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M00ka

M00ka
I decided to visit a nearby planet hunting for some mats - Icy world with 0.06G. At first it was fun, finding the odd outcrop, actually finding the rare minerals I was after, then everything turned on it's head. Crested a ridge and slide all the way down into a large crater. You think I could get out of that damn thing, would get half way up the slope, lose traction and just slide back to the bottom. Tried vertical boosting out, because of the size of the crater, I would get about half way up again, land, bounce, often roll but always end up back down in the bottom. A few times I thought I was actually going to make it, but inevitably I would run over a rock the size of a pack of cards, spin madly in circles, lose all power and slide back down. Even tried recalling my ship, but the damn wimpy AI landed at the top of the beeping crater!!!

So please, Mr FD, can we get either studded tyres or chains for them, pretty please :D :D :D
 

Whitehair

W
Might be something for when space legs is introduced. Getting out of the SRV and fitting the snow chains to the tyres before your fingers freeze off!
 

Pumabear8

Pumabear8
happened to me twice, first time I inched out, like moving less than 3m/s and maneuver to find traction, the second time I logged out and back in without Horizons, I was not going through all that kaffufle again.
 

M00ka

M00ka
Pumabear8 said:
happened to me twice, first time I inched out, like moving less than 3m/s and maneuver to find traction, the second time I logged out and back in without Horizons, I was not going through all that kaffufle again.
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Thank (insert deity of your choosing) that I am not the only one this has happened to, At first I thought it was humerous, then a little concerned, then just frustrated. It sounded like I was going to burn the SRV's motor out at one stage it was revving that high lol
 

Pumabear8

Pumabear8
M00ka said:
Thank (insert deity of your choosing) that I am not the only one this has happened to, At first I thought it was humerous, then a little concerned, then just frustrated. It sounded like I was going to burn the SRV's motor out at one stage it was revving that high lol
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Yeah, my first time took me nearly an hour, like you I kept sliding back, it felt good when I finally got out, but i knew I didn't want to do that again.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
If it happens again, try going up in reverse. Power seems to be biased towards the rear wheels, or the SRV's weight is distributed more over the centre and rear wheels than the front. Obviously there's a point at which you just can't get up a slope regardless but I've had success going up slopes in reverse that were impossible to drive up forwards.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Counter-intuitively (and as a result of iffy coding), the best way to drive up step slopes is usually to do it sideways.

The SRV struggles to drive straight up anything more than, say, a 45° incline but if you zig-zag up the same incline, your SRV doesn't slide or roll.
It just goes up. [where is it]

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GunnerBill

GunnerBill
M00ka said:
I decided to visit a nearby planet hunting for some mats - Icy world with 0.06G. At first it was fun, finding the odd outcrop, actually finding the rare minerals I was after, then everything turned on it's head. Crested a ridge and slide all the way down into a large crater. You think I could get out of that damn thing, would get half way up the slope, lose traction and just slide back to the bottom. Tried vertical boosting out, because of the size of the crater, I would get about half way up again, land, bounce, often roll but always end up back down in the bottom. A few times I thought I was actually going to make it, but inevitably I would run over a rock the size of a pack of cards, spin madly in circles, lose all power and slide back down. Even tried recalling my ship, but the damn wimpy AI landed at the top of the beeping crater!!!

So please, Mr FD, can we get either studded tyres or chains for them, pretty please :D :D :D
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There's some higher beings laughing at your attempts to escape their trap!

You said you tried thrusting (vertically) so I guess you tried charging the slope at speed then thrusting to lift off? Because on low G worlds I seem to be able to travel a very long way both up and along using a slope like a ski-jump.
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Worth mentioning that any SRV related fail can be easily corrected by exiting the game, then loading the vanilla (non Horizons) game. You will be in orbit of the planet you were on, in your ship, with SRV in the bay. Save and exit again, load Horizons, profit?
 

M00ka

M00ka
GunnerBill said:
There's some higher beings laughing at your attempts to escape their trap!

You said you tried thrusting (vertically) so I guess you tried charging the slope at speed then thrusting to lift off? Because on low G worlds I seem to be able to travel a very long way both up and along using a slope like a ski-jump.
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Oh I tried everything. Standing jump - just bounced a lot. Running jump - cos the crater was big, and I couldn't get any traction to begin with, I always ended up about half way up the slope .

And yes, the gods of ED rolled the dice, pointed at me and laughed lol
 

M00ka

M00ka
Aashenfox said:
Worth mentioning that any SRV related fail can be easily corrected by exiting the game, then loading the vanilla (non Horizons) game. You will be in orbit of the planet you were on, in your ship, with SRV in the bay. Save and exit again, load Horizons, profit?
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True, and I did think of that - and suicide because I know I would have ended up back in the ship and just had to rebuy the SRV. But where is the fun in that - and I originally had fun, for the first 30 minutes or so. Then frustration set in, then dogged determination not to let the bloody game beat me on something this mundane :D And in the end I won :D
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Alec Turner said:
Nowt counter-intuitive about it. That's why roads up mountains look like this ...

https://lonelyplanetimages.imgix.net/mastheads/47227384.jpg?auto=enhance&w=770&h=430&fit=crop
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To be fair, that has to do with the incline, not the surface. i.e. There would be no need to 'crab' a road (side to side) in the OPs case, a strip of straight tarmac would work, given the SRV's high grip and torque on other surfaces than ice. ;)

Just being pedantic, it doesn't invalidate what you say, crabbing up mountains is how animals, people and vehicles have always done it, you are quite correct. :)
 
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IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
I found a nice nightmare spot like that myself recently. Didn't matter if I tried to go sideways or backwards or both - at some point what passed for gravity would win, and I'd end up back at the bottom of the crater again.
So I dismissed and recalled my ship instead. Which REALLY makes we wish we could designate an LZ...
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
M00ka said:
True, and I did think of that - and suicide because I know I would have ended up back in the ship and just had to rebuy the SRV. But where is the fun in that - and I originally had fun, for the first 30 minutes or so. Then frustration set in, then dogged determination not to let the bloody game beat me on something this mundane :D And in the end I won :D
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I have only had to do it once myself, I was stuck in a deep ravine on a surface after trying to leap a mountain (the things we try to do under the influence of onionhead, I tell ya...), I was sure I could make it. lol.
 

M00ka

M00ka
IndigoWyrd said:
I found a nice nightmare spot like that myself recently. Didn't matter if I tried to go sideways or backwards or both - at some point what passed for gravity would win, and I'd end up back at the bottom of the crater again.
So I dismissed and recalled my ship instead. Which REALLY makes we wish we could designate an LZ...
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Hope your ship was smarter than mine, it landed on the rim of the crater and sat there mocking my futile attempts to get to it. Anyway want to buy a slightly abused ship autopilot ......
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Stealthie said:
It's also why they're cut into the side of a mountain to remove any side-slope.

What's counter-intuitive (because it's just plain wrong) is the idea that a vehicle might be able to traverse a side-slope more easily than going straight up or down.
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Oh I see what you mean now ... you're not talking about having insufficient torque to cope with the steep incline (which traversing would help with) but about why the wheels should lose traction when being rolled directly up the gradient but not lose traction when rolling across it an an angle. Yeah OK - fair point.
 
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