Is Eve the best planet for rovers?

[painking]

Found a huge mound of sand on Eve on a failed landing, so I went back with a new an improved rover design. Landed 100 kilometers away, spent the next 2 and half hours rovering towards it and it was probably the smoothest gameplay experience I ever had in KSP. The heavier gravity of Eve makes flipping over very hard, there aren't any bumps almost anywhere, and the hills are extremely gradual, making runaway tumbles down big hills very unlikely. I don't think any other planet could offer a smoother roving experience.

[Canopus]

Not for me. I landed my first Eve rover on a mountain top, tried to drive down carefully until the rover fell over and tumbled down the hill without a chance of recovery.

[AustralianFries]

...2 and half hours rovering towards it...

"Rovering"... Now that is an interesting word.

Personally, I like Laythe the most for "rovering", and Vall is a close second.

Edited June 28, 2013 by AustralianFries

[painking]

Not for me. I landed my first Eve rover on a mountain top, tried to drive down carefully until the rover fell over and tumbled down the hill without a chance of recovery.

Hmm, where was this? I landed in the middle of thousands upon thousands of miles of sand. The steepest hills had their length stretched out over a few kilometers.

[Canopus]

Hmm, where was this? I landed in the middle of thousands upon thousands of miles of sand. The steepest hills had their length stretched out over a few kilometers.

Sands? Are you sure that was Eve? Eve has some really tall mountains wisth steep slopes.

[painking]

Sands? Are you sure that was Eve? Eve has some really tall mountains wisth steep slopes.

I don't think I could mistake pink skies and purple sand as anything else.

That entire area is pretty much nothing but smooth slopes and sand. Didn't see any mountains besides the giant sand mound almost visible from space.

[Canopus]

i don't know where i landed but there where some deep valleys and mountains not far from the sea.

[Temstar]

Yes Eve is by far the easiest place to drive rovers in the Kerbolar system. The high gravity give wheels excellent traction for uphill/downhill/braking/cornering at high speeds, the dense atmosphere help to prevent sideways drift (but at the cost of lower max ground speed due to drag) and the intensified solar radiation and relatively quick day/night cycles (not as short as Kerbin, but much shorter than say, a day on Mun) ensures plentiful energy during the day and nights that are not too long.

I once drove a manned 5 ton rover 80km to the ocean, then 90km uphill to my return vehicle parked on a 5km mountain top. Both trips were done by simply putting pedal to the metal using trim control, then set ASAS to keep heading and then leaving KSP to run for an hour. That was done with the medium wheel and not the new tough wheels and at no time where there any sliding/potentially deadly jumps, the wheels stuck to the ground like glue.

[Awesomegamegeek12]

Well it's pretty damn easy as the guy above me points out, it's it's a breeze to land on if you pack a parachute, the high gravity means nice turns, my only fear is that once re-entry effects are given some potentially rover-threatening force all of that will go bye bye due to eve's thick atmosphere.

[OtherDalfite]

If you have a slim down rover, yes, it's a fantastic place to drive. I tested a Mo-Lab type rover and I didn't bother to strut the supports along the side of my habitat module. The whole thing sagged and I had to be careful when going up hills. But yes, Eve's high gravity gives you good control and it's thick atmosphere keeps you from rolling.

[Storm1]

I don't really think Eve is the best because my first rover ended up plunging into the water... It was sad...

[Aqua667]

*Landing a Eve rover for the first time*

I thought the oceans were the landmasses(Ice or floating chunks of metal?) and the purple land were the oceans (Liquid methane?). Then I saw a crater on the purple "oceans". I was already on my way down to the ground so.... F9 Quickload! The next time the rovers batteries died, but the chutes still deployed. It landed on a slope and I couldn't time warp until day time, so I had to end flight D:

Also I heard Eve's gravity is brutal and rover wheels