UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[v01i0]

I have read a lot about the importance FD place in the audio in this game as well as people reporting 'strange sounds' that later turn out to be known phenomenon. Would it be worth us (if it has not already been done) compiling a list/library of known in-game stellar sounds and their cause just to aeke it easier to eliminate something you hear that sounds strange?

I am also starting to wonder whether I should pay more attention to the various sounds, for example, sound of the detailed surface scan (well thats always the same, propably, depending on the distance), and to the sound of stars when viewing the galaxy map. I kinda overlooked the sound side of the game, but beginning to realize the importance of sounds when I'm listening to the SRV scanner.

Such compilation, as you suggests would be somewhat ardous task as we would need to have proper equipment and software, then make a directory of samples etc. But at least I think I will be paying more personal attention to the sounds from now on.

-v

EDIT TO ADD:

I also started to document different visuals in SRV scanner by taking a pic from them and attaching it to the discovered objects. So far I've found crashed satellites or beacons, crashed ships with cargo, Mesosiderites, Outcrops etc, and have a pic for each signal. Maybe I post them one day.

ANOTHER EDIT:

Well this is funny, when one sense (eyes and balling with them) doesn't bear the expected results, we are starting to rely on another sense (hearing, audio). When this fail to produce any results considering barnipples, we will probably be using our tongue for taste or fingers for touching and feeling. When these fail, we begin to rely on the "6th sense" or dial to number of local clairvoyant

 

[danubezoe]

Just a thought... Do you think that there is a correlation of the minerals / elements one can find in an SRV and on a particular planet and having a higher likelihood of finding a barnacle... is anyone keeping track of what elements are picked up by surface vehicles? That would be a good mission wouldn't it.

Also with the blockade happening and the possibility of people not liking the idea of what the explorers are poking around in, We might have a battle on our hands. The Battle of Maia.

Man, I love this game!

-Mai

Ummmm hidden planets have been a part of Elite since the first game and the book that came with it.

We've gotten lazy with the new ADS. Time to do exploring the oldfashioned way.
Got to go find some moving dots.
Cheers
DZ

 

[Murp]

B 1 B A its only 0.06g that's why ppl are not focusing there. Barnacle in the trailer is in roughly 1g planet.

Sure, but don't assume that they'll all be like that.

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Also, wow, page 300 already.

 

[CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned]

I asked the same yesterday.

From the angle of the wheels on the SRV. Or something like that. I'm a pilot, not a sciencist so for me it's just magic.

The idea is on low G planets the thrusters on the wheels point upwards to hold the SRV down and on high G planets they point down. It makes little sense (the high G bit) unless the thrusters are on the SRV Chassis as thrusting up on the wheels would just add load to the suspension but the theory is pointing up on low G and down on high G.

 

[Tall Bird]

The problem is that there are lots of logical reasons why the barnacles might be in nebulae. It's very easy to go from knowing the answer back to the clues, but not so easy following the clues to the answer. A quick list of some properties of nebulae:

• They contain younger stars
• They contain a higher density of free-floating elements
• They are easily recognisable at large distances compared to individual stars
• The dust makes it harder to find things inside them
• They are more attractive to human explorers, especially the novice ones
• They feature relatively prominently in human mythology

And I'm sure that there are many more. When we know the answer as to why the barnacles are where they are we'll be able to go "yeah it's obvious now", but working forwards with so little information is a very difficult thing to do.

I just realised this is bugging me too....

 

[Azathoth]

I don't believe Michael has confirmed any barnacle type objects appear as random PoIs. My way of reading what he's written suggests we have hand placed fixed barnacles, and randomly generated fixed barnacles.

I could be wrong though as he's pretty vague on a good day

His response that they can spawn when you're in the SRV gave the impression those were random.

 

[Nutter]

The idea is on low G planets the thrusters on the wheels point upwards to hold the SRV down and on high G planets they point down. It makes little sense (the high G bit) unless the thrusters are on the SRV Chassis as thrusting up on the wheels would just add load to the suspension but the theory is pointing up on low G and down on high G.

I guess pointing down on a High G world gives you some chance of not becoming a pancake if you go off the edge of a large drop

 

[Nydo_Horth]

TBH I disagree. The fact of having to explore without knowing where is making me realise the awesomness of the planets itselves up to a point that I did not experience when Horizons was launched. Maybe they are giving up but the truth is that it was well worth.

So yes, it seems to be a crazy blind-search but every finding makes us be closer to the final goal!



CMDR Tunotemetas

What finding? What did WE discover? because as far as i'm concerned if MB have to came here to give clues, there is a problem in the way this search is structured by FD. It illustrate a failure of the fact that there is not enough data?clue to resolve it. And your post illustrate what i was saying, you're just waiting to randomly to stumble upon it.

Sorry to be expecting more than that.

 

[CMDR Fander]

How do we know the trailer had a 1G planet?

Blue thrusters on the wheels rotate depending on the g of the planet. Higher they are lower the Gravity, if the are lower pointing at the ground higher the Gravity. Middle its roughly 1G. They are showed middle in the trailer.

 

[squiggsy]

B 1 B A its only 0.06g that's why ppl are not focusing there. Barnacle in the trailer is in roughly 1g planet.

Why are people focusing on the trailer? there's no evidence that the trailer is suggesting anything about possible Barnacle environments. If we are only looking at roughly 1g planets then there are around 2-3 planets in the entire Pleiades where you'll find Barnacles. I find it unlikely that they are only found on those types of planets, and since the specific planet from the trailer isn't in the Pleiades there's no sense trying to track down that particular Barnacle.

Edit: and anyway the thrusters are actually pointing down in the trailer, on roughly 1g worlds there is no blue glow from the thrusters because they aren't being used.

 

[CmdrZaratan]

His response that they can spawn when you're in the SRV gave the impression those were random.

Not necessarily. A fixed PoI has to spawn too. It just does it when you first enter the instance (maybe some long range component to this too).

 

[LordZoltan]

Angle on the thrusters of the SRV

Depends on the accuracy of the trailer right?

It's a fantastic piece of work, of course - but I'm not ruling out any planet just because my SRV jets don't point the same direction, or because the sky looks different.

Remember the Wings trailer - CMDR Ishmael picks up a UA in the California Sector. When we went there: no UAs (and never have been) and the starfield was different to how it appears in the game, too.

So I call artistic license and we go on the one location clue we've actually been given - somewhere within 'the nebula that has the seven sisters'.

Edit: ninja'd by at least two ppl!

 

[Atrox Lux]

B 1 B A its only 0.06g that's why ppl are not focusing there. Barnacle in the trailer is in roughly 1g planet.

The trailer features at least 3 different planets with 3 sets of SRVs and their respective mini-stories. The thrusters of all the SRVs, including the pair of SRVs that visit the T9 and big green thing, have their thrusters all pointed in the same direction.

It is highly likely the trailer was not made using in-game material and made using an animation application.

 

[Rob At Work]

Ahaz said erect a statue of me on every street corner in... could this mean "A haz... res site"

 

[CmdrZaratan]

Why are people focusing on the trailer? there's no evidence that the trailer is suggesting anything about possible Barnacle environments. If we are only looking at roughly 1g planets then there are around 2-3 planets in the entire Pleiades where you'll find Barnacles. I find it unlikely that they are only found on those types of planets, and since the specific planet from the trailer isn't in the Pleiades there's no sense trying to track down that particular Barnacle.

Edit: and anyway the thrusters are actually pointing down in the trailer, on roughly 1g worlds there is no blue glow from the thrusters because they aren't being used.

You're assuming here that barnacles don't crop up all on the same world types. It's reasonable to guess that the barnacle or whatever in the trailer is on the same world type as the barnacles we'll find in the Pleaides. For the record I'm currently on a low G ice moon, but I'm not going to knock people who want to search planets like the one in the trailer. It's a perfectly reasonable theory in light of how little we know.

 

[Tinman]

What finding? What did WE discover? because as far as i'm concerned if MB have to came here to give clues, there is a problem in the way this search is structured by FD. It illustrate a failure of the fact that there is not enough data?

Or...maybe people are too stupid to get it...

 

[rizal72]

So far i have seen NPC's conducting Medical experiments in the Corona of Maia i think it was i followed them in but did not have a cargo scanner 1 python and 2 vulture's they got as close to the corona as possible stayed for a few minutes and jumped out chatter about the experiment. I'm guessing there are more clues here.

While I was in Witch head nebula (some 200-300 LY from Pleiades) I encountered a medical convoy at Strong Signal Source. I didn't pay much attention to that since I was looking for UA. It was a Python with couple escorts. However, before I Frameshifted away, I noticed few lines on the comms which didn't mean a lot then, but now that someone mentioned medical convoys somewhere (cannot recall where) I began to regret I didn't stay longer tailing the convoy.

The convoy Python announced something to these lines: "Cargo secured, I think..." suggesting that something was going on? Has anyone else found such a convoy? If not, and in case they might be relevant considering barnipples, I might be returning that system.

-v

Those Medical Convoys are well known. They transport Scientific Research, Occupied Pods, Performance Enhancers. I've followed them a few times, they go in a loop between 3/4 systems, then they suddenly vanish from Scanners. They probably are just an hint of some secret research going on.

Are there even Geysers in-game?

I thought not.

No, they aren't still.

 

[CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned]

I guess pointing down on a High G world gives you some chance of not becoming a pancake if you go off the edge of a large drop

True, although you can apply upwards thrust regardless of the G of the planet. I've tested this extensively, especially on low G planets

 

[Tall Bird]

Why are people focusing on the trailer? there's no evidence that the trailer is suggesting anything about possible Barnacle environments. If we are only looking at roughly 1g planets then there are around 2-3 planets in the entire Pleiades where you'll find Barnacles. I find it unlikely that they are only found on those types of planets, and since the specific planet from the trailer isn't in the Pleiades there's no sense trying to track down that particular Barnacle.

Edit: and anyway the thrusters are actually pointing down in the trailer, on roughly 1g worlds there is no blue glow from the thrusters because they aren't being used.

I still have a strong hunch my theory may be spot-on. I'm looking at the planet and seeing if I can see anything geyer-like now, who knows.

 

[v01i0]

So I call artistic license and we go on the one location clue we've actually been given - somewhere within 'the nebula that has the seven sisters'.

And on other Nebulae as well, but in that especially. And yeah, there is no mention on the trailer that it has been recorded in actual game play, which usually is present if they are actual game footage. I wouldn't count much on that trailer, especially when someone noticed that it is not even in Pleiades. Personally I left Pleiades after a short while and head to other type of Nebulae just for teh kicks!

Those Medical Convoys are well known. They transport Scientific Research, Occupied Pods, Performance Enhancers. I've followed them a few times, they go in a loop between 3/4 systems, then they suddenly vanish from Scanners. They probably are just an hint of some secret research going on.

Okay, good to know. So maybe I just continue on my route, not going back to Witch Head.

-v