Horizons Unsuitable terrain - what, all of it?

[stridecolossus]

Finally got round to buying a Python recently, it's great and having a blast, but one thing is really getting on my nerves: unsuitable terrain.

The Python seems to be topographically-challenged, seems really difficult for it to find anywhere to land on planets, even those that seem to be almost perfectly spherical and flat.

Is it just the Python or is this the same for all medium and larger ships (this is the first medium sized vessel I've tried to land on a planet)?

Or am I just being unlucky in findings planets and moons that are Python-unfriendly?

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Find a flatter surface and you'll be good. Ships with little distance between their legs seem to do better.

 

[zimms]

The Python is still pretty okay. You won't like large ships I'm afraid. Of course this also depends on the planet/moon. Some are very bumpy, others have more flat areas.

 

[Arry]

It is a big ship: You would think that a craft that size and weight, could 'impose' itself, onto any near suitable site.

Maybe we should get FD to create the equivalent of the Royal Engineers and built some instant landing pads, just for our convenience.

 

[Nick Sticks]

Drop SRV whilst hovering.
SRV shoots up offending rocks.
Ship lands in cleared space.
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Something to wish for.....
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[GJ51]

It does seem that finding a landing spot has become more difficult recently.

It's probably a bit more than it needs to be.

 

[Para Handy]

If you hover some (small) distance above the surface with your landing gear extended you can use your thrusters to move slowly fore / aft and left / right to get the circle below you to turn blue. Takes me ages sometimes to get my conda on the deck.


[alien]

 

[varonica]

If you hover some (small) distance above the surface with your landing gear extended you can use your thrusters to move slowly fore / aft and left / right to get the circle below you to turn blue. Takes me ages sometimes to get my conda on the deck.


[alien]

Exploring in the black out past jaques I have dropped on a few moons, as long as I don't select something silly like the top of a mountain or a slopey mcslopeface it's no more than a few minutes before I find a good spot using the above procedure, sometimes you will enter and leave a good spot quite quickly so be prepared to back up a bit and you should be good.

 

[mistohise]

Landing today for the first time outside of a beta, I found that the unsuitable terrain message popped up fairly frequently, but a small adjustment in position would make things ok. I think it's possibly misleading because the impression is that the entire area is unsuitable, whereas it's sometimes a small movement that is needed.

 

[Arry]

A quick question on the subject: When you re-call your large ships; do they have issues finding landing spots?

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

A quick question on the subject: When you re-call your large ships; do they have issues finding landing spots?

Not once for me. (Python is largest)

 

[Calebe]

Recall your ship and it finds a spot quickly, though your ship may end up a good distance away. Only once did I need to dismiss the ship as it stayed hovering and never really landed and I could get under the ship to see if I could rejoin the ship. Besides that one time I wish I could find a landing spot that quickly at times.
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Calebe

 

[JetsonRING]

Finally got round to buying a Python recently, it's great and having a blast, but one thing is really getting on my nerves: unsuitable terrain.

The Python seems to be topographically-challenged, seems really difficult for it to find anywhere to land on planets, even those that seem to be almost perfectly spherical and flat.

Is it just the Python or is this the same for all medium and larger ships (this is the first medium sized vessel I've tried to land on a planet)?

Or am I just being unlucky in findings planets and moons that are Python-unfriendly?

When I started landing on planetary surfaces the first thing I noticed was, there was hardly anywhere to land! The problem was, I was flying too high. Once I got down within a couple hundred or so meters from the ground, suitable terrain for landing started showing up all over.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I found landing my Python, and Anaconda particularly annoying, it used to take 4-5 minutes of sniffing around for a cosy spot.

But with practice, you begin to see what your ship will and won't fit quite quickly.
I can now land my Python almost anywhere, as long as it fits.

I gave up trying to land my Anaconda.
Apparently there are entire moons it doesn't fit on. Lol
No wonder all the crash sites are Anacondas.
It's the only way to set one down anywhere.

 

[Valije]

No wonder all the crash sites are Anacondas.

Lol, repped.

Yes, sometimes is a bit hard to land with the annie. And if you have a power distributor the size of a mosquito, paper thin shields and the next station is half a galay away, the landing can be... intense to say the least.