Can confirm lol
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Can confirm lol
I just jettisoned a few cargo containers (fish, tea, animal meat and mineral oil). I saw the 5-on-the-dice pattern on all of them. However, the lights on my containers are smaller (more point focused) and 4 lights are blinking on and off regularly.
The blinking in the youtube video near the UA is different.
The blinking in the youtube video near the UA is different.
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Well beat me unconscious with the leafy end of a pineapple!
Looks like it could be flashing a code, there are definite configurations that sometimes repeat - an identifier for contents?
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You know what - it does look like an onion. Could UA be source of onionhead? Could that be the "interesting secret"?
Well i guess with the next update of the game we will have a new commodity,
which is very common and has different flavours.
It'll be a "ton of speculations"
It looks like an onion right, but how do those events tie together?
Can you align multiple UAs to form a "Dark Wheel"?
So there's a non-destructive test: Observe and record lights on various canisters (including Sap8, etc) both in instances with and without UA present.
Think people are sick of my theories now.....but is anyone UA hunting as I don't mind being used as cannon fodder if I'm of use. I'm about 80ly away in a shot up ASP that's in for repairs.
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Off topic I saw Zachary Hudson flying about Kachian A.
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Off topic I saw Zachary Hudson flying about Kachian A.
Thanks! You're right it's four lights looking again, which means 2^4 (16) possible combinations I think? Or is my maths wrong.. So not the alphabet if I'm right... It's probably nothing. Maybe it only needs a few characters. Like A, X, R, L or something.
we've got one called kitty and one called bob, have we got anymore and what are they called?
we've got one called kitty and one called bob, have we got anymore and what are they called?
Didn't Bob die screaming?
Total UA Thread newbie here, but here's a painfully dumb question for everyone:
Has anyone let the UA just outright destroy their ship?
It occurs to me that doing module damage, and quite a lot of it, is the only physical thing the UA actually appears to do. That, and the Galnet articles we believe to be connected to the UA are almost always about ship destruction or death. Maybe it's just supposed to blow us up? I haven't scanned the entirety of the wiki but I haven't seen any mention of this kind of experiment, and it seems like the most logical one to do as it just requires letting the UA do its own thing without being impeded. I realize we stand to lose a UA, and could quite possibly send a commander back to a sidewinder depending on their financial situation, but it sounds like the closest thing to a sane option out of everything I've seen suggested thus far.. assuming it hasn't been tried.
Has anyone let the UA just outright destroy their ship?
It occurs to me that doing module damage, and quite a lot of it, is the only physical thing the UA actually appears to do. That, and the Galnet articles we believe to be connected to the UA are almost always about ship destruction or death. Maybe it's just supposed to blow us up? I haven't scanned the entirety of the wiki but I haven't seen any mention of this kind of experiment, and it seems like the most logical one to do as it just requires letting the UA do its own thing without being impeded. I realize we stand to lose a UA, and could quite possibly send a commander back to a sidewinder depending on their financial situation, but it sounds like the closest thing to a sane option out of everything I've seen suggested thus far.. assuming it hasn't been tried.
I *think* I remember reading some where that those lights are proximity indicators. I've spent part of my morning trying to source the claim but alas have come up empty.
Just checked, the center large circle is sort of a proximity detector, as it turns fully white when you're very close to it. However, the four surrounding lights keep just all blinking on and off, regardless of distance.
(Over 200m, it is not clear anymore, but still appears to be all on, all off. Other fun fact: central light also reacts to closeness of the debug cam, so I think that might be a bug
)edit: Proposed test: record the lights of a canister in proximity the the UA. Then analysis of the video should show if we can find any pattern in it.
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Just checked, the center large circle is sort of a proximity detector, as it turns fully white when you're very close to it. However, the four surrounding lights keep just all blinking on and off, regardless of distance.
(Over 200m, it is not clear anymore, but still appears to be all on, all off. Other fun fact: central light also reacts to closeness of the debug cam, so I think that might be a bug
Thanks again! So I suppose the next question is, is it just fish that react in this way to the UA, (han Zen, put your trouser back on..) or all canisters do the same thing, or do they do different things... Curiouser and curiouser.
Edit: by the way thanks for humouring me while I can't get in game myself. Promise to make up for it next week.
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Ah! Cheers! Does the canister detect the proximity of other non UA canisters? If you set two canisters side by side doES the middle light stay on?
On the outside of the canister?
I recall people discussing the markings and numbers with a couple of hi res screenshots to look at, but not the conclusion (apart from some poor guy in Australia having the UA soundtrack played down the phone at him, quite possibly)
Edit: I'm catching up, this may already have come up.
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Did the test with fish and biowaste but the fish just blinks, all four on, all four off. Again, close proximity lights up the center to white. However, only close proximity to the ship.
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I saw this on the Reddit and no it has not been tried and I won't be trying it because apart from losing a UA, we know that the UA isn't really compatibable with human tech as it's seeming to be completely organic and so it could be meant to be held in storage differently due to what it requires to exist and such......., also that if it was meant to destroy a ship then why when it's out in space does it not swim over and attach it'self to the ship and do it that way?
This makes me think that the UA's corrosion damage is sort of a leak maybe like with the Toxic waste containers since they leak out the waste that corrodes the ship and it can also be a way for frontier to stop us from taking it out of civilissed space easily. Also the only Galnet articles that outright say about the UA in name are player submitted not frontier done, for all we know they could be for another plot line like with the emporers death.....
Did the test with fish and biowaste but the fish just blinks, all four on, all four off. Again, close proximity lights up the center to white. However, only close proximity to the ship.
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You're the best
I wonder if the lights blink based on "illicit " status or not. Does the fish blink the same as the other canisters? This is rather interesting
One possible kaibosh on the cannister lights thing, it could be an effect of the UA haze effect, watching the video again, so we'd have to make sure we aren't viewing through the UA I suppose...
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