Dril-o-matic as landing struts?

[juvilado]

Hi, has anyone tried using Drill-o-matics as landing struts? Do they work?

Edited May 12, 2017 by juvilado

[DrLicor]

The drills go into the ground don't they?

Also, what are the advantages of these over normal landing struts? Landingstruts are much cheaper and most important; lighter. Which saves you a plenty amount of delta-v. 

[juvilado]

25 minutes ago, DrLicor said:

The drills go into the ground don't they?

Also, what are the advantages of these over normal landing struts? Landingstruts are much cheaper and most important; lighter. Which saves you a plenty amount of delta-v. 

Well i can think about these advantages:

1.- Faster mining

2.- No need of landing struts

But yes, they go into the ground and didn't even noticed any succesful balancing effect when touching land...

[fourfa]

The 'drill head' and skinny part of the drill shaft have no colliders (meaning, as far as the game knows, they're not really there).  The lowest part of the moving collider is the widest part of the grey shaft.  Which means it's not much lower than the drill base itself.  It can be done - but not much advantage over landing gear or legs.

[Spricigo]

20 hours ago, juvilado said:

1.- Faster mining

I didn't follow your reasoning on that one. 

[bewing]

When you are mining, the drill heads move. If you are using them as landing legs at the time, your entire ship will bounce up and down.

 

[juvilado]

4 hours ago, Spricigo said:

I didn't follow your reasoning on that one. 

Well, i suppose 3 drills will mine faster than one...

[Spricigo]

4 hours ago, juvilado said:

Well, i suppose 3 drills will mine faster than one...

Yes,  but using landing legs will not prevent you to use more drills.