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[HOLY COW] Sleepers, Jovians, and the 'Other'

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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
#281 - 2014-12-05 15:21:05 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
From the latest devblog:
Zakari Kovalis, Exploration Vessel Katydid, Log Entry YC112.09.23 wrote:
Completed south polar sweep, concluding first survey of the eighth planet. All told this is a fine example of a temperate body and should make a good colonization target. The Sanctuary planners were hoping for a stable terrestrial, with surface conditions a secondary consideration. A barren or even an ice planet would have been viable. The working plan calls for an underground colony regardless. I've made sure to prioritize initial processing and flagging of the geological data while surveying this planet.

Guess stations in Thera are not the only permanent settlement they are planning.

This new log is dated four years ago, so it's the next step in the story of Thera's colonisation. Looks like SOE needed to create an underground colony on one of the planets for some reason, and it required geological scans. My best guess is they were starting up a mining operation in order to build the stations etc in the system without shipping anything in, which would help them stay hidden. The alternative is that they needed somewhere safe from the unstable star's radiation and an underground colony makes the most sense.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#282 - 2014-12-05 16:09:13 UTC
those sisters of EVE are ryde or die. not many people know that.
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#283 - 2014-12-05 16:15:11 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
ryde or die

Do I understand that correctly as "My way or the clone bay"?
Aurelius Valentius
Valentius Corporation
Valentius Corporation Alliance
#284 - 2014-12-05 17:26:56 UTC
--has made me realize that something enormous is underway.

It's called marketing, and it happens all the time on Television, much like exploding penguins and spam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k1ccguXiws

Siegfried Tahl
STCorp
#285 - 2014-12-06 11:53:54 UTC
Anyone else explores Unidentified Stucture and Circadian Seeker Sleepers? What's the news?

Quote:
Patch notes for Rhea 1.0
Release on Tuesday December 9, 2014

Audio:
...
Sound environment for a cloaked structure
Sounds for new sleeper scout drone ...

Exploration:
Scanners are now detecting Unidentified Sites throughout New Eden; we have nothing on record about the contents within...

Missions & NPCs:
New sleeper scout drone, the Circadian Seeker, can be found roaming known space
The Circadian Seeker NPC has multiple action states, based upon an improved AI...


The Structure seems completly passive. Sleepers warp around the system 'scanning' things, prefer the Structure and customs offices. Go in group from 1 to 5. They now leave empty wreck. Still dont shoot back, flee, call backup, or react at all. Looks like they have 2 heavy missile launchers or their 'scanner' thing has launchers model.

You cant neut, jam, dampen, data/relic analyze, scram them, so I dont know how to make them show their 'multiple action states'.

Lets discuss
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#286 - 2014-12-06 15:07:05 UTC
I would definitely evacuate anything I had in those sleeper systems.
Mario Putzo
#287 - 2014-12-06 18:35:33 UTC
I really wonder if these will be part of occupancy based sov.

It feels like an invasion, or I suppose in actuality a retaliation for being invaded since they were here first. I wonder if they will become hostile the longer they are left alone. To the point of maybe even destroying player outposts, and stargates, isolating systems, and forcing people to live there to defend all of these things, or mount an assault to reclaim, and rebuild.

Maybe. I think that would be cool. It practically writes itself.
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#288 - 2014-12-06 23:20:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Jandice Ymladris
On the patch notes, originally, the cloaked structures where referred to as 'Jove Outposts' before CCP rephrased it, possible hint?


On another note, do station/gate guns react on Sleeper Ships (the Circadian ones) if they visit gates/stations & scan them? (if they visit those places)

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Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#289 - 2014-12-06 23:23:58 UTC
Jandice Ymladris wrote:
On the patch notes, originally, the cloaked structures where referred to as 'Jove Outposts' before CCP rephrased it, possible hint?


On another note, do station/gate guns react on Sleeper Ships (the Circadian ones) react if they visit gates/stations & scan them? (if they visit those places)

Shhhhh- it's , more fun when it's a secret!

And I'm in an encounter with the circadians- they give a weird digital effect to your hull when they scan you
Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#290 - 2014-12-06 23:32:00 UTC
But yeah, they fixed it VERY QUICKLY. I'm pretty excited because of it- the fact that it was in there at all is very significant.
Sohl Ni-Zha
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#291 - 2014-12-07 01:59:22 UTC
Time to create a sect devoted to Second Coming of Sleeping People, Ones That Bare Gifts (hopefully some new drugs).

delivering. drugs.  IG channel: Narcotics

Nishachara
Stillwater Corporation
#292 - 2014-12-07 13:21:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Nishachara
Is it my imagination or does outline of that cloaked structure in many pics here resemble the structure in the begining of that storyline eve trailer we had last ?
( the one with the gate activating and the heretics who had constructed it...etc )
Anonymous Forumposter
State War Academy
Caldari State
#293 - 2014-12-07 15:23:25 UTC
Nishachara wrote:
Is it my imagination or does outline of that cloaked structure in many pics here resemble the structure in the begining of that storyline eve trailer we had last ?
( the one with the gate activating and the heretics who had constructed it...etc )


We already know it's a crystalline looking structure from looking at it's model in the game files.
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#294 - 2014-12-07 15:32:51 UTC
Has anyone ever tried to have some blue loot in their cargohold for when the circadian sleepers scan you?

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Siegfried Tahl
STCorp
#295 - 2014-12-07 16:41:35 UTC
Yes i did. Bought each sample of sleeper blue loot, and sansha dogtags too just in case. Didnt make a difference. Pew-pewed them alittle to attract attention, they scanned me, nothing.

Thought there could be something in sansha incursion constellations (or some clues to find in Oasa-Cobalt border, tho it maybe too late).
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/ded-report-on-nation-activity/

Anyway, visited 4 incursion constellations. There were no Unidentified Structures in 3 of them, but I think their absence is just a coincidence, cause there is one for xmpl in Black Rise > Inolari > Raihbaka.

And the site doesnt look any different. Sleepers behave the same. They even peacefully hang out with Sanshas in belts.
http://i.imgur.com/i6n7B6G.jpg

So I think they are either incomplete yet, mechanics not fully implemented, or we should look better for ways to wake them up.

One more thing I'm gonna try. You have to decloak some cans in the new Standard Sleeper Cache site by flying into them. That may be the case here too. Maybe there is something to decloak in the cloud around the Structure.
Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#296 - 2014-12-07 16:41:54 UTC
Altrue wrote:
Has anyone ever tried to have some blue loot in their cargohold for when the circadian sleepers scan you?

Someone should- and someone should also grab the Jovian body parts and see if they react to that somehow- anything's possible- these drones have interesting AI
Nishachara
Stillwater Corporation
#297 - 2014-12-07 19:18:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Nishachara
That circadian sleepers scan your ship right, if i read correctly i think someone mentioned that ?
has anyone apporached it with a t3 ship ( which has somewhat sleeper componetns in it ) ?

Because t3 cruisers ( and t3 destroyers i presume if they will be made along the same lines as cruisers, needing sleeper salvage parts for production ) are basically made from the remains of killed sleeper ships and stolen stuff from their space.
If they scan your ship it would be logical that they react to finding that you fly stolen property from their dead brethren.
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#298 - 2014-12-07 21:11:26 UTC
Jandice Ymladris wrote:

On another note, do station/gate guns react on Sleeper Ships (the Circadian ones) if they visit gates/stations & scan them? (if they visit those places)


Saw them on a regional stargate, they were scanning the stargate but the gate guns weren't attacking.

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Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#299 - 2014-12-07 21:26:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Altrue
Nishachara wrote:
That circadian sleepers scan your ship right, if i read correctly i think someone mentioned that ?
has anyone apporached it with a t3 ship ( which has somewhat sleeper componetns in it ) ?


I'm on it! Give me time, I need them to warp to an empty moon, so that they have no choice but to scan my ship. (That's the only occasion where I saw them scan me)

EDIT: Fun fact (or valuable intel?), rapid lights with auto targeting missiles don't work on them. "No suitable target in range".

EDIT 2: Nothing happened :(

EDIT 3: Actually, I might have activated their mating protocols...

EDIT 4: It just scanned me AND at the same time scanned the jovian structure. I didn't know they could do that. Two scans at the same time.

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Ned Thomas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#300 - 2014-12-08 03:30:30 UTC
Are we still waiting on the dev blog for these Sleepers in k-space? I know we had the one for the Sleeper Cache's, but I thought there was supposed to be one about the random encounters.

The hell man. Rhea releases in like five minutes.