Thanks - found it. I was looking for one of those spoiler buttons at first.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Thanks - found it. I was looking for one of those spoiler buttons at first.
That's not bad. I'm up to a staggering total of 4t my self.
Absolutely no spawns today. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/images/icons/vbposticons/icon13.gif
Yeah, I'm carrying a staggering 2t - tried re-logging 3 times and kept getting dumped 22km above ground but landed... Every time I flew back down the site was the same. Except on the last time, where it was pristine again, but in the process of being harvested by another CMDR.
Oh, and I came down too hard on that occasion, in my fury, and totalled my shields and 55% of my hull!
I'm such a bloody amateur sometimes!
and finding those coordinates on the planet with no wakes at barney's location:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteCG/comments/420xdn/metaalloys_appeal_horizons_required/cz903nu
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flying in a straight line from point A to B on a planet:
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Congratulations team, that's a pretty impressive achievement and great show of teamwork. I expect that record will stand for a while. I'm up to over 900 tonnes so far for the CG but it has required 3 loads in my Anaconda with the max single transaction being a measly 32 million in comparison.
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I found one! This is the second one I've found. This one happened to have coordinates very close to another one someone found so I'd assume it's the same one. I actually found it right next to a POI - a data point. Kinda doubt that means much though. Guess I'll keep looking around. There seem to have been a lot of reported barnacles in this general vicinity.
Man though, I really wish the ASP's headlights were brighter. It's nearly impossible to see things in the shadows, where this one was, unless you're within about 200m of it.
Man though, I really wish the ASP's headlights were brighter. It's nearly impossible to see things in the shadows, where this one was, unless you're within about 200m of it.
True but unfortunately for us those Nebula definitions are human made
Well found a UA earlier.... blue flecks coming off that are the same as blue flecks coming off the barnacles
wether thats a clue or Fdev re-using the sprites... who knows
Bill
<<given up and run back to the bubble... there are things man is not supposed to meddle in
wether thats a clue or Fdev re-using the sprites... who knows
Bill
<<given up and run back to the bubble... there are things man is not supposed to meddle in
Also true...but being as the Thargoids are also human-made (assuming all the Frontier staff are indeed human...
) which would make for the cooler GalNet headline from Frontier's perspective?"New discovery of alien 'barnacles' in NGC 6514"?
Or
"New discovery of alien 'barnacles' in the Trifid Nebula"? <-
Is anyone keeping track of the nebulae that are being searched for barnacles?
Yes, the Canonn Research team is trying to aggregate all the survey data.
How do you manage to gather that much??
Patience and bloody-minded determination. I picked a spot, flipped modes between a private group and solo, and then made minor adjustments to make each trip from my ship to the barnacle as efficient as I could. For example, I parked my cutter just far enough away that when I got to the barnacle arms with the pods my turret just came online. Every other mode switch I would lift the cutter a few metres off the ground and resettle it, so that it wouldn't sink into the ground with repeated logins and trap my SRV beneath the ship, because if I had to recall my ship, it would invariably land half a km away and mess up my system. At my peak, I could collect about 60 meta-alloys an hour, so this probably amounts to about 14-15 hours of work!
On the subject of nebulae other than the Pleiades and the possible location of barnacles in such, I'd like to list a system I've been surveying in the Trifid Nebula.
The system is Trifid Sector HR-W d1-142. It's on the edge of the Trifid Nebula, and has two landable HMC worlds with red coloured canyons.
I've added the two worlds to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H2C...ewform?c=0&w=1 but there's an extra reason I've been paying more attention to this sytem than others I've been driving round.
It may be nothing, but the outermost planet in Trifid Sector HR-W d1-142 is an ammonia world...
According to Elite lore of course, the Thargoids are supposed to have originated on an ammonia world.
Okay, so just because a system has an Earth-like world in it, it doesn't mean you'll automatically find humans there...but humans do value ELWs and so there's no reason to think Thargoids would value NH3 worlds any less than we do ELWs.
So if the barnacles are to do with the Thargoids, and this system is in a nebula AND has a Thargoid-friendly world, it might be worth a look. I'm leaving the Trifid tonight and heading back to rejoin the Distant Worlds expedition, so this will be my last SRV spin around this sytem.
The system is Trifid Sector HR-W d1-142. It's on the edge of the Trifid Nebula, and has two landable HMC worlds with red coloured canyons.
I've added the two worlds to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H2C...ewform?c=0&w=1 but there's an extra reason I've been paying more attention to this sytem than others I've been driving round.
It may be nothing, but the outermost planet in Trifid Sector HR-W d1-142 is an ammonia world...
According to Elite lore of course, the Thargoids are supposed to have originated on an ammonia world.
Okay, so just because a system has an Earth-like world in it, it doesn't mean you'll automatically find humans there...but humans do value ELWs and so there's no reason to think Thargoids would value NH3 worlds any less than we do ELWs.
So if the barnacles are to do with the Thargoids, and this system is in a nebula AND has a Thargoid-friendly world, it might be worth a look. I'm leaving the Trifid tonight and heading back to rejoin the Distant Worlds expedition, so this will be my last SRV spin around this sytem.
Almost exactly what I do as well, it takes about a minute per meta-alloy if all goes well. When you get a good run you can pop the meta-alloy in the air and catch it before it hits the ground.
I found once you get the barnacle to spawn you don't need to switch modes. I just quit to menu, back to solo, lift 5m, land, collect quit to menu and repeat. Launching and landing is absolutely essential every time especially in an ASP.
Wow! Respect! o7
Wow!! Awesome work, I was just about to head out that way with my new Cutter....was trying to make sure I had everything outfitted that I would need before I headed out that way.
Exact same thinkg happened to me! Surprisingly survived the fall but it took hull down to 55%.
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