Attn: High-Gravity Planets Exist

senturion

senturion
This is a first for me... I've mostly only landed on moons... but I was flying in to Hoffman Landing at a 55 degree decline from orbital cruise and glide mode.

I had about 120 tons of Musgravite, Serendibite, and some others. :(

Didn't know high gravity was a thing.... and didn't see any warnings anywhere about it.

FDEV: Can a gravity notice be added to planets or stations when viewing them from super cruise? I'd like to know I'm about to crash my ship and lose all my cargo. I thought my controller was acting weird and activating down thrusters.... I wound up at one point upside down, with the belly face up.

So... now I at least know about high gravity!

I was really on a roll with core mining being my second day doing it.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
I think there is a gravity readout in the map for bodies, and one in the hud when near a planet.

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Rubbish quality but there is the gravity reading.
 
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St0rmFury

St0rmFury
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Admittedly, the gravity reading in the HUD during the landing sequence could be displayed more prominently (bigger text, maybe in the center, in red, flashing, idk)

In any case, sorry to hear about your loss! It probably took you about 2 -3 hours to mine that much. As a core miner, I know how painful it is to lose that amount of precious cargo.

Learn from this and keep your chin up!
 
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AkenBosch

AkenBosch
senturion said:
.... I wound up at one point upside down, with the belly face up.

So... now I at least know about high gravity!
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Source: https://youtu.be/r4G8O8sI1n4


...and yes, always keep a positive attitude and look at the bright side, at least now you know high gravity bodies are a thing. The hud indicator won't flash in your eyes maybe, but now you know where to look for. With practice, you'll learn to notice when you're heading for a high g approach just by looking at the planet, high radius planets look quite a bit different from smaller ones for obvious reasons.
 

Deleted member 110222

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ITT: OP discovers gravity... Has varying strength depending of the unique conditions of each individual stellar body, and that these both go above earth gravity as well as below.
 

AkenBosch

AkenBosch
[VR] Biff Stryker said:
Ah yes I remember my first time too..it was like it was yesterday

comes out of glide
why isn't this thing slowing down?
the surface is coming at me very fast, oh sh...!
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What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?
 
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