UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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@Rizal....

Can you please put up a Front page request for information on high gravity worlds in or nearby the Pleiades Nebula?
A "Barnacle" shape is perfect for high gravity environments. Doing so should vastly limit the candidates for exploration.

I strongly believe that this is the most obvious clue to their whereabouts that we have.

Their shape!

So far the highest I have found so far is HR 1185 A4 @ 4.12G

How many barnacles did you find there? ;)
 
No, MB has not told us how the game works directly.
However, you have the radar in your ship, where you know you can pick up zones from a decent altitude.
MB has said specifically that some 'barnacles' are random while others have been placed.

Regardless, we're looking for anything out of the ordinary. That may be Meta-alloys.
Any of these may exist with or without a blue zone on your radar.

But you never know, so preferably you should check both. Zones and things appearing without a zone.
Perhaps you'll spot a persistent type9 or Anaconda wreck. I know many are looking for these as well.

...that is, kind of, my point. I spend a great deal of time investigating the blue circles and finding the same things over and over again. If FD intends for this to be the way to find them then that is fine... however, if they wish to clarify and somehow the answer is that they do not show up in POIs that can be seen as blue circles on the radar at 1.5km and higher altitudes but must be visually spotted then it would be very helpful to know. Either way is fine but it is ambiguous now as to which way they will be found.
 
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Busy area around Merope A2 right now, already run into 3 CMDRs on the ground. There's also definitely a noise around here that isn't coming from the ship. It can be heard even with all systems off. It's a systematic pulsating sound, over and over again.
 
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It's not just the Asp that overheats when flying upside-down. It seems likely that the top-side thrusters are not intended to keep a ship aloft in gravity, and they are overheating with the strain of trying to do so. I recall that the devs discussed that the ship became less stable if you weren't oriented with the bottom thrusters to the ground because the other thrusters aren't intended to work in this way.
 
I've just requested access to the Canonn private group. Should I also contact anybody specifically about this or do I now just wait for admission?

Someone needs to get ED installed on his laptop and set up so CMDR Canonn is raised from the dead.

I'm not saying who...

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Two. Hundred. And Sixty. Nine. Pages.

In less than a week.

Ridonculous.
 
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Assuming MB's post about a statue of the elder gods on every corner, was a clue/hint of some sort. The Hounds of Tindalos are a part of the Cthulhu mythos, and are said to occupy the "angles of time" and apparently have the ability to materialise through corners. See below..


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounds_of_Tindalos

If someone has already mentioned this then I apologise, but I haven't got the time to read every page of this monster thread :p
 
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Busy area around Maia A2 right now, already run into 3 CMDRs on the ground. There's also definitely a noise around here that isn't coming from the ship. It can be heard even with all systems off. It's a systematic pulsating sound, over and over again.

Do you mean A 2 A?
 
Busy area around Maia A2 right now, already run into 3 CMDRs on the ground. There's also definitely a noise around here that isn't coming from the ship. It can be heard even with all systems off. It's a systematic pulsating sound, over and over again.

Can you give us the approximate coordinates on this planet?
 
You know, that's not a bad line of thinking. Considering the UA's did degrade the cargo hold, it's entirely plausible that the same effect will carry over to the barnacles, if they're related that is.
But that would destroy my hopes that we can craft something out of meta-alloys that prevents ship damage from the UAs and that meta-alloys will fix the stations. ;)
 
Small heads up on the heat spikes I encountered in my Asp flying around on Maia A 7. I have gotten it twice again this morning and am certain it is some combination of flying the asp upside down in the high g field when I max out fwd thrust.
Even slow descend then can trigger a near catastrophic meltdown. Be advised the asp seems weirdly prone to this when you fly it with topside facing the planet.

Yes, top thrusters are much weaker than the bottom ones, so they have to work much harder to keep the ship aloft. Hence the overheating.
 
Someone needs to get ED installed on his laptop and set up so CMDR Canonn is raised from the dead.

I'm not saying who...

Separately, CMDR Canonn will only accept join requests from users that have registered on the Canonn site and entered correct CMDR details.

Sorry and all that - the Canonn is not exclusive by any means, but we want to ensure traceability for everyone in the PG - for obvious reasons.
 
While looking for some images of the Celaeno system via google image search, I came across this screenshot. Any idea what's going on by that planet? Really doesn't look like photoshop but not sure what else it could be aside from an alien capital ship...I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, so I apologise in advance.


I don't know if this has been answered, but I did a reverse image search and found it with the caption : "STAR, PLANET, RINGS, DEBRIS AND ASP".

It had me fooled too - a bit of a Fr. Ted moment...
 
...that is, kind of, my point. I spend a great deal of time investigating the blue circles and finding the same things over and over again. If FD intends for this to be the way to find them then that is fine... however, if they wish to clarify and somehow the answer is that they do not show up in POIs that can be seen as blue circles on the radar at 1.5km and higher altitudes but must be visually spotted then it would be very helpful to know. Either way is fine but it is ambiguous now as to which way they will be found.

I hear you. For some of us this is actually part of the mystery and accomplishment of finding something rare.
Some wants more clues, some doesn't. Probably why they are careful not to spoil too much.
Personally I like it like that. ;)

We know we can find either types, we just need to keep looking. :)

Not sure whether you remember the UA hunt that went down from March, within May finding one, in July finding another, and so on.
Once you find one, you will start figuring out more.
This time though, you may be able to find a static one, one that wont go away. IMHO it should take a bit of effort to find such a location.
 
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