Horizons SRVs should be SOLAR powered

[Fyrd Judge]

I think SRVs should be SOLAR powered, not taken back to the Flintstones where Barny Rebel is breaking rocks over his head to provide power to his Taradactle lawnmower.


4000ly Years away from SOL and my SRVs are 90% of the time looking for the right rock for fuel or the right rocks for the ammo.
Today i spent the entire time looking for the right fuel rocks 1/8th of fuel left and had to return to the ship with no rocks to make fuel. Now i am thinking, OMG i have three SRVS left what if they all fall down to the same issue.

Please, can we have SRVs that are purely for Exploration, take the weapons off and lets have Solar panels. I want to explore in them 10,000ly years away from SOL not spend days mining in them.

 

[Kinky Jalepeno]

You wont be exploring much if you're a good distance from the sun or want to explore the dark side of a tidally locked planet or moon..

What you should be able to do is carry fuel on board your ship you can refuel your SRV with...

That sounds far more realistic and practical to me...

Finding rocks to make fuel on the body you're exploring is a bit off IMO.... You should be able to load up on Hydrogen fuel at a station for your SRV..
Then you get to trade off space for things you may find exploring the surface vs carrying more fuel to increase exploration range

 

[Bartizan]

How is this still a complaint? They increased the fuel tank size and the materials needed to refuel the SRV are outrageously easy to find. There is nothing to fix here.

 

[Fyrd Judge]

You wont be exploring much if you're a good distance from the sun or want to explore the dark side of a tidally locked planet or moon..

What you should be able to do is carry fuel on board your ship you can refuel your SRV with...

That sounds far more realistic and practical to me...

Humans are running ROVs on MARS ok with SOLAR power

 

[Kinky Jalepeno]

Humans are running ROVs on MARS ok with SOLAR power

Yeah cos Mars is sooooooo far away from the Sun lol

Try it with Neptune (if it were solid) and see how far you got... Your ROV would have to be nuclear powered like deep-space probes...

Mars is in the Goldilocks zone ya know?!

 

[Fyrd Judge]

How is this still a complaint? They increased the fuel tank size and the materials needed to refuel the SRV are outrageously easy to find. There is nothing to fix here.

LOL they increased the fuel tanks No good if planets are not providing the right rocks.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Humans are running ROVs on MARS ok with SOLAR power

Curiosity is actually nuclear. The previous toy cars had some serious issues and very limited capabilities. The whole problem of what to do when the sun sets was already brought up.

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

Humans are running ROVs on MARS ok with SOLAR power

Mars is still ridiculously near the star in comparison to some planets in ED, which might also be orbiting a much dimmer star.

Not saying you're wrong to suggest it though, I'm not really bothered either way.

Personally I'd have had it refuel from your ships tank.....

 

[Fyrd Judge]

Yeah cos Mars is sooooooo far away from the Sun lol

Try it with Neptune (if it were solid) and see how far you got... Your probe would have to be nuclear powered like deep-space probes...

There are millions of planets in the ELite Galaxy that are a lot closer to the sun than Mars is in the real Galaxy, i know i see them every day as many other explorers witness. This obvious point can be found by opening a system map

 

[Kinky Jalepeno]

There are millions of planets in the ELite Galaxy that are a lot closer to the sun than Mars is in the real Galaxy, i know i see them every day as many other explorers witness. This obvious point can be found by opening a system map

Irrelevant - stick to the argument at hand....

 

[Bartizan]

LOL they increased the fuel tanks No good if planets are not providing the right rocks.

Not a real argument. I left for the high side of the core immediately after Horizons launched with SRVs, landed on and explored 50-60 worlds easily and never ever had one moment of issue with fuel. Once you start finding those materials, you keep finding them and eventually you have a surplus you can hardly put a dent in. This is not a issue....trust me. Unless all you are doing is crater jumping and chasing POIs, completely ignoring the very easy and small time investment of house keeping.....then I can't help you.

 

[Fyrd Judge]

Irrelevant - stick to the argument at hand....

What has this comment to do with my OP, Please stop waffling and remain on topic

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Not a real argument. I left for the high side of the core immediately after Horizons launched with SRVs, landed on and explored 50-60 worlds easily and never ever had one moment of issue with fuel. Once you start finding those materials, you keep finding them and eventually you have a surplus you can hardly put a dent in. This is not a issue....trust me. Unless all you are doing is crater jumping and chasing POIs, completely ignoring the very easy and small time investment of house keeping.....then I can't help you.

Again you go off on one, why do you assume because you have no problems, every one else shouldn't. May be there is a game issue with planets 1000ly years off. Did this thought ever come into your thinking when you decided to reply to my OP?

 

[CmdrCanine]

I spent 20 minutes gathering materials, didn't even know what they did, just chucked em in the boot of my SRV along with a few thargoid carcasses and headed back to my ship. I gathered loads of stuff. I checked later on when i was flying about to see if any of them gave me an FSD boost and it showed me I could refuel my SRV 14 TIMES. If you come across a planet that does not offer those materials then that is annoying but i reckon quite rare. Also, this game is trying to be realistic and travelling 10,000LY and only losing 1 SRV to lack of fuel is probably being too kind. Just my opinion.

 

[Fyrd Judge]

I spent 20 minutes gathering materials, didn't even know what they did, just chucked em in the boot of my SRV along with a few thargoid carcasses and headed back to my ship. I gathered loads of stuff. I checked later on when i was flying about to see if any of them gave me an FSD boost and it showed me I could refuel my SRV 14 TIMES. If you come across a planet that does not offer those materials then that is annoying but i reckon quite rare. Also, this game is trying to be realistic and travelling 10,000LY and only losing 1 SRV to lack of fuel is probably being too kind. Just my opinion.

If it was realistic then they would be SOlAR powered, like all other things running around on Mars. Lets not forget Fuel scooping Suns is Fiction, this is after all a game.

 

[CmdrCanine]

Solar power is a great idea, but brown dwarfs don't give off much that you could call power!

 

[Shadowdancer]

Bluntly speaking, there is no reason—gameplay or practical—to put solar cells on the SRV.

Gameplay? "You always have to drive under the sun, enjoy."

Practicality? "You can only drive on planets close enough to a suitable star." Not to mention how much paneled area you'd need to get anywhere near the energy required to move the SRV.

(edit) Shouldn't it be "stellar-powered"? Getting power from Sol would restrict things even further…

 

[Fyrd Judge]

Solar power is a great idea, but brown dwarfs don't give off much that you could call power!

Not all suns can be fuel scooped and so what do we do, we move off to the right one that can. This isn't Einstein Maths to work out how to implement them, pick a planet that is near M class sun, Land , take our SRV and point it at sun , for how long ever time they want to set it to power the SRV and then that is how you do it.

 

[Noogillim]

Hmm imagine the size of the panels and the skinny bicycle style wheels - you'd have to scoop materials to build new wheels on every rough bit of terrain

Maybe the OP would be happy spending years travelling tiny distances ;-)


Even the chunky wheels at low speeds suffer damage.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Not all suns can be fuel scooped and so what do we do, we move off to the right one that can. This isn't Einstein Maths to work out how to implement them, pick a planet that is near M class sun Land , take our SRV and point it at sun , for how long ever time they want to set it to power the SRV and then that is how you do it.

What you're proposing here is even stupider that what you're trying to avoid. Where are you going with this? Are we now carrying a huge array of solar cells AND a massive battery bank that we can't recharge once the lights go out?

 

[Fyrd Judge]

Hmm imagine the size of the panels and the skinny bicycle style wheels - you'd have to scoop materials to build new wheels on every rough bit of terrain


http://i.space.com/images/i/000/011/342/i02/distances-driven-moon-mars-150324a-02.jpg?1427234511


Maybe the OP would be happy spending years travelling tiny distances ;-)


Even the chunky wheels at low speeds suffer damage.

http://i.space.com/images/i/000/048/646/i02/Curiosity_Wheel_tread.jpg?1435885468

And yet you clearly seem to think scooping fuel from suns is a normal real life event and is accetable fact for the game ...lol

Just to remind you don't use non fiction facts and try implement them to a fiction game.