UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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to the Un-initiated/intelligent/motivated its all Magic........ and some magicians, **shudder**, like clowns **double shudder**....need I say more?
Agreed. Early on in the thread MB said a few of us were getting close. Since then we've had loads more theories, some "logical", some just conjecture, some with no way for us to really investigate in-game (e.g. all this stuff about "may be the barnacles are baby thargoids/mutated humans/biological weapons/something else" that while a nice idea, is not something we can test and prove/disprove in-game)
Ideally we need a more structured place where everyone can put in their theories and then we can disprove/prove them one by one in a structured way - google spreadsheet would do, a dedicated sub-forum with a thread-per-theory would be best where we can mark thread titles with "[UNPROVEN]" or "[DISPROVEN]" etc.
I think there is good stuff here getting lost in the noise!
yeah, about 4 years to do an Astrophysics degree, another 2 years doing various Sound Engineer/Physics courses, and then about 4 years working on it
this is part of the problem imo. the people working for Frontier are some of the best educated/clever people in the UK. It shows in the game. BUT that is also a problem. A puzzle that might make perfect sense to them, might seem easy, isn't for the other 99% of us.
Frontier, when designing puzzles in future, keep the following in mind: Imagine the people in the Rovers Return solving it. If you can't imagine them solving it, then it's probably not solvable by mere mortals.
careful, I got set on fire for criticising the smarties..............but SOME of the burn was deserved
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whoooo...aren,t trailers exciting!
I'm not criticising the smarties though. I mean, I could design a puzzle based on the ultraviolet optical wavelengths of nebula emissions 500 years ago, which would be very clever puzzle, but about 2 people in the world would probably work it out so it's pointless in a "game that normal people play in an evening while drinking a beer after work". You can be TOO clever. And yeah, the solution would be obvious in hindsight. Much like Gravity is obvious in hindsight... still took us 10 thousand years for someone to work it out though :/
Yeah agreed on this.
Not sure if they went too far with this one after the "easy solve" for the morse-code one... either that or we are *all* missing something trivial.
no, but I might be......my son
I was firmly of the opinion that Deep Space is Deep Space regardless of distance from anything else. But my recent ventures out into Deep Deep Space in Merope has made me change my mind. I had a UA on board, so was regularly interdicted by Pirates until I got a LONG way out, at which point is virtually stopped happening. IMHO, Deep Space is more than just 1 simple spawn table. What varies the spawn table is totally unknown to me, and probably unknowable.
As it may concern, but I assume only FD can give a hint on this, ship population and signals are totally unrelated even if they could use the same system information to operate, there is no relation between them. We are talking about signals, but I understand your point.
EditeD: At most, the ship population code uses signals to spawn ships, sometimes really in a very unfortunate way, e.g. spawning police ships from a distress call where a pilot is stranded or attacked by pirates, what I'm supposed to think that happened there..
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wOW your a 1%er.....can we have some money?
These rocks are packing a much bigger punch than those arms.
Yes its not formatted properly. but as you can see there are more messages or icons which havent been deciphered in the message (including a sideways pointing Y which wasnt shown before and another glyph -|| ), yes this spectrogram has been worked on a lot.. perhaps we need to think about decoding those before jumping off to conclusions about the main one aka the planet symbol.
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UAs and UPs may be "Space-based", but that doesn't say they have to be used in space only; remember the second half of that MB hint clearly implied other aspects of the puzzle are surface-based. The UP EMP pulse is clearly a tool that can be used on the surface.
UP Test 29 has still not been done, & to my mind the diagram clearly points to the small crater with peak inside the large crater on Merope5C, with numbered instructions of what to do & where. So who has a UP at present & why has this test been bypassed?
On the scan image, with the circle, quadrants, icons, trying to decode it in various ways.
The issue is the more I look and the more I try to interpret it, there just doesn't seem to be enough data there for anything meaningful.
It's like trying to find something where someone says A, B, C, D and up, down, left, right.
The data being provided seems so GENERIC that you just feel data is missing.
The issue is the more I look and the more I try to interpret it, there just doesn't seem to be enough data there for anything meaningful.
It's like trying to find something where someone says A, B, C, D and up, down, left, right.
The data being provided seems so GENERIC that you just feel data is missing.
I think spawning will be initiated by two(three) factors: area Ur in -> near planets/suns OC, Navpoint, hiplane, deepspace etc.
each having a probability matrix for the different types of spawn (and then another set for spawn objekt selection, like ship, convoy, UA etc.),
second a gaussian probability distribution with increasing distance (e.g. how far of vector of shiplane, from central body etc.).
Given the rapid drop in probability beyond the 2 sigma point, together with the fact that volume expands with the cube of radius (to that spawnpoint)
gives U quite a narrow border until where spawns related to that point appear. Thats why U in deep-space exploration (more then ~1000-1200 LY out of the bubble)
encounter exploded Explorers and their data-cans only, as their appearance is hooked to a star-system in general?
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