Land-able SLFs

[CMDR Jayce MacLeod]

Just a quick one with a "shot in the dark" with the hope this is read by a developer.

Make SLF a sort of shuttle from your ship where you could physically enter (non- telepresence) and land on the surface of a planet while your ship hovers nearby overhead. This would allow you to exit and enter the SLF like a SRV.

 

[Riverside]

Yes, definitely

I want to be able to use my SLF to search for plants and land nearby to scan them when I'm in a ship too large to make that practical by SRV or on foot, it would make an excellent alternative to an SRV in other situations too. I currently often choose to search in small, fast ships making this task much less frustrating when looking for fungi in mountainous terrain for example.

Choosing between telepresence piloting and physically sitting in the seat could be added, although given the handwavium already used for SLFs I don't think much consideration needs to be given to how this would work.

The mothership being able to land while the SLF is deployed would be good for multi-crew choices too, if nothing else so the mothership pilot can get out of their ship.

I was disappointed this functionality wasn't added at the launch of Odyssey.

 

[V'larr]

I would be rather surprised/disappointed if Fdev didn't have a note somewhere on landable/shuttle SLF suggestions, as it's one that's come up consistently even before the feature release.

I'm still holding out hope they'll figure out how to fold the wings on an Eagle for the task....