UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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Im usually drop down to big yellowish ravines with some hills, turn Conda to horizon and activate Classified camera to look around while i fly above
Could also be a dead/useless entry like the "Trinkets of hidden Fortune". They where also listed in system map forbidden list for a long time and (public) no one found out the hidden secret ... Lets simple find one "unknown probe" ;-)
( in fact i only post to push close the thread ;-)
On the Unknown Probe front.
Their location is going to depend on what they are probing for.
So the search needs to be based on your tin foil level.
e.g. If you think the name suggests active investigation by an alien species into what we are up to, then maybe you should be searching the bubble, not unpopulated space.
Then again, if they were in the bubble, you'd expect them to have been found randomly by now.
Their location is going to depend on what they are probing for.
So the search needs to be based on your tin foil level.
e.g. If you think the name suggests active investigation by an alien species into what we are up to, then maybe you should be searching the bubble, not unpopulated space.
Then again, if they were in the bubble, you'd expect them to have been found randomly by now.
Seed? Do we know "official" name for barnacles then?
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Might make barnies a bit more visible I hope.
The official name for Barnacles has always been Barnacles, since their first appearance in the Meta-Alloys description.
The seeds are just those green pods, falling from the spikes when you shot them: the small ones, holding common materials, and the big ones holding Meta-Alloys.
And they've always been called seeds
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True. But if something is trying to quietly recon human space they might target a specific system or two first. Maybe something isolated. Hazarding a guess, the place where the steange diamondbacks were seen might be a good candidate (maia?).
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Hold on I'm confused sorry. The seed spikes spawn meta alloy, so shouldn't that make the meta alloy the seed?The official name for Barnacles has always been Barnacles, since their first appearance in the Meta-Alloys description.
The seeds are just those green pods, falling from the spikes when you shot them: the small ones, holding common materials, and the big ones holding Meta-Alloys.
And they've always been called seeds
Edit: That would mean shooting the small spikes is bad because they haven't formed the seed (alloy) with the mats yet... Like unripe fruit. This makes sense doesn't it?
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just checked patch notes.... all the spikes are persistant now
This is more or less the idea from the developers, I think. Practically, it's always the same two spikes that have mature MAs.
Both big and small are called seeds. We don't know if this is due to some reproductive function or just a nickname.
That's what I said.
But to be more precise:
The seeds are both the small and the big pods, falling from the spikes, with the latter being called and/or made of Meta-Alloys.
We could think that the pods named Meta-Alloys are in some way mature or grown, while the other are not. Or we could think that Barnacles spawn two kinds of seeds/pods depending on what they were able to synthesize in that particular soil.
we spent weeks hunting the for the first UA's, personally it took me a month of solid hunting in Timocani before I found the right Signal Source!
They look like seed pods so could just be a nickname true. But if not, seed pods hold seeds so it stands to reason that the seeds are inside the seed pods on the end of the seed spikes?
They start small with common mats then grow into larger pods when the meta alloy is ready. What do we know for sure about the reproductive cycle of these things? If we can figure it out then maybe I can finally fulfil my lifelong dream of owning a barnie farm haha oat the least it would be interesting information I reckon.
Edit: Is there another state besides small, big, empty? I thought I remember hearing of a video where a meta alloy fell off? Was this nothing or am I thinking of something else?
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Add in the reduced spawn rate of UA.
Originally I just thought it was meta to prevent UA Bombing with the CRCR and/or the change in the USS mechanics. What if it had an in game reason (shock horror!). Where can the UA have gone to be in such low numbers if not landing/crashing onto the planets ?
I feel slightly uneasy that I might actually have a reasoned theory
UA are spawning like crazy at the moment mate, trust me I have done countless experiments on them in the past week trying to grow a barnacle.
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Actually that may be where they all went haha my bad sorry I gave up trying to grow them (though a CMDR can always have dreams) so they should start showing up again now
I was reading the patch notes and apprently the thing Meta-Alloys spawn on are called "Seed Spikes" hmm....
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