In many cases, when landing automatically (or manually for that matter) last moment adjustments of left/right and/or forward/reverse thrusters will correct the non landable condition.
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Well...this is peculiar...
Your a funny guy, Gomez, thanks for the laugh......
Don't forget that one way to avoid losing the blue is to pulse off and on your FA. That way the ship sinks under gravity and so doesn't change orientation due to the thrusters.
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I tell you, they are all over this part of the galaxy. I've seen so many today I gave up on the idea of taking pictures of them
Really you just "forgot" to pack extra film for the camera, right?I tell you, they are all over this part of the galaxy. I've seen so many today I gave up on the idea of taking pictures of them
Haha! Ok, that made me laugh out loud.
I have no screenshots today. I didn't take any for some reason. I was doing mundane stuff mostly, unlocking a couple of the easier on-foot engineers out here in the Colonia area. I have no need of them, but since I'm in the area I figured I'd pick off the low-hanging fruit.
I visited 5 settlements to unlock Eleanor Bresa. She wanted 10 digital designs to introduce me to Yi Shen. I had those in my backpack, so sure, here ya go.
Baltanos wasn't unlocked for me though. He requires you to be Friendly with The Colonia Council, and I was already Allied long ago. But the game didn't recognize this, so I had to futz around a bit. What I did was take a mission for The Colonia Council, and then abandoned it. This caused an imperceptible drop in my reputation, and the game noticed, realized I was Allied much less Friendly, and unlocked the guy. So that worked out.
After all that I was feeling claustrophobic. The Colonia area is jammed full of carriers.
So I went mining. I wanted to see if sub-surface mining was still a thing for Tritium, like it used to be. It was a bust.
The PWA doesn't work right any more. There were a few dimly-glowing rocks, but none of them had any features -- no surface or sub-surface deposits anywhere. I did find a few cores, 2 of Alexandrite and 1 of Void Opals, and those were easy to see and glowed brightly. But sub-surface seems to be gone completely.
I prospected a lot of rocks, even ones that didn't glow, and some of them contained laser-minable Tritium, but not in massive quantities. This was in a double hotspot, for what it's worth. Laser mining looked acceptable, if not amazing, but considering how much Tritium I burn on long travels, mining the stuff just doesn't seem worth it.
Anyway, that was my day
Most boring day of exploration I've had since I started. Absolutely nothing of note. Only one planet worth scanning.
Did find some biologics though that put me into the next level, so it wasn't all for nothing.
Tomorrow, it's core mining in the Python.
Well done.
Any rank in Exobiology is a massive achievement!
To even bigger accomplishments
Gitting gud at nickin' stuffz!
Can you not just disable the advanced docking comp in the modules list for those occasions it can't pick a spot?
I'd be far too scared to fly without one now. Half the time I come back after a multi-month break, I'm 5000ly away in the black and heck no I can't remember the controls! It's nice that I only have to get reasonably close to where I want to be and then let the computer do the rest.
One of the menus on the Ship tab allows you to turn on/off different features of the ADC: Auto land, Auto Lauch, Auto DockCan you not just disable the advanced docking comp in the modules list for those occasions it can't pick a spot?
I'd be far too scared to fly without one now. Half the time I come back after a multi-month break, I'm 5000ly away in the black and heck no I can't remember the controls! It's nice that I only have to get reasonably close to where I want to be and then let the computer do the rest.
Now, this is interesting. Although I have the ADC installed on all of my ships, I never noticed you would be able to land automatically on a planet surface.
I need the ADC because of some limitations of my gaming hardware, which make it a pain to get into or out of a station unscathed. Besides that I always have trouble finding my advised landing spot.
The unaltered surface of a planet is the only place I am safely able to manually land on and take off.
Use the little bubble level thingy to the left your HUD, after going through the mail slot, it will point to your landing pad. Codger told me about that one.
I know about that one, I use it for a lot of navigational things, but still, I tend to get lost. And it's not limited to the big stations, either. Outposts and settlements would find me flying around seemingly aimlessly, desperate to find my landing pad.
I think the time limit adds to that - I hate doing stuff under a time limit, it distracts me, kills my focus.
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I don’t think @Codger is carving and placing them himself, I think it is a franchise he has set up.I tell you, they are all over this part of the galaxy. I've seen so many today I gave up on the idea of taking pictures of them
Yes or use the switches @nemolomen mentioned.Can you not just disable the advanced docking comp in the modules list for those occasions it can't pick a spot?
Auto land is an Odyssey feature I believe.
There are only a few different station pad layouts so you could go old school and have printouts showing where the pads are for reference.
I love landing manually. Especially in my SRV!
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Aye started mid-September. Wonder what to do with them, the only wothy idea so far is to save those on my carrier until another station is attacked and then to hand them in for rep... I'm in a little doubt, but i think it worked back in a while... Anyway it's cruel not to pick them up...Hmmm....since EDH4, exploding pirates seem getting me some escape pods too. Added some incentive for me to bring out the conda/vette as they have a big cargo
For quite a while i had this with one of my suits, with others however it seems fine. I've commented on the issue. I remember that voting was a thing... Idk do i have to vote somewhere? But ye, something is definitely not entirely right with suit skins.
More you land, more you get used. After a while it'll be easy and you will not even be looking at the timer. ADC is a good thing and if you have a spare 1 slot, which is usually the case when you're either flying a small ship and have a spare slot, either you're not needing a DSS. If so, i always install one. Taking off with it is too slow tho - you're rather boosting through the slot. Planetary landing i think too slow as well, tho i only tried a couple of times maybe. But docking itself is priceless. You just boost once, so you're 7.5 kms away and you req docking... Ye, it might be a little faster to dock on your own, but why...
Also there's a couple of extreme cases of Imp ships (you need preferably a carrier and a Cutter to experience that, but don't hurry to get those, it's a (long) pain to see a Cutter landing with ADC on a carrier) + some very fast ships that are sometimes crashing due to speed. I tend in fact to install a standard docking computer, that can only dock, and that consumes less power. But then again, Anaconda, or maybe Beluga can use an auto take off.
Hold my beer...or my sign, whichever...I love landing manually. Especially in my SRV!
(00:30) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQJ17r3XWsk
As I tend to use specialized ships, the DSS is only on one of them. Maybe two, later on.
I rarely am in a hurry, thus the auto launch helps me a lot - I usually use that time to set my destination.
I am not sure if it really is faster to manually dock if you arrived on the far end of the station. The ADC knows how to boost, after all.
Would a Viper Mk III with dirty drives be fast enough to cause this problem?
A carrier? At the rate I am playing, unless they introduce a small carrier that is way cheaper than the regular ones, it will take several years for me to obtain one...
