UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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I s'pose POI visible via nav window within 1000Ls like a settlement is a possibility, it's just having searched and found static POIs, without knowing the area they'd be next to impossible to find.
I mean maybe the green glow from the Horizons video might be visible far away but even so it's just so hard to think even that would be much help, the scale of the planets/moons is enormous.
it's like saying to someone, I've hidden an alien pyramid type structure the size of say a bus somewhere on the Earth, with the tools and information we currently have you'd spend the rest of your life looking.
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Great to have you on board, CMDR.
Maia is being searched right now by a few CMDRs, others are variously scoping Pleione, Merope too.
If it's random POIs we're looking for, then it might just be any system - so even the 'non-famous' other systems in the heart of the nebula 'cloud' itself might also be a good bet.
The more the merrier!
dynamicbob
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Take a look at atlas folks the B moon has 5 interesting landable bodies. Ive had no luck palnetside just yet
Well I m looking at this system
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The first one is 100% metal and the last is a small 500km one. The system is inside the nebula. I think this system is pretty good to look at and will be easy to survey.
I'll sign off for the night
I was there today
Couldn't find anything despite my best effort... nice place though
Heh I can see 3 CMDRs right now in Maia, Pleiona, Merope areas in OPEN.
I'm out at Witch's Head, *waves*.
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Yes, that was my thinking too and why I chose it.
Yeah, Ayal has also suggested, on TS, that the green glow could be visible, but I don't think it will be above probably 5km or even more like 2-3k. In fact it's more likely to be under 1k - as you've said it depends on the type of spawn we're dealing with. Some POIs I hit up yesterday in HR1528 didn't spawn models till I fired up the SRV, even when they right next to the Ship. Others I could see from 300m altitude.
The types of locations you're talking about, it sounds like only a visual scan will suffice which, like you say, will be double-hard unless there's something about them that makes them truly obvious.
So, yeah - a lot of searching to be done. The more people winging up and collaborating via different disciplines the better.
Ah... I was out there just recently... I thought
| Witch Head Sector HW-W c1-8 |
also
| Witch Head Sector IH-V c2-9 |
dynamicbob
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Ooooh hello ive found something interesting on the atlas systems, thats all im gunna say gotta get this thing to station to sell it first
The crater itself didn't look interesting but my attention was drawn to canyons just outside it. And good point about the tidally locked thing.
Because if it takes your Executive Producer to come to the forums and post "I'd have a look around here", then your hints weren't hints; they were so obscure they may as well have not existed from a gameplay experience. I've written my own D&D adventures and played them with people, and I've done this myself and have experienced just how negatively it can affect the experience for your players.
On gameplay experience, there's other ways this could've been delivered.
- A Galnet article in Maia or even on Galnet proper, like this: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=138901
- Through Palin's stuff
- Through a "Collect UA's" CG like the one I proposed
- Or many more mechanics.
Instead, we get a forum post from FD staff. Can you feel the fourth wall breaking all around you yet?
This is all again a byproduct of throwing content out there with nothing to follow to it and just hoping someone finds it, but I won't keep harping on about why that's a dumb design principle.
Again though, if sitting on the RNG hamster wheel* is your idea of fun then by all means, don't let my complaints hamper your progress, but for me there's better things to be doing in game than that.
* Something something "We don't know if Barnacles spawn in fixed or random POIs yet"... if you have nothing to follow, then it's as good as RNG.
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Posts like this are punishable by death.
You haven't got to get anything to a station to sell it. Especially not before you supply screenshots and details of where, specifically, you found it.
I'm going to go ahead and assume you found nothing super interesting. You'd be dying to be the first one to prove it with screenshots otherwise
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Damnit, Squiggsy, I can only rep you so much!
Visual proof or it didn't happen.
Anybody else here would've shared - and you'd have benefited - so, well, you can figure out the rest.
I once dropped first, aligned myself via compass and then went back to cruise.
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