UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Duckfather

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I'm back in. They must have scraped the barnacles off of the transaction server :p

Although I still can't plot a route anywhere :(
 
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Bluedeer

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Weirdly, when I occasionally get in briefly, I appear inside the planet, and there's some REALLY strange noises, like breathing, some machinery sounds which could be mining equipment or something, making me wonder if I'm being respawned inside a building or something. But it's happened twice when I log in and then get booted, maybe third time is the charm...
 

cygnusa

cygnusa
If I'd have to guess... they discovered a screw-up and/or are correcting spawn rates.. maybe we've been searching for something that just could not appear due to some quirky POI generation bug.

Look, this is FD.. while they make an awesome game and deserve huge rep, new things being bug-free are .. shall we say, not likely (at least the first time around). The Barnacles may be spawning below the surface or something. Yes, no facts on my end. I'm just being an old curmudgeon... though I'm not -that- old. I behave like one though haha. I'm older than my wife.. and she calls me 'old man' as an inside joke.. so I am use to it.

In any case... i'm going to start focusing only worlds that fall into the following categories in order of preference..

->metal + silicate vapour geysers (yes, this yank used British spelling, thank you haha)
->rocky/metal + silicate vapour geysers
->rocky/metal + iron/silicate magma (magma being pronounced as Dr. Evil would)

I'm just thinking along the lines of a somewhat geologically active world, rather than a dead moon. Such supposed potential 'critters' may use metals, minerals, and silicate compounds for their structure. Assuming they are even critters. We could very well be just looking for some sort of alien bio-mechanical mechanism. Thinking some silicate/metal or carbon/metal based self-replicating thing. Lets just hope it doesn't eat our faces off when we finally run into it. But then.... that might be quite exciting! For a few moments anyway until the twitching stops..
 

Allant Doran

Allant Doran
I highly, HIGHLY, recommend people do not look into the strange behaviour going on right now as anything to do with barnacles. No matter what unusual things you see or hear, it is nothing but server issues. Come back later when it has been rectified. We already have enough mad theories without actual, technical difficulties adding more.
 

Bluwolfe

Bluwolfe
Bluedeer said:
Weirdly, when I occasionally get in briefly, I appear inside the planet, and there's some REALLY strange noises, like breathing, some machinery sounds which could be mining equipment or something, making me wonder if I'm being respawned inside a building or something. But it's happened twice when I log in and then get booted, maybe third time is the charm...
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The other thing to double check when you're hearing odd sounds is just to make sure the sound input isnt coming from a hidden tab in Chrome >.>
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
John Rutherford said:
The younger the nebula is the more probable it is for it to contain interesting elements since more time has passed for supernovaes etc. to fuse these elements and distribute them to the cloud.
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The metal content in the Pleiades is a little more than 2 times that of Sol. But this should be true of every star system that is under 100 Million Years old in the plane of the Milky Way. The fact that its still in a Nebula wouldn't boost the metallicity very much over other younger stars that had left their parent nebulae. For instance, stars that are less than 1,000 Million years old would have a metallicity of about 2 times that of Sol. So the Metal content isn't that much bigger for Nebulae.

Of course if you were looking specifically for young "metal rich" stars, then mature nebulae (ie ones that had already formed stars with planets!) would be a good place to look. OR... you could just use the map filter and only look for O, B, and maybe A type stars. The O and B (and most of the A) stars all going to be under 1Gy in age, and hence fairly metal rich.
 

Bluedeer

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Bluwolfe said:
The other thing to double check when you're hearing odd sounds is just to make sure the sound input isnt coming from a hidden tab in Chrome >.>
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Yup, I'm running this on a machine all by its lonesome! No extra programs or anything running in the background! In true Elite fashion, I have my main viewscreen running only the game, and then my two side monitors run by a console machine for everything else, including forums and Youtube. Multitasking at its finest!

And aware of weirdness because of the server rebooting. Just reporting some funky stuff. :) But will definitely report with screenshots if I find anything significant.
 

rizal72

rizal72
Ziljan said:
The metal content in the Pleiades is a little more than 2 times that of Sol. But this should be true of every star system that is under 100 Million Years old in the plane of the Milky Way. The fact that its still in a Nebula wouldn't boost the metallicity very much over other younger stars that had left their parent nebulae. For instance, stars that are less than 1,000 Million years old would have a metallicity of about 2 times that of Sol. So the Metal content isn't that much bigger for Nebulae.

Of course if you were looking specifically for young "metal rich" stars, then mature nebulae (ie ones that had already formed stars with planets!) would be a good place to look. OR... you could just use the map filter and only look for O, B, and maybe A type stars. The O and B (and most of the A) stars all going to be under 1Gy in age, and hence fairly metal rich.
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Nice to see you back here again, CMDR! ;)
 

0x19

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cygnusa said:
If I'd have to guess... they discovered a screw-up and/or are correcting spawn rates.. maybe we've been searching for something that just could not appear due to some quirky POI generation bug.
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If this were true, don't you think they would have done so during the normal update times or at the very least announced they were taking the servers down for an emergency hot fix?
 

nosscar

nosscar
Maybe the barnacles are not even linked to the UA's, but are going to be part of the upcoming crafting mechanic, maybe meta-alloys will be needed to create something new, maybe like new jumpdrives now that ship has been found, as stated on Galnet. Maybe all this server craziness is the devs beginning to add this stuff.
Or maybe i am going crazy too.
 
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