Rover/Spaceplane - Travel mode for planets

[Spraki]

Hi. 

I don't know if this will make sense but seeing that rovers especially could need some love...

How about two expensive and heavy modules. One being a generator.

The idea is to have the ability to 'go there' from a to b without having to drive (or fly) manually. 

This is not to make the game afk but somewhere there is the debate of using landers most of the time especially for moons.

Rovers shall not be able to travel into or out of steep hills or massiclve craters. They can only travel within the current border. The player would have to drive manually for crossing borders.

The module should also have a cooldown period for recharging (Like in The Martian).

I decide to keep it simple for now. Is there anything useful in this sugfestion?

[RocketSquid]

Makes sense, but I would actually prefer a rover/plane "autopilot" that works in the background.

[Blaarkies]

24 minutes ago, RocketSquid said:

Makes sense, but I would actually prefer a rover/plane "autopilot" that works in the background.

That should be possible. On-rails orbit doesn't calculate anything in the background, yet when you come out of timewarp, the ships are exactly where you would expect them to be by now...except Mun encounters after 50 years of course.

My point is, imagine putting the rover on an on-rails orbit, but relative to surface, and moving 0.5m/s...now when we come out of timewarp, it gets "landed"(like hyper edit does) onto the surface at the position it should be at.

That will be at least as realistic as what happens to the rest of our in-orbit ships during timewarp

[RocketSquid]

9 hours ago, Blaarkies said:

That should be possible. On-rails orbit doesn't calculate anything in the background, yet when you come out of timewarp, the ships are exactly where you would expect them to be by now...except Mun encounters after 50 years of course.

My point is, imagine putting the rover on an on-rails orbit, but relative to surface, and moving 0.5m/s...now when we come out of timewarp, it gets "landed"(like hyper edit does) onto the surface at the position it should be at.

That will be at least as realistic as what happens to the rest of our in-orbit ships during timewarp

Yep, that's what I meant by "autopilot".

[BT Industries]

On 10/10/2016 at 3:25 PM, Blaarkies said:

That should be possible. On-rails orbit doesn't calculate anything in the background, yet when you come out of timewarp, the ships are exactly where you would expect them to be by now...except Mun encounters after 50 years of course.

My point is, imagine putting the rover on an on-rails orbit, but relative to surface, and moving 0.5m/s...now when we come out of timewarp, it gets "landed"(like hyper edit does) onto the surface at the position it should be at.

That will be at least as realistic as what happens to the rest of our in-orbit ships during timewarp

On 10/10/2016 at 2:56 PM, RocketSquid said:

Makes sense, but I would actually prefer a rover/plane "autopilot" that works in the background.

Enjoy...

 

[Spraki]

Oh. There's a mod ,_,

[Wjolcz]

Yep. Bon Voyage does that. Would be a handy thing having it in stock.

If you've seen the new Mars documentary thingy on National Geographic Channel there's that scenario in which the ship lands too far from the base and they have to drive a rover all the way from base to the landing zone. Since in KSP there's no way of telling where you're about to land it would be nice to have stockified Bon Voyage just in case.

Edited November 17, 2016 by Veeltch

[Spraki]

Ooooow. I wanna get it. 

But DOH. I'm kinda still stuck with 1.1.3 missions. Oh well. Gotta move on eventually. 

Thanks for that. Just when I thought I knew most of the mods.