We all know that in horizons you will be able to land on airless planets and moons.So my question is while you explore in the far reaches of space if you find an airless planet or moon will you be able to land and save your game there , so you are not in danger from asteroids, enemies or pirates?
Dear Frontier Developments , A question about Horizons and Exploration
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You can already save your game in the far reaches of space. Why do you need to be able to land on a planet to do so just to be safe from danger? As long as your game is saved and you are offline you are in zero danger.
That's not strictly true - if you log off whilst inside an asteroid belt then when you come back later your ship will likely have been destroyed. Currently, you are only "safe" if you're docked at a station. That's where you respawn if you die out in space. It would be annoying indeed if you landed your ship and had it destroyed by a griefer to find yourself back at the last station you docked at.
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i heard somewhere in the forums of someone died in exploration (he saved) and then after loading he was already destroyed . Was that a bug ? are you sure that you are 100% safe after saving?
You are safe, when you log out while you are not in danger I think!
That was a bug, basically the objects in the system (planets etc) continue moving if you log off.
If you log in and are unfortunate enough to be occupying the same space as another object explosions occur. This is exceptionally exceptionally rare and generally never occurs provided you do 2 things:
1) Exit any asteroid belts
2) Fly upwards away from orbit lines
Using the above 2 points I've saved more times away from a station than I have in a station. Only been killed by this once and that was before I knew about the asteroid thing. You are 99.999% safe when saving outside a station.
When logged off your ship disappears and is not damageable by anything, provided you are off-line you are safe. As for landing on planets and saving I assume it will work since we will be locked to it so as it rotates and moves so do we (same as it does for stations and stuff currently), I guess we will test it next week in beta.
If you log in and are unfortunate enough to be occupying the same space as another object explosions occur. This is exceptionally exceptionally rare and generally never occurs provided you do 2 things:
1) Exit any asteroid belts
2) Fly upwards away from orbit lines
Using the above 2 points I've saved more times away from a station than I have in a station. Only been killed by this once and that was before I knew about the asteroid thing. You are 99.999% safe when saving outside a station.
When logged off your ship disappears and is not damageable by anything, provided you are off-line you are safe. As for landing on planets and saving I assume it will work since we will be locked to it so as it rotates and moves so do we (same as it does for stations and stuff currently), I guess we will test it next week in beta.
I regularly log off whilst in an asteroid belt or, to be 100% clear, in a planetary ring whilst mining. When I log back in the ships been moved to just outside the ring but close enough to be back at the rock face in a few seconds.
Been doing this for the past few weeks because of all the mining CG's and never had any trouble at all. I think it used to be an issue but has been fixed so the ship gets moved to make sure it doesn't reappear half way into a roid.
Yeah, explorers have been doing this for a long time with out much issue at all (as already noted).
What I do is rather excessive though, which is to go a good distance away from the main star(s) of a system, not near any planet paths that I can tell (I don't use orbital lines, as they seem a bit too easy-mode and I don't like them mucking up the view), drop out of supercruise after slowing down my ship, throttle to zero, then turn off all the modules that I can except life support before logging off. I've had no issues with this at all.
It might be a bit overly cautious, but I'd prefer not to have any issues with the game thinking I'm still online, or similar, wasting months worth of exploration data.
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I am curious about logging off on planets though and wouldn't mind more info on the subject. We'll likely find out in the beta either way at least.
What I do is rather excessive though, which is to go a good distance away from the main star(s) of a system, not near any planet paths that I can tell (I don't use orbital lines, as they seem a bit too easy-mode and I don't like them mucking up the view), drop out of supercruise after slowing down my ship, throttle to zero, then turn off all the modules that I can except life support before logging off. I've had no issues with this at all.
It might be a bit overly cautious, but I'd prefer not to have any issues with the game thinking I'm still online, or similar, wasting months worth of exploration data.
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I am curious about logging off on planets though and wouldn't mind more info on the subject. We'll likely find out in the beta either way at least.
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how do u know that there won't be any aliens on the planet consindered as a danger? lol
Probably will be when atmospheres come, in fact several "classic" species are expected to make a comeback but most people are skeptical that they'd be introduced so soon... It's all a trap says I
Imagine being able to land on Mars
