Funnest planet to rove?

[ScottyDoesKnow]

So I want to build a manned rover, just wondering what planet or moon would be the most fun to rove? I'm not a big fan of places like the mun for this cause you just go flying. I'd like a more solid feel than that, somewhere I can't fly with RCS.

What's your favourite place to use rovers?

[fatfluffycat]

What about Tylo?

[Rage097]

Tylo, Laythe, Eve.

If you want to have a LOT of fun, go to Gilly.

[Raikoutrio]

I'd recommend Duna or Eve because of their gravity. If you're going to eve though, when you flip it's over.

Also Gilly, where you will fly 3000 meters in the air if you hit the ground with your wheel.

[PlayMp1]

Be careful roving on Gilly. Escape velocity is 35m/s, so driving too fast will send you off towards Eve.

[AmpsterMan]

I hear Kerbin is pretty fun

[vetrox]

Theres plenty to do on kerbin...

[Richy teh space man]

I'd recommend Duna, the thin atmosphere can help you land if you spam parachutes and have a light weight rover.

Coincidentally, I'm roving there atm.

[ScottyDoesKnow]

Probably going to try Tylo or Eve. I know kerbin is good too, but what's the fun without the trip there. Although Eve would mean they're stranded there for a while most likely.

[Skyrunner27]

Oh come on the Mun is a great place to rove. Slap on some ASAS and you can go anywhere. Especiallly the new Mun where you can fly into craters. But for your type of roving you would be best off on Kerbin.

[magnemoe]

Oh come on the Mun is a great place to rove. Slap on some ASAS and you can go anywhere. Especiallly the new Mun where you can fly into craters. But for your type of roving you would be best off on Kerbin.

Agree with you mun is very fun, If you don't like the long jumps Kerbin is nice and close, easy to reach anyplace with plane or suborbital, you can just recover the kerbal after you wreck the rover and lots of different terrains.

[Madrias]

I've had great fun driving rovers around Kerbin. Still plenty of hazards, and plenty of hazard recovery to do. After all, making a VTOL capable vehicle that drives is a great strategy to get over mountains and oceans.

Just, um, remember to pack parachutes.

[MadBender]

I roved Kerbin before rover wheels appeared in game. My rover had jet engines and landing gears, and also landing legs because I didn't know about handbrake

[Sof]

Kerbin and the Mun have plenty of things to drive over.

Minmus is a good place to set speed records.

Gilly is lulz, these trips don't tend to end well.

Otherwise, the moons of Jool provide plenty of nice views if you get the right side. I'd recommend Vall, because roadtrips on Laythe don't last long, and the others are a bit too far out.

[Epthelyn]

Most rovers I've played around with on Kerbin end up on Eve after a while. The gravity makes it easier to drive around without flipping, and Eve's atmosphere makes it possible to land a rover without really having to worry about silly things like slowing down using engines; just drop the rover into an atmosphere-encountering trajectory and deploy the parachutes when necessary. Duna is much the same story, but it's not possible to fly in at 4km/s and survive.

[Dkmdlb]

Duna! Good gravity, enough of an atmosphere to use parachutes, and lots to see, especially if you land at one of the higher latitudes near the poles - you can drive to the ice caps.

[Vanamonde]

Vall has valleys surrounded by winding mountain chains, so the scenery changes as you drive around.

[montyben101]

Gilly. it is mental

[Guest]

Moho or Mun. Make sure you have a reaction wheel and SAS handy, though, especially if you are bombing along at 50m/s.

[lazarus1024]

Suprisingly I've never been to Val or Tylo. Only two places I haven't visited (okay, I just lied, I haven't been to Eyloo either since it was added).

Duna is lots of fun. The Mun can be too.

For places like Minmus, Bop and Gilly I don't bother roving. I make little RCS jump vehicles that I can dock to the top of my lander for refueling. Pretty much just a panel, reaction wheel, battery pack, a few small solar panels, RCS jets, RCS tanks a light and a seat. Lots and lots of fun and you can cover a heck of a lot of the planet.

[DChurchill]

I'd recommend Duna, the thin atmosphere can help you land if you spam parachutes and have a light weight rover.

Coincidentally, I'm roving there atm.

You can land there with just parachutes.

[Richy teh space man]

Yup, that's how I got this mean machine to land safely:

Although I did have to flip it since it landed upside down..

[geb]

In my opinion you can't beat Eve. It's easy to get to, easy to land on, and the gravity is high enough to get you good grip. Make sure to bring high torque wheels for climbing hills in that gravity!

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[redmario14]

Mun is really fun, although if you go out of control and lose your solar panels, then the walk back to base is long and boring.

[Moar Boosters]

Not sure why so many are recommending Tylo. On the surface it's pretty boring. Like a poor mans mun.

I know it's high gravity means rovers will work very well there...... but it's not going to be anywhere near as interesting to explore as one of the more detailed places like the Mun, Duna or Eve.