Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

The Farseer engineer requires Meta-Alloys for us to be able to talk to them.

It seems that the barnacle sites dosen't spawn them atm.

Some people thinks its a bug, I think that we have to look somewhere else.

I think I will look for them in nearby wrecks, nearby systems, space wrecks. There is also reports that some barnacles is protected by turrets ect, but they don't drop meta-alloys, just normal materials (maybe there is a random chance that they do).

Have any of you seen them?

I found this myself after getting to the Pleiades nebula last night. This appears to be a way that ll the old barnacles are acting, one that i re-visited from before had the large pods, but instead of meta-alloys they gave me a unit of metals each, i can't remember which.

Checking reddit this morning there's a thread on the canonn subreddit suggesting that there are new barnacles out there, and i have read that there was mention in yesterday's livestream that there were more to be found (i didn't manage to watch the whole stream, will finish it tonight).

I'm currently at work, but i'm docked in Obsidian Orbital, so if i don't hear anything by the time i'm able to get back in my ship i'll follow this up.

Fly safe
Serinea

FD also confirmed now that the missing meta-alloys from barnacles it is not a bug, but by design: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost3955572

Cheers, it's good that it's confirmed, i like the idea of the initial goods to get access to the engineers not being a simple thing to aquire, though hopefully it won't be too frustrating to find one.

The question now is whether meta alloys come from just certain sites or has a random chance to spawn from a barnacle.

I would rather prefer the former since the latter will only be a case of shoot barnacle, Cycle instance and repeat until alloy is found...

From my reading of the frontier post, and other reddit reports, meta-alloys are just coming from new barnacles, and not from old ones, though i am starting to follow Canonn research threads now for more information.

The current Cannon research forum thread has a link to a google sheet with information on all known barnacle sites.

If you find anything that confirms or disproves anything i've said tghen please let em know.

Fly safe
Serinea

Seems that there is a bug after all
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost3956159

ok that makes sense, so not all barnacles will have a developed "flower", some will have already been harvested when you get there, and a rare few will have a harvestable meta-alloy pod, or so it seems.

I guess this means taht something to do with updating the old barnacles went a little screwy, and i suspect tehy'll be fixed in reasonably short order as it does kind of lock off part of the 2.1 patch.

Will still search though.
Fly safe
Serinea

New word (for me) from MB in the other place
'Scumming' - what we know as relogging to get a better result has been taken into account it seems.

post from Michael Brooks here suggesting that as a stop gap measure they'll be making a market available with meta-alloys in the Maia system, Darnels Progress space port. This is on the planet that Obsidian Orbital orbits, i think it's Miai 3 1, but i'm not sure.

bets on which comes first, heads: the market will be seeded, or tails: the barnacles bug will be fixed? i'm hoping for both myself, so edge?