I know you meant the nebula, but it's tiny with no stars inside.
The Nebula itself is not that far from the shell and we know now that being inside the nebula is not that important.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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I know you meant the nebula, but it's tiny with no stars inside.
The Nebula itself is not that far from the shell and we know now that being inside the nebula is not that important.
I've been out in various nebula looking for thargoids to shoot at (yes I'm baiting you the various people that say we should have peaceful contact...! )
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From a purely game players point of view I've come to a a few conclusions.
1). It's like trying to look for a grain of sand that's VERY NEARLY the same as every other grain of sand on a beach a million square miles. And your not even sure that your looking in the right beach out of a choice of several million beaches.
2). We dont currently know if the things we are looking for are even enabled in the game yet. I know that MB has said that there are things in the game that have been there since beta that have not been found yet. However this universe is so big that you could play for a thousand years and without some kind of hint they will never be found. Looking for something that you dont know where it is or even if it's there (and if it IS there it might not even spawn due to game problems...) is an exercise in futility without further hints/scientific discoveries/confirmation from Frontier. As a player if I spent tens or hundreds (or collectively tens of thousands of hours looking) for something that's not even been turned on yet.. It would make me angry at the game. I might have chosen to do that, but it would still make me irrationally mad.
3). The tea plantations, canisters of gold guarded by terrible sentry bots and wrecked and running data points that I'm continually finding on rocky moons over a thousand light years away from make no sense and continually break my immersion in the game. There's no reason for them to be out there, you cant interact with them, reasonably if you find *anything* that far from known space then it should be important/interactable/valuable.
Most of human endeavour has been about going and seeing what's out there. But in a game it's about gameplay. Driving round empty planets in a vague hope that there might be something there is timewasting at best. Drawing out the whole storyline might work from frontier's point of view, but from a game player's perspective it's a drag. I have not seen anything from the devs updating the storyline other than the confirmation that barnacles have been found and we are attempting to fix the station since 13/1. Certainly nothing confirming the next phase is in place for us to find.
If that data point was rarer, and had some use, could point me to a different planet or co-ords to go look for something more valuable... that might be useful. Or to point me at thargoids, even if its a vague direction. It needs to have some kind of reasoning behind it or it just points out again and again that it's procedurally generated.
I did get a couple of pictures tho.
Nice shiny Anaconda and Planets Pic
'Tea Plantation????'
Shiny Ship Pics.
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From a purely game players point of view I've come to a a few conclusions.
1). It's like trying to look for a grain of sand that's VERY NEARLY the same as every other grain of sand on a beach a million square miles. And your not even sure that your looking in the right beach out of a choice of several million beaches.
2). We dont currently know if the things we are looking for are even enabled in the game yet. I know that MB has said that there are things in the game that have been there since beta that have not been found yet. However this universe is so big that you could play for a thousand years and without some kind of hint they will never be found. Looking for something that you dont know where it is or even if it's there (and if it IS there it might not even spawn due to game problems...) is an exercise in futility without further hints/scientific discoveries/confirmation from Frontier. As a player if I spent tens or hundreds (or collectively tens of thousands of hours looking) for something that's not even been turned on yet.. It would make me angry at the game. I might have chosen to do that, but it would still make me irrationally mad.
3). The tea plantations, canisters of gold guarded by terrible sentry bots and wrecked and running data points that I'm continually finding on rocky moons over a thousand light years away from make no sense and continually break my immersion in the game. There's no reason for them to be out there, you cant interact with them, reasonably if you find *anything* that far from known space then it should be important/interactable/valuable.
Most of human endeavour has been about going and seeing what's out there. But in a game it's about gameplay. Driving round empty planets in a vague hope that there might be something there is timewasting at best. Drawing out the whole storyline might work from frontier's point of view, but from a game player's perspective it's a drag. I have not seen anything from the devs updating the storyline other than the confirmation that barnacles have been found and we are attempting to fix the station since 13/1. Certainly nothing confirming the next phase is in place for us to find.
If that data point was rarer, and had some use, could point me to a different planet or co-ords to go look for something more valuable... that might be useful. Or to point me at thargoids, even if its a vague direction. It needs to have some kind of reasoning behind it or it just points out again and again that it's procedurally generated.
I did get a couple of pictures tho.
Nice shiny Anaconda and Planets Pic
'Tea Plantation????'
Shiny Ship Pics.
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Cure it ? or feed the UA's with what they where looking for ? I Wonder.
I would not be surprised if Obsidiant Orbital started to emit strange sounds and get wired spikes growths...
Yeah - What's up with the Tea Plantations so far out in the cold?
What else is a English gentleman going to drink whilst 65,000 light years from Sol?
Ok, maybe someone already found this out, but I just sped up my video of barnacle noises x4, and from my perspective there is definitely a code in there in the form of different notes. When listening at normal speed, the barnacles emit what sounds to me like deep purrs every 20 sec or so. those deep purrs when sped up by 4 times are obviously different frequencies, just listen in my video, it sounds like a tuba playing short different notes. I haven't figured out which notes exactly, but they are different notes for sure and they are very evenly spaced.
[video=youtube_share;OEhgTFPx3lw]https://youtu.be/OEhgTFPx3lw[/video]
[video=youtube_share;OEhgTFPx3lw]https://youtu.be/OEhgTFPx3lw[/video]
Roibos??
1. Nonsense.
2. All the more reason to exercise caution.
3. Yes, but with great power comes great responsibility.
4. An interesting point. Thargoids have shown evidence of possessing a 'hive' mind, thus they may not have seen it the same way. It's possible they do now appreciate there can be distinctions between individual humans, but that's a major assumption on your part. You are dealing with aliens who do not share our societial constructs, or perhaps even the concept of individuality.
5. Not the most compelling justification for war I've come across.
Cheers,
Drew.
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To jump in on this. The Devs did say that how "we" dealt with the first encounters would decide how the future goes.
So in effect, people deciding they want Pew Pew will effectively decide it for the rest of us without so much as a by your leave.
I just tried to sell some Meta-alloys at Li Qing Jao station, Sol. They won't give me a cent for them despite their technical issues! I find this difficult to believe considering that they must surely be aware of meta-alloys and their ability to apparently "fix" whatever issues they're having. Pfft.
On to the next station nearby.
On to the next station nearby.
Interesting. I do hope that there will be sides to be taken when it comes to that point.
Speaking of taking sides.. looks like there already are playergroups who 'blockade' Maia and the Barnacle sites to prevent anyone coming close and start shooting at them. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=225004
All there is for certain so far is listed on the first few posts on Page 1, it's updated with time.
I think the only clue to the next step in the mystery is the symbol printed on the Barnacles themselves.
1). Sorry you should take this as a 'out of game reason'... Any choice is the right choice from a gameplay point of view. We get one gameplay arc or a different gameplay arc. It's not get the right choice or the universe blows up and game over. Trying to force your opinion on the way forward on others and saying that if they chose the aggressive way forward that they are wrong. Is wrong, your trying to force your set of values on other people. It's their way forward. Like the people blockading Maia. It's their choice to do that, it's just as valid a gameplay choice as selling meta-metals there to try to fix it.
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Hey can i get someone to confirm if there have been sightings of barnacles in the heart/soul nebulae? I cannot for the life of me remember if i had seen a post of this or actually had this come to me in a dream. if anyone knows please help (or send help! i may be going mad)
Weird, considering how Obsidian Orbital has a demand for 0 more meta-alloys but still pays 79K per mining fragment.
Trojan Horse?
Maybe this is part of their plan?
We discover UA's, we start experimenting with them, they get taken/sold to stations.
Stations start experiencing all sorts of technical difficulties among other things.
The Unknown Artefacts "lead" us to Merope and our suspicion of this area of space grows. Then, surprisingly Merope is the first system in which a Barnacle is discovered.
We find the meta-alloys they're producing and take/sell them to Obsidian Orbital, which is suffering from whatever the UA's did.
Using the meta-alloys, experiments are conducted and the station is "cured," repaired if you like. I'm guessing that the meta-alloys were integrated into Obsidian Orbitals systems.
Think of all that data they could now be fishing. Or perhaps it's something else.
We may have well just given them access to a wealth of data about Human occupied space.
You have to think of this from a different point of view, who in their right mind would use alien tech to repair what other alien tech did (said alien tech is very much likely to be from the same species). Especially when the alien tech that caused the problems appeared to lead us to the "cure."
We should be careful, and perhaps keep our eyes and ears open for strange goings on inside bubble.
PS: I don't think we should deliver meta-alloys to anymore stations
Maybe this is part of their plan?
We discover UA's, we start experimenting with them, they get taken/sold to stations.
Stations start experiencing all sorts of technical difficulties among other things.
The Unknown Artefacts "lead" us to Merope and our suspicion of this area of space grows. Then, surprisingly Merope is the first system in which a Barnacle is discovered.
We find the meta-alloys they're producing and take/sell them to Obsidian Orbital, which is suffering from whatever the UA's did.
Using the meta-alloys, experiments are conducted and the station is "cured," repaired if you like. I'm guessing that the meta-alloys were integrated into Obsidian Orbitals systems.
Think of all that data they could now be fishing. Or perhaps it's something else.
We may have well just given them access to a wealth of data about Human occupied space.
You have to think of this from a different point of view, who in their right mind would use alien tech to repair what other alien tech did (said alien tech is very much likely to be from the same species). Especially when the alien tech that caused the problems appeared to lead us to the "cure."
We should be careful, and perhaps keep our eyes and ears open for strange goings on inside bubble.
PS: I don't think we should deliver meta-alloys to anymore stations
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If you've followed the UA mystery you know that those Tuba notes, coming from the Purrs, have been previously found on the UA sped up sound as well.
Nothing ever came out of them. That doesn't mean that there isn't something we have to find yet.
I've added your video on the FrontPage btw, among the Barnacles Facts.
Thanks
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