Most of the time there on part of the planet that will never see the light of day. They are also usually in canyons.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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Not quite, but they did have a new barnacle discovery and claimed to have found it in 30 minutes, which lends some weight to their theory.
Good point.
In 2.0 all Pleaides barnacles har 12 spikes. This could indicate that they grow more spikes over time. That would make the CN barnacles older than the Pleiades barnacles.
It's at least a small indication that they came from CN to Pleiades, not the other way around.
We need to get those 2 gay guys from supernatural!
Haven't checked.
Use the distance tool in http://ed-map.eu/ to get an indication. It's quite accurate.
I think the most that can be said is that to date they appear to prefer locations near the base of a cliff, but that can be in either a valley or crater. The ground they are on seems usually to be a light sandy colour (Edit-& perhaps the colour & type of the planet in the system map is a clue) I posted somewhere on the forum an analysis (I merely expanded the detail of a previous post's analysis & am not claiming any credit!) of the lat/long areas based on those found in the Pleiades- they seem to have some lat/long preferences , but who knows if that will be replicated in other nebulae? Everyone appears to agree that they are difficult to spot, but I remember someone posted that their lights were observable from up to about 8 Km on the dark side of a planet depending on your graphics settings; I don't think that was confirmed by anyone else & personally I have difficulty finding them from 500 feet when I know their coordinates!
Edit-Iridium Nova on 21Jan #8526 (UA threadnought 5?) posted that its possible to aurally detect from the SRV barnacles at long distance- perhaps they can be triangulates for likely search areas?
2nd Edit-found my previous post -07/04/2016 #4297
following an Original Post by PaulR
"I'm not good at Barney hunting, but after seeing a post the other day I looked at the reported Barney positions (first page of this thread) versus planet size & arrived at this, it may help:
From the data there seems to be a pattern relating the size of the planet and possible location of barnacles:
437 km radius- location approx (-1.8, +45) or (13, 18) or (49, 102) or (-17…-18, -17…-18) or (-28, 29) or (60…61, -51…-56) or (46, -63)
476 km radius- location approx (19…25, 86…107 ) or (-58, 107) or (-1, 26) or (9, 22) or (-21, -85)
720 km radius- location approx (59, -51…-60)
1423 km radius- location approx (-0.7…-3.0, -163…-165)
1478 km radius- location approx (-26, -156)"
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Apologies if this has been covered...I come back and read a bit every few weeks, but can in no way keep up with the whole thing.
Can't you take a UA that points to Merope to the California Nebula, drop it in space and see if it continues to point to Merope?
I did exactly that. However, that's not to say a UA found around CN wouldn't possibly point to somewhere in there. Again,, 99.9% speculation, 0.1% basis, so don't bet on it.
I also got a mission like this one once too, but it never actually spawned for me at all. Interestingly, it was a surface mission, but wanted me to go to a Gas Giant :/
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I think its the same star as the one in Merope... I think.
thank you!
about being visibles during night andmax altitude I should have checked before departing
Nope. Merope is a blue star. The california sector in question is a G star (yellow)
Hmm... well they seem to like canyons and nebulas. I read someone found them in the Soul Nebula...
I did a trip to California Nebula 2 months ago, had a look for barnacles (didn't find), and scanned systems in the nebula. I will have to go back there to escape the AI
thank you!
about being visibles during night andmax altitude I should have checked before departing
You are most welcome
and good luck!!
I tried looking from height on the dark side. I found I could just about detect them at 4Km height but only if I knew where they were! Perhaps the improved graphics with 2.1 will help.
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soul nebula you said??
I'm going to use the coords reference for now. will try to get someone checking the orbital flight spotting in the meantime.. very persuasive, so appealing, true science!!
That is great, thanks a lot.
Given that the Barnacles are in canyons more often than not, which are more or less linear, it seems to me that it might actually be more reliable to find the barnacles with a couple of SRVs, rather than low altitude flights. I admit that. whenever I fly to a barnacle, I only spot them in the very last minute. Maybe I'm blind like that, but I feel that they must be very easy to miss when flying above them. Given how an SRV can apparently spot them reliably from about a kilometer away, one should maybe pull off an organised search with one CMDR flying overhead, keeping track of all the SRVs, which individually scour the canyons.
One might test this with Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1, 20,87 / 91.70, where there is a permanently crashed Anaconda POI.
Cheers, CMDR Heisenberg6626
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