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<darkie>
1337
<Althego>
heh
<Althego>
i failed twice
<darkie>
go
<darkie>
ok
<flayer>
rovers on minmus are always a bad idea :(
<darkie>
Ok, my exploring rover crashed a few times when going fast.
<darkie>
That's where the time machine comes in :).
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<darkie>
Hmm, an inertial hopper on Gilly might be interesting.
<darkie>
I have a chore to do, though.
<Althego>
in my experience, never go faster than 25 m/s on any body and then you will be fine
<darkie>
I have RWs on that rover, so it can keep attitude when flying.
<darkie>
or if it should land badly.
<Althego>
and now you can decouple driving controls from orientation controls, so no more problems
<darkie>
Ahh, gotta check that out.
<Althego>
i think possibly the same or unset, but you can map it somewhere
<Althego>
otherwise i used to turn reaction wheels on and off, quite annoying
<darkie>
one could use an action group for that.
<Althego>
yes but still annoying
<FLHerne>
I've never really understood the appeal of rovers
<FLHerne>
Driving any distance at a safe speed is pretty tedious
<Althego>
even with unsafe speed you are just too slow for planetary distances
<FLHerne>
and especially with ISRU, hopping about is easier
<FLHerne>
well, biome-level distances are the relevant one
<FLHerne>
I think for rovers to make sense there'd have to be scattered point features of value
<FLHerne>
"sample three different large boulders"
<flayer>
well, there's a bit of that
<FLHerne>
"examine five species of tree"
<FLHerne>
I suppose some of the "temperature on surface at X, Y, Z" are sort of that
<flayer>
with the expansions, there's enough of that to make it feasible to do one rover mission to each planet
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<packbart>
"Driving any distance at a safe speed is pretty tedious" - well, there's a mod for that. I like BonVoyage for long-distance rover mission like planting a relay antenna mast at Minmus' south pole
<packbart>
or exploring all of Kerbin's biomes
<Althego>
on minmus you are way better off by just hopping around
<Mat2ch>
well, I drove once from the KSC to the North Pole...
<packbart>
Althego: I like sending rovers around instead of hopping. but that's probably just me