UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

[Ozric]

TRIFID SECTOR HN-1 A10-11

It's HN-I

I was just out there, but I didn't jump into those systems, I am going to head back out after the patch next week though. The only trouble with the previously locked systems is that we don't know how long ago they were unlocked. Someone in threadnought 5 mentioned how lots of stars in the Cresent Nebula were previously locked. I flew 6k odd Ly out there to find out they'd all been discovered by at least 2 people.

 

[rizal72]

cant see what he sees

As I already said, it's a glitch. With glitch I mean e permanent issue with the texture mapping. Specifically, the standard, non Horizon, map. In fact, Gypsy12 cannot see it, because he is playing Horizons, where the maps and textures are different.

Yes still there. clear as day.

Same here. I've already seen them. It's a bad behavior of the bump mapping. Look carefully: it is the size of a single map patch. You can clearly see the "square" of the map.

 

[fyo]

And Occam would like this.

The problem with Occam is that I keep cutting myself on his razor.

 

[Kurt Ambrose]

Here are some systems, some in nebulae, that required permits in 2014-2015:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65780&p=1353433&viewfull=1#post1353433

NGC 6357 Sector YZ-Y C40
NGC 6357 Sector QT-R C4-50

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=96412&p=1500408&viewfull=1#post1500408

TRIFID SECTOR HN-1 A10-11

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=93703&p=1460859&viewfull=1#post1460859

Elephant's Trunk Sector BQ-Y d24

Others mentioned in those threads.

The reoccurrence of "oh MB says its for future content" sounds like a dead giveaway to me. Many of these systems are now unlocked, if not all of the ones mentioned in these forums. REGOR Sector seems like the only one that's still locked down, that I know of.

I don't see how this order of events could tell us anything different. Nebulae are locked, then the UA/Barn mystery, the barns are discovered, bunch of systems become unlocked in nebulae, and conveniently that's where these things like to be.

That being said, I think it's time we fully reorganize and start checking these nebulae extensively, if there aren't already a lot of CMDR's doing so. I'm about to head out towards Barnard's loop and check everything around it. I get a feeling another UA shell exists, we just need to find it.

 

[Ozric]

The reoccurrence of "oh MB says its for future content" sounds like a dead giveaway to me. Many of these systems are now unlocked, if not all of the ones mentioned in these forums. REGOR Sector seems like the only one that's still locked down, that I know of.

I don't see how this order of events could tell us anything different. Nebulae are locked, then the UA/Barn mystery, the barns are discovered, bunch of systems become unlocked in nebulae, and conveniently that's where these things like to be.

That being said, I think it's time we fully reorganize and start checking these nebulae extensively, if there aren't already a lot of CMDR's doing so. I'm about to head out towards Barnard's loop and check everything around it. I get a feeling another UA shell exists, we just need to find it.

Because they have always said (from Beta) that some systems would be off limits, because we have no idea when these systems became unlocked and (like I said earlier) I went to a previously locked system 6k Ly from colonised space and it had been discovered by at least 2 people, which would imply (though obviously not definitely) that they had been unlocked for longer than the week or 2 after 2.0 release it was.

 

[Zefod]

I found something strange and new.
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At first I thought it was a Graphical glitch. But it was always in the same spot.
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The closer I flew toward these marks, the clearer they became.
Its located inside a crater on a high metal world. Outside our galaxy. I am hunting for materials to boost my FSD to fly even further south.
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It seems that something stripped something off the surface, its almost burned soil. I wish I could take soil samples.
The patterns are not natural. I can drive from strip to strip in my SRV and find nothing out of the ordinary.
So what happened here? Is it the remains of some ancient battle. Some kind of alien farm field? The remains of an alien strip mining field?
I dont know.
I will continue to explore this field until I find something or some material.
Did any other commander stumble across something like this?
This is why I love exploring. To find the unknown.
"To go where no man has gone before."

I had some similar issues flying near the north pole of a planet in the pleiades 2 weeks ago. I guess rendering gets a bit difficult at the poles when bearing changes constantly.

 

[Andargor]

It's HN-I

I was just out there, but I didn't jump into those systems, I am going to head back out after the patch next week though. The only trouble with the previously locked systems is that we don't know how long ago they were unlocked. Someone in threadnought 5 mentioned how lots of stars in the Cresent Nebula were previously locked. I flew 6k odd Ly out there to find out they'd all been discovered by at least 2 people.

Thanks, fixed in my post.

 

[Zenith]

Here are some systems, some in nebulae, that required permits in 2014-2015:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65780&p=1353433&viewfull=1#post1353433

NGC 6357 Sector YZ-Y C40
NGC 6357 Sector QT-R C4-50

I just happened to be in the neighbourhood.

NGC 6357 Sector YZ-Y C40

4 landables which I've not investigated yet.

 

[Kurt Ambrose]

I just happened to be in the neighbourhood.

NGC 6357 Sector YZ-Y C40
http://i.imgur.com/tnq9Wgv.png

4 landables which I've not investigated yet.

Yessss!! Please report any findings! Be on the look out for strong signal sources too!

 

[Snooch leBooch]

Just to clarify - because it's somewhat weird to me and i haven't really done much surface stuff, is it normal for planets 1300ly far from the bubble (scouting BLoop for barnie's atm - the pink is killing me) to have 15ish POI's?

And if so, wow what an immersion breaker

 

[Cynaqq]

Just to clarify - because it's somewhat weird to me and i haven't really done much surface stuff, is it normal for planets 1300ly far from the bubble (scouting BLoop for barnie's atm - the pink is killing me) to have 15ish POI's?

And if so, wow what an immersion breaker

Yes, it's normal for now.

They probably left them a little too probable to spawn in order to make testing their behavior easier. I think we'll see some adjustments to the frequency of POI spawns depending on distance form the bubble with future patches.

 

[Gypsy12]

Just as a reminder.

Nebula can be star local. You have been warned.

 

[Jmanis]

Just on the permits,

I recommend this thread. Although updates aren't often, it *is* updated (3 days ago) by the OP.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=122593

On the question of "We don't know when these systems became unlocked", during my trip to bovomit and back I noticed that several previously permit-locked systems were unlocked. This was just after Powerplay landed. Now, I can't be exhaustive, but the systems were definitely the one-offs in nebula, like California Nebula etc. If you trawl that thread, you'll see my post about it.

The permit page used to list these, then my post meant doubt was raised; nobody ever confirmed sighting a stray permit-locked system in a nebula since that post. It seems since then they've been completely removed from the list now.

Again, not saying it's completely insignificant, but it's highly likely the these systems unlocking happened well before Horizons was even announced, so consider that.

 

[Kurt Ambrose]

Just on the permits,

I recommend this thread. Although updates aren't often, it *is* updated (3 days ago) by the OP.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=122593

On the question of "We don't know when these systems became unlocked", during my trip to bovomit and back I noticed that several previously permit-locked systems were unlocked. This was just after Powerplay landed. Now, I can't be exhaustive, but the systems were definitely the one-offs in nebula, like California Nebula etc. If you trawl that thread, you'll see my post about it.

The permit page used to list these, then my post meant doubt was raised; nobody ever confirmed sighting a stray permit-locked system in a nebula since that post. It seems since then they've been completely removed from the list now.

Again, not saying it's completely insignificant, but it's highly likely the these systems unlocking happened well before Horizons was even announced, so consider that.

Excellent resource! I will have to give it a read over for anything that could help us.

But something tells me we're not following the timeline the Devs had maybe initially planned for us. UA's were in 1.2, but weren't seen by players until later? 1.3? 1.4? That's a lot of time for something that is so significant now, to be in the game (blatantly, the whole Wings video was kind of about the UA) and go unnoticed. I know the Barns are Horizons content, but the UA shell in the Pleiades, wouldn't that have been a part of the game before Horizons? At which point the Devs might have been like "oh yeah you can find these things around nebulae", we would've then searched for, and found another UA shell, been blown away by it, and then left with the final cliffhanger of "oh yeah the rest of this mystery can be solved in Horizons" hence the Barnies showing up in the Horizons trailer. And I can see that timeline removing A LOT of the skepticism that surrounded Horizons and if the content was worth it. No one would've cared, they'd just want to continue solving the mystery. Idk, hardcore tinfoil hatting.

We need to find another UA shell. If that even exists. Can more barnacles even be found in other nebulae? or UA's? or both? I think that's what is most perplexing and frustrating to me.

 

[Han_Zen]

Redwizzard got the fist UA on May 4th. That was after a long time of searching by a lot of commanders. At least two more UAs were found the same day.

 

[Rekah]

Yes, that was the name of the creative thing, but I used the name because most of us know what it means sorry!
I'm using a Xonar U7 external USB board on Win 10, and by switching the device to something different in the dropdown... Can't remember what now, but I do remember it being in Audacity help (possibly on the website)... Sorry! Need to get back in front of my machine to tell you for sure...

I can record 6 channels of sound if I set the options under the control buttons to Windows WASAPI, mic to High Definition Audio Device, 6 channels, playback to High Definition Audio Device (I can then export as ac3 or pick individual channels for mp3, etc.)

For some reason it throws an "Error while opening sound device" if I try to listen to the sound just recorded from within Audacity itself, unless I set it to stereo headphones or select MME instead of WASAPI (I assume this is a playback limitation inside Audacity or Windows itself or something, rather than an actual fault).

Hopefully I'll stumble on another Data Point to get a decent morse made (and when I've got a spare £150 or so, I'll get the extra two Technics 100W speakers to have 7.1 running and more channels to filter through, too)

 

[Kurt Ambrose]

Has anyone tried carting a UA to different nebulae to see if it will still point at Merope? a compass experiment?

 

[Snooch leBooch]

Yes, it's normal for now.

Thank you for clarifying.

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I for one have been guilty of following (read, 'wasting time on') so many wacky theories -most of them my own, over the last few days, that narrowing the whole thing back down to what we actually know and can work with sounds like a great idea. Also one that keeps you sane (8ish hours in Barnard's different shades of pink are TOUGH ).

UA's that had to be actively acquired, leading to discoveries by scanning and analyzing, lots of guesswork but so far nothing of it has been 'outguessing' the Dev's. What i'm trying to say with that is that i feel like those that think previously locked systems did not become somewhat significant in connection to our search. Because so far it has always been the case, wouldn't it be far more likely that we are given follow up clues, like the central structure symbols and maybe things we haven't found yet, or ignored, but things that are there for us to actively find out about?
Like it's been said a few pages before, i'd recommend to go back to the basics and work with what we have and try to find the clues there. Symbol, sounds, maybe site layouts.
I also have a small problem with following which boils down to MB saying "check Nebula's", because i somehow doubt it's the only clue that leads us to our target. NOT saying what he said is untrue, but if we analyze this later i wouldn't be surprised to find out that there have been clues ingame about nebula's being significant somehow all along and he just help sped things up because we might have missed something.

Also we might want to wait for the bug to be eradicated until we go to crazy on searching and draw conclusions from not finding anything.

 

[Ayal]

Made it back to the bubble guys , it was a rough time on the neutron fields but at least I managed to get to pioneer 55% , but I ain't got the energy to go back , any small tips you could give to finish the job ? Oh and I will also do some science as well after I took a break , thinking about mapping the nebulae to finish the grind to elite , what do you think ? It also helps towards the barnacles s well

 

[fyo]

Could someone with better memory of the last chapter of the threadnought please assist me with this simple issue:

Which was the third barnacle system discovered (Merope and the one pointed to by the garbled message being the first two)? Was it Pleone 11 A or was it the Pleaides Sector one?

And how was it discovered? Purely by chance???