UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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Jon flint

Jon flint
So if somebody happens to bump into a trader named Kohl (or any of the other named npcs). What are we doing with him?

I figure cargo scan, if he's not carrying anything useful just wait for him to jump, wake scan and follow? Or just blow him up?

+Where are people expecting these npcs to pop up? Unique signal sources, hanging around nav beacons?

Apparently we have most of the clues we need (apart from yet to be decoded #6), but what to do when we find him/them?
 

Keybuk

Keybuk
Jon flint said:
So if somebody happens to bump into a trader named Kohl (or any of the other named npcs). What are we doing with him?

I figure cargo scan, if he's not carrying anything useful just wait for him to jump, wake scan and follow? Or just blow him up?

+Where are people expecting these npcs to pop up? Unique signal sources, hanging around nav beacons?

Apparently we have most of the clues we need (apart from yet to be decoded #6), but what to do when we find him/them?
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To find us, look for a bounty hunter.

Kohl is a trader, you're not looking for them.

We have most of the pieces of a classic logic puzzle that should tell us who the bounty hunter is (Dillon or Granger), which system they will be in (un-named, or Apademak), at what time (un-specified or 21.00), in what ship (Yellow Asp and un-specified color Cobra).

But we're missing the last bit ��
 

ilo

ilo
Jon flint said:
So if somebody happens to bump into a trader named Kohl (or any of the other named npcs). What are we doing with him?

I figure cargo scan, if he's not carrying anything useful just wait for him to jump, wake scan and follow? Or just blow him up?

+Where are people expecting these npcs to pop up? Unique signal sources, hanging around nav beacons?

Apparently we have most of the clues we need (apart from yet to be decoded #6), but what to do when we find him/them?
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A part of the says: take care of the trader, it will lead you to the bounty hunter eventually.
Another part of me says: BLOW IT, BURN IT. if this doesn't attract the attention of the bounty hunter something is wrong.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Jorki Rasalas said:
I think we had a first contact guide (by LZ???), about four subthreads ago. But think that's what it boiled down to.
whatever we decide the chances are someone who has not read it/does not want to follow it will make first contact so it is a bit moot, but i think we should have one that is in accordance with the Canonn ethos.

the one thing that is essential is that video recording be enabled and the results published to YouTube etc immediately with a link posted here to show us what happened & so we can start to analyse their behaviour and capabilities.
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Don't think it was me, although Verity did publish an article in which Dr Arcanonn restated the Canonn's policy on first contact after the waters were muddied somewhat with suggestions that we don't have a peaceful first contact policy - which, officially, we do.

But if it were me - then absolutely my Canonn advice is definitely to be recording - with a view to instant upload (and, even better: livestreaming on twitch :) ) and would not deploy hardpoints. If they're gonna take you out, then I think there's very little you can do, and we ultimately can't be sure that even the most innocuous of actions on our behalf (e.g. simply turning up, or performing a ship scan) might come off as aggressive.
 

RedWizzard

RedWizzard
MadDogMurdock said:
There's no good answer which leaves us free to grumble and mutter into our empty tea cups ;)
Generally I think it's a case that when you need this thread the most it becomes kind of useless because it moves too fast.

Do the separate channels on Discord help or not?
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The separate channels in Discord don't help, IMO. It means trying to keep up to a whole bunch of streams instead of just one, it has little quoting so context is difficult (being intended for real time chat rather than archiving discussions), and it's harder to resume a thread you come back to because there are no links to posts (you just have scroll backwards through an effectively infinite document).

Admittedly I often can't keep up with this thread when it gets over about 15 pages per visit (usually twice a day for me), but I can't keep up with Discord channels when they get over about 50 posts per visit.

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ilo said:
Is this replicable? can we confirm it? lol How many screenshots after it gets triggered?
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I've mentioned this a couple of times. If you hang around the cap ships too long they will turn hostile even if you're friendly (and perhaps even if you're allied). The cap ship itself never fired on me but the fighter wings did.
 

Esso

Esso
LordZoltan said:
Don't think it was me, although Verity did publish an article in which Dr Arcanonn restated the Canonn's policy on first contact
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In your linked article i read this quote:

"I urged caution in harvesting meta-alloys from barnacles because we weren’t sure what the long term damage would be. When it became clear that barnacles continued to replenish despite being harvested, only then did we commence mass ‘farming’. Barnacles are still appearing and, still, no long term damage has been done."

And here i am, docket at Merope 5C, the first ever discovered barnacle and its in ruin. All spikes broken, switched to solo and main a few times and it did not respawn. Therefore permanent damange HAS been done. Or am i missing something?
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Esso said:
In your linked article i read this quote:

"I urged caution in harvesting meta-alloys from barnacles because we weren’t sure what the long term damage would be. When it became clear that barnacles continued to replenish despite being harvested, only then did we commence mass ‘farming’. Barnacles are still appearing and, still, no long term damage has been done."

And here i am, docket at Merope 5C, the first ever discovered barnacle and its in ruin. All spikes broken, switched to solo and main a few times and it did not respawn. Therefore permanent damange HAS been done. Or am i missing something?
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It will revive at some point. And isn't that one of those which the feds had been camped over for a few days? ;)
 

TiberiuS

TiberiuS
All right, so where to go with my ship for tomorrow? Ngalia?

Or do you think that we need another piece of the puzzle to lead us somewhere?
 
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