UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

[crushdepth]

Drew Wagar's answer about permit locked Barnard's loop regions:

"Personally I would exercise extreme caution wherever you see a permit locked region. The Lore explanation is that the Pilots Federation is preventing folks from going into those zones because..."
Btw, he's having an AMA on reddit at the moment. https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...anything_drew_wagar_author_of_elite/?sort=new

Wow there is a ton of juicy stuff in that thread. Essential reading for rifters.

 

[RedWizzard]

If nothing is found at least that Nebula can be ruled out, and prove that the Pleiades is the only Barnacle location.

No, it's can't. Even a single medium size planet is so large that it is impractical to search thoroughly enough to prove that there are no barnacles, let alone a whole nebula. The best you can do is say "I spend X hours looking on that planet and found nothing, so perhaps there is nothing there". Don't forget how long it took us to find the first barnacle despite a lot of people looking in Merope.

Unfortunately the spreadsheet doesn't record how long people spent looking so it's impossible to draw any conclusions.

 

[Vasious]

Also UA used to be found in Strong Signal Sources so it makes sense they are threat level 4 now.

I think I am happy my ships computer would label an Unidentified signal source from an Unknown Artefact that radiates corrosive energy as Thread Level 4

 

[RedWizzard]

I think I am happy my ships computer would label an Unidentified signal source from an Unknown Artefact that radiates corrosive energy as Thread Level 4

I hope the first Thargoid sighting happens in a USS labelled Threat Level 11.

 

[Andargor]

I hope the first Thargoid sighting happens in a USS labelled Threat Level 11.

You would still go in, wouldn't you?

 

[Darth Ender]

COL 70 sector, COL 201 sector, Dark Region Horsehead sector - all unknown permit locked out. This effectively creates a wall between maia and the witchhead nebula and again between that and the Horsehead nebula.

Hundreds if not thousands of systems are permit locked now.

Utopian Enforcers are en-route going around the blocked areas toward Barnard's loop to investigate. No findings yet.

 

[magillag]

Just to point out that I had an unfortunate incident this evening.
There's plenty of stories of pilots racing for the slot while the final seconds of oxygen tick away... only to be saved in the final gasps by passing through the slot.

This isn't one of those stories.

https://youtu.be/uGamWi0Fqq8

NOOOOOOOO!!!!

So close! [haha]


So MB said that he was holding something back for the release of 2.1 IIRC it was about Barni/UA mystery. I was hoping to have some intrigue by now.... :S

 

[RedWizzard]

You would still go in, wouldn't you?

In a heartbeat.

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So MB said that he was holding something back for the release of 2.1 IIRC it was about Barni/UA mystery. I was hoping to have some intrigue by now.... :S

Patience young padawan. It's typically taken weeks before we discovered the big change in a new release.

 

[simulacrae]

Also UA used to be found in Strong Signal Sources so it makes sense they are threat level 4 now.

Ya I was wondering how the Threat levels worked... so far UAs have shown to be no threat ... but if threat level is just based on signal source strength ... then I guess that makes sense.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Other way around. Most Threat 1 Weapons Fire sites are fairly mundane, while Threat 2/3 Weapons Fire sites get more hazardous.

Remember that Degraded Emissions (which are just random salvage/junk) are threat 0.

Threat 4 for an Anomaly (in this case, Unknown Artefact) is kinda correct for a system estimating threats and erring on the side of caution. And lets face it, UAs can be lethal to your ship and you can't do anything about it.

Except I dropped into a Degraded Emissions threat 0 yesterday to find a wreck site, dropped the cargo scoop & 6 pirates appeared saying "I can't believe anyone fell for that"; I was half expecting it so just jumped out with minor shield damage

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A little something Derthek wanted someone to post:

He was doing some testing in a system nearby Polaris where they would attack them and attempt to make them jump to Polaris, then scan their wakes. And....this happened.

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/Du7Um7w.jpg

Thoughts?

What faction was Vince Atkins with?

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

I hope the first Thargoid sighting happens in a USS labelled Threat Level 11.

Could be level 1 if they've set up a nice picnic table with tea & biscuits!
)

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Ya I was wondering how the Threat levels worked... so far UAs have shown to be no threat ... but if threat level is just based on signal source strength ... then I guess that makes sense.

+1!
I was pondering how a threat level could be realistically evaluated by ship's sensors (wreck site yesterday with 6 pirates was only level 0), but signal strength makes good sense. So "Threat Level" is a little misleading

 

[Sevenperry]

Just to point out that I had an unfortunate incident this evening.
There's plenty of stories of pilots racing for the slot while the final seconds of oxygen tick away... only to be saved in the final gasps by passing through the slot.

This isn't one of those stories.

https://youtu.be/uGamWi0Fqq8

Seems harsh that the oxygen still ticks down whilst dropping out of super cruise. The servers, your PC spec (especially in my case) can kill. Comiserations Cmdr

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Engineers spreadsheet
don't know if you guys have spotted this, but it seems really useful to me
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=248275

 

[Jmanis]

Except I dropped into a Degraded Emissions threat 0 yesterday to find a wreck site, dropped the cargo scoop & 6 pirates appeared saying "I can't believe anyone fell for that"; I was half expecting it so just jumped out with minor shield damage

No pun intended, but that sounds anomalous. Convoy dispersal patterns are another example where threat 1 is a handful of small ships, whereas threat (3?) is the anacondas, vipers + T9s.

 

[Soban]

I think I am happy my ships computer would label an Unidentified signal source from an Unknown Artefact that radiates corrosive energy as Thread Level 4

Well, as a Canonneer you can now say "I am the danger", as you are now in a Thread Level 6

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Ya I was wondering how the Threat levels worked... so far UAs have shown to be no threat ... but if threat level is just based on signal source strength ... then I guess that makes sense.

Ha ha, I don't know what you need...
I mean, an UA is a piece of alien biotechnology wich we don't really know lots about, who's capable of eating your ship from the inside, and can take out entire stations...
For me the threat level is actually pretty accurate

 

[LordZoltan]

In a heartbeat.

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Patience young padawan. It's typically taken weeks before we discovered the big change in a new release.

The wisest of words. Perhaps this time it's going to come to us...

 

[Terrator]

Hi CMDRs,

i wanted to share a mysterious discovery i made in the Algol system. There is a persistent USS near Algol A 3 containing a ship wreckage, containers with "earth relics" and a npc cobra named "Cetus' Bane" who just stands still and has 2 more earth relics in his hold. He also has a very unique paintjob:

http://imgur.com/ppUwjjh

What i discovered is that he starts jumping away after a fuel transfer. I also followed him but after some jumps later he just stayed still in supercruise.

Maybe this is something interesting to look after. Its defienetly something new wich has been introduced with the latest Patch. I could imaine it is some hint to search the stars of the cetus zodiac or some other rddle.

There are also other commanders who made this discovery, maybe in beta and now dont find it again cos it maybe has moved when the new patch went live.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Canonn/comments/4jwww2/earth_relics/

[url]https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=250547

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=250657[/URL]

So feel free to investigate this... Me for my part wont go any further with this as i dont have the patience to search all the stars of the cetus zodiac myself.

Cya in space!

 

[crushdepth]

Hi CMDRs,

i wanted to share a mysterious discovery i made in the Algol system. There is a persistent USS near Algol A 3 containing a ship wreckage, containers with "earth relics" and a npc cobra named "Cetus' Bane" who just stands still and has 2 more earth relics in his hold. He also has a very unique paintjob:

http://imgur.com/ppUwjjh

What i discovered is that he starts jumping away after a fuel transfer. I also followed him but after some jumps later he just stayed still in supercruise.

Maybe this is something interesting to look after. Its defienetly something new wich has been introduced with the latest Patch. I could imaine it is some hint to search the stars of the cetus zodiac or some other rddle.

There are also other commanders who made this discovery, maybe in beta and now dont find it again cos it maybe has moved when the new patch went live.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Canonn/comments/4jwww2/earth_relics/

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=250547

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=250657

So feel free to investigate this... Me for my part wont go any further with this as i dont have the patience to search all the stars of the cetus zodiac myself.

Cya in space!

A medusa paintjob. Someone on the dev team is keen on Greek mythology.

 

[Terrator]

A medusa paintjob. Someone on the dev team is keen on Greek mythology.

i found the designer of the skin on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4axrxu/cobra_medusa_paint_job_giveaway/

 

[PaulR]

Btw, how many of you have upgraded your fsd? For my part I now have access to level 3 and have got two ships upgraded. My ASP now has a 32ly jump range.