UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[PaulR]

Oberheim, if you use 1-2 tons/h, you may see that you'll run out of fuel flying for 'days'.
2 tons/h, 32 tons fueltank gives you about 16h supercruising. You may extent the range by turning off all you modules which is not required, the power generator uses less fuel if you do so.


Thanks for that info, didn't even think about fuel usage, was more thinking ,will the game let me get there. And i supose it may even be a big problem for the fuel rats seeing as there is no target.

However...... i need to see inside and scan the nebula so on i go, and a self destruct may be forthcoming...to boldly go where no diamondback..oh whatever.

Ober out

You can't reach another system by supercruising, as the game needs to calculate the skybox, and that is not done on the fly. Back in beta it used to be possible to reach a system, but you couldn't select the planets.they made sure at launch that this could not happen again.

 

[Cmdr Delmonte[VR]]

Observations after 4 days in Ovid trying to get the "Meta Alloys " job to spawn. ... after 100,s of ground jobs of every type taken. Either stacked or alone no job spawned. They seem to only pop up in Federation space (can anyone confirm) if you take a job for X item salvage recovery eg bootleg liquor then EVERY poi will have X in it... if you stack 3 or 4 or 5 jobs then EVERY poi will have those and only those mixed items....when stacked around 30% of the time jobs will FAIL even with hours left on the clock (bug report with screen shots raised) we also spent a half day chaining jobs between 4 or 5 systems. Also tried switching game modes. Still no meta job. Spent yeterday in empire space still no job. Conclusion. ... job is rare and if you have it POI "Should " spawn the alloys....... for my 2 cents... it's bugged...... but off back out again before the return to RL tomorrow. Good luck commanders. .o7

 

[RedWizzard]

Has it been confirmed that here are other species in the game, or are people just assuming so because the original Elite had them?

i.e. will I ever drop at a USS and see an Alien ship or what not.

Michael very early on (I think at the first Lavecon) said that there are only 3 sentient species known: us, the Thargoids, and an indigenous species on Achenar that the settlers wiped out. The remaining species mentioned in the lore are not sentient.

As far as I know they have not since confirmed the existence of any other sentient species but it's possible, even likely I'd say. There has been at least one mention on Galnet that there may be multiple Thargoid factions and I believe this is also mentioned in one of the official novels. And there have been hints about rogue AIs as well.

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Slightly off topic , maybe, but.

Could any of you maths or game developer guys be able to to clear this up before i waste too much time.

Iv'e set a flight path from taurus dark region hw-w c1 to eb-x c1-1

this seems to be the only route directly through the taurus dark region nebula, there are no stars in it ,but i want to be in it!

I'm pointing at the nebula toward the star , stats read 26.9ly to star 5.2d. I'm travelling at 1,886c

The nebula is about half way that distance to the point of entry.

So what i'm asking is , will i actually get there, is the nebula a real thing that i will fly through if i keep going in a straight line...(or is it a backdrop). am i always gonna be stuck within the bounderies of hw-w c1
the numbers are decreasing the longer i sit here but ,i didnt know wether anyone else had had the patience to try going from one system to another via supercruise.

Hope i'm making sense
It is beer day

AFAIK, nebulae are only 3D objects in the galaxy map. In the systems they are static backgrounds. So trying to travel through it in supercruise won't work as the background never gets regenerated (it only get regenerated on exit from hyperspace).

 

[Fendalton]

RE-watched the dev diaries, Michael said in 2013 that the system that the alien race will occupy will be closed off to players until the content is released, most likely this will be the Bleia system.

 

[dynamicbob]

to drive the applied research forward i followed sirius incs applied application of unknown artifacts to pic tok 20 more unknown artifacts sold there, still awaiting results of station service shutdown and the like the only service imapcted so far is muntitions

new news is that there is a 135 demand in station there so if anyone wants to heop get that target up to see what happens.

 

[knowles2]

So i was observing a UA and another ship arrived, a Cobra MK4, the pilot had an odd sounding name i must admit. I wanted to try and give the UA a occopied escape pod and see if anything happened, so i was supprised when i was scanned by another ship all the sudden. Has anyone experienced this before?
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Yes.

Did an experiment a few days ago to see if these people who are chasing me and wanting a UA was a clue, so far their cargo have been random along with their names and the fractions they belong to.

 

[John Stoutbeard]

Has it been confirmed that here are other species in the game, or are people just assuming so because the original Elite had them?

i.e. will I ever drop at a USS and see an Alien ship or what not.

Unlikely as of now.
The mysteries are about the story leading up to their introduction.
Introducing them new without playing out the full story wouldn't make any sense.
And a confirmation of them existing from the devs would just ruin the mysteri/story as well.

But as what others have been saying, there are certain expectations somewhere down the line that they would be introduced.
But this year? Probably too busy, next year? who knows what the next expansions bring.
'Season 4 or 5' perhaps.

 

[Han_Zen]

How far out do we find bases on planets? Not the type with landing pads. Just the type that you can target from space.

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

Here's one I took recently
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Edit: Sorry that's a bit small. Had to upload as a JPG since the BMP upload failed twice

A similar encounter: View attachment 91837

THANK YOU !

this will help me trying to figutre out this scaner...

Like i said before looks like the wave scaner has 4 "layers" , this looks like in between the 3 and for 4 make a lot of sense since you get cargo and you have a human mande structure ...

 

[Kalearne]

Collected cg pay, paid off fines, new Asp bought for next bit.

Heading out to a few nebulae. Stopping off along the way to sample some planets and stuff. Going to try and keep a decent explorer journal this time. Maybe I'll get lucky and find something we can use.

Using CMDR Jovian Hull's lovely nebula pic I'm gonna head 'north' to E CRA, IC 6404, Lagoon and see how its going. Using CMDR Dubardo's info on prices to make a bit of cash along the way

I'm leaning towards not exploring the icy rocks. I'll do a few but I cant seem to justify checking them out.

EDIT: Removed redundant bit

 

[tiger61378]

Collected cg pay, paid off fines, new Asp bought for next bit.

Heading out to a few nebulae. Stopping off along the way to sample some planets and stuff. Going to try and keep a decent explorer journal this time. Maybe I'll get lucky and find something we can use.

Using CMDR Jovian Hull's lovely nebula pic I'm gonna head 'north' to E CRA, IC 6404, Lagoon and see how its going. Using CMDR Dubardo's info on prices to make a bit of cash along the way

I'm leaning towards not exploring the icy rocks. I'll do a few but I cant seem to justify checking them out.

EDIT: Removed redundant bit

Now that we can land on the icy rocks, they're probably more worthwhile to scan, if just to find something interesting to land on (plus, snowballs are often really beautiful from orbit...even pre-Horizons).

 

[Grumtastic]

On the basis that it's going to take me all week to read through all this to get up to date, I'm going to risk making a few suggestions that may have already been put forward, but on the basis that if they haven't and everybody else used the same logic. Apologies in advance.

1. I read recently via the history of the UA that the probes seem to have chosen Merope and thus they are all pointing at it. I began thinking what is it about Merope that is so important. It's a B7 IV system, so I started looking around to see if there are any others. There is one nearby but it has another star (HR 1172). I've yet to find another. All the planets in Merope have rings. What I've been thinking is: What if we find another "Merope" type system that is also surrounded by UAs?

2. If the morse code is a representation of your ship it implies it also knows your jump capability amongst other data. Perhaps the other data being broadcast at you is also based on your ships capabilities, etc?

 

[Shockbot]

Maybe worth a try Sentynal!

My opinion is, when FD show us the "Alien"-Structure in the Release Trailer of Horizon, it should be able to find this place somewhere and I really think it is near Merope because Mr. Braben himself said, we should support the canoon research at Merope after the Horizons Launch.

It must have been important because why should Mr. Braben split the Community after the Launch of Horizons not every Commander was able to get there at the beginning.

 

[yoda711]

I think this has been mentioned before but I don't recall what the answer was.

Was following a medical transport ("cargo secure, I guess") and after a few jumps, we ended next to a star. Cruising around in normal space, the ship simply disappears. No wake or anything. Is this simple the "end" of the ship's route? Or is it a bug, or maybe a clue?

Something else to think about... During a few supercruise drops seemingly in the middle of nowhere, I follow the wake, and drop next to some type of astronomical object...even though we were 40,000ls from one during supercruise. What's up with that?

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

I think this has been mentioned before but I don't recall what the answer was.

Was following a medical transport ("cargo secure, I guess") and after a few jumps, we ended next to a star. Cruising around in normal space, the ship simply disappears. No wake or anything. Is this simple the "end" of the ship's route? Or is it a bug, or maybe a clue?

Something else to think about... During a few supercruise drops seemingly in the middle of nowhere, I follow the wake, and drop next to some type of astronomical object...even though we were 40,000ls from one during supercruise. What's up with that?

while chasing a UA convoy we experienced the same thing.I experienced another time while testing the wake scaner on a vulture... I MEAN DROPING OUT OF Supercruise not the disapearence!

 

[PaulR]

Well I decided that even without the mission, the payout being around 450k it couldn't be any further than 500 Ly from the core, So I went to HIP84706, an unremarkable system, with one landable planet. I bumped into a POI guarded by a goliath (killed my srv), I couldn't see what they were guarding but It never happened to me before. Maybe there is something down there after all.

 

[yoda711]

500 from the core? you mean from Sol or the bubble?

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

Well I decided that even without the mission, the payout being around 450k it couldn't be any further than 500 Ly from the core, So I went to HIP84706, an unremarkable system, with one landable planet. I bumped into a POI guarded by a goliath (killed my srv), I couldn't see what they were guarding but It never happened to me before. Maybe there is something down there after all.

Hum.... i've seen another kind of POI today....

A big building some containers and a crashed satelite (NOT nav Beacon) almost buried on the planet ground....

i took a picture maybe someone had seen this before...

http://i.imgur.com/32Crwgn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tw2JHuM.jpg

it looks very normal POI... just never seem before(maybe they are releasing more of them?

 

[John Stoutbeard]

Yes, seen the satellite. Scan it for data, perhaps it will trigger other thing later if you carry the data.

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

Yes, seen the satellite. Scan it for data, perhaps it will trigger other thing later if you carry the data.

yes.. seeing this Sat gave me an ideia.

I've just discovered that if you stay out of the "red zone" nearby a planet, you can spawn USS , WSS and SSS in orbit... maybe i can find a sat in orbit?!

I'm goin for Merope try it out.