The Object I'm Driving To Never Gets Any Closer

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
So, I'm at the third alien crash site (HIP 17403 A4A, -34.96 AND -141.37), flew over the aforementioned coordinates, noted that it's in the middle of a rather large crater. Landed on the other side of it, took out the SRV and headed back to the edge and then down into the belly of this huge crater where this item of interest lay.

And kept driving. That nib in the middle never gets closer but the ground seems to keep me going lower and lower. Noticed that the far end (with a rather high wall on it) was eventually looking flatter and flatter. Passed right by the coordinates, couldn't find a thing.

Frustrated, took off, made to jumps to Obsidian Orbital to lay up for the next. Checked a youtube video about the site, saw the pilot flying right over the center of this crater that I could never get to and there it was.

I'll head back out there again tonight but just wanted to mention that I thought the constant treadmill of land is a tad annoying. I should be able to drive from one end of a crater to the other without it taking an infinite amount of time. I had this happen to me once before with a large crater, took the ship there and landed 100 yards away from it and THEN it works ok.

Is this a bug or is it just the way the planet surface is designed for large craters? Just curious.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
Leadfoot said:
So, I'm at the third alien crash site (HIP 17403 A4A, -34.96 AND -141.37), flew over the aforementioned coordinates, noted that it's in the middle of a rather large crater. Landed on the other side of it, took out the SRV and headed back to the edge and then down into the belly of this huge crater where this item of interest lay.

And kept driving. That nib in the middle never gets closer but the ground seems to keep me going lower and lower. Noticed that the far end (with a rather high wall on it) was eventually looking flatter and flatter. Passed right by the coordinates, couldn't find a thing.

Frustrated, took off, made to jumps to Obsidian Orbital to lay up for the next. Checked a youtube video about the site, saw the pilot flying right over the center of this crater that I could never get to and there it was.

I'll head back out there again tonight but just wanted to mention that I thought the constant treadmill of land is a tad annoying. I should be able to drive from one end of a crater to the other without it taking an infinite amount of time. I had this happen to me once before with a large crater, took the ship there and landed 100 yards away from it and THEN it works ok.

Is this a bug or is it just the way the planet surface is designed for large craters? Just curious.
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It's because planets are kind of big.
 

Gunnet

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You said it yourself, it was a huge crater. Real craters can be hundreds or even thousands of kilometres across. At 30m/s it would take you almost an hour to travel 100km.

There's no way to ensure that you can use an SRV (or your ship outside of supercruise) to get from point A to point B on a body's surface in a reasonable amount of time without making everything comically undersized compared to reality.
 
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Noogillim

Noogillim
It took me over three days sessions to get across a crater once, yes it was big and quite lumpy in parts.
 
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Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Gunnet said:
You said it yourself, it was a huge crater. Real craters can be hundreds or even thousands of kilometres across. At 30m/s it would take you almost an hour to travel 100km.

There's no way to ensure that you can use an SRV (or your ship outside of supercruise) to get from point A to point B on a body's surface in a reasonable amount of time without making everything comically undersized compared to reality.
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While I understand this, the point was I passed the coordinates noted as the location of the alien crash site. I went back and forth several times coming up to the point several times before giving up.

Just tried it tonight. This time I landed right near the coordinates. It was as if the game simply didn't load the instance with the crash site objects in it on a direct approach. I've driven around craters this huge before, so I know it can be done, but any time it's "big", it's like you can never actually reach the center if you're starting from the edge. Very odd.

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Noogillim said:
It took me over three days sessions to get across a crater once, yes it was big and quite lumpy in parts.
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Ca$hback said:
Astonishing patience!
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Amen, brother. o7
 
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