UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Quick question. Has the UP been honked at all star types including black hole?
Hmm.. I think we need to focus on a few things regarding UAs and UPs..
From these quotes from MB:
"THe pointing is deliberate, but also for a different reason to the UA." .
"The message has a specific purpose, and a very different one to the UA. ",
"The transmission from the UA is its purpose. "
and relating to that last quote, "UA yes - the UP has a different purpose. "
Tests are needed to figure out what the purpose actually is.
Shortly afterwards he said this was a testable theory:
"So that means the information in the UP about the planet in the sound is NOT merope it is from a nearby planet probably in the UA range.
Its just the wording the U P is the PROBE which is something you'd think would be the thing looking since its a probe.. the artifact who knows what it is. Maybe it is the more advanced of the 2?"
- Part of the problem with testing the above is that we don't know which of the two things to test. So we need to figure out ways of testing both.
From these quotes from MB:
"THe pointing is deliberate, but also for a different reason to the UA." .
"The message has a specific purpose, and a very different one to the UA. ",
"The transmission from the UA is its purpose. "
and relating to that last quote, "UA yes - the UP has a different purpose. "
Tests are needed to figure out what the purpose actually is.
Shortly afterwards he said this was a testable theory:
"So that means the information in the UP about the planet in the sound is NOT merope it is from a nearby planet probably in the UA range.
Its just the wording the U P is the PROBE which is something you'd think would be the thing looking since its a probe.. the artifact who knows what it is. Maybe it is the more advanced of the 2?"
- Part of the problem with testing the above is that we don't know which of the two things to test. So we need to figure out ways of testing both.
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Yes
Don't think so.
Implication? Who knows.
Deadline? Probably nothing fixed. It is likely that if we really take too long to solve this, FDev will keep throwing us bones till we do so they can move the planned story along.
I was in the shell for about an hour yesterday, searching for free floater UPs.
Didn't find one, but as soon as I entered the orbit zone of a 'Barnacle friendly' planet I found this.
It was a good old UA, falling towards the planet.
Planet is actually Hyades sector DL-Y D39 5C.
Upon arrival I immediately got a degraded emission USS, with one escape pod.
As soon as left that one, I got the Anomaly USS.
Didn't find one, but as soon as I entered the orbit zone of a 'Barnacle friendly' planet I found this.
It was a good old UA, falling towards the planet.
Planet is actually Hyades sector DL-Y D39 5C.
Upon arrival I immediately got a degraded emission USS, with one escape pod.
As soon as left that one, I got the Anomaly USS.
Anyone tried bringing the UP to a binary system without any other celestial objects and see if the code changes?
that happened to me as well. it is normal because you got the USS inside the gravity zone.
I followed one for 40 minutes, got bored and picked it up.
Probably ninja'd on this, but that comment was from the Alioth website which appertained to an earlier version of Elite. It is not relevant to Elite Dangerous. Wormholes and misjumps have been discounted several times for ED
Quick question : can you use collector limpet on UA / UP ? I see everyone scooping them manualy so i wonder...
With the UA yes, but it's bugged with the UP
Thanks for the highlights. I think this is really good as, well, for me anyway, this eliminates a lot of basics that can generate a lot of noise.
They seem to spawn at random, I've found some just seconds after I drop out of wytchspace, orbiting the star.
I think it just happened that you hit the RNG in that area.. however, you made me think, what if your theory isbvalid for UPs?? what if the "wild" ones only spawn close to planets??
Ok, so I think Ed dropped a hint in the (well, more than one) live stream that people may have missed (forgive me if it's been discussed). This relates to something I saw 4 days ago whilst I was roving around on the surface of Merope 5c, but I have absolutely no evidence from my end as I was honestly just driving about in VR. Ok, so here goes:
Approximately 4 days ago, as mentioned, I was driving around in my SRV on the surface of Merope 5c and I was looking at the stars in my HTC Vive to see if I could see any patterns or something, so I looked at my HUD and my hull percentage was at 36%. This was rather odd as I hadn't taken any damage at all whilst driving. So, naturally, my body decided to expel the brown stuff and I immediately recalled my ship. Whilst I was waiting for it, I noticed that on my Radar there was a sparkling effect around the image of my SRV. I've never seen it before so I moved quite rapidly, forwards...well, the sparkling stopped. Odd stuff. So I moved back to where I was and it reappeared (but the damage to my hull never changed).
Anyway, on to why I post this now. In the live stream video at 1:06:55 there is a shot of the probe with Earth directly behind it and there is a sparkling effect exactly like what I saw on my radar. Ed says "Look at that sparkling, it kind of makes it look like sparkling lights on the Earth's surface, like it's interrupting things or something". I'm wondering if it's related in some way.
Hopefully someone reads this and can test it in some way. I'm nowhere near Merope anymore as I decided to do some long range trading to get a bit of cashWhatever the result, thanks for reading!
Best of luck Commanders,
Kultir
Did you get a picture/video? What were the coordinates?
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