UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Jpotter

Jpotter
OMG I had a BARNACLE IN SIGHT WHEN IT CRASHED....

I have no idea where I was as I just ran from pirates in the blockade - so MB - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put me right back where I was, sitting right in front of the barnacles in Pleiades. Thanks in advance!!!
 
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keldar

K
That's it!

Someone opened up the pandora's box / Barnacle.

Now the server crashed due to the massive amount of thargoids it has to load to begin the invasion.

My ship is in the pleiades right now, heavy guns loaded, chaff plugged to main system. Time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... And I'm out of bubblegum!!
 

Zed

Zed
This may be nothing but I was searching Merope 2b when suddenly I'm 124km up rather than 3km and I have a message saying permit required to land here.


hmm, just got a transaction server error so that may be the cause.
 
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Nelson said:
I say we kidnap Mr Brookes and keep forcing him to eat Rich Tea's, till he jabs his finger down on a map pointing to a specific planet in the Pleiades... and grunts "tthheree ttherree"...

Anyhow back to looking like a Meerkat in my DBX cockpit !

o7
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Oh man: Rich Tea...

You're a sadist.
 

Duckfather

Duckfather
LordZoltan said:
And good luck to you and everyone else on the DWE - an inspirational journey on the cards. And we thank you for your efforts, CMDR o7
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Thanks :)

Well, I would bob back for the ExplorerConda, but I all of a sudden can't plot a route in the galaxy map! I guess we have more wide ranging server problems than I thought :(
 

Cynaqq

Cynaqq
Hahah, and here I was accusing my wife of having malware on her computer hogging down our bandwidth but apparently servers are borked.

I apologized promptly :D
 

Nerdlife

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I was pretty sure i'd find something in Calaeno due to her relation to Poseidon in the Mythology and the fact that Barnacles are kinda fishy :p but so far nothing.
 

Scruffy

Scruffy
I just got teleported 800KM into orbit while cruising along and told I require a permit to land here, this happened on Maia A 7 at 27.4986, -60.5238
 

dynamicbob

Banned
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begin the barnacle hunt as soon as we are live again. Me thinks they might be doing something to actually make them recoverable the race is on ( either that or its the xbox update)
 

Von Shadow

Von Shadow
Looking through the trailer (assuming thats the structure we're looking for) with the brightness up a little ....

That 'green' structure is central ridged black pyramid which looks to be about 3x the SRV's height surrounded by a clutch of green glowing trees..... It looks like its misty - this means rocky body?
By rights, if this is all accurate (MB happy for you to confirm) then it would be REALLY obvious if you'd seen one even cruising in a ship .... talking the size of a decent mining operation by the looks of it
I know he posted that we'd know it if we saw it ..
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R00TBR

R00TBR
As I see, the barnacles aka barnicles must be the spike strutures with something like seeds in it that glow green at night. I dont really thing that the "barnicle" is the larger structure on the trailer.

So, if you're looking for the barnicles, look for a group of spike structures with medium to small size. If at night, they'd probably glow but since trailer shows the size compared to rover is small/medium you'll probably need to be pretty close to see it meaning looking for it inside a ship would be rather difficult.
 

CMDR MadRaptor

CMDR MadRaptor
Duckfather said:
Something weird just happened. I was ~4km up surveying Atlas B3, when I suddenly found my self instantly transported 518km up with a warning message saying that I needed a permit to land here! It doesn't say that I need a permit in the System Map!
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Same here, was looking at the system map then return to normal flight and found myself above maia 7 { or something) needing a permit to land. Then got booted from the server and now it can't find my commander info from the serve and i can't log back in.
 

Murp

Murp
keldar said:
That's it!

Someone opened up the pandora's box / Barnacle.

Now the server crashed due to the massive amount of thargoids it has to load to begin the invasion.

My ship is in the pleiades right now, heavy guns loaded, chaff plugged to main system. Time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... And I'm out of bubblegum!!
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Ha, they won't even see me coming - literally, I'm in a DBS stealth build ;)

EDIT: Hopefully though, hostility won't be necessary :p
 
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Lateralus

Lateralus
Zed said:
This may be nothing but I was searching Merope 2b when suddenly I'm 124km up rather than 3km and I have a message saying permit required to land here.


hmm, just got a transaction server error so that may be the cause.
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Had that exact same thing in Maia about 15 mins ago..
 

Kalearne

Kalearne
Atrox Lux said:
Volatiles are mentioned in the description of the planet/moon. An icy planet will mention that there are large amounts trapped as solids etc. They consist of the gases nitrogen, hydrogen and ammonia, amongst others.

Crucially they are what makes a crater misty and give the surface of Maia A7 what looks like and is, really, a thin atmosphere. Along with metal content and being tidally locked to a star (only one constant fixed light source), they may be part of the key to solving this. Misty craters tend to form on the edge of the light/dark zone.
This gives less area to search. Planets tidally locked to another planet will still receive light to it's entire surface, at some point, except the poles (which could still be searched as possible sites).

So, a micro-atmosphere in a misty crater, for respiration, a source of metal from the planet to grow, heavy elements from the nebula and the right temperature may be what is needed for these barnacles to thrive. I believe the planet where all this comes together is out there, in the Pleiades.

MB has stated that Merope is NOT where barnacles should be looked for. What is not present at Merope is obviously something (singular, or plural) that is needed by the barnacle to thrive.

I have started eliminating types of planets and narrowing the search. Where they wouldn't be, is just as important as where they might be. They aren't at Merope.

Thanks again for all your hard work, as you have saved me a lot of time. I was working and still am working, with a notebook which is rapidly filling up with scribbles!
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MB didn't say to not search Merope, he said searching the Nebula/Sisters may be a good idea. We have no evidence that the UA and barnacles/meta alloys are linked either. If someone finds another UA shell 150Ly from another nebula I might be more inclined to listen tho :)

edit: I agree with the rest and I'm trying to find misty planets
 
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