Has anyone been able to honk a UA or UP when the ship is still near? I wonder if the encoded signals would be any different...
You must have read the wrong half.
Having a UA appears to increase chances of being winterdicted, but people have been winterdicted without one. What the frequency is, is still unknown.
I just noticed my headlights were still working! Maybe we can turn them off and on to communicate?
Some data from me regarding hyper-'dicts:
Yesterday and today i was snooping around in the Pleiades and Aries region.
I have never travelled to a barnacle, alien wreck or ruin.
I have owned a UA once, dropped and destroyed it planetside.
I have never owned a UP and have no UF in my micro ressources.
No interdiction.
Tried 4 hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWzwzQxuhE
Had 1 UA and 1 UP in hold.
As soon as I pressed "Jump" I knew it will be an intercepted jump.
The FSD "loading" sounds were different and on countdown it had more bass sound. The hyperump was longer than usual and the destination star was very far - these are good "Thargoid" indicators, at least for me.
I just noticed my headlights were still working! Maybe we can turn them off and on to communicate?
This is as I feared.
For all our efforts with the UA, nothing really came of them - it was just intrigue and a visual spectacle.
Same with this![]()
^^^Completely Agree
Here is the clearest image of the barcode from my own encounter - is it the same for everyone? I have not picked up this before in videos I've seen and it was a surprise to me when I saw it.
Ok people, here you are:
http://carbryck.com/EDSCREENS/4_Signal_Component_Sets.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FpGBRau.jpg
Someone remembers?
Check the frontpage, Section "THERE COULD BE A SIGNAL HIDDEN IN THE OBELISKS SPECTROGRAM! "
the interdiction have died down sadly. (I want to know why but FD are very quiet... for some reason youd think brookes would drop a snarky comment or a hint or something)
i wonder what happens if this ship catches us with one/all of THIS STUFF in our cargo hold
http://i.imgur.com/duGKJGg.png
Ok, so I've been meaning to bring this up for a while and have never bothered but it seems pertinent again now, particularly given the box in the ships cockpit and its man-made appearance,, and possible connections between the winterdictions and the UAs.
Given the fact that the UAs send message using morse code there are only 3 basic possibilities:
- They are built by humans
- They are built by something non-human that has either human heritage or has had human contact, and has specifically designed something to communicate in a way easily interpretable by humans (It's a trap!?)
- The use of morse was purely something that FD used as part of a puzzle and they didn't think through what the implications of it were for the subject of the puzzle and the ongoing plot of the game
All the UA stuff happened well before I started playing so this may have all been sorted out at the time, but it generally seems to be that the UAs are considered Alien which would mean option 3 wrt the morse code. Has option 3 ever been confirmed as being the case?
If not, then surely the most likely origins for the UAs are human/human heritage.