Will Collector limpets pick stuff up off planet surfaces?

Andovar

Andovar
I read a thread a while ago that someone did this and it worked 50% of the time.
Then I tried it, and all my limpets faceplanted into the surface.
 

Kaybe

Kaybe
Limpets work by flying in and scooping. If there's something in the way of their flight path, they tend to smash on it and break. I wouldn't risk it.

Honestly, picking up surface things using the SRV is very easy, especially on a planet with decent gravity.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Andovar said:
I read a thread a while ago that someone did this and it worked 50% of the time.
Then I tried it, and all my limpets faceplanted into the surface.
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50%?

More like 5%. :p

I played around with this a bit, a while back and, if you're really determined to try this, you get best results by moving your ship onto it's side.
If your ship is parallel with the ground your limpets will try to fly in a downward arc and splat into the surface.
If your ship's on it's side, perpendicular to the surface, when your limpets swoop "down" they'll actually be flying along the surface and, as a result, there's a slightly better chance they'll be able to complete their arc without splatting.

It's still a completely lousy way to try and collect stuff off the surface though.
 

Autoculto

A
I've found that if I flick the canisters with the nose of my ship they get airborne and float around long enough for a limpet to grab them
 

A D

A D
Andovar said:
...my limpets faceplanted into the surface [of the planet].
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Hahaha.. :D

Reading things like this about ED crack me up. The other day a Cmdr drove his SRV too close to a water geyser and ended up 2 km above the surface. His ship was automatically dismissed!
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
A D said:
Hahaha.. :D

Reading things like this about ED crack me up. The other day a Cmdr drove his SRV too close to a water geyser and ended up 2 km above the surface. His ship was automatically dismissed!
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Personal record is 3.23 km. Tried landing on my ship for a piggy-back ride to Raxxla but couldn't get over far enough. Did manage to put my SRV back down without going splat though.

But yeah, trying to pick things up from planet surfaces with limpets is like trying to win carnival games, only with worse odds.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
A D said:
The other day a Cmdr drove his SRV too close to a water geyser and ended up 2 km above the surface. His ship was automatically dismissed!
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I have that beat.

Just last week I drove across a geyser with the specific intent of landing on top of my ship, got launched a couple of km off the surface, my ship took off and hit me as I dropped back down again.
I was trying to get pictures but they all just show my SRV pointing at stars, then ground, then stars, then ground....
 
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