Last night, I found some water geysers on a flat plain, quite by chance. So I got out the SRV and went prospecting, and then driving around, using the geysers like a slalom courseThis was further enhanced by having recently discovered the joy of driving with "Drive Assist" off - much more fun, and more like driving a real performance vehicle!
Anyway, I had the mad notion to drive over one of the geysers that was going off, to see how much of a lift it would give me. Now, I've done this before, but it was obviously on a higher G planet, and probably with a less powerful geyser... I went up like a bat out of hell, and lost sight of the ground and horizon immediately
So I was able to observe that going more than 2Km away from your ship in the SRV does indeed auto-dismiss the ship
It took me another 5 minutes to get back on the ground, and required some entertaining work with gentle thrust and RCS manoeuvering
Now that was fun
Ha! Making money?
Goldish paint job?
I have a hauler (vibrant yellow of course) that I use to travel to a stored ship location, fly the stored ship back and then just have the much lower cost of transporting the hauler back to the origin. Hauler because of it's jump-range for very low cost ship. In the days before ship transfer everyone used a taxi to get to stored ship then flogged the taxi.
BTW - any Dev on here - WHERE IS OUR YELLOW WITH A BLACK-CHEQUERED-STRIPE HAULER REPAINT? - Been waiting years for that.
I have a hauler (vibrant yellow of course) that I use to travel to a stored ship location, fly the stored ship back and then just have the much lower cost of transporting the hauler back to the origin. Hauler because of it's jump-range for very low cost ship. In the days before ship transfer everyone used a taxi to get to stored ship then flogged the taxi.
BTW - any Dev on here - WHERE IS OUR YELLOW WITH A BLACK-CHEQUERED-STRIPE HAULER REPAINT? - Been waiting years for that.
Ha! Making money?
Goldish paint job?
I clear my save every half a year or so. It's fun starting over. You'll see.
I clear my save every half a year or so. It's fun starting over. You'll see.
Heheh. Yeah. The longest time I've played one commander was a little over a year, but usually I cut it much shorter. Once I have the engineers and the Cutter unlocked and I've reached Elite in exploration (and usually trading due to missions), I'm usually left fumbling around. Sometimes I do a bit of PvP for fun to lose some credits, go onto a long exploration trip or adopt a system and do some BGS work, but in the end, I get bored and simply start over.
