It happened to me that after taking two biological samples, I called the ship while walking back to the "car". The ship appeared and I preferred to watch it land outside the SRV. Normally I get on the vehicle while it lands, but this time I did it like this. I saw something strange, because it didn't descend vertically as normal, but I thought I saw it do so in a dive, horizontally and quite quickly. My suspicions were confirmed when, apparently landing, I saw the blue bubble of the shields and almost immediately several small explosions. These occurred for a few seconds, while I clenched my butt, hoping that it wasn't a total destruction of the ship. Finally, it stopped without any more explosions. I ran up to the SRV and headed towards it, it was 1.21 km away and when scanning it from a distance, I saw that it was recovering from the shields and its hull was at 60%. When I called it, it was intact, 100%. As I was arriving, I saw smoke coming out of the right side and I could see damage to the fuselage. I circled around it with the SRV, noting the damage and that it was not completely landed, it was in the air, with the rear engines on. I could not go up because, as it was not completely landed, the illuminated ascent corridor was not visible. In addition, the chosen site was some cliffs, which had damaged the starboard side of the ship at the rear. I moved away and made it move away. I looked for more open and flat terrain about 2 km away and when I got there, I called it again. Now it landed normally. I went up to it. I checked the internal damage and there was none, except for the lowering of the hull. Just in case, I restarted the ship, although it did nothing noticeable. That said, smoke and sparks every few seconds. I took off, jumped into space and the sparks and smoke continued. I jumped to another system and the same thing happened, until after leaving the game and re-entering another instance, those visible damages disappeared, although not the percentage of the hull, as has been pointed out here.
Now my question: has the automatic landing of the ship when called ever ended in a catastrophic or partial landing as in my case? It is the first time that when calling it, it apparently chooses a place not suitable for landing and still, it executes it with the damage described. It had never happened to me. The automatic landing and docking computer is advanced, there are no strange things in the modules, I do not exceed the energy use, I have it at 52% with modules turned off that I do not use in exploration and even so, I almost run out of ship. The option is clear, only call it in completely clear terrain. But on this occasion, where I was, it was reasonably open and it went more than 1 kilometer, on some rocks and almost crashed into them. The AI left a lot to be desired.
My second question after some answers is: I don't carry drones (my fault), I do carry two self-maintenance units and two SRVs (I saw that I could have saved the second one because I never "broke" the first one). Do the repair drones fix the hull? For example, I know that the power unit is only repaired on carriers or space or planetary stations. And now I can't buy them, I'm 12,000 light years away from the nearest carrier. But if they fix the hull, I take it into account to change the SRV for a unit of repair drones, provided that they relearn the hull, which obviously for exploration, I didn't reinforce it much.
And finally, if as in my case, the ship explodes and you end up on a planet 36,000 ly from Colony or 57,000 ly from the Sun, what happens? You don't die, you just lose your ship. Do you have to call an Appex shuttle and have them come and pick you up or do you wait until your SRV runs out of fuel and you die? If they come to pick you up, you obviously pay the insurance, but... are the exploration and exobiology data lost or preserved?
Sorry for the length of the message, but let's see if someone can resolve these doubts for me.
Regards,
Now my question: has the automatic landing of the ship when called ever ended in a catastrophic or partial landing as in my case? It is the first time that when calling it, it apparently chooses a place not suitable for landing and still, it executes it with the damage described. It had never happened to me. The automatic landing and docking computer is advanced, there are no strange things in the modules, I do not exceed the energy use, I have it at 52% with modules turned off that I do not use in exploration and even so, I almost run out of ship. The option is clear, only call it in completely clear terrain. But on this occasion, where I was, it was reasonably open and it went more than 1 kilometer, on some rocks and almost crashed into them. The AI left a lot to be desired.
My second question after some answers is: I don't carry drones (my fault), I do carry two self-maintenance units and two SRVs (I saw that I could have saved the second one because I never "broke" the first one). Do the repair drones fix the hull? For example, I know that the power unit is only repaired on carriers or space or planetary stations. And now I can't buy them, I'm 12,000 light years away from the nearest carrier. But if they fix the hull, I take it into account to change the SRV for a unit of repair drones, provided that they relearn the hull, which obviously for exploration, I didn't reinforce it much.
And finally, if as in my case, the ship explodes and you end up on a planet 36,000 ly from Colony or 57,000 ly from the Sun, what happens? You don't die, you just lose your ship. Do you have to call an Appex shuttle and have them come and pick you up or do you wait until your SRV runs out of fuel and you die? If they come to pick you up, you obviously pay the insurance, but... are the exploration and exobiology data lost or preserved?
Sorry for the length of the message, but let's see if someone can resolve these doubts for me.
Regards,
