Dismiss Ship - to Where?

Pville_Piper · Mar 13, 2017

Vasco Sapien said:
I do have a tendancy to be Jump jet happy and accidentally launching myself down huge canyons while sipping coffee.

So you could be right.

Did that one the other day... Only, I wasn't drinking coffee... [hotas]

thirstyfish · Mar 13, 2017

IndigoWyrd said:
I've been wondering, when we're roaming around on a planet and dismiss our ships, where do they go?
I've not put any effort into co-op trying to track a dismissed ship, but I wonder if anyone else has? Do they just pop up into orbit, or do they vanish into a pocket dimension?

Orbit. Easiest answer.

CMDR ANCALAGON · Mar 13, 2017

Last week I drove my SRV to the top of a very high mountain and recalled my ship to see what would happen. It was high enough up that there was nowhere for it to land, so it would just hover just in front of me at the top of the peak. After taking some pics I thought I would have a go at jumping onto the ship, but was unsuccessful. The gravity was a hair above normal, it was a metal rich world (no traction) and there wasn't enough room on the peak to get a running start. I was a bit bummed because my objective was to land on the ship and then dismiss it. (Actually, I wasn't that bummed due to the fact that I was on my way back from a month in the black and some catastrophic failure resulting in loss of exploration data would be hard to swallow, especially if my only real answer to the "how did that happen" question was "well, I wanted to see where my ship went when I dismissed it, so I mounted it with my SRV and.... yeah.)

So as soon as I get back and dump this data, I'm going to hop in a cheaper ship and solve the mystery, once and for all!

IndigoWyrd · Mar 13, 2017

I accept High Orbit as the in-lore answer. I just wondered if our ships were actually "there" somewhere, or if the did, in fact, disappear into Left Sock Land.
And I'm fine with ships going into Left Sock Land as well for the sake of performance or whatever other reason might be given.

Why Left Sock Land? Because when you get one less sock back from the dryer, it is always a right sock, as the other was left somewhere.

askavir · Mar 13, 2017

It goes to the only place in the entire universe where a pirate won't show up after 30 seconds.

JesusRocks1988 · Mar 13, 2017

You're all wrong.

It goes 100 million universes to the right.

thirstyfish · Mar 13, 2017

JesusRocks1988 said:
http://i.imgur.com/vvkAcDF.jpg

You're all wrong.

It goes 100 million universes to the right.

Wow....that is impressive. +Rep

Also: Why can't my python have that kind of jump range?

PharmacyLove · Mar 13, 2017

To the upside down.

Comrade Napoleon · Mar 13, 2017

Ships go where ships go , when you are not watching (just like dying whales).
The they hang around a flying bar and tell jokes, and share good 'ol stories, and get slightly whiffed. Of course they are on standby, the never know when duty calls.
I have noticed though, that my Python "Enhjørningen" occasionally acts a bit sluggish like when it returns, it 'prolly just had a good time.
This is all true and old one legged spacer told me he had seen the place, yeps!
Maybe it is a myth though...

Cheers Cmdr's

Gunnet · Mar 13, 2017

IndigoWyrd said:
I accept High Orbit as the in-lore answer. I just wondered if our ships were actually "there" somewhere, or if the did, in fact, disappear into Left Sock Land.
And I'm fine with ships going into Left Sock Land as well for the sake of performance or whatever other reason might be given.

Why Left Sock Land? Because when you get one less sock back from the dryer, it is always a right sock, as the other was left somewhere.

Got to remember that "there" doesn't even exist. With no server running the whole show, everything is in Left Sock Land unless there's a player within a few tens of kilometres to provide an instance for it.