Anyone who has a UP - please take it to LHS 417 5. Report back whether it detects life. Wouldn't hurt to check the Helium gas giants too
UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Anyone who has a UP - please take it to LHS 417 5. Report back whether it detects life. Wouldn't hurt to check the Helium gas giants too
I've been getting them in systems that tend to produce Weapons Fired or similarly-worded Signal Sources. I think they are randomly generated, not fixed-location.
Darn. Do any of the ships sing?
FYI, now I've played around with a few signal sources pre and post patch, I've worked out what's going on.
FD don't appear to have added new signal sources to the game, just added different categories to distinguish.
In the game now we have Combat Aftermath (wreck
All three of these were "Degraded Emissions" previously as this is where I've got all three before... FD have just introduced new categories since the patch.
That's all I know about that's changed, there could be more still. As for finding them,, fly around in SC and spin the RNG wheel.
EDIT: Correction, private data beacons are encoded emissions.
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UAs were also first found in convoys in human occupied space and I don't think they've ever been found by players in human space since then. That kind of puts a damper on the theory of UPs first being found in the human bubble. Or, at the very least it's a counterexample. As for it detecting life, don't barnacles qualify?
Ahh okay. I thought we were maybe seeing hints of someone's tech being based around heat damage.
Okay, this is a stupid question... and it's probably been answered, but I can't keep up with how fast this moves while I'm away. Sorry.
Has anyone else noticed a random... chirping - for lack of a better word - over certain regions of the 18, -40 crater on Merope 5C?
High pitched tone. I've heard it twice this evening while flying around the crater (toward Merope 5, and then back toward the center). The chirp was pretty similar to the sound when you first discover a star.
Maybe it's normal? I don't normally fly around in craters.
Has anyone else noticed a random... chirping - for lack of a better word - over certain regions of the 18, -40 crater on Merope 5C?
High pitched tone. I've heard it twice this evening while flying around the crater (toward Merope 5, and then back toward the center). The chirp was pretty similar to the sound when you first discover a star.
Maybe it's normal? I don't normally fly around in craters.
I know a UDP joke, but you probably wouldn't get it.
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You need to give more info. What was in it?
CDP (Threat 4) USS appear everywhere,, would only be interesting if it had a UP convoy in it. Other convoys (Hafnium/weapons/etc) appear in these also
Sorry for not being specific, but I actually have no way to tell... since Sirius is only 39.95 LY away, it seemed like someone might want to check it out
That USS type can be found in all systems. People need to check these themselves when they see them.
How do you check without a cargo scanner?
If you drop into the USS and hear convoy chatter, it's almost certainly a UP convoy. No cargo scanners required.
Anything else, it's just a "normal" convoy.
You'll see a "Military Transport" in the contact list, usually the Python.
And it'll get attacked by pirates - ref the chatter.
From the frontpage: "There is an interesting COMMs chatter going on."
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Aha, okay! I was just hanging around in Supercruise in case someone with C/S wanted to wing and drop in ��
No comms chatter, just seven "Federal Navy Ships"
Do UP respond to a honk if they are in the Python's hold, or are they effectively shielded from the DS?
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