New red-orange dot approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute-- Thargoid mothership?
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That's the one I believe, I've posted it a few times before but you just have to keep posting it as new players come along, maybe it should be linked permanently in special in the forums as a resource for new players to watch if they are interested and for easy reference.
Thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.
I would say yes. The pinwheel is not jumping all over the place. It's stationary, ahead of me heading towards the bubble.
Impossible to catch it.
The rogue signal is there and is producing a noise - have to run it through Audacity - impossible to join the instance of this thing now. It moves away from you like a pirate avoiding interdiction. I've gotten within 24 million meters of it and had to do an emergency FSD drop - nothing there other than the point you're aiming at, and as soon as you are at space normal, it's already 2 ls away and running from you. Apparently just a noise maker you're not meant to see, just hear.
UIAs are visible from very long distances again.
I have to wonder if this is another case of FD not having a grip on version control and that this is a regression from before the last patch "lens flare fix."
I have to wonder if this is another case of FD not having a grip on version control and that this is a regression from before the last patch "lens flare fix."
Here's the noise from the Rogue Signal Source. I'm wondering if they're every hour like most listening posts are, as there wasn't really a lot to this noise (for me, at least).
If someone wants to download it and play with the signal, please feel free to do so. Science, and all that.
If someone wants to download it and play with the signal, please feel free to do so. Science, and all that.
I have been following this thread but not really going out of my way to follow up on any of it but im now getting 6 extra signal sources rather than 3, is this a H4 update hangover bug or are they coming en masse?
we will have to look into this, is suppose.Most likely UIA#4 to be found soon(tm)
I bet they use perforce (pretty standard in the gaming industry), and I bet their developers complain about it 1000% of the time because it's complete garbage compared to git.
git branch - completes in nanoseconds because git is smart enough to know no data needs to change, just a new branch pointer and update HEAD
p4 branch - can take literally days as it copies everything, then on top of that all the developers need to download the new branch.
Oh, what's that? You should use p4 streams instead of branches? Ok... it also takes literally days as it copies everything, only now we can't set workspace mappings to exclude the terrabytes of artist assets we programmers don't need. $#@$ing perforce who designed this rubbish!
They use Subversion IIRC.
With a few extra datapoints, a quick look at where the (known?) UIAs might be headed. There's still a lot of uncertainty on these - especially for Slegi and Oochost signals where we have less data and each new waypoint can still move its destination estimate by 100-150 LY by the time it gets into the vicinity of the bubble. They are of course not necessarily headed for the same destinations, and while they don't appear to be right now - the Slegi one is coming in much lower than the other two so far - there's equally enough uncertainty that they could be.
Other than "more likely to destination(s) in the bubble than to the outlying nebulae" there is of course still a lot of uncertainty here.
Closest approaches in LY on current average trajectory | Oochorrs | Slegi | Oochost |
Sol | 71 | 195 | 113 |
HIP 22460 | 211 | 211 | 74 |
42 n Persei | 225 | 148 | 146 |
Chun Pindit | 127 | 195 | 78 |
Tekkeitjal | 43 | 236 | 11 |
Shenve | 251 | 670 | 530 |
Maia | 274 | 120 | 169 |
| Achenar | 160 | 62 | 157 |
| Alioth | 100 | 272 | 146 |
Other than "more likely to destination(s) in the bubble than to the outlying nebulae" there is of course still a lot of uncertainty here.
At least subversion doesn't pretend it's any good
I suspect Sol, Achenar and Alioth are going to burn for Christmas.
Princess Astrophel is going to feed stuffed escape pods to all her little helpers
With lavian brandy pudding and ammonia ice for dessert.
Probably mycoid canapés for starters, they’ve probably adapted and got a taste for it by now
The question is... are my ships safe in Shinrarta Dezhra??
Edit: one good thing is that annoying First Apostle of the True Chapters could be impaled on top of the tree!
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Probably as safe as anywhere else. Which might not be very.I suspect Sol, Achenar and Alioth are going to burn for Christmas.
Princess Astrophel is going to feed stuffed escape pods to all her little helpers
With lavian brandy pudding and ammonia ice for dessert.
Probably mycoid canapés for starters, they’ve probably adapted and got a taste for it by now
The question is... are my ships safe in Shinrarta Dezhra??
Edit: one good thing is that annoying First Apostle of the True Chapters could be impaled on top of the tree!
Checking now, I can't see any more than the three expected extra signals myself.
nore can I - pitty me, was excited....
What can I say, lol, sorry.
Was definitely 6 earlier but checking again just now was only the 3, earlier was str8 after the update so maybe just servers settling.