PSA: About your SRV's!

[Deleted member 110222]

I just remembered this!

Merely driving your SRV contributes to your exploration rank, and the impact gets bigger the further you are from Sol!

Guys, when you make your trips out into the void, remember that driving around will increase your standing, and basically, reduces the profits needed to reach Elite by a fraction. Every little helps...

Well, now you know. Safe driving dudes & dudettes.

 

[Crusina Luachra]

Already elite in exploration but good tip nonetheless.

 

[oxx UNKNOWN xxo]

This I didn't know, thanks for shareing!

 

[CMDR Gord]

I just remembered this!

Merely driving your SRV contributes to your exploration rank, and the impact gets bigger the further you are from Sol!

Guys, when you make your trips out into the void, remember that driving around will increase your standing, and basically, reduces the profits needed to reach Elite by a fraction. Every little helps...

Well, now you know. Safe driving dudes & dudettes.

Does time spent driving around on a planets surface increase the payout? or can I just drop the SRV down for 30 seconds and get the same result.

 

[Deekin Scalesinger]

When you get the option to buy a srv will i have to ditch something for it to fit in my ship or do i get an aditional slot?

 

[Mole HD]

When you get the option to buy a srv will i have to ditch something for it to fit in my ship or do i get an aditional slot?

I'm sure the SRV cargo bay takes up an existing size 2 module slot... the hoofed one will keep you right on that one

 

[Divine Cerinian]

I just remembered this!

Merely driving your SRV contributes to your exploration rank, and the impact gets bigger the further you are from Sol!

Guys, when you make your trips out into the void, remember that driving around will increase your standing, and basically, reduces the profits needed to reach Elite by a fraction. Every little helps...

Well, now you know. Safe driving dudes & dudettes.

Right on commander, didn't know that. Thanks bro, paw/hoof bump.

 

[LostLegend]

Ah, interesting! Cheers matey, did not know this! [up]

 

[iconoclypse]

I just remembered this!

Merely driving your SRV contributes to your exploration rank, and the impact gets bigger the further you are from Sol!

Guys, when you make your trips out into the void, remember that driving around will increase your standing, and basically, reduces the profits needed to reach Elite by a fraction. Every little helps...

Well, now you know. Safe driving dudes & dudettes.

You, good sir unicorn, are repped. Thanks for the info.

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I'm loving that many old hands are as clueless as me for a change. It's nice being on the same (blank) page!

 

[Docjas18]

I want to drive around a planet entirely. Full circumnavigation. But I think that will take forever. Maybe a small moon.

 

[mung0]

Bonus! Cheers for the info. Never had the exploring bug to date and have a crap rank accordingly, finding cool moons to razz around changes everything. So this is just gravy

 

[Sylon]

Another person I have to pretend to give rep to. Stupid forum rules, lol.


Thanks for the SRB tip, I definitely didn't know that.

 

[Colossus1921]

Awesome. I think I'm going to fit my 'conda for exploration pretty soon after Horizons launches and head out to Beagle Point.

 

[ArbitraryCoder5]

Say that you're on the planet, when you take off and are about to leave, if you were to run out of fuel, would your life support start to go down? I realize it depends on certain planets, but if you didn't just suffocate, would the gravity kill you from pulling you back down..?

 

[oxx UNKNOWN xxo]

Awesome. I think I'm going to fit my 'conda for exploration pretty soon after Horizons launches and head out to Beagle Point.

Thats what I'll be doing, I've been playing with the outfitting on eddb and trying to figure out how many srv bays I want to take out.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

When you get the option to buy a srv will i have to ditch something for it to fit in my ship or do i get an aditional slot?

Sorry about my delayed response, but when your mum comes home with a burger dinner from the chippy', well, a dude's gotta' eat!

SRV hangars come in three size options: Size 2, size 4, and size 6. The bigger the hangar, the more SRV's you can carry.

We'll focus on size 2 hangars today, as you'll get the jist' from that. For each size hangar, there are two ratings: H & G.

H-rated hangars use less power, but are the heavier option. G-rated hangars use much more power, but weigh less, which is why G-rates are what explorers use.

Here's the trick. You only need power to your hangar when using it. When you're flying, you can just turn it off. So you really should just use the G-rate, unless you're that strapped for cash, which is unlikely, as the G is only a couple thousand more than the H.

 

[Synergized]

>.>
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*Tapes down the SRV "forward" button and goes to work*

 

[Deleted member 110222]

>.>
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*Tapes down the SRV "forward" button and goes to work*

Bad idea. SRV's have a very small fuel tank.

 

[Divine Cerinian]

Say that you're on the planet, when you take off and are about to leave, if you were to run out of fuel, would your life support start to go down? I realize it depends on certain planets, but if you didn't just suffocate, would the gravity kill you from pulling you back down..?

I'd think impact with a planet at a halfway unsafe speed would be terminal.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Say that you're on the planet, when you take off and are about to leave, if you were to run out of fuel, would your life support start to go down? I realize it depends on certain planets, but if you didn't just suffocate, would the gravity kill you from pulling you back down..?

I'd test it, but I simply have too much to lose.

Though based on my experience with 1.0g worlds, where there's certainly a pull whilst I'm landing, I would assume shutting down thrusters on a high-g world would be suicide.