Has anyone taken a pic of Jaque's commodities screen to see what he requires?
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ALOT of hydrogen... hes got 90. and... alot of MA
UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn
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ALOT of hydrogen... hes got 90. and... alot of MA
As people have said, Jaques Station has been found: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/269962-I-have-found-Jaques-Station!
What next though?
What next though?
I have two separate comments for the two separate points:
Jaques station:
If anyone is out there near that Nebula, they should look for a UA bubble and if they enjoy it and have time, look for barnacles.
Merope:
It seems to me that UAs are sent in a massive swarm to look for a star system. Once they detect what they are looking for, UPs are sent to find the exact celestial body inside the system.
What are they looking for? A crashed alien ship? It has to be something of incredible worth. If I had to make a guess, it would be some type of large ship, or a large station transmitting something.
I gave Merope 5C 4 hours of search time on the surface. My search locations were pretty random, a couple craters, and a couple of canyons. It is like finding a needle in a haystack.
I was able to find some random POIs, all of them were crashed ships or destroyed ground vessels. A wing of 3 AI also spawned at one point and scanned me for cargo.
Imo, there should be two, organized efforts.
1- Searching the surrounding area of Jaques Station for a UA shell, or for barnacles in that nebula.
2- Searching for whatever it is the UPs are looking for in Merope 5C
Jaques station:
If anyone is out there near that Nebula, they should look for a UA bubble and if they enjoy it and have time, look for barnacles.
Merope:
It seems to me that UAs are sent in a massive swarm to look for a star system. Once they detect what they are looking for, UPs are sent to find the exact celestial body inside the system.
What are they looking for? A crashed alien ship? It has to be something of incredible worth. If I had to make a guess, it would be some type of large ship, or a large station transmitting something.
I gave Merope 5C 4 hours of search time on the surface. My search locations were pretty random, a couple craters, and a couple of canyons. It is like finding a needle in a haystack.
I was able to find some random POIs, all of them were crashed ships or destroyed ground vessels. A wing of 3 AI also spawned at one point and scanned me for cargo.
Imo, there should be two, organized efforts.
1- Searching the surrounding area of Jaques Station for a UA shell, or for barnacles in that nebula.
2- Searching for whatever it is the UPs are looking for in Merope 5C
Yes there is a timer. What I'm saying is the state they change to when that timer clicks over is not always the same, even with barnacles in the exact same state when it does. This suggests to me that player interaction determines the state the barnacle will change to when the timer clicks over. I gave an example the other day pointing out how it would work, pretty much the same as the political BGS.
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400 billion star systems and someone finds one star slightly out of place?
I hope this was a legit find, not some decompile crap or insider leak. Regardless it (Jaques Station) is found and that saves me tons of time LOL. Only problem is 22K LY away from me.
BTW is there going to be any sort of organized search of Merope 5C? At this point I feel like randomly searching everywhere isnt going to get us anywhere. Unless if by another random miracle, someone finds a needle in a hay-stack.
Well there are two spreadsheets on the go.
One for searching 1 degree by 1 degree grids: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I6sezk6EEBv76P1oFLJQnCk9r4TQwzwBIrIoYjM3kCY/
One for flying fixed lines of latitude or longitude: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qJi6r5jiFt8GHyRnr6OnnagJyX0BSJfhFTb4gprw2os/
Ships trading at Jacques could indicate two things. Jacques has dropped into the space occupied by:
a) AI civilisation
b) Generation ship civilisation
we need to get those ships scanned to determine this
Two points:
1- @Rizal and Popov: I know this board moves fast so you probably missed it, but I just posted about a possible UP shell around Merope 5c here. Short version is that signal sources can now be adjusted based on where you are in a system so checking close to the moon is worth a shot. Haven't had a chance to see for myself yet.
2- Jaque's message: "They sing, the artefacts. I thought that was some crack pot ranting, but when you're out there they sing and then they find you." Is this a hint to get one of Palin's cargo racks, grab a UA, and go for it? I know people have already taken them everywhere but what about just holding on to one permanently? That's what I'm in the process of doing. Better yet get the rack with two capacity and keep both a UA and a UP.
1- @Rizal and Popov: I know this board moves fast so you probably missed it, but I just posted about a possible UP shell around Merope 5c here. Short version is that signal sources can now be adjusted based on where you are in a system so checking close to the moon is worth a shot. Haven't had a chance to see for myself yet.
2- Jaque's message: "They sing, the artefacts. I thought that was some crack pot ranting, but when you're out there they sing and then they find you." Is this a hint to get one of Palin's cargo racks, grab a UA, and go for it? I know people have already taken them everywhere but what about just holding on to one permanently? That's what I'm in the process of doing. Better yet get the rack with two capacity and keep both a UA and a UP.
or c) they didn't change the code for ambient station traffic
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I have 2 cargo racks and been flying with 4 UAs for more than a week now, haven't seen anything , I haven't been found yet.
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Merope 2 A - Farragut Battle Cruiser - Security Level Increased
I went over to Merope 2A and was checking the Farragutt battle cruiser site, as I have done many times over the past couple of weeks. The area seems to be getting more and more heavily guarded. When I first visited the site over 2 weeks ago, the barnacles were not guarded, you could freely drive up to them in the SRV and harvest meta alloys.
As you can see from my original video on YouTube, they were not guarded at all :
Things that have changed :
1. The battle cruiser is now heavily guarded with federal navy ships -- 14 vultures, a patrolling Annaconda with 4 vultures in toe a dropship also patrolling on a set course around the battle cruiser with 6 vultures in toe, 8 eagle fighters patrolling the immediate area around the battle cruiser.
2. The barnacles are now protected with sentries, missile launchers and lasers.
3. The barnacles have a trespass zone setup around them, if you go near them in your ship you will be shot at, if you go near them in the SRV you will be shot at.
So my question is, why are they suddenly locking down this site?
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I went over to Merope 2A and was checking the Farragutt battle cruiser site, as I have done many times over the past couple of weeks. The area seems to be getting more and more heavily guarded. When I first visited the site over 2 weeks ago, the barnacles were not guarded, you could freely drive up to them in the SRV and harvest meta alloys.
As you can see from my original video on YouTube, they were not guarded at all :
[video=youtube_share;A2uIwFVwYlk]https://youtu.be/A2uIwFVwYlk[/video]
Things that have changed :
1. The battle cruiser is now heavily guarded with federal navy ships -- 14 vultures, a patrolling Annaconda with 4 vultures in toe a dropship also patrolling on a set course around the battle cruiser with 6 vultures in toe, 8 eagle fighters patrolling the immediate area around the battle cruiser.
2. The barnacles are now protected with sentries, missile launchers and lasers.
3. The barnacles have a trespass zone setup around them, if you go near them in your ship you will be shot at, if you go near them in the SRV you will be shot at.
So my question is, why are they suddenly locking down this site?
Pictures :
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Maybe they know something we don't. Maybe something is about to happen to that particular barnacle or barnacles in general? What happens if they are preparing to contain the barnacles from something that will come from within. Or something that will come to obtain them?
All answers shall be revealed in time, as is the fashion of FD.
What sound exactly? Also are you talking about Merope 5C?
Or it's my temporal bubble theory.
They tend to bundle the answers with more questions. That can be a good thing as long as the answers provide a sense of progression to the plot and make sense.
I spent last night looking for sgnal sources around 5c, the rings of 5 and a half million ls cruise out normal to the plane of the ecliptic, starting at 5. If there are UPs there they are rare.
I encountered this wierd hiss sound this morning, when I followed it resolved into a crash site with general cargo.
Although I don't have any proof there was nothing nefarious about how Jaques was found, here's how they could've very easily noticed one star out of place.
This is how I tried to find Jaques at first (following the line to Beagle Point, so I would have never found him)
Notice how large the dot is where Jaques is located compared to the others? Take note of my population settings...
The way the pop slider works is any systems below the "min" setting disappear from the map, and any systems above the "max" setting appear very large. Since Jaques has a population of 750, it's bigger than 0, which is the max setting. It's how I look for remote, populated systems amongst all the unpopulated ones. Add to that if you filtered on Allegiance it'd be a bright yellow dot, I think it's very reasonable to have noticed it.
Also, I'm totally getting out there with a UA in the hold ASAP, be damned toxin-resistant racks
PS LordZoltan, based on the news report in Jaques, you have no idea how much I'm buzzing right now
EDIT: A better example of the map and how it would stick out based on filters.
Probably good to know next time you go hunting for populated systems too
This is how I tried to find Jaques at first (following the line to Beagle Point, so I would have never found him)
Notice how large the dot is where Jaques is located compared to the others? Take note of my population settings...
The way the pop slider works is any systems below the "min" setting disappear from the map, and any systems above the "max" setting appear very large. Since Jaques has a population of 750, it's bigger than 0, which is the max setting. It's how I look for remote, populated systems amongst all the unpopulated ones. Add to that if you filtered on Allegiance it'd be a bright yellow dot, I think it's very reasonable to have noticed it.
Also, I'm totally getting out there with a UA in the hold ASAP, be damned toxin-resistant racks
PS LordZoltan, based on the news report in Jaques, you have no idea how much I'm buzzing right now
EDIT: A better example of the map and how it would stick out based on filters.
Probably good to know next time you go hunting for populated systems too
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I have a thought:
Jaques was jumping very far. He had UAs in his hold, and was snagged part-way.
For us to replicate the conditions, we might have to load the crcr with a couple of UAs, and do a combined engineer-enhanced and sythesis-enhanced superjump.
This is to give "them" time to find us in witchspace, as vaguely theoretically, we would spend more time travelling through it when jumping long distances.
I don't have the special holds, otherwise I'd do it myself. Also, my new DBX isn't enhanced..
Jaques was jumping very far. He had UAs in his hold, and was snagged part-way.
For us to replicate the conditions, we might have to load the crcr with a couple of UAs, and do a combined engineer-enhanced and sythesis-enhanced superjump.
This is to give "them" time to find us in witchspace, as vaguely theoretically, we would spend more time travelling through it when jumping long distances.
I don't have the special holds, otherwise I'd do it myself. Also, my new DBX isn't enhanced..
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