UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[Wobblin-Gobblin]

Greetings Cmdrs,

what if the UAs are Escape-pods and are heading away from Merope? Maybe the star's end is near...someone in this thread mentined the black hole in Maia was the first star which has been destroyed, so Merope is the second one maybe?

 

[Tall Bird]

Righty-O, just did a straight 12 hour of searching to find nothing. I've got a nice planet I'll be looking at more, but... Distant Worlds tomorrow.

 

[urmom306]

Welp, another 6 hour shift put in from me...no go. Last night I searched some planets in the California nebula, no go there either. I even bulletin board refreshed in Obsidian to see if any sort of clue would pop up. Nothing. There has to be some sort of clues that we haven't found yet. I for one have had feelings of defeat, but everyone hang in there and keep at it. I'm off to bed will continue tomorrow after work (also good news, I have a 3 day weekend this weekend so i'll be doing some overtime searching)

-306
o7

 

[Omategomatete]

I've seen dozens of them on my searches tonight, but the contents only ever actually show up like 1/4 of the time. I can go over a POI area over and over and I will not find anything, no signal that could be it, nothing.

I am having the exact same problem as well. Maybe servers experiencing problems?

 

[KageSendo]

"Misty" Craters and Barnacles

I know a lot of people that are on the search for Barnacles believe in the theory that they will be found on Bodies with "Misty Craters" (AkA Craters that are releasing gases or water vapor), but they are having
trouble finding planets or moons that have them.


David Braben has already given us a great clue in a previous post (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=197842) and if you read into it some more (Such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatiles ,
here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone) it will paint a good picture on what your search area is for theses Bodies.


I know however some people will not want to click on all of those links and do a lot of reading, so I will break it down for you here:
1. You are more likely (not always, just more likely) to find misty craters outside of the Goldilocks zone (Aka habitable zone) further from the star because A. Bodies in this zone are more than likely to be Earth Like,
have Atmospheres or depending on the star they are orbiting, are still to hot to make misty craters. B. If they are outside of this zone but closer to the star they will be to hot.
2. You will most likely not find them on high metal content bodies, why? Because these bodies mostly have there gases trapped in metal and to release these gases they would have to be so hot that they would be molten.
3. Rocky Bodies (Rocky ice bodies maybe? and maybe ice bodies?) are more likely to form theses mists.
4. Temperatures are important! I believe a good temperature range is from 80K to 100K (Maybe up to 120K?).


I am not the smartest person in the world and not to good with science, so every thing above could be utterly wrong, however this information did allow me to find a moon in The Pleiades
(Pleiades Sector HR-W D1-79 5 A , Rocky, and at 91 Degrees Kelvin its just right!) with misty craters ( I will link a imgur album with some screen shots below!)


[IMGUR]MoSDV[/IMGUR]

 

[NecoMachina]

edit: nevermind

 

[Voxoid]

I'm gunna find myself a UA, land on a planet with it in my cargo hold, get in my SRV and then wait. I sorta thought that the barnicles in the trailer look like they might be growing on/around a ship carcass.

 

[Pazmino]

So, does an asp just make this deep pinging sound when hovering at low speeds? I thought I was following something for a while, but now I think my ship is just making me crazy.

Ha, I thought I hear a strange sound while flying over an POI, turned out that on a 1.9G planet the ASP makes strange sounds and the thrusters make a very UA like sound. Got excited, then frustrated, then had a tea.

 

[[RC386]Spectre]

Ha, I thought I hear a strange sound while flying over an POI, turned out that on a 1.9G planet the ASP makes strange sounds and the thrusters make a very UA like sound. Got excited, then frustrated, then had a tea.

Did you get that tea from a POI?

 

[Pazmino]

Yes. Experimental tea from a secret tea farm aka POI - goes very well along with my Onionhead decals on my ASP How else to prevent space madness? Can the Canonn send me some cookies?

 

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

Just on a hunch, has anyone spent a lot of time searching Pleione 4? It's the only landable ringed planet in the nebula (or at least, near it) and has 1.86 Gravity, and a LOT of mysterious green patches on it you can see from Orbit. Spent a little time on it myself and found a lot of wrecks, maybe worth a closer look?

I'm there now for the same reasons, it has many of the green splotches that upon approach show what looks like clear eroded embankments. The surface is interesting enough in that regard to seem almost hand crafted, but it probably isn't. I haven't looked closely at enough airless worlds to have a good feel yet for the range of geology and features that tend to be generated by the stellar forge.

Also, it's ringed and is close to other ringed worlds so the view from the surface is quite nice. It's also very large, searching the whole thing in normal flight or an SRV is not really feasible, but perhaps focusing on notable landmarks like misty craters and the green places is worthwhile.

If the 'placed' barnacles on in random flat regions on unremarkable rocky moons it's gonna take some real time and luck to find one, as others have said. I'd really like to think there is an in-game clue or series of clues, but I'm a bit doubtful that's the case. We have a lot of eyes and minds on this and other than the UA aligning its axis with merope, there don't seem to be other in-game indications of where barnacles or other notable objects related to an alien mystery might reside.

 

[slashgoh]

Follow my yesterday idea: quote this post and wait for an absolutely needed added clue:

I Want more clues!

 

[Joelioto]

One thing I can really appreciate while exploring these lonesome worlds... when you sit idle and take in the sights, and the game starts playing the ambient piano music and what not. Simply relaxing.

P.S. Exploring Maia B 1 B A , no signs of barnies yet.

 

[Nemulas]

I'm there now for the same reasons, it has many of the green splotches that upon approach show what looks like clear eroded embankments. The surface is interesting enough in that regard to seem almost hand crafted, but it probably isn't. I haven't looked closely at enough airless worlds to have a good feel yet for the range of geology and features that tend to be generated by the stellar forge.

Also, it's ringed and is close to other ringed worlds so the view from the surface is quite nice. It's also very large, searching the whole thing in normal flight or an SRV is not really feasible, but perhaps focusing on notable landmarks like misty craters and the green places is worthwhile.

If the 'placed' barnacles on in random flat regions on unremarkable rocky moons it's gonna take some real time and luck to find one, as others have said. I'd really like to think there is an in-game clue or series of clues, but I'm a bit doubtful that's the case. We have a lot of eyes and minds on this and other than the UA aligning its axis with merope, there don't seem to be other in-game indications of where barnacles or other notable objects related to an alien mystery might reside.

I'm also here too. I have to admit these glowing green area's make me feel rather uneasy Love the ambiance of this place so far

 

[CMDR Corlas]

I think someone mentioned this place before, but Pleiades Sector GW-W C1-15 1 has a CRAZY crater at 59, 6. Don't even need to be more accurate than that; you can't miss this . Exploring it now, nothing of note yet, but this definitely merits a close look in my opinion. If I was hiding barnacles, this is where I would do it.

 

[mossfoot]

I'm currently patrolling the north America nebula and the pelican nebula. So far nothing unusual to report.

 

[VerneAsimov]

The Goldilock's Zone is not exactly a good way to think. For one, we're not entirely sure what sort of base chemical components this species possesses. This zone is more specifically for water-based life. Are they water based life? We don't know. Besides, it's entirely likely they can survive without being in the zone. Look at the UA. They've spent god knows how long in deep space.

 

[KageSendo]

The Goldilock's Zone is not exactly a good way to think. For one, we're not entirely sure what sort of base chemical components this species possesses. This zone is more specifically for water-based life. Are they water based life? We don't know. Besides, it's entirely likely they can survive without being in the zone. Look at the UA. They've spent god knows how long in deep space.

I think you misunderstood what my post was about. I am not talking about the Goldilocks zone in relation to the Thargoids, but in relation to how Misty Craters would most likely not be able to exist there because it is too warm!

 

[Duedy]

I couldn't post earlier when the servers went down, but here's my theory. MB is sitting with DBOBE having a cups of tea and Choccy biccies , when they decide to see if anyone in the forum has found a barnacle. While reading MB sees the post of the barnacle POI files in a mispelt folder. He realizes that the spelling mistake means its impossible to spawn a barnacle as the coding is looking for a folder with the correct spelling, not wanting to have the wraith of forum and being sent a cat food pizza, he brings the server down so that he can change the folder name and slyly hot fix everyone when they log back in


Hope you find something soon.

Also my theory on why there is so much tea out in the boonies. It because pirates keep a stash for high tea and and scones and this is the difference between a pirate and a griefer. Griefers don't have scones or tea.

 

[KageSendo]

I couldn't post earlier when the servers went down, but here's my theory. MB is sitting with DBOBE having a cups of tea and Choccy biccies , when they decide to see if anyone in the forum has found a barnacle. While reading MB sees the post of the barnacle POI files in a mispelt folder. He realizes that the spelling mistake means its impossible to spawn a barnacle as the coding is looking for a folder with the correct spelling, not wanting to have the wraith of forum and being sent a cat food pizza, he brings the server down so that he can change the folder name and slyly hot fix everyone when they log back in


Hope you find something soon.

Also my theory on why there is so much tea out in the boonies. It because pirates keep a stash for high tea and and scones and this is the difference between a pirate and a griefer. Griefers don't have scones or tea.

I almost fell out in the floor laughing when I read this!