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Please increase the grip or power on the wheels.


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I've been playing around with rovers, and they are all struggling to go up slopes. 

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IRL, I think a car can do about 20 degrees, and the Curiosity rover is programmed to attempt slopes up 30 degrees. 

I took a rover with bigger wheels to The Mun, and it had similar struggles.

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As did this stock vehicle,

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And this thing:

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Idk if it's realistic or not, but they feel underpowered to me. To make rovers more useful to play with, I think wheels need better ability to take on slopes.
Especially so we can make things with proportions like this:

Rover - Marspedia

Rather than having to cram on as many wheels as possible like I tried with my larger vehicle.

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Wheels absolutely need more power, and some extra speed as well. OTOH, there's a physics/wheel sim bug somewhere that randomly forces a wheel upward, frequently flipping the rover, so I'm not sure if it's a good idea to do any driving ATM...

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