Simple.... JUMP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThC1i7dzYaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThC1i7dzYaw
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How do YOU land on planets?
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-1 rep for Shatner.
WHAT ! .. whatever
Frankly speaking, Shatner should've died (horribly, preferably in a very gory manner) before Nimoy did.
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Peril Sensitive Sunglasses and book of Vogon poetry for me.
And no the poetry isn't for reading, it's for threatening the slaves with. Gotta keep 'em quiet somehow.
And no the poetry isn't for reading, it's for threatening the slaves with. Gotta keep 'em quiet somehow.
Vogon poetry is at least frank, unlike the political junk humans spew.
That said, gotta say that 'if you're good in polictics you should be beheaded'.
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Clumsily for the most part.
I am yet to find a 'knack' like the orbital station approach. I love it tho, especially the glide, and the creaking ship noises.
Atmospheric landing will be awesome hopefully. I want to see atmospheric combustion round the ship, burn marks on my paintwork, cockpit rattling to pieces, hell even taking hull damage if you misjudge the angle. Lovely stuff...
I am yet to find a 'knack' like the orbital station approach. I love it tho, especially the glide, and the creaking ship noises.
Atmospheric landing will be awesome hopefully. I want to see atmospheric combustion round the ship, burn marks on my paintwork, cockpit rattling to pieces, hell even taking hull damage if you misjudge the angle. Lovely stuff...
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Badly. Early into the Distant Worlds expedition (so it was a planetary landing rather than at a starport), I came in too hard and did a bit of hull damage: from 100% hull I dropped to 35%. I was very annoyed with myself.
I find planet landings slow (which is cool , but its slow ) I try to land fast , shop/mine , take off , land , shop/mine ... rinse repeat .. So the less time I'm stuffing around either trying to leave the planet or get too the planet the better.
Anyone found a quick way down or up yet ? I remember all the talk about stations approaches , so this may be the new thing
My orbital approach to a system Station HUB, when about too slow down the FSD , the best I get is 6 sec , and when lining up the Station HUB 3-4 seconds is when I jump into the station area, usually land right outside the docking bay once nearly on top of it , must have been the 2 sec jump..lol
Anyone found a quick way down or up yet ? I remember all the talk about stations approaches , so this may be the new thing
My orbital approach to a system Station HUB, when about too slow down the FSD , the best I get is 6 sec , and when lining up the Station HUB 3-4 seconds is when I jump into the station area, usually land right outside the docking bay once nearly on top of it , must have been the 2 sec jump..lol
Apparently not careful enough! I had landed only a couple of times before on the surface and all went well. Just -45 degrees towards a smooth region and evening my angle out to nearly 0 degrees close to surface after the gliding; nothing bad ever happened. That was until I tried on a (supposed) high G world.
Funny part is, I was finally trying to be extra careful, as I was on exploration trip. But had not checked the planet G and honestly, from my limited experience, I thought it wouldn't make that big of a difference. When I was trying to do my last bit of boosting along the surface (0 degrees) for the landing region I just lost all the height and control despite trying to correct. Like I was sucked in on the planet!
I (hope?) I won't make that mistake again.
Funny part is, I was finally trying to be extra careful, as I was on exploration trip. But had not checked the planet G and honestly, from my limited experience, I thought it wouldn't make that big of a difference. When I was trying to do my last bit of boosting along the surface (0 degrees) for the landing region I just lost all the height and control despite trying to correct. Like I was sucked in on the planet!
I (hope?) I won't make that mistake again.
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"Like a roomba"
Depends if my fiancee is home or not.
If she not :
I talk to my self like if I was a real spaceman (no I am NOT going to grow up !) asking for permision to land or for vectors or just loging in info and so on.
I follow the horizon to the spot I want to land on and then decend 20 or so degrees
If she is here I just do it as mentioned but without vocal RP
If she not :
I talk to my self like if I was a real spaceman (no I am NOT going to grow up !) asking for permision to land or for vectors or just loging in info and so on.
I follow the horizon to the spot I want to land on and then decend 20 or so degrees
If she is here I just do it as mentioned but without vocal RP
I am currently on a short exploration jaunt, to help me get over the trauma of my first ship loss in a year (my beautiful FDL... sob...). I was in a nice looking system just outside the bubble, when I saw a little world near it's star with a ring and some cool looking geography. I had just plugged in my new EDTracker, and was enjoying the views, so I thought, "Why not?"
The approach was smooth, and then I came out of glide, and the hull was creaking and the ground was fast approaching. Huh? Oh yeah, maybe I should've checked the gravity first. I never landed above 1g before and this one was 2.5. I lost my shields, and miraculously, nothing else. Lesson learned - always check the gravity BEFORE the approach.
The approach was smooth, and then I came out of glide, and the hull was creaking and the ground was fast approaching. Huh? Oh yeah, maybe I should've checked the gravity first. I never landed above 1g before and this one was 2.5. I lost my shields, and miraculously, nothing else. Lesson learned - always check the gravity BEFORE the approach.
I land with a ship because I can't jump out and surf down like shown in John Carpenter's Dark Star [alien]
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Generally landing gear on the floor first.
I did once land in mid-air while with DW in the early days.
I did once land in mid-air while with DW in the early days.
Exploration , amazing sights there is so much to see... not much to do but not everything is about what you get out of it.
However if there still is not much to do in the next year or so then I could understand the hate
And ain't that a downer and a half!
FD, if you're listening... we want the ability to surf down to planets... it's probably THE single most important request you've ever had...
I have this thing in games... If you give me a ledge, I WILL jump off of it. It was particularly bad in Star Wars: The Old Republic. It seemed I couldn't go a single play session without a falling death. Once we can do EVA, I'll do it after I come out of glide. Repeatedly.