Honkin' away out in The Black. Degraded Emissions Detected???

[Stonn Mrogg]

TL;DR: Sometimes out in The Black, many many k's-of-lys out from The Bubble, I find USSs (DEDs) that are just "small survey data caches." Does this mean that someone has been through that system? Because still everything is undiscovered. I feel like it means something.

Sometimes when I'm in the black and doing a trip to an ELW or AM that feels a little like a run "for the mug," I like to look around the Galmap, maybe sluice through some stars for some black holes, or maybe I'm just out in no-pilot's-space attempting to get away from RL stresses by getting away from ED bubble stress factors too, one moment at a time.

Then I'll multitask and look on the forums. Spacelegs. Why don't they respond to my beta ideas/suggestions/complaints, oh, Fdev in your Crystal Tower??? Mamba is too hot/too slow/too Fer-de-lance-y. Hu-rae for the sound team! (indeed, hooray huzzah! Nerdgasm livestream BTW) I miss The Space Loach. Me too. Wire frame Cobras. Why is Black Friday not happening on Thursday?

Then I get a "...Click."

Instantlly I Alt-Tab back to ED and I find a USS in the middle of Nowheresvillburghampton. Ahh look, my favorite RNG game, the Degraded Emissions Detected craps shoot. But out in The Black there's never any high quality transport or military type bits. Just these small data caches...

What's it mean?

I feel like it means something.


I love that TL;DR disclaimer. Instant carte blanche status to ramble ad naseum

 

[bootsam]

These small data banks are probably your beta ideas/suggestions/complaints you sent to FD...

 

[dubsdj]

I see them quite often. I found a large survey cache yesterday but I only have 3 slots in my cargo bay for limpets so I left it. I think they just spawn at random.

 

[Stonn Mrogg]

These small data banks are probably your beta ideas/suggestions/complaints you sent to FD...

That is a great way to re/upcycle all the salt that's been mined!

I see them quite often. I found a large survey cache yesterday but I only have 3 slots in my cargo bay for limpets so I left it. I think they just spawn at random.

A large one, you say. Far away from the bubble? Maybe they are random, but I have never seen a large data cache in my travels though the Undiscovered Country(TM). I feel like it's a calling card, like a hair you forgot to vacuum up in some 34th century GATTACA remake.

edit:

Maybe I missed my take home question here. I blame the Lavian Brandy... anyhow, when you're out where nothing happens and a DSS appears, that's... unique. And it's always a small data cache that IMHO fits the bill for anyone being out here where I am. If I were to spill some coinage out of my car while reading The Sun in the desert it might register similarly. It's never a distress call. Never a combat aftermath. Never a non-human signal. Woo, you know there ain't no high grade emissions out here. So what's up with this small data cache?

Fdev, I put the ball in your court. Oh wait, they love a mysterious mystery more than we do <grin>

 

[777Driver]

Large data caches (and other things) will be much easier to find out in the black with the new FSS

 

[Stonn Mrogg]

Large data caches (and other things) will be much easier to find out in the black with the new FSS

Ah yes, I forgot the mechanics that are incoming. I think this post will end up other's subjective empirical evidence against my subjective evidence, and add a pinch of salt no doubt.

I lock this thread until further studies are conducted after the new update mic drops. Carry on o7

 

[IndigoWyrd]

It means an NPC didn’t make it back home. In the beta there was more than just data caches to be found too. We’ll see what makes it to release.

 

[Nadreck]

I found some wreckage and a Large Data Cache way out near the Heart & Soul Nebulae once. Unfortunately the Beluga is notoriously bad at scooping, and I had no collector limpet controller. *splat* Cargo Destroyed.

What really freaks me out: you're out in the middle of nowhere, and you've decided to go tag some planets around a distant secondary star in a system, maybe 100,000ls out. So you're supercruising, not really paying attention, and... something bright just shot past, briefly lighting up your cabin, way out in deep space. And then you can't find it. What's that about?

 

[Deleted member 110222]

They are why all ships should carry at least 2T cargo rack.

 

[moorison]

Given enough time spend in supercruise, there is a 100% chance* to encounter those data caches. Same thing with the POIs on every landable planet.

* there was no scientific study to support this claim.

It gets really strange if you find an NPC patrolling on a planet surface far from the next settlement, but that happened some time ago.

 

[CMDR Pugwash]

Interesting. Things have certainly changed since my last trip out. There used to be nothing beyond a certain distance from the bubble. Roll on the 11th of December. [yesnod][yesnod][yesnod]