Personally I've been in situations like that, although I don't own an Anaconda and was in my Asp. In one of the cases the terrain was too annoying to even bother using the SRV, so I had to land about 5Km away and then walk it.
Oh yeah.
I also use an AspEx to fly around the galaxy (even though I do own an Anaconda; it’s about the view from the cockpit, mostly) and had to do that many, many times. (I feel “rockier terrain”, as Alec put it, is an understatement in the case of Fungoida Setisis — those little buggers tend to grow only in freaking
mountains.) AFAIR I was always able to find a spot less than a km away, but in many cases I had to spend several minutes trying to find that tiny blip of blue on the scanner, then a minute or two trying to find it
again, then another minute of two trying to align the Asp so it would actually land (when dropping it like a brick from about 50 m didn’t do the job), then, after giving up, another couple of minutes finding
another blip of blue nearby where I finally could land
So, yes, I am absolutely for the ability to drop from a hover. With an extra warning and a wait period, sure, similar to emergency boarding when your backpack contents exceed available storage. (Speaking of which, I would also like to be able to disembark at my own risk when the outside temp is just a bit too high — I recall a planet with lifeforms where the bottom of the temp range was 806 K
)
