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Home built Intel 6750 dual core @ 3.4 GHz AMD 6850 1GB 4GB 2 Gigabyte sticks @ 4-4-4-12 Tuniq tower air cooled 2008 build except video card went 8800 gtx to 460 768mb to current card, and small boot ssd ~$1800. Way overspent for ram, so should have been lower, but selling used video cards to help buy the next one can really drop the $/day for your system long term

In my opinion to solve all these complaints would be to have a system like civ where you can start in the 'modern era' I would imagine you are going to be able to start career mode, in the 'modern era' with all parts unlocked when Squad implements the budget portion of career mode. It seems like Sandbox will morph into simulation or testing mode, which explains the no science. Maybe there should be a tick box in options to start career mode with full tech tree and problems solved.

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So is the black half, outer space or the ground? I'm guessing ground. I like the customizable colors idea.

That's my boat.

Seconded. Probably waiting for end of Steam sale. I'm just waiting around building up enthusiasm.

I'm certainly quite chuffed about it. I did have some ribbons, but took out my sig when spoilers broke. Maybe save the gif for the next release contest is my vote. Not done with this one yet hopefully though.

Some sexy looking math up there. Oh man., my heart was beating going to circularize this thing A vanilla run for me. Worth two 10s. 10.10 Went for more speed on the first vert ascent (after watching your video metaphor, thanks) , then made my way to the horizon by 35 km I think, at reducing throttle. Finally just pulsing to keep Ap above 74km, finally let it fall to about 73 km remembering that it usually raised anyway by prolonged 'impulse' burns.

Nice tavert! Tried some quick turns and didn't even make it to orbit a couple of times. Then I went back to a more traditional curve. 8.62 Map and fuel. Craft view Was going to say about how I really throttled down at around 44 km and tried to ride it out to 74 km. Like people are always hating on the Mainsails because they are too powerful and you have to throttle down. Well as you burn through that fuel, the TWR must get pretty high. Seems like the boss agrees. The dang throttle wouldn't shut off though! EDIT. Heh, I took what b]tavert posted and said let's apply that acceleration max, and use mechjeb, swith a few numbers to try and match my last "shoot mostly straight up, then have a quick smooth curve finish at 50 km attempt. And got 8.63. EDIT 2 Saw that's what he did better so tweaked/copied a couple more numbers for another MechJeb run. 8.90 We can keep these off the leaderboard.

Thanks Tarmenius and doughbred. So my first attempt and current entry was my best by far, and I even lost track of trajectory for moment and headed way off to like 85 degrees. I was real easy on the throttle. Can't remember where I read this, but it's like I want the thousands of m of altitude to be in the tens place of my velocity. So 1000m = 110 m/s 2000m = 120 m/s 3000m = 130 m/s. At about 7000 m, I usually just go 100% to try and match 10000 m = 300 m/s. By about 35,000 m you should be heading for the horizon, looking at your Ap in map view, and shut off the engines just above desired Ap. It's a general plan that has its faults I'm sure. Works well for me usually. I've tried two more manual ascents and scored 2.8 and then a 3.8. I scored around just 1 with MechJeb. In other words, I just got lucky.

Trying a couple new things today. At least one was successful. My first challenge! I hope I did it correctly. 6.75 units left. Click for embiggening.

Awesome! Happy Independence Day.

Let's say the space station is right above KSC in a geostationary orbit. If you want to launch 'straight up' to the station you are going to have to consistently raise your lateral speed as you get up to the station, and further away from KSC. Resulting in perfectly matching orbits when you reach the station, provided you remained on the line between the space station and KSC all the way up. EDIT: Just like rodion_herrera's frame2 video above. Nice, would be cool if the dots spread out equally over time, and the station laid them down also.