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[]M[]

That's an impressive feat, how high? It looks as though you paid the ultimate price in that last screen shot.

I'm not entirely sure tbh - looking through the REC, on the first jump (which I survived), I was over 400m ...on the second (which I didn't...), the SRV auto-destructed at 1.5km and later on the ship had dismissed itself - so, over 2km I presume?

 

[]M[]

The jump of a geyser. Or geezar, depending on your perspective

Either way it was a lot more fun than Tritium mining, even in a pristine hotspot!

...I really wish they'd take the Galactic_TritiumDistribution_Coefficient (or whatever it's called) and just multiply it by 10 100 1000 ;]

 

[0threeleven]

I'm not entirely sure tbh - looking through the REC, on the first jump (which I survived), I was over 400m ...on the second (which I didn't...), the SRV auto-destructed at 1.5km and the ship had dismissed itself - so, over 2km I presume?

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You remind me of this guy, he's a golram nut, I used to work for Don Best (making Quickies) right after I got out of the Marines. I remember watching Dan Shultz and Don Goodwin do the nose on El Capitan in one day, they used our equipment that we built.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Either way it was a lot more fun than Tritium mining, even in a pristine hotspot!

...I really wish they'd take the Galactic_TritiumDistribution_Coefficient (or whatever it's called) and just multiply it by 10 100 1000 ;]

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Have you tried launching your SRV from a powerful geyser?

I did it once by accident and actually managed to land it without sploding. Of course, it was aided by low gravity

 

[Triplerazor]

Sally has another jaunt out from Colonia...found a undiscovered system around an A-class star.

Rather pretty ring system.

The view from the innermost moon, which was sat on the edge of the rings.

Water world, the moon of the seventh body, a brown dwarf.

And a gas giant with water-based life, the outermost body. Don't know about you, looks like coffee-based life to me.

 

[]M[]

Sally has another jaunt out from Colonia...found a undiscovered system around an A-class star.

Rather pretty ring system.
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Nice pics! I think the first one is the best - belongs in Stellar Screenshots

 

[]M[]

Have you tried launching your SRV from a powerful geyser?

I did it once by accident and actually managed to land it without sploding. Of course, it was aided by low gravity

A couple of times now

...busy uploading the REC from earlier (though OBS captured a Twitch overlay) - here's a clip from a while back:

Source: https://youtu.be/cqJHYZ6Jfus?si=hYHQ5pkcwLalozC3

 

[]M[]

You remind me of this guy, he's a golram nut, I used to work for Don Best (making Quickies) right after I got out of the Marines. I remember watching Dan Shultz and Don Goodwin do the nose on El Capitan in one day, they used our equipment that we built.

Without Ropes ...that's incredible - I get dizzy when I look down off a high hiking trail - this sort of thing in virtual reality for me only

 

[0threeleven]

Without Ropes ...that's incredible - I get dizzy when I look down off a high hiking trail - this sort of thing in virtual reality for me only

Exactly, don't know why a human being would want to do something like that. I can understand using thin crack protection and having another climber on belay, your still free climbing. I'm not a believer in direct aid climbing with bolt ladders and a jumar (illegal in Yosemite (bolts)), but to each their own. I couldn't climb because of injuries from the military.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Have you tried launching your SRV from a powerful geyser?

I did it once by accident and actually managed to land it without sploding. Of course, it was aided by low gravity

You were a little luckier than me, in that regard. Mine was in a deep valley with steep walls. Just a hole in the ground, easy to miss. Went full power right as I was above it.
On coming down again, I wasn't able to keep away from the wall, which compromised my shields and sent me canopy first into the ground.
(I think I mentioned that occurence in this thread, back then...)

 

[Frankymole]

Have you tried launching your SRV from a powerful geyser?

I did it once by accident and actually managed to land it without sploding. Of course, it was aided by low gravity

I launched myself on foot on a geyser and never came down!

 

[0threeleven]

I found a pretty cool looking ringed water world.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

A couple of times now

...busy uploading the REC from earlier (though OBS captured a Twitch overlay) - here's a clip from a while back:

Source: https://youtu.be/cqJHYZ6Jfus?si=hYHQ5pkcwLalozC3

This video gave me a deeper understanding of how the in-air control of the SRV works. Cheers.

 

[]M[]

I launched myself on foot on a geyser and never came down!

What gravity did that planet/moon have? It was 0.08G there - the moons were so close together that if it had been 0.02 or lower, i think one could have geyser-jumped from the one to the other… or at least ended up in orbit :]

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

What gravity did that planet/moon have? It was 0.08G there - the moons were so close together that if it had been 0.02 or lower, i think one could have geyser-jumped from the one to the other… or at least ended up in orbit :]

Oh, you should have tried and then video'd it! That would have been hilarious!

I wonder if that's actually ever been done...

 

[Frankymole]

What gravity did that planet/moon have? It was 0.08G there - the moons were so close together that if it had been 0.02 or lower, i think one could have geyser-jumped from the one to the other… or at least ended up in orbit :]

Can't remember, it was extremely low though. Probably well under 0.08G.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Oh, you should have tried and then video'd it! That would have been hilarious!

I wonder if that's actually ever been done...

I have heard rumours about that. Maybe @Alec Turner knows more about that...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I have heard rumours about that. Maybe @Alec Turner knows more about that...

I think I've heard of someone doing it in an SRV... but, then again, I may just have been dreaming.

 

[aRJay]

People have reached orbit in SRVs many times usually piggybacking on a friends ship, some have then travelled to a neighbouring body and at least one has gone to an orbiting station, where I believe they had issues after going through the slot.

 

[0threeleven]

My ship recall computer needs to be wiped and reinstalled, of the last seven recalls I've had to move my SRV four times, the first time I've ever seen "Landing area blocked, ship departing" message. It should have said "Get the hell out of the way, I'm landing here" and I would have complied, but no, it try's to piz me off.