Irs been a few weeks sincw I played, but something seems very wrong. I am trying go land on an icy body but the landing instruments never pop up. Instead I just coast closer and closer until I am too close and drop.
Planetary Landing is broken?
- Thread starter HazelrahFiver
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Is it an atmospheric planet?
No? I dont know how to check, but its an icy body.
Argon-rich the system map says
There are icy and rocky bodies where you can't land, even if it looks like you should be able to do so. If you CAN land, you'll see a yellow outline along with the blue exclusion zone outline. Another indicator is in the destination menu where you will see a mini light blue spaceship for landable planets.
Check your system map and see if a blue circle is around it. If not it's not a landable one.
Argon is a gas above about 83 kelvin, that's pretty cold even for an ice planet. I would suggest this is an icy planet with an argon rich atmosphere but you haven't really given us much to go on, a system name or screenshot would be handy.
So I thought it was only atmospheric worlds we couldnt land on... Didnt realize there are also non-atmospheric worlds wr cant land on for whatever reason. Oh well.
Since you're all here anyway... how do I locate rocks to mine with my scarab?
Since you're all here anyway... how do I locate rocks to mine with my scarab?
You'll have to use the passive radar scanner. Here's a good guide:
https://elitepve.com/viewtopic.php?t=4269
Once you're in the area, you'll see whitish/gray squares pop up on your radar. Those are rocks you can mine.
Ah, that's right. I had it backwards. Yellow is exclusion zone, blue is landable. I always look for both, but it's best to know which is which. lol
I really dont understans that link lol.
I am driving around aimlessly because the blotchy scanner doesn't seem to help point me in any direction. By complete chance I happen to have found three rocks to destroy. Frankly, I never even heard a noise indicating I was going the right way. Is there a way to tell from a good distance that I am heading toward a destructible rock?
I am driving around aimlessly because the blotchy scanner doesn't seem to help point me in any direction. By complete chance I happen to have found three rocks to destroy. Frankly, I never even heard a noise indicating I was going the right way. Is there a way to tell from a good distance that I am heading toward a destructible rock?
This might help a little more: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Wave_Scanner
Keep in mind this is a passive scanner, which means it only picks up the general direction of an object, rather than its specific location. It's like passive sonar, which lets the submarine run silent, while also having a general idea of where another sub may be sitting.
Sounds like it is a world with an Argon Atmosphere hence why you cannot land
So, why is he getting closer and closer? I thought if you go too close to a non-landable body, you were dropped out of SC ?
You are in Horizons, right? Sometimes I've caught myself out by starting plain ED and wondered why I can't land.
You are. You're dropped right at the edge of the exclusion zone, which is where the planetary landing system would normally engage.
