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UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Yup if you are entitled to it, its in your Frontier Store pages downloadable section
IIRC, Barnacles were first found as a result of Galnet hints in the form of incomplete messages directing our attention to a specific planet or system. Others have since been found by looking around local nebulae but it was only because people knew where to look. When you don't know where to look, you're dependent upon chance. The crowd-sourced nature of the problem has seemingly been designed around a 'lottery' system, requiring someone to be very lucky. The logic required to solve it is clearly only going to be logical after the fact - so it's no good to us now. If we find, through luck or Galnet hints, a source of free-floaters, then we will (very quickly, I suspect) find more.
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The lack of UA activity around any nebulae other than the Pleiades does suggest that UPs will be found in its vicinity. Personally, I think we need to be looking near right kinds of planets - but what the 'right kind' are, will only become apparent after someone finds one. There are so many people around the Pleiades, the most obvious place I can think of to look that might have been missed would be the distant icy landables many people ignore... . But if we don't solve it or get lucky, it only means a different branch of the storyline, not a complete halt... (or we eventually get clues in-game).
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The lack of UA activity around any nebulae other than the Pleiades does suggest that UPs will be found in its vicinity. Personally, I think we need to be looking near right kinds of planets - but what the 'right kind' are, will only become apparent after someone finds one. There are so many people around the Pleiades, the most obvious place I can think of to look that might have been missed would be the distant icy landables many people ignore... . But if we don't solve it or get lucky, it only means a different branch of the storyline, not a complete halt... (or we eventually get clues in-game).
I'm checking Pleione now, I don't even had it scanned yet.. will spend the rest of the night here
It breaks into nothing. A few were destroyed on educating Ed.
the first panel is decoded. the first panel is of the UP sending its signal. All 2 panes decoded, if you want a wild UP, you just have to be in Merope as explained.
I guess I'll be the only one with a wild UP today, I'll give a few out.
Or a key
OMG! Of course! The Key is a key to open the UP! The UP is a delivery mechanism waiting for our curiosity to ship it to the right location, initiate the deployment sequence and rain un-human hell upon the innocent planet below
I beg you all, for the sake of mankind, STOP toying with the unknown!
(waits for post saying "I said that on page 127 and nobody took any notice"
Rob / CMDR Olias
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You're correct that the UPs are available in the Merope system. Specifically in orbit around the large crater. UPs return to this location at a certain point in 5Cs orbit to report back then leave again.
That dark-blue representation, while concept art (I guess?), apart from being freaky, haunts me that we've still missed some UP-like behaviour with the UAs...
If I could, I would REP that post a million times. However, and even if stated otherwise by FD, we don't have much control on the actual "starting" of the events. We may influence how the story goes forward, but it WILL go live when they want it to go live. There's no "once you find freefloaters it'll activate a switch on the servers and aliens will be let loose!". Nope, it's "when 2.2 hits, aliens will come and tag "rek't" on the wreckage of your ship".
That's how it's always been and nothing will change that. Hell, for all we know the UP freefloaters' spawn rate could be as high as what it used to be for UA's before The Shell, so they may be easier to retrieve, at the end of the day, they are harder to find. And I think that's what MB and Zac meant when they said UP Convoys were the hard way to get them. It is indeed harder to get them, not to find them.
It's either that...Or they really meant UP freefloaters are easier to find based on what we can achieve when we group efforts, something we haven't really done in regards to UP freefloaters as some of us are still looking for UP convoys around the Peregrina systems. Careful, I'm not criticising anybody; it's way more fun to wing up with friends to kick a convoy's ass to retrieve a UP than it is to...find freefloaters. :|
UP freefloaters will probably be old stuff when 2.2 hits anyway...
The left side is a pictograph of the UP sending its signal, the middle is where in relation to M5C it does its data send, and the right side is when in M5C's orbit that this happens.
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So has anyone found anything in the first 0.5 seconds of the promo video yet?
I do think after checking my recordings that the sound it makes when it is shot is slightly different to when it naturally expired. Only subtly but there it was more pronounced at the start.
I do think after checking my recordings that the sound it makes when it is shot is slightly different to when it naturally expired. Only subtly but there it was more pronounced at the start.
Maybe, I'm thinking that's an early draft of the lighter blue-green colour we ended up with.
Although I do think colour is important. The fragments are red-orange when detached by destroying the UA which is maybe the 'malfunction' colour.
I'm wondering if we do the right thing with the UP, it'll be blue-green instead of orange.
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That's the crater that you get the 2 Magellanic Clouds and Merope 5 aligned on horizon almost exactly with the arc and two lines at left of symbol, if symbol is overlayed on crater?
I've been scouring all over that sucker, before I left the planet itself. I'm sorry, but I just don't think that's where we'll find them.
I am interested in why you think they'll be there at a given time though, and will loop back if you can give me a time window of an hour or so.
Are you working on the principle that if you repeat yourself often enough, it will become true ?
IIRC the GALNET article was posted AFTER the first Barnacle was found in Merope, by a random CMDR, completely by chance.
FD remember that they done with magical appearing of UA morse code and don't do that mistake with Jaques. I believe that community still holding the storyline.
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