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Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
Well, that was a hoot! I had just finished prospecting round a geological site that had water geysers. On the way back to the ship, about 500m away there were two geysers. One was just pushing splatters of water and the other was a full blown jet. I wondered what would happen if I took the srv and ...... I maxed the throttle through the small one. I couldn't tell if I became airborne because of the small jet or if forward speed jumped me. OK, let's put it to the test through the huge one.
Zooom...... Woah! Up up and away. I kept the SRV level during ascent which after a minute or two peaked at 3.4km. What a view! Plenty of time to gather my noobish wits about me and plan on breaking my descent. When I got down to 1km I just kept hitting the tiny thrusters burning off descent speed until I smacked the ground at 74ms. (hull dmg dropped to 87%). But I landed back in the canyon I just crawled out of, tumbling down the side. I timed it to stop the tumble so when I was right side up I hit the thrusters again, got it level and hit em again....... On the way back down I gave em a braking hit and landed upright............ More than 4 km away from the ship. I crawled out the canyon close to some level spots and recalled my ship.
What an edge of your seat hoot!👍
But I don't think I'll be trying that again anytime soon.
 

algwat

algwat
Oh so that is what there for. You know the pointy kit bits on the front of a Krait.
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To measure the distance to a Data point so you scan scan it. I took a corporate pirate hit mission and had to track him down. Did not have a SRV.
Lucky this data point is up a pole. He turned out to be in a corvette with PA's. I won with beams and pulse lasers. The trick is to keep moving guys...:sneaky:
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Thwarptide said:
Well, that was a hoot! I had just finished prospecting round a geological site that had water geysers. On the way back to the ship, about 500m away there were two geysers. One was just pushing splatters of water and the other was a full blown jet. I wondered what would happen if I took the srv and ...... I maxed the throttle through the small one. I couldn't tell if I became airborne because of the small jet or if forward speed jumped me. OK, let's put it to the test through the huge one.
Zooom...... Woah! Up up and away. I kept the SRV level during ascent which after a minute or two peaked at 3.4km. What a view! Plenty of time to gather my noobish wits about me and plan on breaking my descent. When I got down to 1km I just kept hitting the tiny thrusters burning off descent speed until I smacked the ground at 74ms. (hull dmg dropped to 87%). But I landed back in the canyon I just crawled out of, tumbling down the side. I timed it to stop the tumble so when I was right side up I hit the thrusters again, got it level and hit em again....... On the way back down I gave em a braking hit and landed upright............ More than 4 km away from the ship. I crawled out the canyon close to some level spots and recalled my ship.
What an edge of your seat hoot!👍
But I don't think I'll be trying that again anytime soon.
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Yep. I think I took a photo of me doing exactly the same thing earlier in this thread. Great days.
 

wAsh67

W
Just visited this place. Involuntarily. After experiencig a rather draconian shoot-first-don't-bother-with-questions mentality from the rozzers.

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"Officer, I just paused at the mail slot to take a photo. I wasn't even breaking lockdown - I hadn't actually gone outside! I was just waving to the ships that were already out there."
Another 500k down......
 

Lieutenant Dan

Lieutenant Dan
Thwarptide said:
Well, that was a hoot! I had just finished prospecting round a geological site that had water geysers. On the way back to the ship, about 500m away there were two geysers. One was just pushing splatters of water and the other was a full blown jet. I wondered what would happen if I took the srv and ...... I maxed the throttle through the small one. I couldn't tell if I became airborne because of the small jet or if forward speed jumped me. OK, let's put it to the test through the huge one.
Zooom...... Woah! Up up and away. I kept the SRV level during ascent which after a minute or two peaked at 3.4km. What a view! Plenty of time to gather my noobish wits about me and plan on breaking my descent. When I got down to 1km I just kept hitting the tiny thrusters burning off descent speed until I smacked the ground at 74ms. (hull dmg dropped to 87%). But I landed back in the canyon I just crawled out of, tumbling down the side. I timed it to stop the tumble so when I was right side up I hit the thrusters again, got it level and hit em again....... On the way back down I gave em a braking hit and landed upright............ More than 4 km away from the ship. I crawled out the canyon close to some level spots and recalled my ship.
What an edge of your seat hoot!👍
But I don't think I'll be trying that again anytime soon.
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That's amazing. Though I wonder....

If you were on a low enough gravity world and did this, would your SRV attain escape velocity? And...then could you still recall your ship and dock in space?
 

Lieutenant Dan

Lieutenant Dan
Okay and another unrelated question....what happened to Coriolis? I was going to use it to work out my mats/engineering requirements for my new Challenger but it looks like it's down? Is it finished or is there a replacement that will do the same thing? I don't recall EDSY being able to do this (showing what mats and how many needed for engineering).

Cheers!
 

Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
Lieutenant Dan said:
If you were on a low enough gravity world and did this, would your SRV attain escape velocity? And...then could you still recall your ship and dock in space
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If there were such a thing (and there isn't) as zero gravity rated moons, the mechanics of the game would not permit it. You have to get into low wake supercruise to attain escape velocity. As it was, the moon I had the encounter on was a mere .36 gravity field.
Even if you could escape the planets gravity, the game mechanics would not allow you to recall the ship to get you in orbit.
1. The SRV does not have complex flight thrusters. Just crude vertical thrusters, in that you can't steer with em. Just go up. There's no way to get near an orbiting ship to dock.
2. It would take a game update to make it work. I've been far enough away from my ship that I didn't want to travel through a rough canyon to get back. I recalled my ship to land nearby. Depending on the terrain they can land as close as 500m or 1.5km. I watched mine coming down and instead of waiting for touchdown, I headed to where it was landing. It immediately took off. It was using my location still and the moment I moved it lost it. So I had to recall it again and wait for it to touch down before I moved.

It would indeed be an interesting improvement for the dev team to set it up to recall the ship if you accidentally get your srv stuck in orbit. But such instances would be rare enough that it wouldn't be worth the time and effort to develop it.
Sometimes it's difficult (very difficult) for game developers to program all the variables of reality and laws of physics. More physics complex games like ED will always come up short when first being developed. The game will continue its morphology as long as developers care to keep at the updates. As it is, despite its minor faults of physics elements, I'd say it's pretty dern good, although I'd like to criticize them for the rediculous amount and behavior of comets.
 
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Codger

Codger
Yep, SRV's can escape and orbit. One's even been flown through space to a nearby orbital station.

Here's an interesting thread about SRV Orbital mechanics.

SRV Orbital Mechanics

What is the average orbital speed of an unladen Scarab SRV? Let's find out... (or scroll to the end to get to the practical answer) I was recently introduced to the technique of SRV "flyving," where you use tilt-boosting, well placed bounces on the ground and plenty of SRV repair synthesis...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk
 

Codger

Codger
Lieutenant Dan said:
Okay and another unrelated question....what happened to Coriolis? I was going to use it to work out my mats/engineering requirements for my new Challenger but it looks like it's down? Is it finished or is there a replacement that will do the same thing? I don't recall EDSY being able to do this (showing what mats and how many needed for engineering).

Cheers!
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Coriolis is having a few issues lately, especially the shortened links. If you go directly to coriolis.io it might come up for you (it does for me, at the moment).
 

aRJay

aRJay
wAsh67 said:
Just visited this place. Involuntarily. After experiencig a rather draconian shoot-first-don't-bother-with-questions mentality from the rozzers.

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"Officer, I just paused at the mail slot to take a photo. I wasn't even breaking lockdown - I hadn't actually gone outside! I was just waving to the ships that were already out there."
Another 500k down......
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They are death on traffic violations.
 

McGyverCP

McGyverCP
It was mentioned in another post, so I went to EDSM and set up an account...linked everything up, and downloaded my travels since I have started. My big trip was over 78Kly...And, I found out that I First Found a Neutron star. I remember jumping into the system, and doing a quick scan, but as there were no planets, I moved on. The system is Grea Hypoo SD-S d4-150, it's 16Kly from LHS 20.

The reason for the post, it made me want to go back out into the deep black for another "there and back" run. Not sure where yet, but I'll figure it out once I plant my backside in the pilot's seat...

Also, this gives me a way to break in the new X56 system. Got the flight systems down and programmed in, but still need to get the SRV commands programmed in...plus a few other nit-noid stuff. I do like the X56 over the HOTAS One though...I just wish that the X56 had the rocker switch on the throttle. I liked that for using the thrusters. Everything is on a small Joystick on the throttle...and it works, but I have to pay attention to the Space Dust to make sure I am going Up, Dow, Left, Right...not at some diagonal. Just have to build the new muscle memory.

Anyway, I am parking the Conda, grabbing the DBX and heading out. See you when I see you...

Take Care and Check Six Commanders! o7
 
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