UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[The Game Colonel]

Last week or so a report was released about a "technical plague" that had hit Obsidian Station
I can't help but think that the nearby growth/planting of a barnacal could have something to do with that. I've been searching the planet directly next to the station with no results, but it hasn't been long. Also on that planet are a number of what appears to be ancient river valley that connect to basins. I would assume that these barnicales, if following the same pattern as real ones, would locate themselves in a similiar habitat.
Thoughts?

 

[Cynaqq]

Or they could be causing nebulae to appear (by making a nearby star go supernovae). We don't know how long these barnacles have been in Pleiades - maybe long enough to eat a star, make it blow up and then travel with remnant nebula to meet with Merope and others. So we still need to look in nebulae, but it's could be just a byproduct of barnacles life cycle, not a necessary thing for them to survive.

As for metal reach planets - we don't know how much metal is there in meta-alloys. It might very well be 1/1,000,000 part of metals and other parts are all carbon. There's no point of ignoring rocky and icy ones based on ''alloy'' word.

Of course.

But I needed something to narrow my search. Otherwise it feels too luck based and I like the feeling of going on a clue instead of blind luck; even if I made up the clue myself

 

[Wobblin-Gobblin]

What about this outpost? Shouldn't it be opened already?

 

[Patau82]

I have just realized, that Pavlou Keep is NOT Prof. Palin's new base (stupid-stupid me).

Palin's outpost is going to be built on Maia B1BA.

Palin is FDEV's in-game story teller about the UAs.

Palin (=FDEV) said, that he wants to build this outpost to study the UAs far from inhabited space. However maybe he has a secret, other agenda: to study Meta-Alloys and Barnicles.

The best way to do that, if he is very close to them.

Palin is late as usual, the research outpost should have been finished last week!
One day he might start pulling his weight around here

 

[who?]

Right on, cmdr - the canyon I 'found' yesterday on Merope 5A had a nice steep gradient, deep enough to create a bit of mist, and opened out into a huge arena-style area. I flew up and down a few times in the Python, then jumped out into the SRV. Only then did I notice a conjunction of stars in the sky as I drove/floated/bounced/careered down - with Greenish Blue start blazing above. And I thought... 'nobody made this - it's just here'.

It is awe inspiring.

That's one thing I really love about the game, particularly since Horizons. We're not exploring some terrain that a group of developers/designers hand-craft to look like we expect alien terrain to look. We're exploring terrain that the developers themselves don't even know about. They might not even have been aware of the planet's existence. That alone is a reason to explore.

I'm still meta-gaming a bit.. I'm thinking "is this the kind of terrain the developers would hand-place secret stuff"? Thinking they'd place secrets in PG-named systems instead of the hand-named systems etc.

 

[commander splat]

B1BA is 330,000 ls out nice place for dev to put something ?

 

[BEKTOP 3APEMOB]

What the...

extreme case tinfoil upd: but that guy on reddit... I think he's lying. He must know something about barnacles. One of us need to befriend him and search his house, workplace (the usual routine ). Also we must make him tell us who bought the tickets - it's important

On the other (much less insane) hand I think it's more of a red herring type of thing now:

Originally Posted by marx

About VerneAsimov's screenshot: the message is nearly verbatim from somebody selling two tickets on Reddit. Looks like those are for Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Do we have any other sightings of this message, or something similar?

Then whole clue would be for us to concentrate on ice planets? But how it connects to our sci-fi game then? - it just some nonesense

Maybe the screenshot is a herring?

 

[Gorrister]

An UA found anywhere points its bulbous end at Merope. That same UA taken and dropped anywhere else will still point its bulbous end at Merope. So UAs are not pointing away from Merope to anywhere else specific, or they would keep pointing their other end towards that place when moved. They may be going away from Merope, but they don't have a specific destination. The only constant is Merope.

Maybe the other part is the front.

 

[EAGLE 5]

That's a lot to catch up... so MB came back and said no Barnacles seen from Orbital Cruise.. ok I had a feeling that was the case that's why I stopped zooming about in the red zone... so it's back to trying to guess the spot they placed some and/or playing the RNG game (with some degree of science and educated guessing).... honestly if it wasn't for the fact that there is some thought process to crack here I would have ditched this a long time ago. Mindless RNG grinds are neither fun nor respectful of its players, I like to think we're people too not Pavlov's .....wait a minute

 

[Peter Drakon]

Palin is late as usual, the research outpost should have been finished last week!
One day he might start pulling his weight around here

FDEV needs a way to be able to forward the stroy even when the Canonn group would not be here, and for those too, who don't read the forums.

If the outpost is going to be close to the barnacle (tinfoil hat on), that is going to be the static, fixed poi near to the outpost. So, if my theory is right, one of the fixed barnacle POI is on Maia B1BA even now.

 

[Hugeness]

Anything is better than more of this aimless searching. If we had more information, i'm all for it, but i've spent 30 hours since saturday on this, and all I have for my efforts is a UA eating my ship alive.

Don't worry mate, they'll show up eventually, no matter how boring it gets its not as bad as watching Manchester United at the mo'


Trust me.....

 

[who?]

Maybe the other part is the front.

It doesn't really matter much - either every UA points towards Merope, or they all point away from Merope towards [one of many systems they're found in]. Either way, Merope is the only common point between them.

 

[EAGLE 5]

It doesn't really matter much - either every UA points towards Merope, or they all point away from Merope towards [one of many systems they're found in]. Either way, Merope is the only common point between them.

I still think that the UAs are saying...

LOOK THIS IS A BAD PLACE STAY AWAY! (if they point toward it)

or GET OUT OF THE WAY THIS PLACE IS BAD! (if they point away from it)


Both are not good.....supernova goes pop?

 

[LordZoltan]

Merope 2D this lunch. Has a very old (because of additional impacts and bumpiness within the basin) enormous impact crater with evidence of considerable amounts of ejecta.

Certainly didn't scour the whole place, probably less than 2%, but what I did scour didn't yield anything.

Then, further round the planet there are two impact craters side by side, and slightly overlapping.

For funsies I decided to drive over the rim and into one of them - used half my fuel getting to something like the bottom. I left the ship parked about 1Km from a fortified tea installation

So: nothing. Found a few more bits of Germanium, though, and some Selenium.

 

[Duedy]

Well I have found Disney already estabished itself on Merope 3A

 

[EAGLE 5]

Merope 2D this lunch. Has a very old (because of additional impacts and bumpiness within the basin) enormous impact crater with evidence of considerable amounts of ejecta.

Certainly didn't scour the whole place, probably less than 2%, but what I did scour didn't yield anything.

Then, further round the planet there are two impact craters side by side, and slightly overlapping.

For funsies I decided to drive over the rim and into one of them - used half my fuel getting to something like the bottom. I left the ship parked about 1Km from a fortified tea installation

So: nothing. Found a few more bits of Germanium, though, and some Selenium.

Funsies.... ugh no Z no...


Also fortified tea installation that really should be a thing. In fact that needs its own WIKI entry.

 

[LordZoltan]

Funsies.... ugh no Z no...


Also fortified tea installation that really should be a thing. In fact that needs its own WIKI entry.

how about 'fits and giggles' instead?

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Also; we could have High Security Caffeinated Beverage Compound - since sometimes we find Coffee too.

 

[rizal72]

It doesn't really matter much - either every UA points towards Merope, or they all point away from Merope towards [one of many systems they're found in]. Either way, Merope is the only common point between them.

and let me add this quote from my signature, please:
"When the wise man points at the moon, the fool only looks at the finger"

 

[LordZoltan]

I wonder if one of the FD watchers have the ability to tell us the total game time that CMDRs have spent in Merope (and possibly the other key systems) since Thursday.

If so - Fancy a sweepstake? I'm going for 2,500 hours.

 

[aramil]

Funsies.... ugh no Z no...


Also fortified tea installation that really should be a thing. In fact that needs its own WIKI entry.

maybe the british expeditionary force have already been through and dropped supplies for their return jouney, and they don't want us stealing the tea, as that would not be propper.