Furthest You've Ever Driven?

[goldenpeach]

Maybe between 10 and 20 KM, I didn't made the whole return trip from my lunar lander: I alway crash my rover when I use it(which make the same failure rate of the N-1:100%)!

[Ravenchant]

40 km, I drove a rover up the mountains northwest of KSC. Didn't take that long at over 20 m/s. On another body... around 15km and back on the Mun? That was a royal pain, though.

[spudcosmic]

On my second Mun landing I downloaded the DEMV Ant rover mod and used it to drive to the Mun Arch and back. Because it was only my second landing I wasn't very good at on target landing, so I ended up over 80 kilometers from the arch, so it ended up being a 160 km drive. This was before rover wheels.

[Commissioner Tadpole]

I had several trips around Duna, each many kilometers away from the base. I drove 3km, then 5km, then 16km, then 8km, then 21km, and then 30km.

Didn't continue driving because the rovers are really hard to drive with Duna's slippery soil. Note to self: Next time when bringing rovers to Duna, use wheels with traction instead of inflated wheels.

[LunaTrick]

I drove about 350Km on Moho, from 20 degrees North to the Northern Tunnel at the pole, through all those mountains.

I drove from 20 degrees South to the Southern Pole, but as of v.23 the tunnel is not there.

[Dooz]

20 km On a Mun rover

[SirJodelstein]

103km on Duna during a multi-cache pickup mission. With a rocket-powered rover which should have been a plane but didnt have enough lift in the thin atmosphere. Driving through canyons at 30-40m/s was a very cool experience.

[boxman]

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!

Somewhere between 400-600km on duna.. Left the rover driving for lnearly 24 hours towards a target which was mostly done by rover itself.

This was before the wheels were added to the game, so used the multiwheel mod with cruise control and SAS to keep the heading mostly steady.

This is one of the reasons I really wish the official wheels had cruise control, so that you dont have to drive it manually like you have to do now.

[spectrhz]

40km on Pol. Why I decided to take a rover to pol still confuses me.

[NeMeSiS]

40km on Pol. Why I decided to take a rover to pol still confuses me.

I had to fill my Pol rover with several hundred tonnes of kethane before it would do something besides flying away and falling over. I'll stick to my VTOLs.

[turbo917k]

25km on Minimus, to rescue Jeb (his jets were empty). Probably won't be doing that again….

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[Commander Zoom]

I spent a good hour or two yesterday crawling up the side of a mountain on Duna, then riding the brakes down into the crater on the other side, then realizing I'd overshot my target a bit and making my way back up the inner slope with more zig zags and switchbacks. The main challenges there were getting good traction/progress up slopes, and not overspeeding and breaking a wheel on the way down.

In a previous save (before procedural craters), I drove a rover the length of the Mun's north-south canyon, which I nicknamed Skywalker's Run. At the time, I estimated the distance at roughly 100 km. Maybe I'll do it again someday.

Edited January 14, 2014 by Commander Zoom

[RuBisCO]

I circumnavigated Gilly for this thread (found a crack)

[GamerMitch]

The furthest I've driven was with my Krazy Buggie II from KSC to the mountains west of KSC. I tried to climb the mountain, but my rover wasn't powerful enough.

[TechnicalK3rbal]

About 1200 miles.

Oh, you mean in ksp.

About 2.

[koshelenkovv]

Longest drive was slightly above 200 km (at 40-60 m/s).

It's nice, light and stable rover with hopping capability, now I use it everywhere.

[antiquark]

About 1200 miles.

Oh, you mean in ksp.

About 2.

Same here (actually more like 50 km). Yeah I think the game mechanics need tweaking, if driving is more boring, yet more treacherous, than flying rockets.

[magnemoe]

I circumnavigated Gilly for this thread (found a crack)

I have found cracks om many of the smaller Moons. they are most common at the poles but you can get them other places.

I drove an fast rover 1/6 of the radius of the Mun, it was an stress test, trying to do as long jump as possible. Found that weight is central to make an survivable rover, or you want them as light as possible.

[Spartwo]

Although my Duna circumnavigation was already mentioned I think my circumnavigations of Eeloo(6 hours,mechjeb assisted),Gilly(10 minutes),and Minmus(45 minutes,Hybrid rover) are noteworthy.