This has been my thinking too - I have been flying my ship at anywhere between 50-500m. I prefer to stay below 200m because you can see the rocks spawning in and I have had a couple random things pop up (like bases) so my dream is that one of the things to spawn in will be a barnacle cluster.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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As far as I can see there hasn't been anything said by Michael Brookes to confirm that they are "blue zone" POIs... If the Anaconda crash site is considered a Permanent POI and it doesn't show as a blue zone then it seems like there is still some ambiguity there.
Why it i impossible to navigate? Due to the fog?
I've just requested access to the Canonn private group. Should I also contact anybody specifically about this or do I now just wait for admission?
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?
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?
Great! Heading for Maia in a while, let you know if any help is needed.
You know, that's not a bad line of thinking. Considering the UA's did degrade the cargo hold, it's entirely plausible that the same effect will carry over to the barnacles, if they're related that is.
No, MB has not told us how the game works directly, we just have use the tools available.
However, you have the radar in your ship, where you know you can pick up zones from a decent altitude.
MB has said specifically that some 'barnacles' are random while others have been placed.
Regardless, we're looking for anything out of the ordinary. That may be Meta-alloys.
Any of these may exist within or without a blue zone on your radar.
But you never know, so preferably you should check both. Zones and things appearing without a zone.
Perhaps you'll spot a persistent type9 or Anaconda wreck. I know many are looking for these as well.
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Wow, that's beautiful!Just as a light interlude, here's the Veil Nebula West. Shame there's no systems inside it
Small heads up on the heat spikes I encountered in my Asp flying around on Maia A 7. I have gotten it twice again this morning and am certain it is some combination of flying the asp upside down in the high g field when I max out fwd thrust.
Even slow descend then can trigger a near catastrophic meltdown. Be advised the asp seems weirdly prone to this when you fly it with topside facing the planet.
Even slow descend then can trigger a near catastrophic meltdown. Be advised the asp seems weirdly prone to this when you fly it with topside facing the planet.
Being so far out, Im sure a few POIs would be out of the ordinary for me now. I only ever run into 3: Large kinder egg data point, crashed SRV data point, or crashed SRV with canisters or escape pods. 3 Different Nebulae, over 6-7 planets in the last week worth of roaming and scanning and that's all I ever find now.
Id even kill for a large structure way out here
Just as a light interlude, here's the Veil Nebula West. Shame there's no systems inside it
Thats a beautiful part of space.
The Barnacles are the means to our salvation.
I did, and didn't find much - not that that means anything. It's pretty spectacular though, with a brown dwarf quite close by, the best view in the house of the nebula, and the black-hole in the distance. If I lived there I'd sleep by day and live by night.*
(* yeah, yeah, it has no atmosphere so there isn't really much of a day/night difference. Allow me some poetic licence.)
https://community.elitedangerous.com/node/327
Read Carefully.
Especially this part "There are points of interest that don’t neatly fit into those two groupings, but we can leave them for you to discover for yourselves
Cheers.
Yep, not manmade or natural... Now it makes sense...
Fog plus it's got high edges and loads of mountains inside (it's that big) so there's lots of shadows, and it's also incredible jagged terrain inside. I spent ages in there because I was convinced if you were going to hide something it would be there but got frustrated with how long it took to get anywhere both in and out of my ship.
This is how i've been doing my search after a weekend of checking every little thing out. If its big, if its lit.. I'll take a look. If its a small POI... such as those possibly being a few cargo canisters, a probe, or other such small relatively hard to spot POI.. I often move on. I'm looking for large(ish) and easier to spot. Haze. Green lights. Spikey peaks. If a POI is near or inside a dark crater, or some feature other than the usual.. I may take a closer look. The logic I'm using is Horizons is their baby. They will want to show it off. They likely wouldn't put a major, especially hand placed, plot device on a drab flat or uninteresting surface. But hopefully all find out sooner than later when one of us lucky sods runs across the darn thing.
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