That's probably why he answered it. It already is known info, he hasn't spoiled anything. He only confirmed what most of us already knew.
He wouldn't have answered if we used our 'Phone a Friend' on anything else
UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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That's probably why he answered it. It already is known info, he hasn't spoiled anything. He only confirmed what most of us already knew.
He wouldn't have answered if we used our 'Phone a Friend' on anything else
The UP like the UA points to Merope(unless in Merope system).
The UA spawn in a shell around Merope. When the UA first appeared, it did not spawn in a shell and it did not point to Merope.
As there seem to be a link between pointing and shell forming, it's not unlikely that the UP does the same.
Some shell scenarios:
- UP spawns in UA shell. Possible but if that is the case, it's quite rare. Lots of commanders have searched in the shell.
- UP spawns in a bigger shell. Possible but if that shell is between 200-500ly it would pass directly trough the bubble. Not likely that this would pass unnoticed.
- UP spawns in a smaller shell. Possible and not as well investigated as the current shell, but quite a lot of searching has been done.
- UP spawns inside Merope system in a shell around M5C. Massive searching done in the Merope system. Not very likely.
- UP spawns under certain conditions e.g. close to planets in the UA shell. Quite a lot of searching performed without result, but still a possibility.
- UP spawns in a specific sector of the UA shell, e. g. towards California nebula, Witch Head or Polaris. To my knowledge we haven't done this a lot yet.
The UA spawn in a shell around Merope. When the UA first appeared, it did not spawn in a shell and it did not point to Merope.
As there seem to be a link between pointing and shell forming, it's not unlikely that the UP does the same.
Some shell scenarios:
- UP spawns in UA shell. Possible but if that is the case, it's quite rare. Lots of commanders have searched in the shell.
- UP spawns in a bigger shell. Possible but if that shell is between 200-500ly it would pass directly trough the bubble. Not likely that this would pass unnoticed.
- UP spawns in a smaller shell. Possible and not as well investigated as the current shell, but quite a lot of searching has been done.
- UP spawns inside Merope system in a shell around M5C. Massive searching done in the Merope system. Not very likely.
- UP spawns under certain conditions e.g. close to planets in the UA shell. Quite a lot of searching performed without result, but still a possibility.
- UP spawns in a specific sector of the UA shell, e. g. towards California nebula, Witch Head or Polaris. To my knowledge we haven't done this a lot yet.
As far as I know, UP convoys have only been found by Elite pilots or wings of several pilots.
I think spawn rates are affected by the USS difficulty scaling. In other words, searching alone without at least one Elite rank may be quite futile.
If you are is still around Michael, feel free to comment.
Got my second one solo and I'm dangerous not elite
Have we seen any more of those Religious Cult people with their UA?
I think they're a kill mission target.
Maybe they've graduated to UPs by now.
I think they're a kill mission target.
Maybe they've graduated to UPs by now.
I'm not sure but a good idea, and possibly if you were to triangulate the Star Merope and the Planet Merope 5cs position then could lead to a rough location/direction
maybe you start with ~150ls since the other shell has a 150ly radius?!
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Guys the system CD-86 4 description is "There have been rumours of strange sightings in this system" has anyone checked this system for free floaters of UPs? our Thargoid friends may have left behind some things?
This was brought up a while ago. There appears to be nothing there.
Yep a lot of people have said similar.
Personally I think they're in the shell, or in systems between the shell and human space.
Or, it could spawn somewhere completely different. If UAs and UPs were sent to the Pleiades from elsewhere, the UP could have been set later and not travelled as far yet...
Of course we still don't really know their point of origin for certain. Could be Merope, could be pretty much anywhere else.
How extensively did they search it, did they travels 100,000s of ls into it?
I honestly don't know so I can't give that a fair answer. I know that there was talk that the system only has that description because it has ties to a player faction, and FDev allow player factions to add system descriptions, but I don't know if even that turned out to be true or not.
500 000 Ls up and down and on the sides, but did this from Merope main star.
What are these "*highly* plausible" theories if I may ask?
Well if there was a real obvious shell out from m5c where as soon as you hit it you start getting USS's, you still would have seen it. Can't imagine there would be something important that far away...
(i mean they still could but omg why, just to be annoying?)
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The one with the hats and the weird smell. You know, the main one.
Hi all,
Thinking in terms of where the probes might be probing. Has anyone conducted a search of the outlying systems of the human bubble? If the probes purpose might be to communicate something to us maybe they are coming to us. I'll start a search of star systems on the fringes of the bubble facing the pleiades.
Happy hunting.
Thinking in terms of where the probes might be probing. Has anyone conducted a search of the outlying systems of the human bubble? If the probes purpose might be to communicate something to us maybe they are coming to us. I'll start a search of star systems on the fringes of the bubble facing the pleiades.
Happy hunting.
Glad I'm not the only one with higher forum rank, than in-game rank.
I'm a bit embarrassed about that.
An update on my search for UP-s: following the ELW / AW idea, I checked the five known systems, all of which are between Merope and the UA shell. Flying around one of the Earth-likes for fifty minutes produced only two degraded SS-es, and a strong desire to be able to land on them. However, I abandoned this avenue because flying circles around a planet is really quite boring, yet has to be done more attentively than simply looking for SS-es in a system.
One more thing occurred to me though. There is another kind of systems near the Pleiades that might be worth checking as well: inhabited systems. There are the new Federal outposts and the planetary research base in HIP 17225, and there's the Alliance listening station in HIP 19072. Probably worth a look - although with all kinds of signal sources appearing, finding an anomaly in any of these would be even harder. On the bright side, at least they appear more frequently.
Also, as a reminder, I've been keeping records of what I found since 2.1.05 here.
One more thing occurred to me though. There is another kind of systems near the Pleiades that might be worth checking as well: inhabited systems. There are the new Federal outposts and the planetary research base in HIP 17225, and there's the Alliance listening station in HIP 19072. Probably worth a look - although with all kinds of signal sources appearing, finding an anomaly in any of these would be even harder. On the bright side, at least they appear more frequently.
Also, as a reminder, I've been keeping records of what I found since 2.1.05 here.
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