So I just got 2 Meta Alloy from one of the spikes at the Barnacle on Merope 5C and another 2 from the other spike
Background: I've been camped out at this barnacle (Mobius) for a few days ... just staring at the damn thing ... not shooting the spikes ... logged in a bit ago ... I'm the only one there ... another CMDR shows up in an Asp and shoots one of the large (Meta Alloy) spikes from his ship ... Meta Alloy pops out ... so I shoot the other large spike with my SRV ... Meta Alloy pops out .. I shoot the spike again and a second Meta Alloy pops out ... I scoop them both ... drop them in my ship ... head back over and scoop the one up that the other CMDR (who has since left) shot from his Asp ... I shoot that spike and another Meta Alloy drops ... so 4 from 2 spikes
Is this a new behavior? Does the age of the spikes have something do to with how many Meta Alloys it has? Can other spikes grow Meta Alloys if they are allowed to live long enough?
Thoughts?
Oh yes. Sometimes they spawn two or three times each on top of the other. I've already reported here a case where I was able to shot 3 times each tree, collecting 6 Meta-Alloys pods.
On a second note:
last night (GMT) it was AMAZING to see so many wings of CMDRs protecting and patrolling the explorers around the Pleiades.
Outside Obsidian Orbital it was a fest of combat ships.
I was able to go around from a Barnacle site to another in my Tanked Clipper, without any issue of sort: no gankers around.
And I tried a couple of instancing experiments with them, switching from Open to Solo to Mobius in front of Barnacles: they always spawned for me.
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Has anyone figured out what the patch notes mean by:
I'd go look around in Maia myself, but, I'm 8000+LY away.
Darnielle's Progress is a new AWESOME Planet outpost in Maia: it has OUTFITTING and it is well furnished! It has Class 3 Cannons and Beams, all the Bi-Weave shields, all the Planetary stuff, Hull enhancers, and a lot of other juicy modules.
I suspect it could spawn the Meta-Alloys mission as well.
https://eddb.io/station/outfitting/47951
EDIT: I've added it to the OP.