How to drive a rover on the launch pad with kerbals?

[Oddible]

I've seen so many pictures of people riding around the KSC but it seems that even with a seat a rover isn't a kerbal equipable device. Do I really need to attach a command pod to my rover and detach and run my EVAing kerbal around to mount it?

[Sirine]

Yes. Currently it like that way.

[Oddible]

OK, new most annoying thing about KSP

[Panzerbeard]

The other way to do it is just to have some kerbals EVA'd a little way off the launchpad, waiting.. I've got a little café set up that kerbals sit around in near the launchpad, so if they're needed they're already close by.

Plus they make very nice pastries.

[Epthelyn]

The best way I've found to get around this problem is to put a small probe core on rovers. They can make nice decorative parts and allow the rover to be driven without Kerbals.

Launch the rover on the launchpad and another craft on the runway (with Kerbals in it), drive the rover over and unload. After testing spaceplanes and practicing landing them I've got plenty of spare Kerbals all over KSC

Alternatively you could just use the same system but drive the rover off the pad, launch another craft on the pad and then drive the rover back. I just like having to load the rover using another functional vehicle.

Oh, make sure the probe body is facing in the right direction, otherwise it messes up the controls. I'm not sure how that works with 0.22's rover detection SAS thing though, because I've yet to drive a rover in 0.22.

[Motokid600]

I have a rover question. Sorry its a bit off topic, but making a new thread would be silly. How can rivers help with science gathering? Because driving from biome to biome just to collect surface samples... Well.. that's a lot of rovin' lol. Other then the fun factor do they serve a purpose in career?

[Panzerbeard]

I have a rover question. Sorry its a bit off topic, but making a new thread would be silly. How can rivers help with science gathering? Because driving from biome to biome just to collect surface samples... Well.. that's a lot of rovin' lol. Other then the fun factor do they serve a purpose in career?

Not really, honestly, unless you've landed right on the border of two biomes, you'll have to drive a long way to do anything useful with them that you couldn't do with the lander. I've not done a Mun-landing in career more yet, so I don't know how the biomes work there, but if the bottom of a crater counts as a different biome I guess you could use the rover to investigate nearby craters, that shouldn't be too far. I'm hoping that in the future the terrain scatter objects, like trees, moon rocks, etc, can be inspected individually, that'd give us a reason to drive around.

Actually, on that note, do you get anything, science-wise, from anomalies, does anyone know?

[Motokid600]

I saw someone asked that a few days ago about the anomalies. I believe the general consensus was no they do not offer anything... Yet.