The Faulcon DeLacy "M U L E" Planetary Pioneer Vehicle

Imagine if you will a much larger planetary vehicle or SRV with larger wheels and a cargo bay with reasonable size. It would also be multi-crew ready and could offer some new gameplay mechanics.

- Holds up to 3 CMDRS
- Can deploy 2 regular SRV
- Electric Motor with higher torque and lower top speed
- Deployable solar panels to recharge long range batteries
- Lower center of gravity ("So it doesn't fall over when it looks at a hill" ;))
- New prospecting options like surface mining and or drilling
- New exploration options with batteries and solar power
- Large cargo bay for extraction and storage
- Can only be deployed from larger ships
- Enhanced scanners for finding resources

Perhaps this is a better way of tackling multiple SRV's in multi crew or maybe not but some variety would be nice and it would seem that if we are going to continue with multi-crew in mind this might work. Feel free to add to it or imagine some other new mechanics a vehicle of this kind could offer. Or maybe even some concept images or renders etc. Does Faulcon Delacy even make planetary vehicles? If not I just love their designs so much I decided perhaps they should expand into this market ;) Be cool to see what people can come up with for a concept and or what other features/gameplay mechanics it could offer. Even a non multi-crew version could add that extra variety we need for planetary vehicles.





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Center of gravity(mass?) can't be "larger". It's just...a center. A non-existent point.
Also, I can't see any new gameplay this would bring right now. Absolutely none.
 
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He obviously means a lower centre of gravity, so it won't tip over as soon as it looks at a hill.

I've figured that much. However, there's always a chance people can simply make up their own terminology for something and just roll with it :D
However, SRV we have now is nicely balanced IMO.
 
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I can't see any new gameplay this would bring right now. Absolutely none.

I guess you missed this part - New prospecting options like surface mining and or drilling

@Op - The vehicle you described is what many of us expected on horizons launch. Personally I expected at least one new vehicle larger than the SRV within a year of horizons launch. Standard dev response (No ETA) let's hope we see something added sooner than later, Horizons has been out for quite a while now.
 
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How about a walker? Wheels are all good and fine but against extreme terrain you need something like this...
 
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Ok so they have added Huge base ships into beta...

So why can't we have gigantic land crawlers mining planets. Big enough to to land on and trade.

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