Can't summon the Thargoid at the Barnacle? Here's how

[publicstaticvoid]

I posted this in Cannon but as usual it is getting buried.
-Engage SRV and drive close to Barnacles
-Dismiss ship if it hasn't been dismissed yet.
-Wait for ship to leave.
-Open bottom menu
-The recall ship should be red (if you are in the Barnacle field)
-Move away from Barnacle until recall button is no longer red.
-Turn around and move back towards the Barnacle and into the settlement zone. Position yourself next to the main Barnacle.
-Count to 10
-Move back out of settlement zone
Rinse and repeat.

It WILL work given enough attempts. I spawned 16 events with a total settlement zone event spawn rate of about 10%. Entering the settlement zone is the primary trigger. Confirmed on Solo, private, and open. Also confirmed with intact and destroyed barnacle spires. It won't take you very long to spawn the event.

Also, for the love of God, don't disturb the Thargoids.
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-Public Static Void

 

[Deareim]

Do i need to run 10 timrs naked around my house ?

 

[Kimosabe_X]

Do i need to run 10 timrs naked around my house ?

Nnnnnope... But if so, DON'T take a video... [where is it]

 

[publicstaticvoid]

Lol no, just count. The event starts 30 seconds after entering the settlement zone. I say count to ten so you are in a good position should it happen.

 

[Whitehair]

Do i need to run 10 timrs naked around my house ?

You don't NEED to, but ...it's your house. Some people do have strange hobby's

 

[Gryphorim]

Been at this for a while now, no dice. How far are you going away from the barnacles? I am going around 500m (just enough to let ship land)

Do you need previous contact with alien artifacts? need to have unlocked Palin?

Spent several hours following this advice. Doesn't work for all. Evidently there's some other trigger at work here.

 

[Jaensn]

After wasting four hours of my life just waiting at a barnacle I tried this method thirty times. Of course: no luck.

Makes you really appreciate the thought out "gameplay". I guess in order to experience stuff, you just have to watch some youtube videos of the lucky one percent.

Also, Elite is nominated for "evolving game" >D Let me spoil this... they won't win.

 

[babelfisch]

After wasting four hours of my life just waiting at a barnacle I tried this method thirty times. Of course: no luck.

Makes you really appreciate the thought out "gameplay". I guess in order to experience stuff, you just have to watch some youtube videos of the lucky one percent.

Also, Elite is nominated for "evolving game" >D Let me spoil this... they won't win.

It's not meant to be game play, it's a teaser for upcoming alien content in 2.4. Of course you are supposed to watch a teaser on YouTube. You are not supposed to waste your time waiting for a scripted scene you read somewhere on the forum. Especially not if you know that this scene doesn't offer any activity. Apparently you got it all wrong.

 

[Vasea Azure]

Sooo... any other ideas? Is there any pattern with people that were lucky enough to summon the alien ship? (as I`m not that in to alien stuff I will give the aliens 30min more of my time). Srsly FD, you actively encouraging ppl to expiriance your content via YT lol

 

[crushdepth]

Do i need to run 10 timrs naked around my house ?

Don't listen to them. Of course you do.

 

[babelfisch]

Do i need to run 10 timrs naked around my house ?

No, of course not. It's your neighbours house.

 

[Flimley]

I will wait until the thargoids send me a party invitation.

Flimley

 

[BlackSpaceCowboy]

After wasting four hours of my life just waiting at a barnacle I tried this method thirty times. Of course: no luck.

Makes you really appreciate the thought out "gameplay". I guess in order to experience stuff, you just have to watch some youtube videos of the lucky one percent.

Also, Elite is nominated for "evolving game" >D Let me spoil this... they won't win.

It's just bad programming.

 

[Canoe]

This does not work. I spent half a day trying it some time ago. As I mentioned in my own thread (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/357582-The-Nature-of-Causality) I'm inclined to believe something is potentially broken or bugged for a group of people, unless FD categorically can confirm otherwise.

 

[CapuchinSeven]

Between some people getting this to work and others not and some people getting interdicted 10 times in a row and others not, I'm beginning to think it's just plain broken.

EDIT* either that or some of us are really really missing something.

 

[babelfisch]

This does not work. I spent half a day trying it some time ago. As I mentioned in my own thread (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/357582-The-Nature-of-Causality) I'm inclined to believe something is potentially broken or bugged for a group of people, unless FD categorically can confirm otherwise.

Maybe they don't want people to experience alien encounters everywhere and all the time just yet. Maybe it's meant to be a Close Encounters of the Third Kind thing rather than Mars Attacks. Maybe it's designed as a scripted teaser because it is just that.

 

[Canoe]

Maybe they don't want people to experience alien encounters everywhere and all the time just yet. Maybe it's meant to be a Close Encounters of the Third Kind thing rather than Mars Attacks. Maybe it's designed as a scripted teaser because it is just that.

Which is fine, but if you balance out activity over a long period of time, and we're talking weeks and weeks here, and still get zero, that link between time, activity and causality for the event is clearly broken unless otherwise stated. I'd really like to hear if it is or not.

 

[CapuchinSeven]

Maybe they don't want people to experience alien encounters everywhere and all the time just yet. Maybe it's meant to be a Close Encounters of the Third Kind thing rather than Mars Attacks. Maybe it's designed as a scripted teaser because it is just that.

Fine, then don't send out big deal emails claiming everyone can get involved in a CG that expects you to scan them as gameplay.

 

[publicstaticvoid]

I am not trolling, I was able to get several people in open several occurrences to include Stellar Sara who had been at it for 12 days with no luck.

I do believe it is bugged as there was a couple times throughout the night that I had to get everyone in open to move to private group so we could reset the zone. I KNOW this works, I was on a 6 day dry spell and got it to work 12 times, each time resting the instance. I even sat back and had the rest of the open group spawn it so I could get a scan off. It isn't the RNG Gods that made 12x happen. Im certain this works.

I also was able to do this in open for a total of 16 times last night.

 

[publicstaticvoid]

I am not trolling, I was able to get several people in open several occurrences to include Stellar Sara who had been at it for 12 days with no luck.

I do believe it is bugged as there was a couple times throughout the night that I had to get everyone in open to move to private group so we could reset the zone. I KNOW this works, I was on a 6 day dry spell and got it to work 12 times, each time resting the instance. I even sat back and had the rest of the open group spawn it so I could get a scan off. It isn't the RNG Gods that made 12x happen. Im certain this works.

I also was able to do this in open for a total of 16 times last night.

I'd make sure 'A' that you are at the correct barnies, 'B' you are actually moving out of the settlement zone, and 'C' you reset the instance if it isn't spawning.