have any clues (in-game or outside it) pointing towards the coordinates of the fixed barnacles, or are we expected to find the fixed barnacles without those?
Lastly, are there any manually placed barnacles outside the Pleiades nebula?
Thank you in advance, and thanks for taking the time to read this huge thread!
Also, do we have any clues (in-game or outside it) pointing towards the coordinates of the fixed barnacles, or are we expected to find the fixed barnacles without those?
Lastly, are there any manually placed barnacles outside the Pleiades nebula?
Thank you in advance, and thanks for taking the time to read this huge thread!
I think we should take a closer look at the comment that these barnacles are exceedingly rare. Have we created a list of rare planetary features to look for?
@rizal72:
Do we have a list of rare planet features to look for?
Last night I spend several hours combing Atlas B 3 by SRV and from altitude going over the green canyons, which do seem to be rare. I also spent the time going through a huge crate with the green texture. Unfortunately all I found was the normal NPCs guarding animal meat and tea.
I'm hoping that if the barnacles are placed on planets, it is not just a roll of the dice but something with rules. If this is the case it would make sense that the thing we look for is a rare planetary feature.
@rizal72:
Do we have a list of rare planet features to look for?
Last night I spend several hours combing Atlas B 3 by SRV and from altitude going over the green canyons, which do seem to be rare. I also spent the time going through a huge crate with the green texture. Unfortunately all I found was the normal NPCs guarding animal meat and tea.
I'm hoping that if the barnacles are placed on planets, it is not just a roll of the dice but something with rules. If this is the case it would make sense that the thing we look for is a rare planetary feature.
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Some interesting discussion here. I've been in and around Pleiades for a couple days now myself with no luck either.
I admit i havent read all 255 pages of the thread, but a couple of questions i'd like to check on if i may;
Given that one of the early threads discussing UAs mention they can be found out to 300 light years from Pleiades and they appear to point in towards Merope - Has anyone taken a UA to Merope and dropped it from their cargo hull to see where it points?
Is anyone currently using a detailed surface scanner module, does it have any effect (place POIs on the surface map etc??) - it struck me this might be useful but i don't fancy a 25 jump trip back to inhabited space to try and find and fit one if it is of no use.
I look forwards to any feedback on these Qs.
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I admit i havent read all 255 pages of the thread, but a couple of questions i'd like to check on if i may;
Given that one of the early threads discussing UAs mention they can be found out to 300 light years from Pleiades and they appear to point in towards Merope - Has anyone taken a UA to Merope and dropped it from their cargo hull to see where it points?
Is anyone currently using a detailed surface scanner module, does it have any effect (place POIs on the surface map etc??) - it struck me this might be useful but i don't fancy a 25 jump trip back to inhabited space to try and find and fit one if it is of no use.
I look forwards to any feedback on these Qs.
Fly Safe
They point to the main star Merope. Done many times.
DSS only gives you planet and star information on the system map, doesn't affect the POIs.
If you had to speculate, what would trigger these RNG spawns? I understand that they'll spawn very rarely, but what parameter needs to be triggered for a spawn to occur? Time-lapse?
Fully agree.
I was thinking of if I find one, park next to it and lo out, will it be there when I log back in?
I hope and belive it will.
True, but in my opinion having something placed by RNG does not exclude a fixed location.That was my bad english: I just meant that if it is fixed it's not RNG. And we have both of them.
I was not denying what you're saying, obviously
Imagine you have an list of the streets in Rome, your fixed locations, and want to randomly distribute a number of policemen from let's say 6 stations, those stations represent the different things that can be placed, one station places Barnacles. In order to reflect probability to find an officer from a specific station (a Barnacle) we can use a differing number of officers assigned to each station.
One by one you go through your list of streets and roll a dice. The number on the dice reflects from which station you'll assign an officer, unless of course that station is already fully assigned. In that case you roll until you hit a station that's not empty.
You can add an additional dice roll in order to decide where on that street the officer will be assigned, maybe right in the middle, maybe on one of the ends, maybe somewhere in-between.
Man, this would've been so much easier to express in as a foreach-loop... ;-)
I think basically we agree, and maybe differ in only a few details. Or are simply lost in translation, both of us not being native English speakers.
Then we'd likely be searching the Pleiades as well. After all, it's pretty much the closest nebula to the bubble, it's place with a Thargoid connection in lore, and it's the place where the UAs are pointing.
Maybe a few more people would spread out a bit more, and maybe that could even now be useful. After all, it's in nebulae, not only in the Pleiades.
MB's comment, in my opinion, does not exclude the possibility of hand-placed Barnacles in other nebulae, and I could well imagine that to be the case. Possibly less so than in the Pleiades, but they might be there.
Either way, right now we can only hope that either the RNG rolls in our favor (which would equally apply to a search in other nebulae, unless the RNG-probability for Barnacles in higher in the Pleiades than elsewhere) or that we happen upon one of the fixed ones, which I agree is probably much more likely in the Pleiades than elsewhere.
Who? ;-)
Anyway, I'm looking forward to leaving the office soon and climbing back into my Cobra Mk IV to continue my search, even though I am pretty much out of ideas at the moment. Maybe I'll manage another million meters in the SRV before this is over.
I'm currently working on a theory that the purrs of the UA may be some kind of clock or timer, since 3 of the 8 sequences were exactly the same as one I recorded a couple of days prior. I recorded a new one last night but won't have a chance to analyze it until later today.
Awesome planet, where are you? If you're okay to share.
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