SRV'ing round a ridge world - Pomeche 2 c

[Susanna]

That is a really good thought, and no I hadn't. Cheers Susanna o7
Edit: and now I've checked my total SRV distance is 0.1ls I'm not sure it'll even tick up after I get round this.
I think I'm a lost cause ...

LoL that is some serious mileage (circa 30,000 km or 18,600 miles) you have clocked up in your SRV!

Must be over due for a service!

 

[Vandaahl]

I always found the SRV has a bit more traction in reverse for those steep slopes.

They do, because of the double set of front wheels carrying most weight when going backwards up hill

 

[LifesAJourney]

Depends what you mean by sluggish, can you show/point to what you mean by that?

I can see you roll your SRV very fast and sharp. You want to do a 50-degree roll and you do it and the roll is precise, not wobbling around the desired angle. If I try to do a fast 50-degree roll, I push the stick hard (otherwise the roll happens really slow) and before I pull it back, I'm at 70 degrees, so I need to roll back to 50 degrees which makes me go to 40 degrees, so I need to do a final roll to get to 50 degrees.

I just wonder if it's because I use a stick and you use some different controller, or because something can be set better in controller setup, or because I suck.

Which controller do you use?

The lower inertia from bounces comes from landing v.slightly nose down with both wheels touching at the same time (stops the ground twisting the srv) and making v.gentle steering inputs unless I'm going slowly.

That's a good tip! I was sure I should to land as much on all wheels as possible. Need to try this.

Alec has a great vid showing the basics of flyving and staying orientated which might help:

Great vid, indeed! Too expert for me at a time, though. Need to work on my basics first.

Thanks for explanations!

 

[Crank Larson]

I can see you roll your SRV very fast and sharp. You want to do a 50-degree roll and you do it and the roll is precise, not wobbling around the desired angle. If I try to do a fast 50-degree roll, I push the stick hard (otherwise the roll happens really slow) and before I pull it back, I'm at 70 degrees, so I need to roll back to 50 degrees which makes me go to 40 degrees, so I need to do a final roll to get to 50 degrees.

That's all practise. Flyving the SRV is like dancing, timing is crucial. I truly believe it is the most amazing vehicle in the world. Or not in the world. Whatever. I'd love to own one.

And as someone mentioned it, I had to double-check my SRV distance. Haven't hit Ls yet, currently on 25.7Mm. It's a shame that it goes to Ls, as after that it becomes a pretty pointless statistic for the SRV.

 

[Alec Turner]

That's all practise. Flyving the SRV is like dancing, timing is crucial. I truly believe it is the most amazing vehicle in the world. Or not in the world. Whatever. I'd love to own one.

And as someone mentioned it, I had to double-check my SRV distance. Haven't hit Ls yet, currently on 25.7Mm. It's a shame that it goes to Ls, as after that it becomes a pretty pointless statistic for the SRV.

I concur ... the SRV in the air is essentially like a flight-assist off ship, so if you start rolling you need to counter it at some point to stop. As with FA Off ship flying it takes quite a lot of practice to execute rolls precisely and to not end up overcorrecting and wallowing back and forth like a drunkard steering a canal boat. A good way to practice is to simply boost up off the ground, try to do a perfect 360° roll and land back on your wheels again. Once you've mastered that try a 720°.

And yeah, I agree I'd MUCH prefer SRV distance to stay in km rather than ly. I think I'm something like 0.26ly now. It'll probably take another endurance race or circumnavigation for it to tick over to 0.27.

Correction: the above should read 0.26ls NOT 0.26ly (which would be nuts).

 

[LifesAJourney]

Alright. So no blaming controllers or settings. Keep on practicing instead.

 

[Crank Larson]

I think I'm something like 0.26ly now.

That's just a crazy distance. Nice one.

 

[sgurr]

And yeah, I agree I'd MUCH prefer SRV distance to stay in km rather than ly. I think I'm something like 0.26ly now. It'll probably take another endurance race or circumnavigation for it to tick over to 0.27.

Me too.
With my alt my total distance is 0.17 ish I think.
This is actually sgurr's first circumnav, my alt was the one I took round Kumay, I kinda regret that now.

That's just a crazy distance. Nice one.

Isn't it. I read Susanna's post and thought yeah, there's this guy I know that was interviewed and confessed to being over 0.2 ls, turn out it's well over o7

Edit:

That's all practise. Flyving the SRV is like dancing, timing is crucial. I truly believe it is the most amazing vehicle in the world. Or not in the world. Whatever. I'd love to own one.

this ^^^


Update incoming

 

[Rat Catcher]

Me too.
With my alt my total distance is 0.17 ish I think.
This is actually sgurr's first circumnav, my alt was the one I took round Kumay, I kinda regret that now.


Isn't it. I read Susanna's post and thought yeah, there's this guy I know that was interviewed and confessed to being over 0.2 ls, turn out it's well over o7

Edit:

this ^^^


Update incoming

By the time you have 1Ls behind your SRV's exhaust you'd have done around 3000 MM which would look far nicer on the odometer (approximate distance)

 

[sgurr]

Part 2:

This ridge I'm now aiming for has loomed ominously in the distance from my early runs on the Pomeche Ridge Challenge, set on a plain above the icy canyons it still seems to tower into the sky with a spiny aspect that shows how narrow and sheer it is.
So with a little trepadation I get to its start:

and see I'm getting a gentle introduction and start flyving up its slopes.
Except that's it's not an introduction.
There's no drama, this ridge turns out to be the widest, cuddliest teddy bear of a ridge that I just can't fall off and it's a just a joy to flyve over.

I carry on taking in the view and the occasional pitstop to repair the SRV:

and press on heading for the end of the ridge coming across an outpost, taking care of the skimmers and looting what I can, when I see something else in the distance:

The fighter make looks familiar but has a config I don't recognise, 2 pilots and cargo?

Somewhere out there is a hidden engineer laughing quietly to themselves, knowing that what they've created will seed a desire that the common pilot's federation member will never see fulfilled.

The escape pods appear to be occupied however so I recall the ship having fitted enough storage in case I came across unfortunates. Although perhaps later the pilots and I can have a little 'chat' about where they got that fighter!

Once safely stowed I go over the next rise and:

that moutain rears up. Seriously, how big and steep is that thing? It's got to be a few hundred kms away.
As the ridge continues to pass beneath me I mull over how I might get there and take a closer look, with the moutain now a constant presence dominating the horizon.

Without warning the ridge runs out and an icy chasm crosses my path. I knew this would happen and was to be decision time.
The mountain's presence had made a strong case for heading in that direction, to try and pick my way through what would be v.challenging terrain for a closer look, but it wasn't to be. What appeared then was the only option, I was going up that:

With 21 degrees covered I recalled the ship and settled in for a rest, sending out the camera drones later to capture the view as the sun dipped down:

o7 cmdrs

Part 3

Spoiler: Video of Part 2

Source: https://youtu.be/xl9ZB5OnpEQ

 

[Crank Larson]

@sgurr Have you got raw footage? I like following the journey, but like to skip through rather than high speed - I find that anything more than 2x is really jarring to watch. And interesting bits are always worth watching in realtime.

 

[sgurr]

@sgurr Have you got raw footage? I like following the journey, but like to skip through rather than high speed - I find that anything more than 2x is really jarring to watch. And interesting bits are always worth watching in realtime.

o7
I do yeah. I'll see about uploading the originals, probably an overnight job on my connection.

 

[aRJay]

....

And yeah, I agree I'd MUCH prefer SRV distance to stay in km rather than ly. I think I'm something like 0.26ly now. It'll probably take another endurance race or circumnavigation for it to tick over to 0.27.

You have driven to Hutton Orbital!

 

[Alec Turner]

Oh this is brilliant stuff, my new favourite forum thread ... even better than that one about the bloke going to Colonia and trying to get molluscs to mate along the way!

Also, only Sgurr could drive around Pomeche 2C actively seeking out bigger obstacles than the ridges themselves!

 

[Alec Turner]

You have driven to Hutton Orbital!

What?!?! Ahhh, I see what's happened here ... I've written ly instead of ls. My bad. I mean I like the SRV and all ... but I'm not INSANE!

 

[sgurr]

Oh this is brilliant stuff, my new favourite forum thread ... even better than that one about the bloke going to Colonia and trying to get molluscs to mate along the way!

I'm jealous there's no mating molluscs!

Like seriously, until you came along I was innocent, now with your 'inspiration' mating molluscs will be filling my dreams by the time I'm done

 

[Ian Phillips]

What?!?! Ahhh, I see what's happened here ... I've written ly instead of ls. My bad. I mean I like the SRV and all ... but I'm not (completely) INSANE!

FTFY

 

[Alec Turner]

FTFY

LOL - in fact I just checked, it's not even 0.26 ...

That's not even twice around the Earth!

 

[sgurr]

Part 3:

I've made a mistake, and it might be a terrible mistake:

Let's back up a bit.
I'd started with the steep ridge facing me at the end of the last session. It hadn't looked too bad, and in some ways it wasn't, but took a lot longer to figure out how to grind my way up than I'd expected. There was momentum flyving, some boosting, some steep zigzag'ing and when it got too steep even for that some booster udging.

An srv deserves to drive or flyve across a landscape and frankly booster udging is an ugly way to treat the poor things, but sometimes the only way up the steepest or most uneven parts of a slope is emptying the boost capacitor to gain a few metres in height before landing and trying not to slide/fall back down to where you started (or much worse, the start):

https://imgur.com/a/jnL7xYU

Source: https://imgur.com/a/jnL7xYU


Making it to the top I took one last look back at the previous ridge before carrying on:

The new ridge undulated, weaved, bobbed, and generally demanded my full attention. In other words fun!

There wasn't much time for sightseeing although I did come across a DBS hiding out partway along the ridge. The DBS is one of my favourite runabouts so I went to say hello, maybe share how it'd be nice if there some not awful paintjobs for the gorgeous little thing. Got the stony silence though, very rude. Clearly being in the small pool of DBS lovers wasn't enough of a connection.

And then, see the little distant light above the DBS?
Very odd, who in their right mind parks their ship like this:

Do you think the blood was rushing to their head before or after they landed?
There was no way I was saying hello to that loon so kept on meandering along the ridge.

My vague plan was to leave this this ridge part way along and try and pick up another longer ridge more directly south and I found my exit point.

A little too quickly as it turned out and I, ummm, accidently dropped off the end.
Go with it I thought. I knew there was a canyon gap I needed to cross and the momentum gained from the drop could be built on to the leap the canyon.

Ah no.
It was about here I realised it was about to go horribly wrong and I was faceplanting the canyon wall:

Long way to drop that.
Did my best to control the fall but after impacting a few times I was tumbling it was hands off controls, eyes squeezed shut and brace for impact.
Took remarkably little damage all things considered.

However, I am now in the middle of the kind of terrain I'd really, really wanted to avoid.
From the little exploring I've done there are steep cliffs all around, what slopes there are steepen quickly and don't seem to lead anywhere useful, and when I tried to recall the ship the autpilot tried taking it through a cliff (damaged but not boomed).

Pictures from the srv don't really do justice to where I've found myself, and the drone cameras are useless in the dark.
I need to have a proper look around and see if there's a chink where I can sneak the srv out.


o7 cmdrs and a belated Merry Christmas

Part 4

 

[Florenus]

Part 3:

I've made a mistake, and it might be a terrible mistake:
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I've spent some time flying my T9 in those deep chasms during one of the canyon race events, where points were given for flying as close to the surface as possible.
One of the most vertical climbs I've ever seen. Being made of mostly ice, they seemed like a perfect SRV trap to me. The sole reason why I thought circumnavigating Pomeche is a daunting task.

But, as Alec said earlier, I believe if anyone can pull through, it's you, so I'm not worried. It only makes your adventure more interesting.