Has anyone ever circumnavigated....a planet?

Tom Areani

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Using an Srv, of course.

And I don't mean some tiny moon. A decent sized one. And I don't mean around some lower longitude. I mean, starting at one point, and ending at that point, following the equator, using just ONE SRV and not returning to your ship for the entirety of the journey?

I'm thinking of trying this. Just gotta find me a decent world to try it on. I'm fairly certain I could do it, but it would have to be a high metal content world, as one would need to resupply mats for fuel and hull repairs.

I'm just curious as to weather or not anyone else has tried it...
 

Manticore

Manticore
I believe some guy did try to circumnavigate a planet some time ago. It must be at least over a year ago now.

I can remember him posting a thread on it (perhaps if you search around for it).

I'm not too sure how far he got but I think exploding SRV's became a problem for some reason (the thread had pictures).

o7 Cmdr!
 

GunnerBill

GunnerBill
I tried this recently on something that looked the size of a potato.

Not a good idea, the gravity was <0.1 and i could hardly keep the SRV on the ground. Despite making what thought was good progress it would have taken hrs so I recalled the ship!
 

Tom Areani

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I'm going to do this. And I'm going to live stream the entire process.

I found a planet for the trip, it has a radius of 6,635 km, and a gravity of 1.23g.

I have already landed and parked my SRV at the equator, grid coordinates 0.000, 0.000.

I'm going to go and take a break, make some coffee, and start a new thread from which I will catalogue my journey. Each time I log on and stream, ill post my starting and ending coordinates in the thread for each session. I of course, will be doing this in solo play, to avoid the unfortunate reality of stream snipers. Although its HIGHLY unlikely anyone could be that determined to spend that much time getting to me (I'm pretty far out of the bubble.), finding me on planet, and killing me, I just don't want to leave anything to chance.

6,635km....wish me luck.
 

Zenith

Zenith
I've played for *whistles* quite a few hours and driven SRVs more than 8Mm in total.

You're talking about 41689km at 29m/s.
That's almost 400 hours game time assuming flat out full speed (which you won't be able to do). If you play 2 hours a day and do nothing else, you might be finished sometime around the beginning of April 2018.

Elite is a space game, not a driving simulator. :)
 

Tom Areani

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Zenith said:
I've played for *whistles* quite a few hours and driven SRVs more than 8Mm in total.

You're talking about 41689km at 29m/s.
That's almost 400 hours game time assuming flat out full speed (which you won't be able to do). If you play 2 hours a day and do nothing else, you might be finished sometime around the beginning of April 2018.

Elite is a space game, not a driving simulator. :)
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Is there some other, more important, thing I could be doing (in game, I mean)? Like, scanning the same astrological objects for hours on end?
 

Zenith

Zenith
Tom Areani said:
Is there some other, more important, thing I could be doing (in game, I mean)? Like, scanning the same astrological objects for hours on end?
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It's entirely up to you. I was pointing out that if you set yourself to exclusively circumnavigate that planet then you're committing yourself for 7 months without much in the way of variation.
Is that different to spending hour after hour of exploration jump-honk-scan? It's a matter of personal perspective. I find jump-scanning relaxing in a zen frame of mind.
 

drkaii

drkaii
Tom Areani said:
Using an Srv, of course.

And I don't mean some tiny moon. A decent sized one. And I don't mean around some lower longitude. I mean, starting at one point, and ending at that point, following the equator, using just ONE SRV and not returning to your ship for the entirety of the journey?

I'm thinking of trying this. Just gotta find me a decent world to try it on. I'm fairly certain I could do it, but it would have to be a high metal content world, as one would need to resupply mats for fuel and hull repairs.

I'm just curious as to weather or not anyone else has tried it...
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I once considered it then I decided to wait until atmosphere planets are introduced otherwise I'd die of sheer boredom.
 

cmdr milesred

cmdr milesred
Contrary to previous comments on the subject, air time does speed the trip up, my preference for that is roughly 0.5 to 0.7 G's
the higher the G's the more likely you are to take damage and it gets harder to stay in the air as well as less likely to gain altitude so that you can gain speed coming back down
the lower G's make it to hard to keep control and don't really help contribute to descending speed
On such planets you can get the speed up to 50+ easily
and if you are able to bounce from ridge to ridge, averaging 80m high lifts...all the better. its also far more fun this way, rather than just cruising on the ground.
And if you bounce correctly you won't lose speed but are more likely to remain at top speed, kinda like skipping a rock across a pond, gaining speed boosts during decent as well as each time you bounce.
Its very doable with very little effort and taking no damage to the srv if done correctly.
I currently have over 22mm on my srv's...
 

SushiCW

SushiCW
Tom Areani said:
I'm going to do this. And I'm going to live stream the entire process.

I found a planet for the trip, it has a radius of 6,635 km, and a gravity of 1.23g.

I have already landed and parked my SRV at the equator, grid coordinates 0.000, 0.000.

I'm going to go and take a break, make some coffee, and start a new thread from which I will catalogue my journey. Each time I log on and stream, ill post my starting and ending coordinates in the thread for each session. I of course, will be doing this in solo play, to avoid the unfortunate reality of stream snipers. Although its HIGHLY unlikely anyone could be that determined to spend that much time getting to me (I'm pretty far out of the bubble.), finding me on planet, and killing me, I just don't want to leave anything to chance.

6,635km....wish me luck.
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I'd recommend starting with a smaller planet. That's a crazy long distance and you'll get bored LONG before you reach the end. The high gravity will also limit the top speeds you can safely reach.



At least warm up with a sub-200km potato world somewhere. :)

I definitely recommend the experience, it's a lot of fun. Once you've got the hang of basic SRV travel technique, you can get around a smaller world in 5-6 hours of playing.

If you're determined to stick with the planet you're on... well, good luck and have fun! And don't be afraid to quit if it stops being fun long before you get to the end. Not worth it!
 
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space voyager

space voyager
One of the things that fascinate me in ED is the incredible speed difference between space ship and SRV. What is seconds in a ship is ages in an SRV... Good luck with this.
 
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