Let's not kid ourselves here... anything MB posts rarely is innocuous or has no consequence... that includes his tattoo.
UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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Let's not kid ourselves here... anything MB posts rarely is innocuous or has no consequence... that includes his tattoo.
I wondered that too. If the damage to ships/stations is the UA trying to "grow", maybe someone needs to drop one on a high metal content planet? Or maybe a metal outcropping?
I'm only over at Cygnus Alpha; guess I'll fly over to Merope, find a UA and see what happens.
Well, my Asp is still very much a defenseless box, but one with better jump range and view.
Haven’t got a Scanner? Go to Maia and buy the data for 24 hours. Job done. Spare module bays. Bingo. More space for gin and pies.
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Why does a man climb a mountain? If he’s anything like me, maybe he dropped his s at the top but, anywhatever…
Craters are ten-a-credit and here’s some thoughts to add to the pile of our collective Meropean meanderings. If what we’re looking for in Merope is either hidden in plan site or tucked away but still ostensibly accessible… The mountains spring to mind. Logically, if there is something to be found there, it’s in the scanner vicinity of a peak and not necessarily partway up one face since, hey, how many faces does a mountain have? They’d make Rushmore blush on that front, not to mention some of them being positively devilish to scale.
Well, anyway, that and some of them are only accessible by buggy. Sorry, rover. Sorry, SRV. Sorry, buggy.
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Following a wagging of chins with some of the Council yesterday - and being concerned about the heads rolling down the hill after falling off the gang of chickens that is our collective effort in Merope – there’s some stuff that bubbled up. None of it new ideas in and of themselves but an incorporation of the methods and techniques being clambered towards by those looning about in Merope. Simply put, there are some ideas getting thrown at each other for a sort of Canonn Guide To Meropean Meandering. Something to keep things trim and to reduce wasted efforts and wasted time on the part of so many sciencers and commanders.
What follows below is pretty much the kernel of the approach agreed upon. More to follow. This is me. Always more wally-texty to follow sooner or later.
Preliminary Notes For Merope Landings Report Protocol:
Distance travelled in your SRV is nice but it means nothing if nobody knows which points were your A and B or even C to Z. If you check and report checking somewhere – be it crater, plain, mountain, canyon, barnyard, extraction site, curiously over-guarded Tea Depot, crash site, etc – please include a note of the long/latt coordinates of the discovery.
Reasons? Here’s some.
Should you find something… anything… even remotely interesting or sexy (or fun) it’s easy enough for people reading your report to go check it out themselves if they wish.
Making it possible for others to avoid duplicating work and so help keep the head on the chicken.
There are, I believe, plans afoot to craft up 2D maps or at least visual reference photography and, so, knowing the coordinates of reported locations could help to build up the bigger picture we’re currently squinting at.
In the case of canyons, please note the start and end coordinates, either of your search or the full canyon length itself if you complete a scour of the entire canyon.
In the case of craters, the coordinates of the centre (or cause of crater) would be dandy.
Prowling the plains? Coords, please. Checking POIs from low orbit? Coords, please.
And, yeah, if this is starting to look like a shed load of coordinates, that’s the scale of the job in Merope. Not a lot of fun to be had in doing it methodically, unless that’s your thing.
Try not to start scouring a specific location and then leave it uncompleted, sending in a report to that effect. Nobody wants your sloppy seconds.
Note: the framework for collating various reports is yet to be put in place. Not my department. I do gin and s and words.
This approach is not live at the time of posting. This is a heads up regarding the way things appear to be heading towards. Full reports here to the Threadnaught in response to this waffle from me* are not necessary at this stage, though please do keep your own notes prepped should this go live and required your juicy data and observations in reports.
*Not to say that posts about efforts in Merope are to stop. Hell, you'd rightly ignore me anyway if I were daft enough to try and stop them.
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Why does a man climb a mountain? If he’s anything like me, maybe he dropped his s at the top but, anywhatever…
Craters are ten-a-credit and here’s some thoughts to add to the pile of our collective Meropean meanderings. If what we’re looking for in Merope is either hidden in plan site or tucked away but still ostensibly accessible… The mountains spring to mind. Logically, if there is something to be found there, it’s in the scanner vicinity of a peak and not necessarily partway up one face since, hey, how many faces does a mountain have? They’d make Rushmore blush on that front, not to mention some of them being positively devilish to scale.
Well, anyway, that and some of them are only accessible by buggy. Sorry, rover. Sorry, SRV. Sorry, buggy.
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Following a wagging of chins with some of the Council yesterday - and being concerned about the heads rolling down the hill after falling off the gang of chickens that is our collective effort in Merope – there’s some stuff that bubbled up. None of it new ideas in and of themselves but an incorporation of the methods and techniques being clambered towards by those looning about in Merope. Simply put, there are some ideas getting thrown at each other for a sort of Canonn Guide To Meropean Meandering. Something to keep things trim and to reduce wasted efforts and wasted time on the part of so many sciencers and commanders.
What follows below is pretty much the kernel of the approach agreed upon. More to follow. This is me. Always more wally-texty to follow sooner or later.
Preliminary Notes For Merope Landings Report Protocol:
Distance travelled in your SRV is nice but it means nothing if nobody knows which points were your A and B or even C to Z. If you check and report checking somewhere – be it crater, plain, mountain, canyon, barnyard, extraction site, curiously over-guarded Tea Depot, crash site, etc – please include a note of the long/latt coordinates of the discovery.
Reasons? Here’s some.
Should you find something… anything… even remotely interesting or sexy (or fun) it’s easy enough for people reading your report to go check it out themselves if they wish.
Making it possible for others to avoid duplicating work and so help keep the head on the chicken.
There are, I believe, plans afoot to craft up 2D maps or at least visual reference photography and, so, knowing the coordinates of reported locations could help to build up the bigger picture we’re currently squinting at.
In the case of canyons, please note the start and end coordinates, either of your search or the full canyon length itself if you complete a scour of the entire canyon.
In the case of craters, the coordinates of the centre (or cause of crater) would be dandy.
Prowling the plains? Coords, please. Checking POIs from low orbit? Coords, please.
And, yeah, if this is starting to look like a shed load of coordinates, that’s the scale of the job in Merope. Not a lot of fun to be had in doing it methodically, unless that’s your thing.
Try not to start scouring a specific location and then leave it uncompleted, sending in a report to that effect. Nobody wants your sloppy seconds.
Note: the framework for collating various reports is yet to be put in place. Not my department. I do gin and s and words.
This approach is not live at the time of posting. This is a heads up regarding the way things appear to be heading towards. Full reports here to the Threadnaught in response to this waffle from me* are not necessary at this stage, though please do keep your own notes prepped should this go live and required your juicy data and observations in reports.
*Not to say that posts about efforts in Merope are to stop. Hell, you'd rightly ignore me anyway if I were daft enough to try and stop them.
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The funny thing about merope is,
there is only a single planet which is not landable yet,
apart from gas giants and ringed ones.
there is only a single planet which is not landable yet,
apart from gas giants and ringed ones.
I am setting up a Geocities site right now... who will cover Myspace?
No, the UA spells the Planet's name if deployed from SRV.
If deployed from a ship, it draws the ship.
Done immediately after 2.0 release:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&page=323&p=3266700&viewfull=1#post3266700
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Meta-Alloys I think.
As already discussed deeply yesterday, Michael never said it.
That statement is not official at all and came from someone from FD, during a public event somewhere. Before the MORSE discovery.
The only official word, in those distant times, was about listening to them.
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Michael Brookes
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Could anyone helo me with info? Where should the planetary POIs spawn? I'm trying to find something on stars around Merope and I'm uncertain if the POIs should spawn in orbital cruise or normal speed? Maybe these are just empty planets or maybe I've already overflown the ziggurat a thousand times 
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