Supercruise assist needs "glide to" option for planetary locations

g0oglyeyes

g0oglyeyes
With the new Trailblazers update, we're all being forced to make repeated trips to surface ports for CMM Composites. Looking at an Ocellus station requiring 50,000 tons, and my Cutter which hauls 784 per trip, that makes for 64 trips. This assumes that I can get a full hold of CMMs per trip, which is almost never true (I fill up the rest with Steel). So it's actually going to be well over 100 trips in my Cutter just for CMMs. Reasonably speaking, having to hand-guide my ship down through the orbit-to-glide process repeatedly for this is crushingly tedious. Anything you can get from an orbital station can be acquired more or less passively with Supercruise assist and docking computers, so why not surface ports? Currently the supercruise assist module can only bring you to orbit a planetary body. I propose that it be enhanced with a "supercruise assist and glide to" function that brings parity to the hauling experience, since we are being forced to practice this ad nauseam for the new construction projects.
 

aRJay

aRJay
I rarely use SCA but I thought we still had to do most of the steering when using it which is about the only thing we need to do to get to DC range of a planetary base.
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
g0oglyeyes said:
With the new Trailblazers update, we're all being forced to make repeated trips to surface ports for CMM Composites. Looking at an Ocellus station requiring 50,000 tons, and my Cutter which hauls 784 per trip, that makes for 64 trips. This assumes that I can get a full hold of CMMs per trip, which is almost never true (I fill up the rest with Steel). So it's actually going to be well over 100 trips in my Cutter just for CMMs. Reasonably speaking, having to hand-guide my ship down through the orbit-to-glide process repeatedly for this is crushingly tedious. Anything you can get from an orbital station can be acquired more or less passively with Supercruise assist and docking computers, so why not surface ports? Currently the supercruise assist module can only bring you to orbit a planetary body. I propose that it be enhanced with a "supercruise assist and glide to" function that brings parity to the hauling experience, since we are being forced to practice this ad nauseam for the new construction projects.
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Just once I forgot I was going to a planetary base and left SCA on, and I was surprised to drop out of SC right above the base. So I think this is already possible. I guess it depends strongly on the approach angle and I had it just right by accident. There probably isn't a reliable way of lining up for this on purpose.
 
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