Landing legs with bigger feet for Eve.

[Galane]

I'd like to see a version of the largest landing leg with much stiffer default suspension settings and bigger feet that will not break through the surface of Eve.

I set a lander with SIXTEEN of those legs down on Eve, locked the suspension and instead of lifting the lander the feet just punched into the ground. What's the surface consistency of Eve? Snowcone? Styrofoam?

High gravity needs a larger landing gear surface area to lower the ground pressure per square unit.

[Stargate525]

It's not a factor of surface-area to weight. It's a glitch in the planet's collision mesh. Nearly every planet has it to some degree. There are times I've landed at duna only to have my probe sink up to its solar panels in red.

[FlamedSteak]

What speed did you land at? I had a Mun lander come in a little hot (about 8 m/s) and bury it's legs halfway up.

[vexx32]

Interesting... I've never heard of this before. It is possible to construct "large" immobile landing legs using the girder segments. Whackjob is fond of using them, if I recall correctly.

[Galane]

What speed did you land at? I had a Mun lander come in a little hot (about 8 m/s) and bury it's legs halfway up.

Nowhere near that fast with parachutes. With the suspension, the legs collapse. Lock them and they extend but if there's enough weight on them, on Eve, they push into the surface.

[Galane]

I've been attempting to build a landing support structure with girders and despite using a ton of struts, it collapses unless the surface landed on is dead flat.

Eve has some weirdness going on with its surface. After the last failure, I went back to the debris pile and saw a Skipper drop right through the surface, followed a short time later by a splash sound. Altitude was 197 meters.

I've also noticed that on Eve, after resuming a game, debris is hovering about a meter above the ground, then it drops, sometimes explodes.

[edwardc]

In the testing world we call this a 'feature', not a bug... It's just a dust bowl you're sinking into... yes, that sounds about right. Quicksand is quite possible on another planet. Nothing at all to do with the collusion mesh being slightly misaligned.