UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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The fact you found one at all is all that matters! It doesn't matter if it is intact or with destroyed spikes. You found it, you reported it, others will verify it, you gain kudos.
Well done on this new find!
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Nice find! Any info on the new world? Any chance of a screenshot of the system map with he world selected please so we can get stats on it? The type of star it orbits would be great as well ta!
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Looks like 12 spikes too. Can you confirm?
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Barnacles now spawn (apparently regardless of the system they're in) in one of four states)
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1. Destroyed spikes
2. Intact spikes Unguarded
3. Intact spikes with skimmers
4. Intact spikes with skimmers and turrets
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The new procedural generation since the Engineers patch might just apply one of the 4 states to each barnacle.
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWITzZmYMYqwXqX5NHw02tyCGd7IFcfHpjYGeZL9GHQ/htmlview
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I've done almost 1K miles in my SRV so far, do actually love roving around planets. I've not found a single crash site yet with a ship. Plenty of debris and escape pods etc., just no crashed ships
Damn, that is a real shame - I thought you'd be able to bookmark planetary sites too. Oh well, back to the maddening flying around in circles again...
Great to see this thread picking up speed again, hopefully I'll get to play again soon - done about half an hour with the latest release, gutted I do not have more time. I'll carry on stalking here in the meantime.
someone beat us to it!
That is quite interesting. I doubt that it's a player. What would be the point of doing your harvesting in CN, before 2.1.
NPCs should really start to post their findings in this thread (feature request FD).
Here are some more screens of the system and the barnacles, only counted 11 spikes...
http://imgur.com/a/4iKHy
http://imgur.com/a/4iKHy
That is quite interesting. I doubt that it's a player. What would be the point of doing your harvesting in CN, before 2.1.
NPCs should really start to post their findings in this thread (feature request FD).
Seconded
That is quite interesting. I doubt that it's a player. What would be the point of doing your harvesting in CN, before 2.1.
NPCs should really start to post their findings in this thread (feature request FD).
Cmdr Ishmael and friends?
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I've headed back to the California Nubula to check the recently found barnacles. As I was zeroing in on the second discovered pairs coordinated I saw a blue poi appear. Checked it out and it was indeed a crashes ship (medium sized, don't recall model) A lot further out then the famous anaconda wreck in the Pleiades though. So I think this hypotheses has some ground.
Good point. My searches have mainly been high speed canyon flying in a dbx and more recent s cobra mk3 cos I love low level speed. Maybe this is why my first search of the California Nubula back in April didn't find anything! However I'm flying a LOT lower then 1km......
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in an attempt to define a method, can you confirm you didn't spot that POI from super cruise? I need to work with some certainty :/
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I found a crashed ship on a planet in the California nebula. It was a little condor. I dunno how it got out there, it must only have a jump range of 10ly or something like that (or none at all). It was non persistent.
I have some screeies if any wants to see them?
Thanks,
Omate.
I have some screeies if any wants to see them?
Thanks,
Omate.
Wish I could use that technique in VR without getting a really bad neck!
I feel so sorry for you and your precious neck. Spoiled @**#%#, grumble grumble......[sour]
Wish I could use that technique in VR without getting a really bad neck!
....[sour]
Wish I could use that technique in VR without getting a really bad neck!
Ha ha!
right, so, after a few more tests, for those canyon flying looking for barnacles:
- small rocks are visible in distances < 350mts
- large rocks are visible in distances < 1km
- barnacles are visible in distances < 4.5km
That basically means, any flying altitude above 1km will make the ground look clear and every bright spot will be either a barnacle or a crashed ship, definitely something of interest, but also flying above 3.5km will make barnacles visible almost only just below your location. This is the rendering distance, regardless the graphic settings BUT with maximum model draw distance, definitely gets better with higher resolutions. For 2km of altitude, considering the hypotenuse 4.5km the maximum ground distance will be 4.03km, that is when the barnacles are mostly distinguishable without any doubt while also giving you a view on top of the canyon walls.
I'd like to confirm that barnacles are not located below 100mts of the nearby surface (the depth of the crater or canyon they are in).. could someone highlight any barnacle in deeper locations?
- small rocks are visible in distances < 350mts
- large rocks are visible in distances < 1km
- barnacles are visible in distances < 4.5km
That basically means, any flying altitude above 1km will make the ground look clear and every bright spot will be either a barnacle or a crashed ship, definitely something of interest, but also flying above 3.5km will make barnacles visible almost only just below your location. This is the rendering distance, regardless the graphic settings BUT with maximum model draw distance, definitely gets better with higher resolutions. For 2km of altitude, considering the hypotenuse 4.5km the maximum ground distance will be 4.03km, that is when the barnacles are mostly distinguishable without any doubt while also giving you a view on top of the canyon walls.
I'd like to confirm that barnacles are not located below 100mts of the nearby surface (the depth of the crater or canyon they are in).. could someone highlight any barnacle in deeper locations?
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