The Mighty - 9.9g

[ADAMtheWELSHMANz]

Since 3.3 and the advent of the Codex I've taken on the role of a surveyor, confirming Cmdrs entries across the various sectors I've so far fully confirmed 4 sectors and am currently out near Colonia working on those

After travelling roughly 2kly to a report of some anemones I had to pause.........the planet in question had a gravity of 9.9g (my previous highest landing was a 4.67g) and was seriously considering looking elsewhere for them

I'm so glad I decided to go for it though, and am happy to say my Exploraconda landed safely with minimal hull damage incurred. So glad I heavy dutied/deep plated the hull and sacrificed a few ly in favour of more substantial shielding

Thanks for taking the time to read and please let me know about your highest g landing, or indeed any interesting things you've experienced while exploring

Cmdr ADAMtheWELSHMANz - PS4

 

[Andovar]

this is something on my to-do list.
But will have to wait until I get back to the bubble. My lightweight shieldless DBX doesn't like high-G.

 

[Nadreck]

I have a Keelback runabout with full-sized A-rated G5DD thrusters, which is my preferred "landing craft". Never had a problem, even tried it on Achenar 3 (6g). So I guess that made me a bit complacent. I was following the DW2 route in my Krait Phantom (5D G5CD) and smacked down fairly hard at The View in unfavourable terrain. Lifted off to look for a better spot, came down hard again, was left with no shields and about 36% hull (engineered, fortunately). Took off again and used a couple of repair limpets.

Then swapped at Rohini and took my largely unengineered (except for the FSD) AspX back to the Bubble for awhile, and went to check out that system in the Spirograph Nebula that was mentioned on here. Landed OK on a 2.2g planet (or thereabouts), then tried the 2.7g one. Found some "anemones" in a biological site, tried to point my nose at one to use the composition scanner, and sort of "slid forward" until I was touching it. Tried to go up, nose stuck, somersaulted. Soon learned that even though my 4D belly thrusters would hold me up, my topside thrusters weren't up to the task. Hit and went boom.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Mmm... 9.9g... sounds relaxing. Let me grab my weight bench and blood thinners.

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

There's a 9.7G planet at around 1000 LY from the bubble. It's called STRONG-G, there's also a touristic beacon on the surface.
I'm curious to try this 9.9G anyway... what's the system?

 

[777Driver]

Simple trick for anyone flying into extreme G planets, set analogue vertical thruster control in the 'Alternate' flight control section. You'll be be able to land on any high g planet with ease (FA-ON or OFF) Digital thruster control is unfortunately not accurate enough.

FA-OFF analogue Thruster demo 6g
[video=youtube;TquAYTjEuSQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TquAYTjEuSQ&index=55&list=UUXm79fS4PrZYTT_SxqSI7zQ[/video]


Also a nice video on human G tolerances on other worlds.



[video=youtube;G03oEcmMr9o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G03oEcmMr9o&index=3&list=WL&t=24s[/video]

 

[Vandaahl]

There's a 9.7G planet at around 1000 LY from the bubble. It's called STRONG-G, there's also a touristic beacon on the surface.
I'm curious to try this 9.9G anyway... what's the system?

Kyloalks DL-Y g17, only 1200 ly from where I am now, but around 23000 ly from the bubble.
Didn't know I was that close, so I might give it a try as well. Colonia is not that far in case I crater my phantom

 

[ADAMtheWELSHMANz]

Kyloalks DL-Y g17, only 1200 ly from where I am now, but around 23000 ly from the bubble.
Didn't know I was that close, so I might give it a try as well. Colonia is not that far in case I crater my phantom

That's the one! Had sold data beforehand so only had around one days worth onboard which was what conviced me to put on my "big boy" trousers and try it.

Strong was actually one of my 1st ever deaths, visitor beacon was planetside and wasn't used to checking g's at that early stage of my career, died so quick it was scary.

 

[Vandaahl]

Were you able to leave normally, or did you load up the base game instead of Horizons?

Big fellow

 

[Vandaahl]

Omg, that is weird. I broke off orbital flight to see what the thing does, and it took me 3 minutes to gain enough forward speed to get back in SC. And that was at 8.5 g... scary stuff, well done you [up]

 

[Ziljan]

I've done the 9.9 with no shields and landed with no damage. It's pretty easy if you just rapid press FA-off (set input to HOLD) for a controlled descent. The hardest thing about 9.9g is that it takes an age just to reach orbital cruise.

 

[Vandaahl]

Simple trick for anyone flying into extreme G planets, set analogue vertical thruster control in the 'Alternate' flight control section. You'll be be able to land on any high g planet with ease (FA-ON or OFF) Digital thruster control is unfiortunaly not accurate enough.

Works with this world as well. I was afraid that the vertical thrusters wouldn't be strong enough to keep you leveled and the ship would drop uncontrollable, but at 800 km height and 9.1 G the thrusters are still holding.
I started with pulling her on het tail and trying to decent, but its not necessary.

Your speed however, passes over 500 m/s in just seconds when you disable FA, which is... different

*edit*
Oh, 501 m/s seems to be a hard coded vertical speed limit. I can't get any faster than that [where is it]

 

[777Driver]

*edit*
Oh, 501 m/s seems to be a hard coded vertical speed limit. I can't get any faster than that [where is it]

You can get ships above 9000 m/s riding a gravity well if you override the thrusters FA-OFF

[video=youtube;v-pCSKy5gL4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pCSKy5gL4&index=27&list=UUXm79fS4PrZYTT_SxqSI7zQ[/video]

 

[Ziljan]

You can get ships above 9000 m/s riding a gravity well if you override the thrusters FA-OFF

The sound on that video is just plain awesome. Should sound like that every time we get near a black hole or neutron star spaghettification distance.

 

[Vandaahl]

override the thrusters FA-OFF

??

How do you do that? When I switch off FA I drop from the skies with only 500 m/s, while there is nothing there that should me prevent from falling any faster. I descended with 1 km/2sec and just let the vertical thrusters stabilize the speed again and landed safely.
Well, until I maneuvered horizontally to find a landing spot and muscle memory took over. I pressed thrust down for 1 sec and was smacked to the surface instantly. Got some cuts and bruises, but I'll live

Thx OP, for the tip, was cool [up]
Can't rep you twice

 

[Morbad]

How do you do that? When I switch off FA I drop from the skies with only 500 m/s, while there is nothing there that should me prevent from falling any faster

FA Off has never been full FA Off and there has never been a hard speed cap, they've just gotten more aggressive with enforcement of the soft caps.

 

[777Driver]

The sound on that video is just plain awesome. Should sound like that every time we get near a black hole or neutron star spaghettification distance.

Yeah, the sound team are epic.

@Vandaahl - The trick is to have the vertical thrusters (weakest thrusters) doing the brunt of the work (ie stay level or slightly pitched up) With FA-OFF the thrusters still fire in an attempt to obey the max speed limit, manually engaging the other thrusters diverts thrust away from those vertical thrusters maintaining a decent rate.

Our ships are coded to have infinite thrust (at least tested up to 9.9g with any mass) however you can still trick the thruster logic. All a bit pointless but a lot of fun

 

[Vandaahl]

@Vandaahl - The trick is to have the vertical thrusters (weakest thrusters) doing the brunt of the work (ie stay level or slightly pitched up) With FA-OFF the thrusters still fire in an attempt to obey the max speed limit, manually engaging the other thrusters diverts thrust away from those vertical thrusters maintaining a decent rate.

Ah thats what you mean, I'm with you now
I thought it had something to do with 'control' setting, like landing override and stuff...
Will try it next time, I already left the place again.

 

[Red Anders]

Strong was actually one of my 1st ever deaths, visitor beacon was planetside and wasn't used to checking g's at that early stage of my career, died so quick it was scary.

When I suggested the visitor beacon there I genuinely had no idea that they would put the beacon on the planet itself, I just assumed they would put it in orbit. So yeah, sorry about that

I've got to have a crack at this 9.9G bad boy - my holy grail when exploring has been finding a planet with greater G than HD 148937 3 aka 'Strong G'. Still looking for one myself but I'll take a tourism pilgrimage to this place in the meantime.

 

[Cmdr Aeries Hunter]

Simple trick for anyone flying into extreme G planets, set analogue vertical thruster control in the 'Alternate' flight control section. You'll be be able to land on any high g planet with ease (FA-ON or OFF) Digital thruster control is unfortunately not accurate enough.

FA-OFF analogue Thruster demo 6g



Also a nice video on human G tolerances on other worlds.

It seems that the alternate flight vertical thrust setting is by default set as analogue these days (just checked mine).