What Happens If...

Cruel_R

Cruel_R
...you've landed your ship on a planet, and you're having a nice little drive in your buggy, and then another CMDR comes along in his ship and blows your ship up? Are you then stranded on the planet? Can you get a mate to come rescue you? Or maybe you can drive to a planetary starport and rebuy your ship.

I realize that there is precious little info on Horizons gameplay yet, I'm just curious to to know what speculative ideas you all have on the matter.
 

Ulysses_W

Ulysses_W
I guess we'll have some sort of distress beacon to deploy in order to summon the equivalent of the RAC. They will then take you to the nearest station so you can get another ship.

If you're out in the black though. Suicide.

Or, of course we could create the equivalent of the fuel rats dedicated to rescuing pilots.
 
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ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
This exact question was asked during the QA live stream earlier:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3fwgz5/gamescom_qa_all_questions_and_answers/


What will happen to your ship when you get in a SRV?
So far it is unknown and being discussed whether your ship can be destroyed or whether it is invulnerable when you leave it, but it is said to be "somewhere between the two", they are having to put in more thought due to exploits that could be performed.
 

Windscreen Smudge

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Should've parked on the dark side of the crater.
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Seriously though: Simplest solution is to make it so ships can't be targeted when there isn't a pilot in them. You won't find many people willing to visually search entire planets just on the random chance they find an explorers ship for the opportunity to blow it up.
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It's a non-issue.
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Edit: Invulnerability just sounds silly to me. Silly enough that if some childish mechanic like that were implemented I would spend my time finding other people's ships and flipping them upside down so that people can't park their SRV to express to FD just how puerile I think it is. This coming from someone anticipating spending days outside of their ship on a single planet if it's interesting enough.
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Everything else in ED has risk, why shouldn't planetary landing?
 
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CMDR Weatherwax

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ZeeWolf said:
This exact question was asked during the QA live stream earlier:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3fwgz5/gamescom_qa_all_questions_and_answers/


What will happen to your ship when you get in a SRV?
So far it is unknown and being discussed whether your ship can be destroyed or whether it is invulnerable when you leave it, but it is said to be "somewhere between the two", they are having to put in more thought due to exploits that could be performed.
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And the follow up question is: What happens if I die in my SRV but my ship is undamaged. I suspect the insurance mechanism is going to have to be reviewed for that maybe it then becomes 5% of the module cost and ending up back in your ship (at the same time the planetary attack starts ;-)
 

Don Alvarez

Don Alvarez
I would think your ship, having landed and shut down, would be even harder to detect than if you were flying in stealth mode. So the odds of someone finding you should be remote. This is, of course, where having a nice camo paintjob might come in real handy.
 

Apos

Apos
Technically, the ship would be almost completely de-activated, with the majority of modules off, just the power plant running on limited output and the SRV pick-up module waiting.

Thus your ship would be in the equivalent of a quite cold silent running and not show up on the radar until very close.

Well, that would at least solve some issues and also allow you to hide it in order to avoid eye contact as well.

If both fail, tough luck.
 

Kayweg

Kayweg
CMDR Weatherwax said:
And the follow up question is: What happens if I die in my SRV but my ship is undamaged. I suspect the insurance mechanism is going to have to be reviewed for that maybe it then becomes 5% of the module cost and ending up back in your ship (at the same time the planetary attack starts ;-)
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Loose your buggy and re-spawn in your ship (aka last docked location) sounds likely ?

Wanna go back planet-side, fly off and buy a new vehicle.

I don't see much of a problem with that scenario.
 

Windscreen Smudge

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I vote for death is death. You respawn in the station, your ship is abandoned on the surface. If you had any cargo or data you want back you better remember which system and what planet it was. Otherwise let it sit there for 12 years until someone else finally finds it.
 

CMDR Weatherwax

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Kayweg said:
Loose your buggy and re-spawn in your ship (aka last docked location) sounds likely ?

Wanna go back planet-side, fly off and buy a new vehicle.

I don't see much of a problem with that scenario.
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I suspect so, but driving a buggy while strapped into an escape module will be cumbersome :D
 

Philip Foster

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Windscreen Smudge said:
Should've parked on the dark side of the crater.
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Seriously though: Simplest solution is to make it so ships can't be targeted when there isn't a pilot in them. You won't find many people willing to visually search entire planets just on the random chance they find an explorers ship for the opportunity to blow it up.
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It's a non-issue.
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Edit: Invulnerability just sounds silly to me. Silly enough that if some childish mechanic like that were implemented I would spend my time finding other people's ships and flipping them upside down so that people can't park their SRV to express to FD just how puerile I think it is. This coming from someone anticipating spending days outside of their ship on a single planet if it's interesting enough.
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Everything else in ED has risk, why shouldn't planetary landing?
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How about this. The ship gets a harpoon in the belly. Or a drill. It has a dual purpose. You fire it at the surface or it drills into the surface 1) It anchors the ship and 2) It acts as a heat sink so that you can leave the ship in stealth mode and the accumulated heat is vented into the planetary body. With everything shut down bar the essentials your ship is almost invisible to sensors and they have to eyeball your ship in order to target it.

It means that your ship can be destroyed but the odds are stacked against the likelihood.
 

Apos

Apos
Philip Foster said:
How about this. The ship gets a harpoon in the belly. Or a drill. It has a dual purpose. You fire it at the surface or it drills into the surface 1) It anchors the ship and 2) It acts as a heat sink so that you can leave the ship in stealth mode and the accumulated heat is vented into the planetary body. With everything shut down bar the essentials your ship is almost invisible to sensors and they have to eyeball your ship in order to target it.

It means that your ship can be destroyed but the odds are stacked against the likelihood.
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So the horizons expansion would include snu snu...with planets.

Worth every penny.
 

Derthek

Derthek
The scarab may be too small to damage the ship. It is quite tiny in comparison :D

Just like small arms fire does nothing to a tank!
 
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