MEROPE 5C INVESTIGATION (put your names here)

Obnoxious_Gamer

Obnoxious_Gamer
By the way, is this in any way related to the unknown wrecks scattered throughout signal sources, which are being documented in a separate thread? I feel like the "orbital testing" thing could connect them to this.

CMDR Obnoxious_Gamer.

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Belthize said:
As luck would have it (sort of) I'm in Merope system already. It's the nearest known source for Vanadium which Palin seems to think is critical for certain engineering feats. I'm usually a bit thin through the week but happy to help out while I'm in the area.
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Wait, really? I have about forty or so units of Vanadium just lying around. I should probably start documenting where to find it if it really is that difficult to get to.
 
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Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
Sounds like a fun evening's flying... However if i do find anything I'll put a thread up about it as I am not a Cannon member, more of an independent observer.
 

M. Volgrand

M. Volgrand
Guys, I'm trying to implement a form based system to report your search efforts.

But the programming level is a bit over my skills. If you know some javascript you may be able to help. Please visit this spreadsheet (it's a copy, feel free to mess around) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Rcp0OyL-O356aUJOE7YKciepBStu3LgEBMBNyYEx5g/edit?usp=sharing

There are 2 sheets: GRID is where the results will be shown with a coloured code for easy spotting.
The second one is RAW, where the results of a form that I will implement will appear.

The plan is that using the data from RAW the spreadsheet will directly link to the required cell in the Grid and update its information. The part I can´t make work is to locate and modify the required cell in GRID, the rest is rather easy in the end. If you feel like you can help, it will be a great tool for future researches!

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This is the code I implemented. For the moment it returns a true value of how many entries are there, but still didn´t manage to enter data in the GRID.

Code: 
function PlanetExplorer() {  // Opens SS by its ID
  
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("1I6sezk6EEBv76P1oFLJQnCk9r4TQwzwBIrIoYjM3kCY");
  
  //setting data variables
  var form = ss.getSheetByName("Raw"); 
  var grid = ss.getSheetByName("Grid");
  var f_range
  var g_range = grid.getRange("B2:MW180");
  var count = 0;
  var i;
  var lat;
  var long;
  var cell;
  
  count = getFirstEmptyRow(); //number of entries
  
  for (i=2; i<count; i++){
    f_range = form.getRange(i,0);
    lat = f_range.getValue();
    long = form.getValue();
    g_range.getCell(lat, long).setValue("X");
  }
  
  
 




}




function getFirstEmptyRow() {
  var spr = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var column = spr.getRange('A:A');
  var values = column.getValues(); // get all data in one call
  var ct = 0;
  while ( values[ct][0] != "" || values[ct][0] == "0" ) {
    ct++;
    }
  return (ct);
}
 

isokix

isokix
Science is happening right now on Merope 5c.

[video]https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=DbSFczb94Cw[/video]
 
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Edelgard von Rhein

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This evening I brought my Keelback to Merope 5c and flew a complete orbit at ~100-250km in orbital cruise with the throttle on zero (it takes about 20 mins). No signal sources appeared. I investigated a couple of canyons and craters and found nothing, not even blue circle POIs, and eventually flew around and set down in the largest crater and tried to find something in my SRV. I found one crashed nav beacon and one SRV wreck with some cargo and materials. Conclusion: I'm terrible at finding things in my ship. At least this planet gave me a little arsenic from an outcrop for my efforts. Hope you have better luck!
 

Sylon

Sylon
Went there early this morning doing some searching. Never really dabbled in the barnacle stuff that much. Spent a few hours flying over the surface without finding anything. Then I found a few POI's near a recently discovered barnacle that I felt was a bit of a coincidence. Nothing for hours, then 3 pop up near the barnacle. Found things to scan and received all sorts of data, and another POI with 6 human popsicles waiting for rescue.


Anyway, CMDR Sylon00 here. Not on the PC though, Xbox One.
 

Riverside

Riverside
Edelgard von Rhein said:
This evening I brought my Keelback to Merope 5c and flew a complete orbit at ~100-250km in orbital cruise with the throttle on zero (it takes about 20 mins). No signal sources appeared. I investigated a couple of canyons and craters and found nothing, not even blue circle POIs, and eventually flew around and set down in the largest crater and tried to find something in my SRV. I found one crashed nav beacon and one SRV wreck with some cargo and materials. Conclusion: I'm terrible at finding things in my ship. At least this planet gave me a little arsenic from an outcrop for my efforts. Hope you have better luck!
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I spent yesterday evening & much of today with pretty well the same result. However someone might get lucky... ;)

Seriously I spent most of 2.0 searching for Barnacles in other nebulae (including the Barnacle nebula of course!), didn't find a single one. I'm just happy the search has been narrows down to a single planet :)
 

M. Volgrand

M. Volgrand
I needed a whole evening building that. I had not programmed anything in 2 years, and I used to be a noob back then, but I managed to make it work! It is for me a pleasure to present...

THE MEROPE 5C SURVEY DATABASE

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We need to survey a whole planet? Right, we need to divide it in sectors. But we also needed to record our efforts! And having an spreadsheet that anyone could modify is a terrible idea, isn't it?So now everything is automatic! May the Emperor bless the digital era!

You may find the spreadsheet and its instructions here! And here it is the form you must complete to enter your survey:

Man... I deserve a beer.


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Please note that there may be some bugs. If you find one, kindly send me a PM or post a comment in the spreadsheet and I will look for it.
 

Chris Rosenkreutz

Chris Rosenkreutz
M. Volgrand said:
I needed a whole evening building that. I had not programmed anything in 2 years, and I used to be a noob back then, but I managed to make it work! It is for me a pleasure to present...

THE MEROPE 5C SURVEY DATABASE

​
We need to survey a whole planet? Right, we need to divide it in sectors. But we also needed to record our efforts! And having an spreadsheet that anyone could modify is a terrible idea, isn't it?So now everything is automatic! May the Emperor bless the digital era!

You may find the spreadsheet and its instructions here! And here it is the form you must complete to enter your survey:

Man... I deserve a beer.


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Please note that there may be some bugs. If you find one, kindly send me a PM or post a comment in the spreadsheet and I will look for it.
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Not a bug as such, but it would be nice to do a range of coordinates at once. In particular, I've done the pole at -90 latitude for all longitudes but don't want to put them all in
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
HIP19975

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I had some odd new sounds i've never heard before in the zone where you find UA's usually.

Soon as I jump into the star, the last couple stars have played new sounds I've never heard before. One was a whale .. the other was some insect like clicking..

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Riverside said:
Investigation over? Ah well, thanks for the update.
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Since when have they ever made content that went any further than 1 step ahead?


add just heard it again this time it sounded like 3 screams high pitched kinda.
 
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BluWolve

BluWolve
Colonel Kenney said:
Its just pointing to the nearest barnacle proving the people behind the probes are the people who seeded the barnacles.
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And you know this as fact? What tests did you do to achieve this conclusion? If a planet has more than one barnacle will it point to ea h barnacle specifically? Also, where did you find a UP to do these tests? I know a lot of people are currently looking for one without much luck so did you do something special or go somewhere different?

Edit: Also, did the UP point to a barnacle in a specific state (ripe, regeneration, reproduction)? Or was it just any barnacle you were near?
 
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