UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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Darth Ender

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Utopian Enforcer Exploratory Mission Update:

I have finally found a planet with Cadmium and have been successful in reaching the Trapezium sector in the heavily armored Morning Star. So far absolutely nothing to report. I am now traversing through Barnard's Loop.
 

Heisenberg6626

Heisenberg6626
ilo said:
Quick report from IC 4604 nebula:

After a sweep on 'most of the' systems within a radius of 40Ly from the center of the nebula, I've came across this system:

http://i.imgur.com/cv1LzxX.png

This one is actually very similar to the Pleiades JC-U B3-2, with these two small potato-ish bodies close to the star.

A closer look to the 2nd body reveals this:

http://i.imgur.com/xK17npP.png

If there is any chance of a barnacle in this nebula, this looks like the best starting place for the hunt. I'll park the ship here and call it a day. Tomorrow.. oh my, don't know where to start from ..
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Good find! I think many barnacles are found near persistent POIs of crashed ships, like Anacondas. Maybe it would be prudent to first look for one of those, and then scour the area nearby, if there are any canyons.

Cheers, CMDR Heisenberg6626
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
Have you guys been to the bounty hunter yet? I have. Youknow what scares me? Those ships he has in repair. They have damage... Not any kind of damage we know of. They look like full on scorch marks. Like the thing was melted. I know lasers cant do that. But i mean it looks like the hull was melted with something.
 

ilo

ilo
CookieJarviz said:
Have you guys been to the bounty hunter yet? I have. Youknow what scares me? Those ships he has in repair. They have damage... Not any kind of damage we know of. They look like full on scorch marks. Like the thing was melted. I know lasers cant do that. But i mean it looks like the hull was melted with something.
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i think they are beams, they do this kind of damage in the anacondas (as it was the only one with damage model I could check).
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
Youknow. Considering that they said "Its time for explorers to arm them selves" I think its time I go for specific armour upgrades. Thermal should do it. Youknow how aliens like lasers.
 

ilo

ilo
Heisenberg6626 said:
Good find! I think many barnacles are found near persistent POIs of crashed ships, like Anacondas. Maybe it would be prudent to first look for one of those, and then scour the area nearby, if there are any canyons.

Cheers, CMDR Heisenberg6626
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quick question.. how to find crashed ships without getting into the srv.. the planet is still huge for a buggy so I'm still canyon flying it, do they appear as USS?
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
ilo said:
quick question.. how to find crashed ships without getting into the srv.. the planet is still huge for a buggy so I'm still canyon flying it, do they appear as USS?
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A crashed ship will be marked as a POI. Fly over the surface at a height of around 5km with your radar zoomed all the way out. Watch out for the blue circles, descend and land roughly in the middle of the indicated area. Then get into your SRV, dismiss the ship (to avoid it confusing the scanner) and start looking for signals in the upper band of the scanner. It might be a while before you find a crashed ship but it'll be faster then just driving around aimlessly.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
ilo said:
quick question.. how to find crashed ships without getting into the srv.. the planet is still huge for a buggy so I'm still canyon flying it, do they appear as USS?
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You need to check the sheet of Barney locations (see Riz's excellent first page summary of relevant information), but I am under the impression that only one or two Pleiades locations tie in with crashed ships. Definitely one was a crashed anaconda permanent poi with yellow shipping crates, the PPOI seems to indicate this is part of the storyline - that the ship was transporting barneys from somewhere else (possibly California Nebula!, so crashed ships may not be a barney indicator within the CN). The anaconda may or may not have had a pilots seat, implying AI ships could be involved (@Canonn- or am I confusing two storylines here?)
 
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Heisenberg6626

Heisenberg6626
ilo said:
quick question.. how to find crashed ships without getting into the srv.. the planet is still huge for a buggy so I'm still canyon flying it, do they appear as USS?
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I think they appear as POIs in low orbital flight -- the blue circles that one can see from 5-10 km above ground. But before one has visual contact, one might not be able to say whether it is a downed Anaconda or anything else. But it might give a hit as to where to look, if one were to find one.

Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm just repeating what I think I read somewhere.

Cheers, CMDR Heisenberg6626
 

ilo

ilo
all right, will make a flyby for pois, but after 10h of canyon fliying haven't seen any single poi/sign of barnacle. I should have done a few more tests in Pleiades, as I'm having a feeling that objects at certain distance only appear at low speeds. I've been checking with stones and apparently flying at 1km alt 300ms means no rocks are appearing in the planet, I'm afraid it could be the case for barnacles as well, as if going above certain speed prevents small objects to be rendered.

I'm not in California by the way, I'm checking if other nebulae could also host barnacles and not just those two (maybe three) we already know.
 

ilo

ilo
Heisenberg6626 said:
I think they appear as POIs in low orbital flight -- the blue circles that one can see from 5-10 km above ground. But before one has visual contact, one might not be able to say whether it is a downed Anaconda or anything else. But it might give a hit as to where to look, if one were to find one.

thank you all guys for your answers!
Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm just repeating what I think I read somewhere.

Cheers, CMDR Heisenberg6626
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I'll circle the planet in orbital cruise (lowest alt is 35km before entering drop zone) and see if I can locate any POI, I'm becoming very good at orbitting lol

thank you all guys for your answers!
 
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Dommarraa

Dommarraa
ilo said:
I'll circle the planet in orbital cruise (lowest alt is 35km before entering drop zone) and see if I can locate any POI, I'm becoming very good at orbitting lol

thank you all guys for your answers!
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At 35km, you will see nothing. You need to be lower (8km ish) to detect anything at all.
 

ilo

ilo
Dommarraa said:
At 35km, you will see nothing. You need to be lower (8km ish) to detect anything at all.
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then I'll keep doing canyon flying, because there is no SC at that distance.

to maximise the chances of spotting any single pixel, I was flying without HUD (takes 40% of the screen), I might have missed any POI by doing that way.. oh god..
 
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