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[Seriphyn]

They say it takes a while to get between space and planets, but hello? Dropships anyone?

With the creation of our own facilities with juicy PF on how they are run and operate exactly, is there little reason for Seriphyn to be able to hop onto a planetary shuttle (too small to appear on ship scanners) and fly down to a planet, spend a couple hours hunting in the rural lowsec landscape, then hopping back onto the ship, flying up and out, and back to station and pod?

There is a lot of RP that can be enjoyed on planets, and I think the misconception that planetary travel ain't easy is a hinderance.

[Silver Night]

Whose misconception are you talking about exactly?

[Vieve]

Whose misconception are you talking about exactly?

Pretty sure it's this one.

[Seriphyn]

I don't read your blogs damnit! Screw your blogs! ('cause it reminds me of what sort of awesome RP I'm missing out on >_>)

But yeah. Cool.

[Saede Riordan]

I've always Rped that I could go to planets, I did this by ingame by having a bookmark inside the planet in question and warping there

[Esna Pitoojee]

Really the only limitation would be acceleration - above a certain acceleration/deceleration, humans don't do so well. That said, I'm sure they have all kinds of inertial dampers/compensators to help with that, so... yeah. Nothing really wrong at all.

[Ulphus]

There is a lot of RP that can be enjoyed on planets, and I think the misconception that planetary travel ain't easy is a hinderance.

I haven't seen anyone say that it isn't easy, just that it isn't quick. I've seen people who flit down to the planet and back in half an hour, and that hurts some people's SOD.

I'd expect it to take an hour or so to land, and another hour to take off and get to a station, depending on ATC, schedules and the atmosphere/gravity of the planet in question.  If you played something similar to that, I wouldn't have any issues at all about you visiting a planet.

[Julianus Soter]

then how exactly do the sansha steal people again?

[Louella Dougans]

then how exactly do the sansha steal people again?

Sansha wouldn't have to notify orbit traffic control, and request takeoff/landing slots.

[Saede Riordan]

then how exactly do the sansha steal people again?

Sansha wouldn't have to notify orbit traffic control, and request takeoff/landing slots.

And we're capsuleers, we tell them we want to land RIGHT NOW, they'll get us on the ground.

[Casiella]

Or, you know, don't land at a spaceport.

[Yoshito Sanders]

There was an early chron that said planetary interaction was difficult. It's pretty much been forgotten about. RP it as breakthroughs in tech allowing easier trade between the ground and space.

[Casiella]

And given how fast we can launch stuff to or from a customs office (admittedly a little faster than one would expect IRL), it's hard to justify taking two hours to RP the landing or whatever. That's a level of hardcoreness I think many of us would prefer to avoid.

Or, you know, stay stationside like the cool pilots.

[Julianus Soter]

which is precisely my point.

[Ken]

spend a couple hours hunting in the rural lowsec landscape

So they don't have a single hunting park under any of those huge Gallente station domes?  In a cluster this big, if you can think of it, it's probably out there.  Like Rule #34.

stay stationside like the cool pilots

Not that I don't appreciate Seriphyn's original point (that there is good RP to be had planetside), but Casiella kind of hit on something that I think we're overlooking.  Space stations are truly enormous city-like structures and there are thousands of them.  When you're a capsuleer who can zip back and forth between stations in seconds and across constellations and regions in minutes and you have access to all the best perks and services, why take the time to enter deep gravity wells?  Everything you could want is available to you in space.

That being said, getting in and out of a planetary gravity well takes more power than just docking and undocking from a space station.  Still, it seems the heavy lift capabilities in use at our (top notch) PI spaceports are such that launch and landing can nevertheless be done rather quickly and in rapid succession with industrial goods.  High acceleration/deceleration limits for freight transport makes that possible. 

Passengers can't tolerate those forces quite as well, I'm sure, but a 30 minute "slow" descent from station to surface seems within reason for civilian traffic (and for RP).  Say... 5-10 minutes acceleration, some unpowered descent, and then a 5-10 minute braking burn, flaring just before touchdown?  Military shuttles could probably do it faster, but passengers will be less comfortable.  Who knows how the Sansha dropships do it.  Magic wormhole tech maybe.