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3) What if each unknown probe points to a random barnacle planet and it's just sheer coincindence that the first one secured pointed to Merope 5C. This should be easily disproved as soon as more than a couple more are retrieved.
Looking at Ecthelion's video of the UP on the planet surface I have a couple of observations
1) it appears to try to orient itself since it is falling vertically (smaller bulb downwards) but lands almost horizontally.
2) there appears to be an impact detection bug with it that should be reported, since it disappears below the surface before bobbing back up (assume this is a bug!!!)
3) possibly the same bug appears to prevent it orienting itself properly. It does appear to take up a compass bearing but as it's attempting to rotate it is not quite making it & snaps back. To me this could suggest that it is attempting to take up a preferred position.
Wonder what would happen if UPs are dropped in different orientations. if it landed larger bulb downwards would it plant itself to become a barnacle?
It would be nice to nudge one on the surface & see (a) if it is acting as a compass and (b) whether it would correct its attitude & maybe trigger some behaviour.
Get in your ship and hunt 5c in a way that is not going to bore the pants off you, or go liberate another UP.
Wonder of us SOLO players are smegged again and if anything is even going to show up if we did look.
always. it's always worth looking regardless of whether you play solo or not. and if you find anything and bring it back, then right on, commander![]()
I've arrived in Merope, will do a flyby to find a decent route to take then I'll land at the north pole and hope I go in the right direction.
This one has been occurring to me a possibility.
Anti tin foil time :
There is still too much to actually do, to be trumping about with spreadsheets and suchlike. A planet is orders of magnitude too big to be scoured in a methodical way even by ship, let alone by srv. We don't even know if we should be srv, flying at 100m, 500m, 2000m to spot it, and people are all using their own method.
Get in your ship and hunt 5c in a way that is not going to bore the pants off you, or go liberate another UP.
There is no morse in the UP sound.
Those occasional noises made of 3/4 fast hi/low bip, some people are hearing, are there since day one, I know them very well, they are static, all the same at every cycle, in 2 or 3 different variants.
The other sounds are the well know hi/low Purrs we know very well, and the rare Whale Sound, like a Howl, different from the UA's, more deep, and high pitched.
Always whale like, a screaming whale
Nothing more. If there's a mystery, it is not in the sound.
Hi I am new here. I was wondering if it was suggested before that the symbol on the barnacles represent a certain orientation of Bernard's Loop from a certain star system, where the two smaller components represent nearby nebulae such as the Orion, Horsehead, Flame, and/or Witch head Nebula. To find the star system (alien's home), the smaller nebulae align with Bernard's Loop in to appear like the barnacle symbol. That would be easy for a developer to create, but difficult for players to solve the puzzle. Just a thought if not considered before. -AP67
But there also seems to be a high pitched whine throughout it's soundscape. I was going to suggest trying to isolate that and slow it down... a lot (or of course work out how to do it myself).
Merope 5c has a radius of 1478km. If my math skills have not deserted me, this means a diameter of 2956 km, so a pole-to-pole route would be 2956 * Pi/2 km or about 4643 km long. The top speed of an SRV is about 35 m/s, so this would take about 1.5 days of round-the-clock driving time if we can keep top speed all the time. If we hit rough terrain (and Merope 5C has a lot of that), the speed will be lower. My gut guess is that the average speed is maybe a third of the top speed, so we are talking about 4.5 days. However, there is one show-stopper: At the equator, you would have a distance of 2956 km * PI / 36 = 258 km between SRVs, so we would miss stuff.
My estimate is that the scanner has a range of maybe 1 km. To ensure that we really cover everything, we need to place the SRVs 1 km apart at the equator, and then all drive to the pole, return to the equator, and repeat the procedure for the second half. We only need about 9300 commanders for this.
Piece of cake.
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About the moon-a and the june-a and the spring-a?