UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

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Hoboner

Hoboner
I was watching a few people play the beta on Twitch 2 nights ago and one (about 99% sure it was on Londongaming4fun's stream) had text for the Eye mission title. I can't exactly remember the wording, but I do remember the word "killing" in the mission title. He didnt accept it however, or even acknowledge it, assuming because there was text in the title so it blended in with the rest. I'm doing my best to grab a screen-grab of it. (first need to find where it happened again).

Has anyone else seen this? or is this old news at this point? Been a while since I've been in the thread.

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Having one hell of a time locating where it happened as twitch is buffering every 3 seconds for me right now....of course it happens now! haha.

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Finally found the bit I was looking for, ended up not being what I originally thought it was. Was the "other" Eye mission...the smaller eye icon. Mission title was "a time to die". In other words, nothing to see here. My mistake!
 
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yoda711

yoda711
so uh, sorry to interject in the middle of all this biscuit talk :)

Haven't come across a UA myself yet (been doing a few other things to try to upgrade my gear first). I believe I read somewhere that when these things die, they shoot something out the "head." It's difficult to see this in videos because all the ones I have seen that show them dying are close up, too close to see if it is actually shooting something or simply exploding. If it does shoot something, has anyone tried getting shot by it?
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
yoda711 said:
so uh, sorry to interject in the middle of all this biscuit talk :)

Haven't come across a UA myself yet (been doing a few other things to try to upgrade my gear first). I believe I read somewhere that when these things die, they shoot something out the "head." It's difficult to see this in videos because all the ones I have seen that show them dying are close up, too close to see if it is actually shooting something or simply exploding. If it does shoot something, has anyone tried getting shot by it?
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As much as anyone can, I think. A whole thread or two back now. Nada.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Okay, so on the UAs and station malfunctions, here's what I think, plus a question.

- UAs sold at stations do cause the malfunctions
- there doesn't have to be a particular number sold- one is enough
- The malfunctions and shutdowns are not instigated by the BGS, but instead are managed by our game makers.
- They do this by checking a list of stations at which UAs have been sold, available to them courtesy of the data from the transaction server which records and validates all purchases and sales
- The price increase was a not-very-subtle act to encourage selling vs experimentation etcso as to give fuel for the fire, I.e. give them more stations to choose from.

That's the method,but I'm wondering if there isn't something else that unifies the affected stations. Something there that ensures it will become 'infected'. Could be a commodity held as stock at these stations; a particular political alignment or something. Could even be station type(s).

It feels like there's got to be something we can learn about why this occurs, outside of just a random choice.

Anyway, thought I'd post some actual thoughts for a change lol.
 

Ayal

A
You guys gonna keep talking bout biscuits ? I'm hungry god damn it 😢
Anyway I still don't understand why frontier just doesn't give us another lead that we could at least follow ... Because we are only walking circles right now unless someone finds a new clue within the content we have in the current game , the station malfunctions just made this thing even more mysterious .... I wondeeeer .... If the UA was transmitting the name of the near station back in 1.3 ( correct me if I'm wrong ) what if the current malfunctioning stations were those which the UAs were actually transmitting their names when we jettisoned them ?

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If this is true the UA might really be responsible ... It's also possible that when the UAs are sold ( since we don't know what happens to them after ) they will transmit the staion name or etc like they did before and someone starts the sequence to shut down the systems ( by transmitting I mean morse code that tells the name etc )
 

rizal72

rizal72
Brief OT:
the new Subsurface scattering feature in beta 4 is breathtaking! No picture could explain it, you need to see it in motion, during light changing conditions.
Charon or Enceladus are perfect.

Land safe, CMDRs!
 

Edd Jordan

Edd Jordan
So is there nothing more to be found with the UAs in 1.5? do we have to wait for horizons to launch now before more can be found? im loving UA mystery but i feel the story is ether moving to slow or has stalled at the moment. i want to see a station on fire, mysterious reports of strange things happening to explorers way out in the black, hell a bourbon biscuit covered in tin foil would do right now!
 

knowles2

K
LordZoltan said:
Okay, so on the UAs and station malfunctions, here's what I think, plus a question.

- UAs sold at stations do cause the malfunctions
- there doesn't have to be a particular number sold- one is enough
- The malfunctions and shutdowns are not instigated by the BGS, but instead are managed by our game makers.
- They do this by checking a list of stations at which UAs have been sold, available to them courtesy of the data from the transaction server which records and validates all purchases and sales
- The price increase was a not-very-subtle act to encourage selling vs experimentation etcso as to give fuel for the fire, I.e. give them more stations to choose from.

That's the method,but I'm wondering if there isn't something else that unifies the affected stations. Something there that ensures it will become 'infected'. Could be a commodity held as stock at these stations; a particular political alignment or something. Could even be station type(s).

It feels like there's got to be something we can learn about why this occurs, outside of just a random choice.

Anyway, thought I'd post some actual thoughts for a change lol.
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There a few things should look at to see if there a pattern

a pattern in the stations locations (bet someone already done this)
The time of each station announce they are affected
The factions that control each station
the type of star they orbit
the planet they orbit
the population size of each system,
products and services each station provides
whether they are industrial, agricultural


Done a spreadhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO2Oti9-SHfE0ssrM3iqIuHPDNVC8pAyXq0UV4AEICc/edit?usp=sharing

Added all the systems and the date their infections first appeared.
 
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Four Muffins

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I'm currently sitting next to a UA about 1.5 million Ls from the Aries Dark Region GW-W d1-52 star. I was planning on picking it up, disabling my modules and seeing if it took over or replaced them. Or maybe taking it out into the interstellar medium and seeing if the sounds changed. This one is not aligned with Merope though. It's close. I'm tempted to nudge it to see if it corrects, but I'm paranoid of breaking it, it took hours to find.

Unless someone has better ideas? =]
 
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knowles2

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Edd Jordan said:
So is there nothing more to be found with the UAs in 1.5? do we have to wait for horizons to launch now before more can be found? im loving UA mystery but i feel the story is ether moving to slow or has stalled at the moment. i want to see a station on fire, mysterious reports of strange things happening to explorers way out in the black, hell a bourbon biscuit covered in tin foil would do right now!
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Horizon and 1.5 should be the same game when it comes to the artefact. It be mean of frontier to hide the next piece of the puzzle behind a pay wall.

We still haven't figure out this station thing yet or who was artificially inflating the price of UA on the market.
 
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clavain

clavain
LordZoltan said:
Okay, so on the UAs and station malfunctions, here's what I think, plus a question.

- UAs sold at stations do cause the malfunctions
- there doesn't have to be a particular number sold- one is enough
- The malfunctions and shutdowns are not instigated by the BGS, but instead are managed by our game makers.
- They do this by checking a list of stations at which UAs have been sold, available to them courtesy of the data from the transaction server which records and validates all purchases and sales
- The price increase was a not-very-subtle act to encourage selling vs experimentation etcso as to give fuel for the fire, I.e. give them more stations to choose from.

That's the method,but I'm wondering if there isn't something else that unifies the affected stations. Something there that ensures it will become 'infected'. Could be a commodity held as stock at these stations; a particular political alignment or something. Could even be station type(s).

It feels like there's got to be something we can learn about why this occurs, outside of just a random choice.

Anyway, thought I'd post some actual thoughts for a change lol.
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Maybe it just "is". Like Merope.
 

Hoboner

Hoboner
Currently in Merope now roving around the surfaces of the planets. Anything in particular anyone wants me to look around for? Cruised around the surface checking out POI's but nothing of interest other than a lot of gold canisters. Only checked a small amount before my FPS started chugging along pretty heavy and deciding to take a break. Will do some more snooping around later tonight.
 

TFW Primus

TFW Primus
Regarding the station impact, maybe we shouldn't be looking so closely at the stations at *are* impacted but making a closer inspection of other stations in the same systems that *aren't* having malfunctions. Are there any trends? I don't know. Honestly not sure where anything can go now until Horizons.
 

RedWizzard

RedWizzard
LordZoltan said:
Okay, so on the UAs and station malfunctions, here's what I think, plus a question.

- UAs sold at stations do cause the malfunctions
- there doesn't have to be a particular number sold- one is enough
- The malfunctions and shutdowns are not instigated by the BGS, but instead are managed by our game makers.
- They do this by checking a list of stations at which UAs have been sold, available to them courtesy of the data from the transaction server which records and validates all purchases and sales
- The price increase was a not-very-subtle act to encourage selling vs experimentation etcso as to give fuel for the fire, I.e. give them more stations to choose from.

That's the method,but I'm wondering if there isn't something else that unifies the affected stations. Something there that ensures it will become 'infected'. Could be a commodity held as stock at these stations; a particular political alignment or something. Could even be station type(s).

It feels like there's got to be something we can learn about why this occurs, outside of just a random choice.

Anyway, thought I'd post some actual thoughts for a change lol.
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This is pretty much what I think, too. The one thing I'd add is that perhaps one of the deciding factors for which stations get picked is mentions here and wherever else FD monitor. There were definitely people saying "why Warkushnui and not 49 Arietis?" when the first mention of all of this happened on Galnet. And then 49 Arietis was in the second batch.
 
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