Furthest You've Ever Driven?

[Lar-E]

Just curious... what's the longest distance you've ever driven a rover? Due to a sloppy (but survivable) Duna landing, I just drove my rover 20 kilometers to rendezvous with the waiting kerbonauts. Road trip!

[SkyHook]

Like 10 km. I try not to do them, though. Flipping over can end the fun real soon. My blood is boiling just imagining having to restart a long ground voyage!

[Superfluous J]

I don't know the distance, but it was across one of the lakes (flats, whatever) on Minmus. Maybe 5-7km I think. I then crashed the rover an my 3 Kerbonauts had to fly home on RCS. That was the last time I tried to drive a rover any distance and have no plans to do so again

[theend3r]

I drove about 50km to a mun arch and back. I used a reversible rover that's mostly safe to drive even in low gravity at about 30 m/s and used 2-3x physical warp. It still took ages, especially since I had to make regular quicksave stops usually after about 5km and reload from time to time.

[MockKnizzle]

I do believe there is a gentleman on the forums who has circumnavigated Duna, which I hear is quite a drive.

[maccollo]

I think I've driven about 300-600 km I think. I had built an ascent vehicle for Eve eve that would drive up to the 7.5 km peak. I sort of botched the landing tho, and I ended way further from the mountain than I had wanted. I ended up driving for over 2 hours with 4x time acceleration.

[pxi]

I've driven to Kerbin's south pole via the north pole. Took about 40 hours. Why? I'm still kinda wondering about that.

[tntristan12]

I drove 50km on the Mun pretty recently with a kerballed rover. I wanted to test the long range durability of my rover, so I took Samsy and Newbree Kerman from their current assignment post at Kethane Site Alpha to the site of my first Mun landing (in this save anyway) about 53km away. As a bonus, there was a Mun arch there to explore as well!

The drive was supremely painful, but my rover eventually made it. Every so often, if I got too comfortable or went too fast, the rover would careen and go flying end over end in the low gravity. Most of the time I would be able to right it by slamming one of my Kerbals into it at high speed with RCS. Other times I'd reload the latest quicksave (which I did often). I also had to avoid craters like the plague, but every so often one would take me by surprise and I'd go flying off the edge Dukes of Hazard style!

Like I said, my Kerbals eventually did get there in mostly one piece. I took some screenshots to commemorate the occasion, but the drive was so painful I decided there was no way in Hell I would drive back, so I loaded up the last save I did right before the drive and fast forwarded the clock by about twice the time the journey took. I'm sure Samsy and Newbree did just fine without me!

[Jenteb07]

I drove 120 kms to get to the Vall anomaly, was no fun since there were a lot of steep climbs and downhills on my way.

[panzerknoef]

70km on duna, i had a little transport rover but it overshot the target and ended up 70km from the landing site, driving it wasn't really that fun

[norup]

I drove 50km on Eve to get a rover carrying a ladder to my stranded kerbonaut so he could climb back onto the return vehicle.

[MilanFIN]

I drove about 25km on the Mün had 50 more to do, but crashed...

Another failed rescue attempt to get Jeb and Bob back home.

[TheBadAstronomer]

I circumnavigated the Mun and Minmus. Both were quite challenging. The gravity on Minmus is not good for traction, and the Mun has lots of pesky craters in the way. Total estimated distance: about 1,630 Km.

[Richy teh space man]

I once drove from the edge of Dunas ice field to near the equator, that was quite a scenic and eventful journey.

[katateochi]

I do believe there is a gentleman on the forums who has circumnavigated Duna, which I hear is quite a drive.

yeah I remember that being posted too. Also there was a guy who drove to the north pole from KSC which would have been quite a drive.

I think the longest drive I did was to drive between several of Muns anomalies. But I find driving long distances way too tedious so I don't do long drives very often.

[Tw1]

I once drove from the edge of Dunas ice field to near the equator, that was quite a scenic and eventful journey.

I went the opposite way, the spacecraft was landed near the equator, so Bill, Danble, and Erbald took the Duna explore-o-pod for a long trip north. And then back.

Did it over many weeks.

[Azivegu]

When it was still possible to circumnavigate Kerbin, I did that. After a while I started hallucinating from the long and tedious drive, unaware of my surroundings or my place in space and time. Wasnt best for my mental health

[TMS]

The circumnavigation is here: http://www.mindspring.com/~sportrocketry/ksp/drivingduna.html

An exemplar of patience!

[bsalis]

I think it was about 140 excruciating Km on Duna or thereabouts, 70Km each way for a rescue pickup. Did it over three sessions. I usually just F9 such incidences, but thought i'd do a rescue instead for a change. Had no chance of landing that plane in one piece anyhow.

I do believe there is a gentleman on the forums who has circumnavigated Duna, which I hear is quite a drive.

That would be Brotoro. Patient that man be.

[Sargent890]

Probably only 5km at the most.

[Rickenbacker]

About 20km on the Mun, with the world's tallest Kethane drill rig. It fell over, so I had to send a KAS rescue lander, to winch it up again and keep going. But I made it!

[peadar1987]

I've circumnavigated Kerbin with a rover loads of times. Never when they haven't been attached to the top of a rocket though!

[davieholgate]

about 1 km, landed the rover and got bored.

[Spartwo]

I do believe there is a gentleman on the forums who has circumnavigated Duna, which I hear it's quite a drive.

It is but not as bad as new Duna,No super flat areas and those deceptive textures.Brotoro also did it.

Start:

End:

I did it to pick up 6 kerbals stranded all around the planet covering about 4/5 of the circumference so I decided to go the whole way around.

Edited January 12, 2014 by Spartwo

[Tex_NL]

I drove from KSC to the north pole once.

But my most epic rover journey by far was east to west through the infamous Dres Canyon.