UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

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Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Dommarraa said:
Excellent find. Something to investigate.

...Engage !
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Spotted a Medical Convoy in Timcani and followed it:
Wolf 289 - Dropped 1 Vulture
Timocani (again) - 1 of the Vultures loses its Green status. Still an Allied Faction. Wierd.
Wolf 289 (again)
Tirnitz - Immediate Drop, picked the correct wake. Anouther loses its Green
Tacheter Sector eg-x b1-5
Tirnitz (again)

Then jumped though a star, you cannot follow. I think the dialogue was caused by the combat, which was just a random bug. It may well use it if players attack, which I am not doing on my own when in "Investigation" fit.
 
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Uncle Bert

Uncle Bert
Bottoms!

Destroyed.jpg

I dropped his shields and deployed a hatch breaker, the three vulture escort were just looking on. Cargo released into space, frame shift charge detected. Yes, I'm going to get this done... No, canopy breach!.. Rebuy screen..............

Entirely possible with a bit more skill and attention to using the SCBs in time.

UB
 

nilreb

nilreb
Uncle Bert said:
Bottoms!
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Rep works only one time a day so far ... So an extra salute!
Hope you do/try it for lone wolf sportsmanship and not for the 305cr at Blackmarket.
I had 7% hull with my python as I delivered one to Varati. No optimal fighting from my side of course.
As Dommaaraa wrote (and I former): great chance of loosing a wing each jump/low wake.
Also you can bring down the shields without agro from Python with ramming. (not sure if possible with Vulture)
One hatchbraker limpet is mostly not enough with that many cargo. I needed 3 ...
With the Wolfpack hunt in "74 Draconis" with lurking Canonn Members in Varati the sci.research collection was great fun and a walk in the park link
(and no faction degrading ....) Enjoy the ride.

We salute you!
 

spameroo

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LordZoltan said:
I don't know how many other people here have had the pleasure/spookiness of observing them in VR, I just assumed I wasn't alone. I observed my very first UA (yes, I know, total fraud here!) on Wednesday, thanks to Derthek who brought one out to 1.5kly from Varati before I finally made it back yesterday. Here's a few things I noticed:

1) The UA is always blurred in VR - I was in an Asp, which has a relatively vertical canopy front, so was able to get really close, and I could never see it clearly. There is no debug cam in VR, so can't speak for that.

2) The blue lights that fly out from it are also always visible in VR, regardless of how close you are, and they are clearly made up of a couple of 'dots' - one short, and one slightly longer, making what looks like a tail.

3) The blue light things spread out over a distance of roughly 400m at a minimum.

4) The sound definitely incorporated some music-like elements to it - in fact - in 'live' the sound is considerably clearer, to me, than of any recordings I've watched. Can't really explain that - but there'll be some mundane explanation for it - especially considering I was using the same sound setup that I've used to watch the videos before.

5) We let this UA expire after an hour or so of mucking about with it. All the videos I've seen don't do the 'expiration' of the UA justice, and I have to say, what I saw really didn't seem like an explosion to me.

Anyway - feels good to be able to actually do some science based on some first-hand evidence for once!
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Ok, it took me a few days to get to the UA "shell" from the nebula I'd been checking out, but I finally got there last night and found my first UA in MEL 22 SECTOR LN-T D3-65.

I took a ton of high-res screenshots (normal way captures all the Oculus distortions and both eyes' view), most of them with the debug cam (sorry Zoltan :/). Apparently Windows 10 doesn't have a built-in way to convert BMPs to a compressed format, so I'll post a few once I convert them into files that aren't 150MB each.

For now, though, I will corroborate all of your observations were true for me in VR also, although I was able to see the UA without the distortion effect when I got really close in the debug cam.
It also became apparent after a while that each little "group" of spreading blue lights is actually one blue dot distorted by a "lensing" effect, because any stars behind them get split up in very similar patterns. That might need a picture for it to make sense... I'm not sure it means anything anyway, just reveals a bit about the shader I guess.

I didn't scoop the UA because I'm paranoid about losing exploration data, but once I go back to sell that in Varati I'll go back to the shell.
 

CMDR Sheehy

CMDR Sheehy
spameroo said:
Ok, it took me a few days to get to the UA "shell" from the nebula I'd been checking out, but I finally got there last night and found my first UA in MEL 22 SECTOR LN-T D3-65.

I took a ton of high-res screenshots (normal way captures all the Oculus distortions and both eyes' view), most of them with the debug cam (sorry Zoltan :/). Apparently Windows 10 doesn't have a built-in way to convert BMPs to a compressed format, so I'll post a few once I convert them into files that aren't 150MB each.

For now, though, I will corroborate all of your observations were true for me in VR also, although I was able to see the UA without the distortion effect when I got really close in the debug cam.
It also became apparent after a while that each little "group" of spreading blue lights is actually one blue dot distorted by a "lensing" effect, because any stars behind them get split up in very similar patterns. That might need a picture for it to make sense... I'm not sure it means anything anyway, just reveals a bit about the shader I guess.

I didn't scoop the UA because I'm paranoid about losing exploration data, but once I go back to sell that in Varati I'll go back to the shell.
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Display the image on screen, and then use the snipping tool...
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
LordZoltan said:
Hijack Mode On

Potentially important question regarding beta testing UAs; whether it should be done at all, and whether it should be shared, over on the Canonn site.

The post itself is my opinion, but the vote is an opportunity to get opinion from everyone. Whether it'll alter what actually happens is another matter - but, hey, it's an opportunity to find out what people think!

http://canonn.science/2015/11/11/beta-uas-im-not-interested-are-you/

In order to vote, you'll have to be a Canonn Member on the site, our man Derthek monitors the registrations personally for those who he recognises ;)

He might be working right now, though, so be patient!

Thanks O7

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Have added a 'not bothered' option to the vote on UA Beta testing result publishing, as a couple of people on TS last night expressed that preference and - since it's always irked me that, in the UK, we don't have 'none of the above' option when we vote - it only seemed right!

http://canonn.science/2015/11/11/beta-uas-im-not-interested-are-you/#tc-comment-title

Also, just linking to Derthek's poll that he put up separately, before mine, here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=198983

Glad it's stimulated some debate at least :)

I won't be hijacking any more, promise - back to science, and talking to science :D
 
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Cmdr Delmonte[VR]

Cmdr Delmonte[VR]
Done no effect they fly right past ! o7

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Ah the pain, did that in Merope, Canopy breech, managed to get about half way back before... choke...choke Arggggg Rebuy ...Conda.. 24mil:eek:
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Cmd Delmonte said:
Done no effect they fly right past ! o7

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Ah the pain, did that in Merope, Canopy breech, managed to get about half way back before... choke...choke Arggggg Rebuy ...Conda.. 24mil:eek:
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Did you equip Lapsed Pacifist II with A-Class life support after that incident?
 

dynamicbob

Banned
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I think the amount being sold at iapodes through a joint effort of sirius inc, and allies from various friendly player groups will soon pass through 50-100 sold. Maybe enough then to trigger some issues with technical problems
 

pretzil

pretzil
In the past couple of days I've visited around 20 systems in the "shell" mostly Mel 22 Sector xxxx and spent around 10 to 20 minutes buzzing around each one with not a sniff of a UA every now and then a system named HIP xxxxx is within jump distance (I found 3 such systems) and every one had a UA SSS within a few minutes. I've updated the database with the latest three UA sightings.
 

unrealization

unrealization
I just tried to register on the Canonn site, filled in my details and am now waiting for the mail that the site has threatened to send. I have already checked the spam folder and cannot find it anywhere.
I have also tried registering again and got the notice that both my username and email address were taken already. Thus I conclude that the registration worked as expected, but for some reason the mail has either not been sent out, has been delayed or was outright refused by Google.

If somebody with admin access (Derthek?) to the site could try to trigger that mail for me once more, I would carve a statue of your likeness out of a biscuit. Be aware that both my biscuit carving skills and my artistic competence are extremely limited.
 
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