I kinda hope you fall into a hole. I'm a terrible person
Is it possible to hitch a ride on another players ship?
I.e. land on ship, parking brake on other cmdr takes off and boosts like a mad man at 500+m/s.
5 minutes of unedited traveling, including the one close call I had:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJnNYXL9Vo
Last time I tried this, lifting an SRV - provided you had a big flat-topped well-shielded ship like a Python or Conda - was fairly easy. The SRV jumps, the ship flies up, the SRV lands again higher up. Once you get a rhythm going you can get a fair bit of speed up.I don't know if this has changed but I believe it used to be the case that an SRV on a ship was roughly an immovable object (at least with it's parking brake on ... and even as I write this that sounds insane - an SRV parking brake stopping an Anaconda from lifting off? that CAN'T be right, surely). So the SRV driver kind of had to boost up with the ship, the ship then catching the SRV when its boost juice ran out. Movement of an SRV by ship was therefore a slow and painstaking process. I'm sure someone like Bomba can illuminate us further about this. Am I right? (I really hope not actually).
Last time I tried this, lifting an SRV - provided you had a big flat-topped well-shielded ship like a Python or Conda - was fairly easy. The SRV jumps, the ship flies up, the SRV lands again higher up. Once you get a rhythm going you can get a fair bit of speed up.
Flying one horizontally while keeping it on the ship is basically impossible at any decent speed: the game doesn't model the friction and relative momentum right, so if you move the ship forward at 20m/s, the SRV has to drive in the same direction at 20m/s to "keep up" or it just flies off the back
3000km around a planet is an unusual exploration trip so I'm sure we can find someone - I'm out at Colonia (and in the wrong timezone) or I'd definitely do it. Of course, an escort wing will slow you down a bit.P.S. I might need Iridium wing services if I decide to finish this thing in Open...
3000km around a planet is an unusual exploration trip so I'm sure we can find someone - I'm out at Colonia (and in the wrong timezone) or I'd definitely do it. Of course, an escort wing will slow you down a bit.
Pretty much confirms what I thought, that trying to get a lift would actually slow me down.
P.S. I might need Iridium wing services if I decide to finish this thing in Open...