UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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NetSlayer

NetSlayer
Nice! We can also use this first page as an introduction to searching the Pleiades!

As the previous thread ended with clues that have caused a surge of activity in Maia.

Just trying to figure out the logistics of this:

  • - Is it faster for the community to search and focus on one planet at a time or randomly search planets?

Either way I have categorised the kinds of searches people make and included a 'Brute Force' method.


CMDR(s) Head towards a planet that they can land on! They then initiate a single/multiple:

Tourist Pass:
-CMDR chooses interesting landmark from supercruise
-CMDR Lands at landmark and searches nearby

Random Pass:
-CMDR Drops out of OC at a random coordinate
-CMDR investigates random path.

Fixed Latitude pass
-CMDR Drops out of OC and notes the coordinates.
-CMDR attempts to remain at the same latitude by pointing his compass at 90 or 270 degrees
-CMDR searches in this fixed latitude, noting the progression of his longitude
-CMDR completes pass when Longitude returns to initial drop out coordinate

Note: May edit if I can find ways to optimise searches.
 

Jorge

Jorge
slartybartfast said:
Banana :D
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That does remind me of how some of the discussions in this forum go...

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Hugeness

Hugeness
Happy new thread!

How many pages, posts and people?
How many nationalities, skills, jobs, interests and ways of making a living. All here with the goal of knowledge, coming together to find something out, and dare i say it, fun!
Congrat's to FD and all the players...
I happen to think it Brilliant!
 

Szyslak22

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throws coat on a chair in the corner

Good summary rizal! Looking forward to the one or two new discoveries that the next 20,000 posts might turn up :D
 

b_laiskiainen

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Something really weird just happened.

I saw a light across a ~40km wide crater, but it disappered when I got halfway there. I got video of it too...

Also, crater is on Atlas B3 at about -87.3, 166.8
 
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markmatt

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well it took me two days but iv finally read through the bulk of the past threads.

my interest in UA peaked pretty hard on wednesday. by thursday someone had mentioned barnacles (was the first i was hearing of it) and thats what lead me to dive into this thread and the canonn community.

having said that i havnt found a damn thing nor do i have any theories other then this one which i mentioned on the canonn site. its far fetched and could mean absolutly nothing but

-merope is the name of Voldemorts mother. according to wiki, she was a witch.-
it is far fetched but maybe this is a hint of sorts in reference to witch space, thargoids? I dont know.

with it being confirmed by a dev that these things will randomly spawn as well have been purposely placed, that leads me to believe there is a logical way of figuring this out as opposed to using bruit force (ie, searching all the surfaces that we can within the 7 sisters).

so, ill ask the question thats been asked many times before, what are we missing. it must be right in front of our faces.
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
markmatt said:
so, ill ask the question thats been asked many times before, what are we missing. it must be right in front of our faces.
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Even narrowing it down to one system is still a massive area to cover.

There are a few potential answers I think:
- FD have massively underestimated the difficulty of finding an object on a planet and it is going to be the random luck low-flying / driving route grind to find it.
- These POIs are either visible from higher up (maybe as high as orbital cruise), or they are in an area of a planet that looks 'odd', different, or distinctive.
- There's another clue to a more precise location that we've either missed or hasn't been released yet.

Unless the 3rd option suddenly pops up I think I'm going to pursue the 2nd one - I landed somewhere on Maia A7 last night because of an area of mountains that from a height could be interpreted as very 'large barnacles'. Part of that decision is because of my utter hatred of the blue circle POIs.
 
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squiggsy

squiggsy
I don't know whether I should give congratulations or consolations for reaching the 5th Threadnaught but either way I hope over the course of the next 600ish pages we can finally begin to unravel the mysteries of the Barnacles!
I am getting chummy with the Federation in hopes I can get some insider information from them, someone higher up must know and I intend to get into a position of power so I can find them and punch them in the face until they talk. (OK I'm just trying to rank up but shh)
Once that is done with I will rejoin the hunt!

I also want to mention that a lot of people seem to be running on the assumption that only one planet in the Pleiades has Barnacles, either that or people are just missing off plurals when they type (understandable). But what little in game text we have about them suggests they are common in those parts of space. I don't know what sick misguided individual would describe them as common, but I am going out on a limb and saying they are not so sick and misguided that they would class one planet in a whole nebula to be "common".
 
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Wicz

Wicz
b_laiskiainen said:
Something really weird just happened.

I saw a light across a ~40km wide crater, but it disappered when I got halfway there. I got video of it too...

Also, crater is on Atlas B3 at about -87.3, 166.8
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Did it look anything like this?

Light.png


If so, I'm fairly sure it's a bug.
 

CarnbY

CarnbY
squiggsy said:
I also want to mention that a lot of people seem to be running on the assumption that only one planet in the Pleiades has Barnacles, either that or people are just missing off plurals when they type (understandable). But what little in game text we have about them suggests they are common in those parts of space. I don't know what sick misguided individual would describe them as common, but I am going out on a limb and saying they are not so sick and misguided that they would class one planet in a whole nebula to be "common".
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I agree with this, I don't think it's a matter of finding one barnacle on one specific planet. My guess is that there are actually thousands of them, placed randomly (and some manually, I know) on many planets in the Pleiades. What I'm most curious about is whether they're actually visible from the sky as a POI, or maybe only detectable with the wave scanner. I spent hours last night driving and flying around on Merope 5B. I managed to convince myself that a barnacle could be around any corner, and it was actually really exciting and creepy to drive around in the dark even though I didn't find anything :)
 
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