UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Demonoroth

Demonoroth
Julio Montega said:
See me fly out of the sunset
On your galnet TV stream
Out for all that I can get
If you know what I mean
Barnacles to the left of me
And Barnacles to the right
Ain't got no gun
Ain't got no knife
Don't you start no fight

Cause i'm exploring Elite
:D

Seems fitting for tonight!
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I smell another AC/DC fan here...I was actually listening to the song while reading this.
Fly safe my fellow rocking commander.

Next thread: Canonn 6: We're all out of biscuits give us barnacles.
 
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Craith

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Craith
Hello CMDRs,

I just had a strange thing happening to me:

When I approached a barnacle flying low (because I missed the area on my descent), it pulsed twice with greenish light when i came over the mountains. I saw the canyon walls light up. Unfortunately I was a moment to slow with my screenshot, it was already dark again:
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(solo mode, just returned from maia, obviously at night)

I'm not sure what to make of it, has anyone else encountered this? I'll try to reproduce it and if I'm able maybe take a video (gotta try Shadowplay, hope it works).
 

Kurt Ambrose

Kurt Ambrose
Craith said:
Hello CMDRs,

I just had a strange thing happening to me:

When I approached a barnacle flying low (because I missed the area on my descent), it pulsed twice with greenish light when i came over the mountains. I saw the canyon walls light up. Unfortunately I was a moment to slow with my screenshot, it was already dark again:
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(solo mode, just returned from maia, obviously at night)

I'm not sure what to make of it, has anyone else encountered this? I'll try to reproduce it and if I'm able maybe take a video (gotta try Shadowplay, hope it works).
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Which barnacle location did this for you? May be worth a ttry for other CMDRs to follow a similar flight path to see if it will produce results. Maybe that particular barnacle has received more farming than the others and is now exhibiting some sort of new behavior? Just a theory, dont really have anything to test it against.

I have noticed though, that the barnacles are either highly reflective, or have some sort of twinkle to them. I have a tendency of noticing the barnacles in my peripheral vision as a flash or twinkle of light, like the Devs deliberately tried to add a long range spotting technique of some sort, to make it easier to find them.
 
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AlexVII

AlexVII
Craith said:
Hello CMDRs,

I just had a strange thing happening to me:

When I approached a barnacle flying low (because I missed the area on my descent), it pulsed twice with greenish light when i came over the mountains. I saw the canyon walls light up. Unfortunately I was a moment to slow with my screenshot, it was already dark again:
View attachment 98167
(solo mode, just returned from maia, obviously at night)

I'm not sure what to make of it, has anyone else encountered this? I'll try to reproduce it and if I'm able maybe take a video (gotta try Shadowplay, hope it works).
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There is a bug in which if you stand directly under the lamp post (in settlements and bases), the surface of the planet (several kilometers around) becomes illuminated.

Perhaps it's something similar?
 
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woodhouse

woodhouse
rizal72 said:
Well, FYI, I've played all the past evening in solo, and the Barnacles have spawned EVERY TIME.
I was able to grab 72T of Meta-Alloys while staying in Solo all the time. It means I've relogged 36 times with no issues...
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Me too. It seems to me that it's very consistent. If you are at the Barnacle location, quit the game executable and log in, the site will spawn, and it will keep spawning. It appears to me that the spawning problem occurs during the game session in which you have travelled to the barnacle site.

I personally got bored after returning and relogging 10 times from the main menu, so 20 meta-alloys is my contribution to the CG...
 

Aelemar

A
Hey guys, even before I learned of these barnacles, I was on a mission to explore every nebula I could reach. Right now I'm in the Skaudai nebula, and have since added "look for barnacles" to my current mission of exploring nebulae.

As per the second post of this thread (what planets barnacles seem to like), finding "suitable" planets does not seem to be very easy. I spent about 5 hours yesterday checking every system within range, and I found two suitable planets just before I went to sleep. HMC, right temperature range, low gravity... However, these planets have no canyons or anything of the sort, they are more or less flat (there aren't even mountains). Asides from a small crater or two, the surface is pretty much... boring.

Finding the temperature range seems to be the most difficult task. Plenty of HMC and Metal Rich planets in the systems I visited, but all of them were way over the temperature range. Either way, I have a few questions:

Are barnacles found only on HMC, and Metal Rich planets? Or have they been found on Rocky/Icy bodies?
Have any barnacles been found outside the temperature range listed in the second post?
Asides from canyons, where else have they been seen? Craters? Open "flat" lands?

I would love to know exactly under what planetary conditions they have been found, so I can adjust my search criteria accordingly. Michael said "nebulae", so I assume they should be discover-able in any nebula provided the right conditions.

There is a google docs link somewhere to document findings, but I am not sure yet if I will use it. I might just upload something if I do happen to run into any barnacles while I'm out here.

Part of me wants to go back to Pleiades to check it out, but right now I believe trying to find them somewhere else is more important than to go see something that's already been found.

Any help/answers would be appreciated.

Explorer Oridinn, signing out for now. Back into the black!
 
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Irons

Irons
Am sat in my ship on Merope 5C in Solo and have the weirdest sounds coming from my hold full of Meta Alloys. Not something I've experienced before. Tried lifting off and touching down again. Still the same. It's a bit creepy!
https://youtu.be/3rBXuBA3KAU
 
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Craith

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Craith
Kurt Ambrose said:
Which barnacle location did this for you? May be worth a ttry for other CMDRs to follow a similar flight path to see if it will produce results. Maybe that particular barnacle has received more farming than the others and is now exhibiting some sort of new behavior? Just a theory, dont really have anything to test it against.

I have noticed though, that the barnacles are either highly reflective, or have some sort of twinkle to them. I have a tendency of noticing the barnacles in my peripheral vision as a flash or twinkle of light, like the Devs deliberately tried to add a long range spotting technique of some sort, to make it easier to find them.
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It was the most commonly visited barnacle in Meriope 5C (-26.34; -156.41)

AlexVII said:
There is a bug in which if you stand directly under the lamp post (in settlements and bases), the surface of the planet (several kilometers around) becomes illuminated.

Perhaps it's something similar?
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I wasn't able to repeat it, so I guess it might have been this bug. I was flying really really low, and my shield was taking some hits - not for the first time, but the first time the mountains lit up.
 

Xeres

X
Irons said:
Am sat in my ship on Merope 5C in Solo and have the weirdest sounds coming from my hold full of Meta Alloys. Not something I've experienced before. Tried lifting off and touching down again. Still the same. It's a bit creepy!
https://youtu.be/3rBXuBA3KAU
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I've got about 100 tons of metas in the same spot I've not turned in yet. I'm going to listen close to see here in a bit when I get home. that banging is a bit odd for sure. how many metas is a "hold full"?
 

Irons

Irons
Xeres said:
I've got about 100 tons of metas in the same spot I've not turned in yet. I'm going to listen close to see here in a bit when I get home. that banging is a bit odd for sure. how many metas is a "hold full"?
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Not many, 64. An hours scavenging.
 

Sigon

Sigon
Irons said:
Am sat in my ship on Merope 5C in Solo and have the weirdest sounds coming from my hold full of Meta Alloys. Not something I've experienced before. Tried lifting off and touching down again. Still the same. It's a bit creepy!
https://youtu.be/3rBXuBA3KAU
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That is just the pods hatching, fellow primate. Nothing to worry about, your clone will soon be in the cockpit to take over. Then everything will be alright. A hive mind is a happy mind.... ;)
 

Irons

Irons
Sigon said:
That is just the pods hatching, fellow primate. Nothing to worry about, your clone will soon be in the cockpit to take over. Then everything will be alright. A hive mind is a happy mind.... ;)
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Everything is peaceful now. No noise. It was clearly hi....m..my imagination.
 

Snooch leBooch

Snooch leBooch
Not sure if it's been done before, forum search only comes up with people asking for someone to do it, so i just took 4 retributors a.k.a tea-kettle-cannons to Merope 5c to test their effects on the barnacles. To keep it short, no results whatsoever.

I did:
- heat up/shoot smaller spires with 'normal' resources, targeted the structure itself and the resource "blossoms" individually
- heat up/shoot bigger spires containing meta alloys, targeted the structure itself and the resource "blossoms" individually
- heat up/shoot the central structure - top structure with and without symbols - top middle structure - the middle greenish lit parts between the central spires
All "shots" at least 2mins with 2 retributors, NONE of the structures where even damaged. No light or sound reaction other than the usual very small animation with small floating black fragments on a hit - no difference to an ordinary rock there.

I then tested alternating between normal beam weapons and the retributors, to see if there's maybe a reaction to the resources the spires (both kinds) drop.
Since the info text for the alloys mentioned their heat resistance and reaction when heated beyond a certain point, i also did shoot the dropped alloys in order to heat them up and possibly force a reaction, again zilch.

The weapon spread on the Asp-E unfortunately doesn't allow more than 2 beams to hit the target, even given the long time i kept them on each target, the heat might not have been enough - it's still possible that more commanders shooting at the same time might produce a different result. There is also no way to tell if the heat even propagates, and if so, how hot a given target actually is. I also couldn't test hitting various points of interest around the site simultaneously - especially the four symbols on the central structure.
So, more testing might be needed, but it feels more like a dead end to me if i'm honest. It's not even clear if the beams effect ("dumps heat into the targets cooling system"*tool-tip), is even working against anything non-mechanic/without said cooling system.

Sorry fo my grammar and such, it's late and english isn't my 1st language :)
 
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