UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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I think Meta-Alloys are bad news. I bellive those Meta-Alloys are actually just a trojan horse. "Oh look! you put one of our Meta-Alloys on to your ships! good to know. Little did you know that i was actually a bomb all along"
I'd say it's worth the time to get the Upgrade. I have a level 4 fsd upgrade with felicity on my Asp giving 42ly range. Nipping over to the the Pleiades from Shinrarta feels like a jump from Reorte to Riedquat, luxury...
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Thanks, what i mostly wonder is if there's some experience with sitting on top of the star or flying away at various speeds, or if it's just random and success chances are not influenced by how fast and where you are going. I started wondering this after i was introduced to lanes (not available so far out) which spawn only a certain type of SS post-2.1,before 2.1 i just cruised at 30km/s and watched some netflix while waiting for SS to spawn - now it certainly doesn't work that easy any more - for lanes, hence the question if anybody noticed some changes while UA hunting in the 'old' shell.
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So has anyone been to Felicity recently? I am there right now... its making some different noises than it was the other day... its like something is screaming. [video=youtube;i8Kaf9qLKzw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Kaf9qLKzw&feature=youtu.be[/video]
For the old shell it was turn up fly 100ls from star to deep space and wait fly around a bit and wait for sss i think that is still the case correct me if im wrong.
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on y axis 300 ly radius start from cal sec dl-y d4
10 stars in only 20 more to go till i hit dl-yd4 then heading 300ly out on same axis will report in findings on y axis when complete.
Nice. My usual unmodified exploration build has a 32 LY range, I could bump that up slightly but prefer to have at least half decent thrusters on it etc and I think Felicity will get that to around 40 when I get into higher tier mods. Thing is, she's not going anywhere though so if I do make a quick jaunt over to the Cali neb, she'll still be there when I get back. Decisons decisions.
Go watch that trailer again, there is noone called Palin in it.
It's Commander Ishmael in the trailer. That might be Professor Ishmael Palin. Then again, maybe it isn't.
He corrected to nebulae though - and i think the argument that the pleiades nebula could be counted as several is a red herring. we're definitely meant to be able to find more and i'd bet the increased spawn he talks about won't actually be over a larger area, just more per planet to increase folk's chance of finding them. it is insanely hard and i have huge respect for the folk making the long slow effort to hunt
I noticed the eerie soundtrack as well but since 2 days ago was my first trip there I don't have a frame of reference that precedes that. It didn't always sound like that?
I have yet to hear the UAs myself but have read that they sound whale-like. Are the sounds at this station similar to the sounds the UAs make (maybe they're experimenting on UAs in one of the research buildings)?
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I never noticed that !
So the trailers are more like mini canon movies
Have arrived at CAL SECTOR DL-Y D4 on planet c6
First Barnacles iv ever seen very nice.
had to pull over that took alot longer than i thought it would.
Looking for Shell around Barnacle site in california sector dl-y d4
Technique for shell detection.
started at 300ly away from dl-yd4 and have flown an economic route all the way to dl-y d4. this is to be called Y
I will now continue all the way to 300ly radius on the same plane out the other side of dl-y d4 on a economic route
detection technique
scan star fly over 100ls away from main star fly around look for anything unusual stay in the system for 10mins scan a few planets move on. (trying to give my self the best chance to see something spawn.)
Y axis start point.
Synuefai ON-N C9-5 to DL-Y D4
32 systems scanned and tested as above nothing to report
Going to look around the Barnacle for a while will report back when i have completed Y. (i have all the data but will enter it later)
First Barnacles iv ever seen very nice.
had to pull over that took alot longer than i thought it would.
Looking for Shell around Barnacle site in california sector dl-y d4
Technique for shell detection.
started at 300ly away from dl-yd4 and have flown an economic route all the way to dl-y d4. this is to be called Y
I will now continue all the way to 300ly radius on the same plane out the other side of dl-y d4 on a economic route
detection technique
scan star fly over 100ls away from main star fly around look for anything unusual stay in the system for 10mins scan a few planets move on. (trying to give my self the best chance to see something spawn.)
Y axis start point.
Synuefai ON-N C9-5 to DL-Y D4
32 systems scanned and tested as above nothing to report
Going to look around the Barnacle for a while will report back when i have completed Y. (i have all the data but will enter it later)
textbook barnacle territory. Doesn't mean they aren't elsewhere too though bear in mind.. It's just we tend to look in these places as they seem more familiar, or maybe it's the only place to find them. We don't know for sure. Hoping for one on a mountain on a high G ice planet to throw a nice curveball out there
I'm parked there now, no screenshot but it's a little bulb at the end of a pretty skinny canyon. If anybody needs navigational help, send me a FR.
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the migration of the barnacles on the hulls of explorer ( tinfoil) to the califonia nebula is a good step forward in the storyline
I did some UA hunting in 2.1 Beta and collected quite a bit more than the 25 UF for Palin in Live, and have observed thus:
UA spawn a LOT less than previously.
Single Star Systems with no other bodies give the best spawn rates (1 per 15 mins)
The more bodies in a System, the less chance of a spawn. I have hunted in my old favorite system with 12 bodies for more than 2 hours and not seen a single UA. A Binary with no other bodies was about 1 per 30 mins.
I traveled at 75% speed, due to the information that USS are now spread in space rather than time. I didnt try the old method of sitting still; when the devs tell you something has changed, take note.
Most UA seem to spawn between 200 and 500ls from the star. Sometimes closer, rarely further. I found it easiest to fly out to 500ls, turn about and head straight back and past the star for 500ls.
I appreciate that this is SSSSS, so could be total horse hooey, but it is what I experienced.
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+1 to the setting speed to 75%.
I've also found you want to move in a straight line,,, circlework (looping over the same area) seems to reduce your chances again.
taken on board Thanks guys will retrace what iv all ready done and take more time . what would be nice to know if shells of uas even do exist around other barnacle systems or if they only appear around merope. allso what this unknown probe all about?
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