High Gravity Landable Planets disembarking from ship on Foot.

Walter2

Walter2
marx said:
If memory serves, they're actually in a fixed position, so yes, they hover. At least, back when I had an anchored fleet carrier. Could even call it a geostationary orbit, but personally, I've never measured if the carrier really does orbit at the necessary height. I don't know why Frontier decided to make them this way.
However, they might have implemented it by making carriers actually a surface base, just set to a height level that's far above the actual surface. That would explain why the gravity at surface level would prevent players from disembarking in orbit.
On the other hand, I could easily be misremembering and thus be wrong, and the game just mistakenly checks the surface gravity for disembarking.
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This might clarify my current situation. Having lost my last SRV due to extreme stupidity, I called my FC over to the moon I was exploring so I could change ships. The rescan reported the expected biologicals plus one human contact. In a virgin system just a few thousand kylies from Sag A*, this was unexpected; a floating base would explain it.
 

Walter2

Walter2
varonica said:
Fleet Carriers in "orbit" around a planet always show up as a human contact when you scan the planet, we have known this for a long time.
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Quite possibly, but I wasn't attempting to reveal a deep secret - it was just new to me and possibly to others.
 
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