Just *how* corrosive are the UAs etc?

VR andysonofbob

VR andysonofbob
I want to see the alien sites but CBAs to endure the grind to unlock Palin. (I don't even know what I need to do tbh and have only unlocked Farseer and that dude.)

I understand you need to open the gate with a UA or something. If I collect one, will I have enough time to get to the active site before my cargo hold decays? Edit: my asp can jump about 42LYs...

Is there anything I can do to reinforce the hold without Palin.

Thanks!
 
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Martian Successor

Martian Successor
You can pack HRPs for a little extra survivability and AFMU for repair (you'd have to eject the UA first though) but the corrosive effect is RNG based from what I hear so you never know which modules it will degrade first. It could wreck your FSD or drives first for example and then you'd be stuck.

Alternatively you could go to Open or Mobius and enter the Tharg base by following another player who has a UA to open it with :)
 

RogueMason

RogueMason
UAs do in the region of 2-5% module damage every 30-ish seconds, and they only affect one module at a time e.g. the FSD could get a 4% degradation, then the cargo hatch might get a 3% hit, and so on. It's perfectly possible to grab a UA and fly for a little while without accumulating any serious damage (serious being ~75% and below), and it can definitely be managed with an AFMU.
 

Codger

Codger
You won't get malfunctions until your modules get down a bit (75% or below). They will take random damage as long as you have the corrosive item in your hold. Since it's random, you can (usually) go for a while before something dies. But how long is variable.

Unlocking Palin is time consuming, though, so you might have no choice but to risk it.
 
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Jmanis

Jmanis
You can get 2t corrosion resistant racks from palin.

Ignoring that option, you can carry 19 or less UAs before it becomes infinitely more lethal. 20 or more can one -shot Yukon canopy, putting you on there clock to get back to station as you can't repair that with afmu. But a single ua? Blot much to worry about.
 

CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
I guess the biggest problem would be to find the second one with the first one in your hold.
So you should probably try to find an UP first?
 

CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
Well, alternatively you could:

- Unlock Elvira Martuuk by bringing her 3 Soontill Relics.
- Upgrade Elvira to Rank 3-4
- Get allied with Sirius Corporation
- Complete the invitation mission to meet Marco Qwent
- Provide 25 modular terminals to Marco Qwent to unlock him
- Upgrade Qwent to rank 3-4
- Attain a maximum distance from your career start location of at least 5,000 light years to meet Palin
- Bring 25 unknown fragments to Palin to unlock

This will only take you a few months and then you can enjoy all the new content. ;)
 

Noctover

Noctover
aguettinger said:
Well, alternatively you could:

- Unlock Elvira Martuuk by bringing her 3 Soontill Relics.
- Upgrade Elvira to Rank 3-4
- Get allied with Sirius Corporation
- Complete the invitation mission to meet Marco Qwent
- Provide 25 modular terminals to Marco Qwent to unlock him
- Upgrade Qwent to rank 3-4
- Attain a maximum distance from your career start location of at least 5,000 light years to meet Palin
- Bring 25 unknown fragments to Palin to unlock

This will only take you a few months and then you can enjoy all the new content. ;)
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Hmm yes lol. Risk it, it is :).
 

Knightshark

Knightshark
Martian Successor said:
You can pack HRPs for a little extra survivability and AFMU for repair (you'd have to eject the UA first though) but the corrosive effect is RNG based from what I hear so you never know which modules it will degrade first. It could wreck your FSD or drives first for example and then you'd be stuck.

Alternatively you could go to Open or Mobius and enter the Tharg base by following another player who has a UA to open it with :)
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That doesn't work, you have to have your own ua.
 

woodhouse

woodhouse
aguettinger said:
Well, alternatively you could:

- Unlock Elvira Martuuk by bringing her 3 Soontill Relics.
- Upgrade Elvira to Rank 3-4
- Get allied with Sirius Corporation
- Complete the invitation mission to meet Marco Qwent
- Provide 25 modular terminals to Marco Qwent to unlock him
- Upgrade Qwent to rank 3-4
- Attain a maximum distance from your career start location of at least 5,000 light years to meet Palin
- Bring 25 unknown fragments to Palin to unlock

This will only take you a few months and then you can enjoy all the new content. ;)
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Ouch.

After I recently reached triple Elite and lost the ambition to do much in game I have been playing Elite through Youtube. Guess it will stay that way.
 
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Alderius

Alderius
I just found and picked one up last night, but didn't have time to do anything else so logged off. After reading this post, I'm wondering, will it continue to eat away at my ship so that when I log back in, I'll just go kaboom?
 

William J Smith

William J Smith
UA damage is survivable, picked one up from my usual system 140ly from Merope, flew the 110ly to 19026 and then on to the first mega structure.... not enough damage to my asp to worry about.

I need the UP now and goto the live site........ although I may get an alien relic or 6 first just to see what happens

Bill
 

CMDR-AD

CMDR-AD
I had wondered about this, too. There's no way I'm going to get Palin unlocked anytime soon. Plus I think I getting Unknown Fragments for him requires destroying UAs, which is something I've avoided doing.

Also another question regarding the Thargoid sites:

BTW, I'm out hunting for one of these sites in one of the systems listed on the Galnet article. But I'm not sure how to play. I'm not seeing any POI sites appearing on my Navigation Tab, so I should I presume that this will require the old-style doing a dragnet over every landable body in the system? Same as in the early days of the Guardians sites?
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
You don't need to unlock Palin to buy Racks off him.

But you do need to know where he is so maybe Qwent needs unlocking.
 
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