UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[Nutter]

That mission was not bugged, it was a scavenger hunt, which despite my many attempts to alert people to the difference between a scavenger and a treasure hunt, they ignored. However the tinfoil hattery in that thread rivalled some of the best moments in the UA search

I seem to remember that the cargo could not be scooped due to a bug, hence could not be delivered to a station?

 

[hawkjon]

This might be common knowledge but did you guys know that disabling your sensors after you've landed shows the blue POI indicators?
I was able to search a ton pretty quickly by increasing my sensor range and doing this.
I would land, check the radar, fly more into the circle, land & repeat.
Granted, the last time I checked, it was unknown if they would show up as the blue POIs.

That's interesting! I'll have to try that out... good find!

Edit: Ok, I just tried this while flying over a blue circle and it shrunk down to a very small circle and showed me exactly where a small crash site was. Well, that was easy!

Edit Edit: flew over to another blue circle that was already there and the same thing did not happen again... it just stayed big... so not consistent. Though I did try landing and then turning sensors off and it worked just the way that you said.

 

[urmom306]

Thanks, I guess some people have been suckerd then? LOL @Nibiru comment. Wasn't planet X a shoot 'em up?

I can't remember the page, but someone had some lore related stuff talking about hidden planets or planets that are immune to d-scanners. So the only way to find them is to use manual methods (parallax displacement or gravity well searching) like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itkIhPRxAPQ

I personally, wish this was the secret. I think it would be so cool to have to use these manual methods to find a hidden alien planet.

 

[nr.]

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As players we have never encountered a 'Barnacle Site' in the x thousand player hours logged
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No, we don't know that - there may well be players out there who don't read/contribute here, who have found them. We don't know.

While I'm here - is there any sense in separating the UA and Barnacle threads? From what I've read here (and forgive me, I've not read *everything*!) there's nothing to suggest that barnacles are linked to UAs, other than The Pleiades. I've not seen any evidence to suggest that one causes, or in some way interacts with the other. And while we're all running around looking for barnacles right now, have we taken our collective eye off the UAs and what they're doing? If there is some proven link, that's cool - it's something that I missed in all the pages here.

Thanks,

 

[Han_Zen]

someone earlier in the thread said that the glyphs on the UA's could be a datebased co-ordnit system based off of the Mayan Stela, Well, No matter how you push and squeeze it, It doesnt make a true stela.
Here is what I did to get some dates from the 1300's and the 1100's. But, It seems to me like grabbing at straws.
Maybe someone smarter than I can take a look at it?
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It's not a true stela. Number 4 is missing, we don't know what is up and what is down and we don't know where to start.
We did quite a bit of work on it in thread 2. Nothing came from it.

I mostly presented this for those that want to dig deep. as an alternative to stadion seating and Lovecraft lore.

At least this is in-game.

Problem number one is that this gives a system and a possible set of coordinates, but no planet. :-/

 

[rizal72]

That mission was not bugged, it was a scavenger hunt, which despite my many attempts to alert people to the difference between a scavenger and a treasure hunt, they ignored. However the tinfoil hattery in that thread rivalled some of the best moments in the UA search

I seem to remember that the cargo could not be scooped due to a bug, hence could not be delivered to a station?

You are mistaking the Titan Black hunt with the more recent Treasure Hunt won by bitstorm
The Titan Black was just a commodity to be found, no scooping.

 

[Szyslak22]

MB also said "You are guaranteed to find them if you are in the right location."
I think that means a particular type of planet. If the T Tauri systems have no landable planets then I would go for the planet that is the furthest from its star and that has a gravity of 1g+

In the trailer the planet is very dark which indicates that it is either in shadow or a long way from the nearest light source.

No, he's talking about the exact spot on the right planet. Just a clarification of the persistence. "Guaranteed to find them if you are in the right location" does not mean you are guaranteed to find them if you are in the right nebula, or the right system, or the right planet. The exact spot.

i.e. when you get to the exact right spot of the fixed location Barnacles, there is not a further random chance of spawning based on instancing.

 

[besieger]

Is there more than one planet in the nebula with the barnacles on?

 

[CMDR Fander]

Lets assume trailer shows real barnacle as u can find it in game.

If moons are Tidally locked to the planet they orbit, the sun still shines on both sides. Same as Earth's moon. Our moon does not have dark side, it only shows one side to earth but shows both sides to our sun.
Tidally locked moons are not different than others that are not tidally locked. They still have day and night cycle.

Tidally locked planets have dark side but i don't know if there is one in the nebula with high gravity. Has anyone checked for tidally locked planets with high G in the Pleiades ?

The best way to narrow the search is to find tidally locked planet with roughly 1g high metal content or rocky world and search only the "sunrise" (edge between dark and light side) because only than dust can exist i think. That should narrow the search quite a bit.


But everything i sad above can be wrong there is noting stopping a GM spawning one where he is at. The trailers are meant to be good for the eyes.
And also dark scene shows better the colors of the structure and adds mystery so also dark side of the planets could also be wrong .

After looking at the planets best planets for my theory are
Taygeta 4,7
Pleione 4,6
Electra 2,3

Pleiades Sector DL-Y d65 1

Pleiades Sector GW-W c1-15 7​

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Sorry for quoting myself

 

[R00TBR]

So I was making my daily detective job and found a bit of curious information. Some speculative but curious anyway:

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Barnacle_Seeds
"This has been spotted in the game files, but has yet to be discovered in-game."

So following the game files, about Barnacles (barnicles) we can expect the following:
1-Barnacle Spikes
2-Small Barnacle pikes
3-Barnacle Seeds

So as the wiki suggests, these should be medium to small structures and should be the green things that appear in the trailer...




Red: Small and Medium Barnacle Spikes - this is what we're probably looking for
Blue: A structure that is not implemented in the game yet.

As I see, barnacles and the Meta-alloys are something that is coming not only to include the "alien" stuff in the game but also to introduce a new material that'll be used in the next big update "Loot and Craft" .

Meantime, I'll keep looking in Pleione (because I like how planets look there).

 

[Nutter]

No, we don't know that - there may well be players out there who don't read/contribute here, who have found them. We don't know.

I specifically mean 'we' as in the royal 'we' of this thread who I know to be actively seeking a Barnacle, as I can only speak for the players in this thread that have combined, logged thousands of hours searching.

 

[Jorge]

This might be common knowledge but did you guys know that disabling your sensors after you've landed shows the blue POI indicators?
I was able to search a ton pretty quickly by increasing my sensor range and doing this.
I would land, check the radar, fly more into the circle, land & repeat.
Granted, the last time I checked, it was unknown if they would show up as the blue POIs.

That is pretty interesting, but I don't know how it makes any sense as a game mechanic... I wonder if it's a bug?

 

[Szyslak22]

Is there more than one planet in the nebula with the barnacles on?

Michael said "some" have been placed in the Pleiades nebula, so that's a safe assumption. Not guaranteed, but very probable.

 

[Nutter]

You are mistaking the Titan Black hunt with the more recent Treasure Hunt won by bitstorm
The Titan Black was just a commodity to be found, no scooping.

Ah thanks

 

[SheepDip82]

No, he's talking about the exact spot on the right planet. Just a clarification of the persistence. "Guaranteed to find them if you are in the right location" does not mean you are guaranteed to find them if you are in the right nebula, or the right system, or the right planet. The exact spot.

i.e. when you get to the exact right spot of the fixed location Barnacles, there is not a further random chance of spawning based on instancing.

"ALthough unlike the UAs there are some that have been physically placed by us, although they are generated in certain areas of space."

Some have been placed...
They are generated...

 

[Tarod]

No, he's talking about the exact spot on the right planet. Just a clarification of the persistence. "Guaranteed to find them if you are in the right location" does not mean you are guaranteed to find them if you are in the right nebula, or the right system, or the right planet. The exact spot.

i.e. when you get to the exact right spot of the fixed location Barnacles, there is not a further random chance of spawning based on instancing.

He said that you won't miss them like "you know you got them". He also said that you are warranted to find them at the right location. Location can be not only the right coords, but the right planet (in case of RNG spawns).

So my guess is that:
- Either we can Jump to a system in a special way (or vector) that triggers something and pop there are suddenly planets where there were not
- Either there are hidden entities [planets / planetoids] that once discovered by visual / other grant you RNG Poi's
* This case, you can also find them at those planet[oids] at fixed POIs, not visible from space but [hopefully] on certain landmarks.
- I have no idea what I am talking about

If only Michael hinted us about this hidden planet speculation... would discard or focus the search

 

[TFW Primus]

I think it may be time to start spying on the NPC's again, since they have already found one, i imagine said NPC was immediately sent to work for the nearest ABC agency.

The NPC's had the jump on the UA and were hoarding them till the cat got out of the bag...

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.

I'm wondering if we need someone to successfully solve one of these NPC distress calls that have been recently added. From what I've heard some of them feature waves of attacks on a ship. Perhaps successfully defending one of these will cause the distressed NPC to give hints towards barnacles or meta-alloys. I've seen a number of these distress calls in the Pleiades but haven't been equipped to help out.

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I also agree with Han_Zen and Starnsworth. I think there's more to discover about the UAs visually. I know they have been researched a great deal already, and any discoveries may not directly be related to barnacles, but seems like there is still much to be found there.

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"ALthough unlike the UAs there are some that have been physically placed by us, although they are generated in certain areas of space."

Some have been placed...
They are generated...

Right. My understanding of this is that it means there may be some random barnacle POIs in the Pleiades because the conditions may be met but there are definitely static barnacle POIs in the Pleiades because they have been manually placed there by FD.

 

[Nutter]

So I was making my daily detective job and found a bit of curious information. Some speculative but curious anyway:

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Barnacle_Seeds
"This has been spotted in the game files, but has yet to be discovered in-game."

So following the game files, about Barnacles (barnicles) we can expect the following:
1-Barnacle Spikes
2-Small Barnacle pikes
3-Barnacle Seeds

So as the wiki suggests, these should be medium to small structures and should be the green things that appear in the trailer...

View attachment 94832


Red: Small and Medium Barnacle Spikes - this is what we're probably looking for
Blue: A structure that is not implemented in the game yet.

As I see, barnacles and the Meta-alloys are something that is coming not only to include the "alien" stuff in the game but also to introduce a new material that'll be used in the next big update "Loot and Craft" .

Meantime, I'll keep looking in Pleione (because I like how planets look there).

Argh! I may spontaneously explode if anymore guesswork and speculation is in anyway presented as fact!

Just a quick reminder for anyone who may have missed the fist few reference posts of what we are looking for.

Something called a Barnacle or Meta-Alloy that can be found on the surface of a planet residing in a nebula.

We do not know what colour they are, size, shape, living / dead, mineral. There is no evidence of a link to anything else including Thargoids or Alien at all.

In case you missed it, we are looking for something called a Barnacle or Meta-Alloy that can be found (apparently) on the surface of a planet residing in a nebula. Oh and they are exceedingly rare.

 

[Szyslak22]

"ALthough unlike the UAs there are some that have been physically placed by us, although they are generated in certain areas of space."

Some have been placed...
They are generated...

Yes, and if you find the exact spot on the right planet where it was procedurally generated, you are guaranteed to find them. Location = exact coordinates on the right planet.

Edit: It helps to read the exact context of the question he was answering:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&p=3403655&viewfull=1#post3403655

 

[rizal72]

Argh! I may spontaneously explode if anymore guesswork and speculation is in anyway presented as fact!

Just a quick reminder for anyone who may have missed the fist few reference posts of what we are looking for.

Something called a Barnacle or Meta-Alloy that can be found on the surface of a planet residing in a nebula.

We do not know what colour they are, size, shape, living / dead, mineral. There is no evidence of a link to anything else including Thargoids or Alien at all.

In case you missed it, we are looking for something called a Barnacle or Meta-Alloy that can be found (apparently) on the surface of a planet residing in a nebula. Oh and they are exceedingly rare.

Wait!
We know they are Alien, at least.
"They are associated with recently discovered alien entities nicknamed 'Large Barnacles' by interstellar explorers."

For the rest I agree.