UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

cmdr sandman · Jan 15, 2016

locastan said:
I just prepared this this morning for you guys:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownArt...a_preliminary_study_paper_on_space_barnacles/

I hope you like it.

Amazing - nice one!

Han_Zen · Jan 15, 2016

Donald Duck said:
By the way: According to the lore, how did humanity overcome the Thargoids last time? We used a virus. So for Thargoids it must have been clear at one point in their history: Curiousity killed the bug. And now they could have turned it around...
BEWARE!
Sorry, if mentioned before.

We bombed their bases with Mycoid.

CMDR Sheehy · Jan 15, 2016

Irons said:
Hmmm, close the 'loop'. Another slightly tenuous link to Barnards?

Nah.

I asked about 53 Arietis because it is a rogue star that was ejected from Bernard's Loop. If it was near the Nebula, or could have passed through the nebula, it might have carried the Barnacles from Bernard's Loop, which could indicate an origin of "Something"...

markmatt · Jan 15, 2016

Also something worth mentioning, a common thread for every one of these barnacle sites is they reside on planets with no atmosphere (obviously). So they dont need air to breath. What about water? Is there water underground these sites of sand they seem to populate near?

rizal72 · Jan 15, 2016

Cronod said:
So we found many bernacles yerstday, do we know if they are all fix or some are random? If Rizal agree we could pm him when we double check those coords so he can update the front page (meaby also cycling through open\private\solo) Amazing work Rizal btw. You are my new super hero. Sadly cant give more rep for the moment.
Also someone yesterday open a ticket for the istance bernacle bug, i cant find it again, but if someone have the link meaby can also go to the front page so all of us having issue can post there until FD fix the problem.

For what I've seen so far, the one in Merope 5C is fixed.

All the others in Pleiades Sector JC-U B3 are almost fixed, so that they spawn randomly in the area around the crashed Anaconda.
In fact someone even found one almost INTO the Anaconda

But if you are already facing one, and relog, it's there again.

Vingtetun · Jan 15, 2016

Shooting these things to harvest them might start a war. Think very carefully before harvesting

CMDR Sheehy · Jan 15, 2016

Vingtetun said:
Shooting these things to harvest them might start a war. Think very carefully before harvesting

"That, Mr Anderson, is the sound of inevitability."

Considering that cash is being offered for Metal Alloys...

slashgoh · Jan 15, 2016

rizal72 said:
For what I've seen so far, the one in Merope 5C is fixed.

All the others in Pleiades Sector JC-U B3 are almost fixed, so that they spawn randomly in the area around the crashed Anaconda.
In fact someone even found one almost INTO the Anaconda
But if you are already facing one, and relog, it's there again.

The one in PS JC-U B3 planet 1 coord. (23.0895),(94.0826) is also fixed.
I leave the game yesterday near it and I rejoin the game today with the barnacle still there.

Kalearne · Jan 15, 2016

slashgoh said:
The one in PS JC-U B3 planet 1 coord. (23.0895),(94.0826) is also fixed.
I leave the game yesterday near it and I rejoin the game today with the barnacle still there.

Do they still drop Yttrium or do they drop other very rare materials?

squiggsy · Jan 15, 2016

anthonycsheehy said:
"That, Mr Anderson, is the sound of inevitability."

Considering that cash is being offered for Metal Alloys...

Yes but the mission is a trap! I advise against trying to do the Strange Alloys mission, they lure you in with the offer of millions and then try to have you assasinated, whoever it is you're giving those Meta Alloys too has some bad intentions, I'd be willing to bet on that...

CmdrZaratan · Jan 15, 2016

rizal72 said:
For what I've seen so far, the one in Merope 5C is fixed.

All the others in Pleiades Sector JC-U B3 are almost fixed, so that they spawn randomly in the area around the crashed Anaconda.
In fact someone even found one almost INTO the Anaconda
But if you are already facing one, and relog, it's there again.

I've found 1, 3 and the second crashed Anaconda on PS JC-U B3-2 1...they're all fixed, but not always there. I don't believe this is intentional as the one on Merope 5C wasn't always there for me either, and MB said that if you are in the right spot you're guaranteed to find one.

I call shenanigans on the instancing of fixed PoIs to people far from the servers.

_Dastardly_ · Jan 15, 2016

Kalearne said:
Do they still drop Yttrium or do they drop other very rare materials?

I've had Antimony from one. Unknown if they only drop the materials the planet has or random ones.

hologramix · Jan 15, 2016

Its a shame the barnacles aren't higher res or glowing as much as they did in the trailer

cmdr banannachops · Jan 15, 2016

has anyone slowed down the audio these barnacles give off? might be saying something?

eddit - with and without the arms blown to bits

v01i0 · Jan 15, 2016

squiggsy said:
Yes but the mission is a trap! I advise against trying to do the Strange Alloys mission, they lure you in with the offer of millions and then try to have you assasinated, whoever it is you're giving those Meta Alloys too has some bad intentions, I'd be willing to bet on that...

In Finland they have a proverb: "Ahneella on paskainen loppu", which basically translates into "greedy one will face an unhappy end"

-v

CmdrZaratan · Jan 15, 2016

CmdrZaratan said:
I've found 1, 3 and the second crashed Anaconda on PS JC-U B3-2 1...they're all fixed, but not always there. I don't believe this is intentional as the one on Merope 5C wasn't always there for me either, and MB said that if you are in the right spot you're guaranteed to find one.

I call shenanigans on the instancing of fixed PoIs to people far from the servers.

I should also mention finding one has no effect on whether the others are in your instance. I've done extensive testing on that. However once you find one and fly away, you can go back to it and it's still there.

Gen.Fussypants · Jan 15, 2016

The central portion of the Barnacle "feels" very much like a communications array to me. From the images posted it seems the central Barnacle is angled as if pointing at something, as a satellite dish/transmitter would be. I cannot visit any sites as I am 25KLy from any of this. If someone feels inclined could they check different sites and see if they are angled differently per site, and if so do their angles converge?

Gen. Fussypants
CMDR Duck Rodgers

marx · Jan 15, 2016

Those missions do look interesting if they are branching. Does anybody know what happens if you complete the original mission, and not follow the authorities' branch?
Also, sorry but I don't think you'll be getting that reward. After all, they just wanted to use your for the dirty work, then dispose of you too. Paying over twenty times the usual rate for assassinations? "If it looks like it's too good to be true, it probably is."

_Dastardly_ · Jan 15, 2016

CmdrZaratan said:
I should also mention finding one has no effect on whether the others are in your instance. I've done extensive testing on that. However once you find one and fly away, you can go back to it and it's still there.

Beware if sighseeing near Anaconda: 20.8736 - 91.6983

I am being warned that the cutter hovering by it is killing people.

Kalearne · Jan 15, 2016

_Dastardly_ said:
I've had Antimony from one. Unknown if they only drop the materials the planet has or random ones.

It would make sense if they dropped only what the planet has. I had a theory they were only dropping Yttrium because we need FSD extension to reach the next clue (yttrium is used for FSD extension) Antimony makes that another dead theory