Locked in an SRV in orbit.

Cmdr Pit · Oct 5, 2020

Well, this happened yesterday. I was on HIP 39890 retrieving blueprints when I decided to take off and head for a carrier nearby to restock some things. I hit the FSD and was waiting for the countdown to resolve. It never happened. So naturally I logged off to desktop and restarted the game. My ASP Explorer was hanging there on orbit, landing gear down and nothing related to engines or thrusters working. I still had control on the UI panels though so I selected the SRV deployed and dismissed the ship.
I so much regret that didn't take a screenshot of me inside an SRV in orbit but I was in panic
After another log off and restart I thought..."Why don't I load the plain Elite Dangerous instead of Horizons? After all ED doesn't have SRVs".
I did. Problem solved. Got back in my ASP Explorer reloaded ED Horizons and I was back in action.

SMcA · Oct 5, 2020

Don't panic. It's a rule.

Well done for getting back into the game.

GroG79 · Oct 5, 2020

Hmm

I wonder if we can still use this loophole when Horizons is merged with 'non' horizon

Tennozan · Oct 9, 2020

What a sight that must have been!

Gauntlet · Oct 9, 2020

I managed to deploy the SRV in orbit (during a beta?) a long time ago. I thought I'd see what would happen if I fell all the way back to the planets surface. Sadly the planet was just an illusion, I guess different instance? and so I just passed through the surface without incident.

SMcA · Oct 10, 2020

Gauntlet said:
I managed to deploy the SRV in orbit (during a beta?) a long time ago. I thought I'd see what would happen if I fell all the way back to the planets surface. Sadly the planet was just an illusion, I guess different instance? and so I just passed through the surface without incident.

In hindsight you should have kept the instance going and see if you came out the other side of the planet.
Not too long ago I fell through the surface of a planet when deploying the buggy. I fell almost to Australia

then reversed and fell upwards.
Logging off and on again the SRV was in the same position. I noted the time and distance from my ship which stayed where it had landed, as a reference. The time values were rough and ready but the curve looked like an ideal situation of an object falling through a hollow Earth. I wish now that I had let it run overnight to see if there was any resistance.

Gauntlet · Oct 10, 2020

SMcA said:
In hindsight you should have kept the instance going and see if you came out the other side of the planet.
Not too long ago I fell through the surface of a planet when deploying the buggy. I fell almost to Australia then reversed and fell upwards.
Logging off and on again the SRV was in the same position. I noted the time and distance from my ship which stayed where it had landed, as a reference. The time values were rough and ready but the curve looked like an ideal situation of an object falling through a hollow Earth. I wish now that I had let it run overnight to see if there was any resistance.

You've more patience than me! I think I let it drift for maybe half an hour before reloading in non horizons

SMcA · Oct 10, 2020

Gauntlet said:
You've more patience than me! I think I let it drift for maybe half an hour before reloading in non horizons

I made a small project of it.

Cmdr Nemo · Oct 10, 2020

Gauntlet said:
I managed to deploy the SRV in orbit (during a beta?) a long time ago. I thought I'd see what would happen if I fell all the way back to the planets surface. Sadly the planet was just an illusion, I guess different instance? and so I just passed through the surface without incident.

To be fair, ED sometimes refers to some planets as "Gas Giants" when in reality none of them in game actually are gas giants.
The first four planets in out system all have surfaces, starting with Jupiter and beyond, all are comprised of various gases and do not have a surface.
Should one try to land on a gas planet they would find themselves unable to do so, however, the closer one would come to the core of such planet would eventually cause they to stop because of the density of the gas, not a surface.

Thus perhaps it wasn't a glitch, though it appeared to be a conventional planet when viewed, was actually a gas planet and you simply flew into it.

Gauntlet · Oct 10, 2020

Cmdr Nemo LXXI said:
To be fair, ED sometimes refers to some planets as "Gas Giants" when in reality none of them in game actually are gas giants.
The first four planets in out system all have surfaces, starting with Jupiter and beyond, all are comprised of various gases and do not have a surface.
Should one try to land on a gas planet they would find themselves unable to do so, however, the closer one would come to the core of such planet would eventually cause they to stop because of the density of the gas, not a surface.

Thus perhaps it wasn't a glitch, though it appeared to be a conventional planet when viewed, was actually a gas planet and you simply flew into it.

Sadly nothing so exciting. I'd been test driving the srv on an airless moon, got stuck so logged out and back into non horizons. Found myself back in the ship in orbit so relogged back into horizons and when checking whether I still had an srv accidentally deployed it.

Still hoping for flying through the clouds of a gas giant, cloud city style, one day though