UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn

[[VR]tailgunner30uk]

I want clarify a post I made earlier about the proposed changes to the Detailed surface scanner, and how it might help in Barnacle hunting.

Apparently the scanner will indicate the types of materials available on the planet. This is in the future, but hopefully sooner than Soon(tm). The idea is that we have some idea of which very rare materials are dropped. When searching for suitable planets for Barnacle hunting, we could use the DSS and eliminate those planets that do not have suitable materials. If the scanner provides a general area via the surface map where materials could be found, or an overlay of the planet then we can compare this with the types of places that Barnacles can be found, i.e. sandy-bottomed canyons, and search in these locations.

Of course at present this is speculation until we have the scanner and can evaluate it for ourselves.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Pretty sure SAP8s were never really proven to affect the UAs in a repeatable way at all.

It was all just wishful thinking and over-eager observation.

Hello Jorki,
as other have already pointed, those Sap8 results were far from being proof. The purrs dance from 5 to 3 has been observed in other occasion, without any sap 8 close, most of all when many ships were in the instance, and was not possible to reproduce in any meaningful way.
So it was some kind of glitch, and nothing more.
Cheers.
..

That's disappointing. Would be nice to do a retest. How about Kerrash's comments on the SAP8?

 

[[VR]tailgunner30uk]

I want to thank the two CMDRs at Ross 47 this afternoon, although we did not find anything it was entertaining. Sorry that I did not "Wing-up", for the most part, I prefer to fly alone rather than handicap others. At best my piloting skills can be described as comparable to those if a very inebriated wombat, with hiccups...

Fly safe CMDRS o7.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

There have been several instances of people going nuts over autogenerated local news recently. Partly the new stories & partly they never paid attention to local news before I think. The new stories about alien parasites don't help either. I think we should make a record of all the autogenerated stories for BGS states for people to refer to and for us to point to when people appear screaming "THARGOIDS HAVE INFECTED PEOPLE'S BRAINS IN SOL!!!11!!1" again.

As exhibited in the Brexit vote??
[where is it]

 

[Lobey]

Probably random but got jumped by 4 ships while at the Izanami anaconda wreck - 3 eagles and a sidewinder - they did the usual "what cargo are you carrying" speech and the sight of the UA got them all excited and they opened fire - I fly a FAS fitted for combat\smuggling - What's left of their ships is on top of the anaconda wreck. Few minutes later another similar group appeared but simply hovered with no comms and no bounties on them so I let them live. Took all my loot and data over to Abi - nearest anarchy system with a decent size station and sold everything there - was really just a test to see what was there and if UA would spawn - seems pretty consistent.

 

[AveMe]

Looks like even unknown probe is bugged.
I left for 20 minutes ( thunderstorm ).
it's another proof that murphy's laws are true.
I came back and found out that after 15h of searching they found one and... it bugged out and disappeared.
I think I'm going to do self-destruction
BTW game also decided to wipe my controls... No comment.

EDIT: we've submitted ticked

 

[Han_Zen]

Looks like even unknown probe is bugged.
I left for 20 minutes ( thunderstorm ).
it's another proof that murphy's laws are true.
I came back and found out that after 15h of searching they found one and... it bugged out and disappeared.
I think I'm going to do self-destruction
BTW game also decided to wipe my controls... No comment.

EDIT: we've submitted ticked

What bugged out? The USS, the Python or the UP it self?

Edit: It was nice of the game to wipe your contols though. They tend to get sweaty after 15 hours.

 

[RadActiveLobster]

Via Reddit

 

[Han_Zen]

Via Reddit

http://i.imgur.com/JB4PNRDh.jpg

There it is.

 

[knowles2]

Looks like even unknown probe is bugged.
I left for 20 minutes ( thunderstorm ).
it's another proof that murphy's laws are true.
I came back and found out that after 15h of searching they found one and... it bugged out and disappeared.
I think I'm going to do self-destruction
BTW game also decided to wipe my controls... No comment.

EDIT: we've submitted ticked

May be it not bugged but may be this one not suppose to be destroy, perhaps we are suppose to follow it. I think that should be the next test.

Just read the reddit post, it seems they are meant to be captured.

 

[Popov Le Magnifique]

Nice job, congratulations!

 

[Patau82]

got it

 

[LordZoltan]

I hope it has a new sound to crack

I trust vids are on their way

 

[knowles2]

first test, check it where it points to! If it doesn't point to Merope, well that change [haha]

 

[rizal72]

Aaaaaaaarg!
Two UA heads sticked together!
Video recording of sound and visual, PLEASE!!!!!!

 

[Darkflash92]

I've got some video and audio. Only about the first 2 minutes really have anything.

[video]https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4AOd8LZVQcKczU3Mk4yMGZaSFk[/video]

 

[LordZoltan]

No morse at all . It has some of the UA sounds, but there are a lot 'missing'. That's weird.

And yes: to where does it point? If it does reliably point anywhere!?

Edit: Very very well done all Nice to see so many familiar names in that vid!

 

[Lurius]

There are no side tubes anymore. Because it doesn't need them anymore, but what purpose did they serve?

 

[rizal72]

No morse at all . It has some of the UA sounds, but there are a lot 'missing'. That's weird.

And yes: to where does it point? If it does reliably point anywhere!?

No morse, and no lighting of the seven markings, it seems. But we need a longer recording, without Domm chaffing!
Anyway, this one is even creepier than the UA, there is a background "roar" that is... scary....

 

[knowles2]

We also need a UA/UP in the same scene together, may be they will make babies together!