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Markov Chaney

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CMDR Timber McWolf said:
My fears had nothing to do with gravity, to be honest.
What scared me the most was that timer ticking down.
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I have an extremely boosty Cobra for planet-hopping and it took me a while to trust that if you use all the glide path it will actually stop in the last 4km... but it does, reliably.

I also aim for about 50 degrees and I'm usually about right on it provided I've come in on the same side as the settlement and it's a decent sized planet.

But I am extremely poor at guessing where the tangent horizon is when the settlement is near the limb and it's a small planet so I will quite often end up with one hell of a zig-zig if I've come in from the "wrong" direction.

I use the auto land purely for laziness. It does a terrible job of getting around the right side of the settlement and facing the numbering, so I do that myself and then as soon as the pips start, I go to zero throttle and let the landy thing land it.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
Markov Chaney said:
I have an extremely boosty Cobra for planet-hopping and it took me a while to trust that if you use all the glide path it will actually stop in the last 4km... but it does, reliably.

I also aim for about 50 degrees and I'm usually about right on it provided I've come in on the same side as the settlement and it's a decent sized planet.

But I am extremely poor at guessing where the tangent horizon is when the settlement is near the limb and it's a small planet so I will quite often end up with one hell of a zig-zig if I've come in from the "wrong" direction.

I use the auto land purely for laziness. It does a terrible job of getting around the right side of the settlement and facing the numbering, so I do that myself and then as soon as the pips start, I go to zero throttle and let the landy thing land it.
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Getting down to the surface never was an issue for me. Landing on a terrestial spaceport was.
And looking at it, now that I have some landings at planetary stations under my belt, I just realize what a scaredy-cat I have been.
Knowing there was a timer counting down made me so nervous that I'd inadvertently would press all the wrong buttons, even turn the wrong way and in consequence panic-boost away at the slightest hint of impatience in the voice of the STC...
 

aRJay

aRJay
CMDR Timber McWolf said:
Getting down to the surface never was an issue for me. Landing on a terrestial spaceport was.
And looking at it, now that I have some landings at planetary stations under my belt, I just realize what a scaredy-cat I have been.
Knowing there was a timer counting down made me so nervous that I'd inadvertently would press all the wrong buttons, even turn the wrong way and in consequence panic-boost away at the slightest hint of impatience in the voice of the STC...
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You should have been here a few years ago for scary landings at planetary bases.

They claimed it was a bug but I just think that was a cover up and the AI had just turned nastier.
What happened was as you got very close to a base approaching the landing pads, skimmers would get high above you and then drop onto you from height almost always causing a catastrophic explosion. If you were actually above your pad you were usually safe so the thing to do was approach the base so you ended up 10 kilometres or more above it then descend vertically to your pad keeping an eye out on your radar for anything above you.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
aRJay said:
You should have been here a few years ago for scary landings at planetary bases.

They claimed it was a bug but I just think that was a cover up and the AI had just turned nastier.
What happened was as you got very close to a base approaching the landing pads, skimmers would get high above you and then drop onto you from height almost always causing a catastrophic explosion. If you were actually above your pad you were usually safe so the thing to do was approach the base so you ended up 10 kilometres or more above it then descend vertically to your pad keeping an eye out on your radar for anything above you.
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That sounds more annoying than scary, to be honest.
 

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Which brings one to the questions: "where am I ...and where are the Fungoida?" ;]

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CMDR Kantos Kan

CMDR Kantos Kan
I haven't played ED in a few weeks now. I had started a trip in my Corvette toward Colonia but I'm only 1/3 there. I'm just a bit bored with Elite Dangerous right now. Been a backer since 2015, have all the ships, all the money. I'm not interested in the Guardians or the Thargoids so what's left? I've been mostly spending my time in Star Citizen.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
CMDR Kantos Kan said:
I haven't played ED in a few weeks now. I had started a trip in my Corvette toward Colonia but I'm only 1/3 there. I'm just a bit bored with Elite Dangerous right now. Been a backer since 2015, have all the ships, all the money. I'm not interested in the Guardians or the Thargoids so what's left? I've been mostly spending my time in Star Citizen.
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I enjoy the on-foot game, personally. Exo can be great when the mood takes me, but I think I prefer ground CZs - at least for now :D
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
CMDR Kantos Kan said:
I haven't played ED in a few weeks now. I had started a trip in my Corvette toward Colonia but I'm only 1/3 there. I'm just a bit bored with Elite Dangerous right now. Been a backer since 2015, have all the ships, all the money. I'm not interested in the Guardians or the Thargoids so what's left? I've been mostly spending my time in Star Citizen.
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You could try some racing...
 

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