UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[rizal72]

the solution could also be to just stop selling the ua´s. not a practical solution either... we can´t control what every pilot does...

No, it's not enough.
There's a solution similar to the Cerberus Plague, and the Heike Tea that cured it. I'm sure that was a kind of "experiment" in preparation of this huge one.
BTW I hope that, this time, the solution is more "sensible" then... Tea... I mean, something like a Commodity with real special properties, like Sothis Gold, for example, or Hafnium.
Or those Scientific Researches carried by those Med Convoys... so many possibilities...

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Can we 'cure' the damage to stations? (pretty please)

He already told us: we can stop it. That's everything we needed to know.
If we stop it, the Station will be then repaired, as the "issue" will not be affecting them anymore.

 

[littlee]

No, but we can shoot them down.

if you can fly in their solo dimension..

 

[GilliganTX]

if you can fly in their solo dimension..

Parade-rain'er.

 

[Kyp Shard]

He replied....

These are VERY IMPORTANT news for us, guys.
I knew that it was already possible to do something about it: we need to go back to science immediately, like Commodities tests, and things like that.

Yep, more commodities tests. We need to get high numbers of rares, hafnium, sap8 etc. sold to bond.

And we need to dream up more tests to find out what the mechanic could be if not commodities.

the solution could also be to just stop selling the ua´s. not a practical solution either... we can´t control what every pilot does...

No, but we can shoot them down.

That'll be a lot of shooting. The Galnet calling for pilots to stop selling UA's has prompted many to get all excited about possible powerplay misuse of UA's.

 

[Derthek]

@MB what did you ask for Santa to bring you this year?

(Sorry about the pre-patch madness, this is what happens when we run out of things to science)

 

[Kyp Shard]

There's a solution similar to the Cerberus Plague, and the Heike Tea that cured it. I'm sure that was a kind of "experiment" in preparation of this huge one.
BTW I hope that, this time, the solution is more "sensible" then... Tea... I mean, something like a Commodity with real special properties, like Sothis Gold, for example, or Hafnium.
Or those Scientific Researches carried by those Med Convoys... so many possibilities...

I agree

He already told us: we can stop it. That's everything we needed to know.
If we stop it, the Station will be then repaired, as the "issue" will not be affecting them anymore.

No, there's an important difference. If all we need to do is stop the spread - i.e. quarantine and control - then the commodities idea is redundant.

 

[GilliganTX]

Yep, more commodities tests. We need to get high numbers of rares, hafnium, sap8 etc. sold to bond.

And we need to dream up more tests to find out what the mechanic could be if not commodities.





That'll be a lot of shooting. The Galnet calling for pilots to stop selling UA's has prompted many to get all excited about possible powerplay misuse of UA's.

I propose we split up the affected stations and sell a predetermined rare(s) to each. No cross pollination, so that if one of the stations DOES get better, we can look at which one or more commodities we sold there, and so on.

IE We have stations 1-6 affected.

Sell commodities A-G at 1

G-K at 2

L-P at 3

and so on

Until we figure out that only station 4 is getting better, then split up P-T and sell one of each at stations 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, until one of those improves.

 

[rizal72]

I agree



No, there's an important difference. If all we need to do is stop the spread - i.e. quarantine and control - then the commodities idea is redundant.

What I mean is that we use a Commodity to stop the spread.

1) There could be a way to stop the UA to do damage, to our ships first: that could be achieved carrying something together with the UA, even if I've already carried every commodity in game with it...
2) that discovered, we should take the same commodity to the affected stations.
3) the damage to the station stops, the station recovers.

I'm thinking to something that should "contain" the nefarious effects of the UA. Meta Alloys could be perfect, but they are too new, and still in beta I think...

 

[TFW Primus]

He said we could stop the spread, not fix the existing stations. I'm not sure tinkering with affected stations is the direction to head.

**Edit** thinking more about it, the effect seems twofold, right? First there's an indication of impending doom, and then shutdown. I suppose the spread he was talking about could be spreading within the station and not spreading to other stations.

 

[Kicks]

I propose we split up the affected stations and sell a predetermined rare(s) to each. No cross pollination, so that if one of the stations DOES get better, we can look at which one or more commodities we sold there, and so on.

IE We have stations 1-6 affected.

Sell commodities A-G at 1

G-K at 2

L-P at 3

and so on

Until we figure out that only station 4 is getting better, then split up P-T and sell one of each at stations 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, until one of those improves.

And that's Numberwang!

 

[rizal72]

He said we could stop the spread, not fix the existing stations. I'm not sure tinkering with affected stations is the direction to head.

**Edit** thinking more about it, the effect seems twofold, right? First there's an indication of impending doom, and then shutdown. I suppose the spread he was talking about could be spreading within the station and not spreading to other stations.

In my mind, if we stop the spread, we cure the stations: it's two faces of the same coin.
I hope we'll not start analyzing his words now, please.

The only way to stop the spread is to stop the UA damage: we cannot do anything to stop people from selling UAs.

EDIT: yes, ok, if it's the UA to damage the stations... but than we stop and do nothing.

 

[GilliganTX]

And that's Numberwang!

I...

What?

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

I...

What?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thatmitchellandwebbsite/numberwang/game.shtml

 

[Michael Brookes]

Can we 'cure' the damage to stations? (pretty please)

Soon.

Michael

 

[Nicholas Powell]

And that's Numberwang!

NUMBERWANG!

Ah, Numberwang... The poor man's Glass Bead Game. (Can't rep you at the moment, but I would. Oh, I would.)

 

[Derthek]

Soon.

Michael

What ever we find in Merope will be the cure (place yer bets!)

 

[Strangepork]

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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=209788

 

[Kyp Shard]

I propose we split up the affected stations and sell a predetermined rare(s) to each. No cross pollination, so that if one of the stations DOES get better, we can look at which one or more commodities we sold there, and so on.

IE We have stations 1-6 affected.

Sell commodities A-G at 1

G-K at 2

L-P at 3

and so on

Until we figure out that only station 4 is getting better, then split up P-T and sell one of each at stations 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, until one of those improves.

Two stations would do it. Half to each. Rinse and repeat. Same method as the T type ships tests we did.

 

[rizal72]

Soon.

Michael

And he replied again...
It seems I was wrong then: we can stop the spreading but still not cure the stations... well...

At the moment, the only way to stop it, seems to be stop selling UAs. But that's sooo out of our control...

 

[Kicks]

What ever we find in Merope will be the cure (place yer bets!)

I'm sure MB said something about how we respond determines how they respond (cannot find the source, unfortunately), so we might be able to get a cure assuming we don't vaporize anything on sight...