For me, this is the main reason I don't use that ship much anymore. Now I explore in a python or conda, way fewer problems boarding. The Asp really does sit low, relatively.
The ASP really need a new landing gear!
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The Imperial Courier has this problem as well. The collision radii for the landing legs and ventral hull are all wrong, and if you try to get under the ship you end up hitting invisible walls half the time. I really wanted to use it for surface mat gathering, but this issue kinda ruins it for me. It's a shame, since it's quite a pretty ship.
The Asp
The only ship to my knowledge with modelled forward thrusters (the air-intake looking items each side of the canopy) and it has a very poor ability to actually stop itself from moving forward. Very stanage.
DBX/DBS.
And I guess, technically, the Keelback has thrusters that can function as such.
Yes, I am talking about the ASP Explorer.
Do not get me wrong, I love the ship, but find the thrusters lack of power to contradict inertia. I switch a lot between the VIPER MK4 and the ASP, now with the transfer ships option, I fly more and more with my asp looking for systems to settle for a while (War & Civil wars, CZ) sometimes I go into a planet with my viper others with the asp, when I go with the asp I keep forgetting its not the viper. No matter how much G's the planet have, (Never got into a planet with extreme G force) I never once in my ED life hit the floor of a planet because I was flying fast or I could not counter the pull of G's in relation to my vertical speed with my Viper MK4. Cannot say the same with the ASP.
Compare both of them at stock, no mods, do a 180º turn on a viper 4 and do the same on a asp full speed all pips to eng, when the asp ends the turn, it loses speed (flight assistant on) the viper does not. the ASP is a great ship with poor engines, thats all. imho...
Also, some people post pics of a Sidy in a weird slope, of course no ship landed like that is going to accept the SRV loaded lol.
The example I am giving is small slopes or some inclination, sometimes its like the dam SRV tower did not retracted lol.
The landing gear of the ASP is bulky and too low.
This might not matter at all before Horizons, but now, all landing gears of every ship should be addressed.
I am kinda wondering in a near future (hope so, fingers crossed) where there will be more interaction on planets and more stuff to do then shoot rocks or kill sentries, like building factories or mining (for real) stuff like that, the relation between ship and SRV will be even more needed and its a process that needs to be efficient.
Oh, and I do not use docking computers also, I find them useful for lazy people lol. (sorry)
We all see what docking computer grief it was while back ago.
And since I am on a roll lol, about the ASP and docking computer, is a combination for disaster. When that bug was around, I saw my asp coming hot from space to land on the planet and hit the floor so hard that more then 50% hull was damaged, I had at the time over 5 mil in exploration. My heart jumped 100 ly!!!! So, the ship engines (or lack of them) in combination with a shallow hull and low height landing gear, makes the ASP the most difficult, stressful and annoying ship for planet landing. Great ship for exploration and amazing slots for different types of builds, but lacks overall operability.
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