UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn

CMDR Sheehy · Oct 16, 2015

Dommarraa said:
I have done a full DSS of Merope 3 times now, and it keeps getting reset to my knowledge pre 1.4 (Main Star and Asteroids only). Have reported it as a bug

Or someone does not want you to take the information away with you!!!

Ian Skippy · Oct 16, 2015

Sending out the Petrichor to Warkushanui. Scanners online on my command!

rizal72 · Oct 16, 2015

Bah!

"Only" Hafnium Convoys. Everything seems pretty usual.
I suspect it will be just another CG starting soon. BTW, the Galnet news about this System are not in game still, if you check...
I'll keep investigating a little bit...

EDIT: Medical Convoys as well, all kind of Convoys spawning. Lots of activity in the System.

Cmdr Delmonte[VR] · Oct 16, 2015

rizal72 said:
Bah!
"Only" Hafnium Convoys. Everything seems pretty usual.
I suspect it will be just another CG starting soon. BTW, the Galnet news about this System are not in game still, if you check...
I'll keep investigating a little bit...

EDIT: Medical Convoys as well, all kind of Convoys spawning. Lots of activity in the System.

That's a shame !!!! Most exited I've been all day ! at my desk working *cough* erhm !

Well the was that moment this morning but........ Cmdr Outspan would rather I dint say

o7

rizal72 · Oct 16, 2015

Secret Planets confirmed!

I can confirm what happened to another CMDR some days ago, documented in this thread:

I followed a Medical Convoy: it jumped on another system, then I kept following it in SuperCruise. He headed in some apparently random direction, but after a bit I spotted a tiny object in space, similar to the dot you see when approaching a station.
The Convoy then came out of SC there in front of that dot, and I followed: BANG! A huge icy planet in front of me! The same spotted by the other CMDR, white and lined with canyon like lines. When I say huge, I mean it.
the Convoy headed towards the planet surface, but after a bit he changed his mind, going FSD. I followed it to another System, to an Outpost this time. Then I stopped.

The icy Planet wasn't there before coming out from SC, just a tiny dot.

I hope it's not a bug...

Dommarraa · Oct 16, 2015

Ratking15 said:
Well it made it sound like the problems were at the stations not in the system it'self and also it said that they couldn't get a stable coms connection with them so I just went and checked it out, but as rizal has said from his invesigations I'll probably need to suit up for combat which I'd rather slowly work into than quickly.

Combat ship to investigate things ? Pfffft Where are your man marbles ?

Not a lot of interest to see so far:
USS - Haulers with Technical Blueprints
SSS - Navy Convoys with HE Suits/Battle weapons etc, just the norm. The only difference is that a few pirate Vultures turned up looking like they were going to hit the Convoys, but went for me instead. BSR wins the day.
SSS - Private Conda Wing carrying Tea and Biscuits (not really Biscuits, Mineral Oil, but that is dull)

Darwin · Oct 16, 2015

rizal72 said:
Indeed.
But I feel there is a way to let it talk a little more...
I'm planning a "mindblowing" experiment for this evening, something we've already tried to do in the past, when we've been told we were close, but with some "interesting" addition... but it's too mad to talk about it now... the risk of being made fun of is too high

Did anything come of this? I was intrigued

Cmdr Delmonte[VR] · Oct 16, 2015

rizal72 said:
Secret Planets confirmed!

I can confirm what happened to another CMDR some days ago, documented in this thread:

I followed a Medical Convoy: it jumped on another system, then I kept following it in SuperCruise. He headed in some apparently random direction, but after a bit I spotted a tiny object in space, similar to the dot you see when approaching a station.
The Convoy then came out of SC there in front of that dot, and I followed: BANG! A huge icy planet in front of me! The same spotted by the other CMDR, white and lined with canyon like lines. When I say huge, I mean it.
the Convoy headed towards the planet surface, but after a bit he changed his mind, going FSD. I followed it to another System, to an Outpost this time. Then I stopped.

The icy Planet wasn't there before coming out from SC, just a tiny dot.

I hope it's not a bug...

Ive also had this, I think its when you follow the wake it bring you out where they dropped, this may be some distance away and closer to a planet, interesting ours was also an ice planet ?

Ian Skippy · Oct 16, 2015

RedWizzard said:
The video is quite convincing and it's not the only account, I think there have been at least 3 different people report cases where UAs have not pointed at Merope. So it's evidence. The question is whether or not it's relevant evidence.

rizal72 said:
Secret Planets confirmed!

I can confirm what happened to another CMDR some days ago, documented in this thread:

I followed a Medical Convoy: it jumped on another system, then I kept following it in SuperCruise. He headed in some apparently random direction, but after a bit I spotted a tiny object in space, similar to the dot you see when approaching a station.
The Convoy then came out of SC there in front of that dot, and I followed: BANG! A huge icy planet in front of me! The same spotted by the other CMDR, white and lined with canyon like lines. When I say huge, I mean it.
the Convoy headed towards the planet surface, but after a bit he changed his mind, going FSD. I followed it to another System, to an Outpost this time. Then I stopped.

The icy Planet wasn't there before coming out from SC, just a tiny dot.

I hope it's not a bug...

Which systems were involved?

rizal72 · Oct 16, 2015

Darwin said:
Did anything come of this? I was intrigued

I'm still doing it. There's a strong reason I'm doing it, but I'm not sure if this "reason" is in 1.4 as it was in 1.3

Cmd Delmonte said:
Ive also had this, I think its when you follow the wake it bring you out where they dropped, this may be some distance away and closer to a planet, interesting ours was also an ice planet ?

I came back to it, and I found it is an Icy Moon, 853Km diameter, so not that huge as I thought, but that means that the Convoy get out of SC very close to it, so it is even more strange that the moon was not visible while in SC.

BTW this is the third time someone seeing the Convoy stopping in front of an Icy Planet. There must be a reason...

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sleutelbos said:
Which systems were involved?

Piscium Sector SQ-R B4-2. the last moon of the last planet. No stations, nothing. Uninhabited System (apparently).

EDIT: sorry, I meant uninhabited...

DialBforBiscuit · Oct 16, 2015

rizal72 said:
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Piscium Sector SQ-R B4-2. the last moon of the last planet. No stations, nothing. Inhabited System (apparently).

No station -above- the moon. Duh duh duuuuuuuuuhnnnNNNnNnNnNn

Cosmos · Oct 16, 2015

Dommarraa said:
There is an organised meet (Player CG) arranged for this weekend to do just that

I found if you follow the transport for long enough it loses its escort.. you can then 1v1 it..

Lurius · Oct 16, 2015

Any list of items/cargo we need/might find handy? Or list of items that are common/we don't need?

Dommarraa · Oct 16, 2015

Cosmos said:
I found if you follow the transport for long enough it loses its escort.. you can then 1v1 it..

And often it gets away. I followed one the other day for 4 or so jumps, it kept ALL its wing the entire time.
I did lots of Hafnium Convoy following, so know the pitfalls. In 1.4 I discovered yet another one where they can jump out of system to a target that is obscured by a star. You cannot follow.
Add that one to not appearing in system, their low wake being unfollowable, being interdicted while chasing them, crashing into a star, the wing reappearing when you interdict them... and probably more that I have forgotten.

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Lurius said:
Any list of items/cargo we need/might find handy? Or list of items that are common/we don't need?

Scientific Research on the Medical Convoys is the only thing we are currently looking for AFAIK. Most other things have been tested to death.

Uncle Bert · Oct 16, 2015

The Warkushanui story is now on the in game galnet

TFW Primus · Oct 16, 2015

Has anyone tried opening a bug with FD for the UA in 1.4 that didn't point to Merope? Maybe we could at least get confirmation that it was a bug and not a feature.

Popov Le Magnifique · Oct 16, 2015

Maybe it has to deal with a connection problem to the server.
It scans your ship, realigns and sends the message to Merope. If it doesn't know where Merope is, it doesn't realign. What d'you think?

ajwm · Oct 16, 2015

In warkushanui now. Just had heavily armoured escorts of hafnium so far. Haven't had any medical convoys yet.

TFW Primus · Oct 16, 2015

Would make sense, although I don't think it has to connect to the server to get that info, does it? I know I've had connectivity issues in the past where I was able to go to the galaxy map and select a system but didn't get forcibly disconnected until I tried to jump.

Uncle Bert · Oct 16, 2015

Popov Le Magnifique said:
Maybe it has to deal with a connection problem to the server.
It scans your ship, realigns and sends the message to Merope. If it doesn't know where Merope is, it doesn't realign. What d'you think?

I thought this, as the connection for me was a bit flaky last weekend and mentioned it a few posts back.

But I've finally got round to checking the video and I'd given the UA a healthy knock altering it's alignment. It stayed pointing the wrong way for about 4 minutes then as I returned from the galaxy map it has turned around to point at Merope.

UB