Moobs...I knew I should have stuck to my diet a while longer...
I took a high res aerial photo of the site for anyone who wants to look at it. Let me know if it shows properly because i had to use Flickr instead of imgur because of size limits.
HIGH RES WARNING!
Just a heads up on the no damage thing. This is also the case with the Barnacles and has been since they were first found. Back when I used to go visit the Barnacles I would always just fly straight at them at full speed and use them as an emergency brake. I doubt it is anything important and is most likely a side effect of how the item is spawned and has to interact with the ground.
Good work! Straight on the FP!
That's kinda what I figured, but you never know with this game sometimes!
You know, looking at it, I think it had only 4 "legs". like a fancy bio-mechanical space-shuriken. of course, being jointed, it can fold them up. somehowI took a high res aerial photo of the site for anyone who wants to look at it. Let me know if it shows properly because i had to use Flickr instead of imgur because of size limits.
I'm still pinning it on Walnut Whips.
In fact I have even more proof..
http://i.imgur.com/eXBmRW9.jpg
Come on explain that then...
Although I've been semi afk I'm always lurking....*cough* I mean reading
Thargoid ship takes ABSOLUTELY NO DAMAGE WHEN SHOT AT. That's frickin scary dude.
Like a nav beacon? (not so scary, but those take no damage either IIRC)
I don't think we can go off this information as we have already been told that the aliens have undergone an extensive re-imagining (listen to the latest Drew Wagar interview, along with DB talk about the design for the aliens) to be more "alien" and less "human". The only things we can go off for real Thargoid lore lies in First Encounters (and some of that has been confirmed to have been redone). I could be wrong though, it's hard to see through so many layers of tinfoil...
Also, is it entirely impossible for the Thargoids to have used another advanced species to re-configure their ships to deal with the Mycoid virus? We do know that they would have had to deal with that first before coming back for a fight....
My take on the 'is it Thargoid or not' question depends a lot on some metagaming. Or more like meta-game designing.
In my mind, as far as I understand the design philosophy behind ED and its lore, there's simply no way they'll be using 8 fold rotational symmetry on anything else than the Thargoids. The consistency in design simply doesn't allow for that.
Just like they followed the original ship designs for the iconic snake-ships, they will definitely follow the octagonal design for the Thargoids, which is just as much iconic. Hence, no 8 fold rotational symmetry for other species, ergo this thing is either directly Thargoid, or based on some design someone learned from Thargoids.
I could of course be wrong but in this, I don't think I am.
Sorry for the last post I couldn't find a good way to post pictures.
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview2/54611b4e-cef0-403b-bfae-2a5168f0f722.jpg
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview2/84d5b9d5-3aec-4d92-936f-287e5742c4a7.jpg