(v2.3) The Planet Six Probe Challenge: Now With Moons/Science Defs

[HoloYolo]

Just now, GregroxMun said:

Good job.

Thanks.

[Elowiny]

@HoloYolo May I ask how much Delta-V your ship had when on the launchpad?

[HoloYolo]

2 minutes ago, Elowiny said:

@HoloYolo May I ask how much Delta-V your ship had when on the launchpad?

No Delta V mods and I guessed on the fuel I needed. Probably somewhere near 10 km/s. I can provide you with the ship and you can use KER to see how much it has.

[Elowiny]

2 minutes ago, HoloYolo said:

No Delta V mods and I guessed on the fuel I needed. Probably somewhere near 10 km/s. I can provide you with the ship and you can use KER to see how much it has.

You think your ship was overbuilt? Mine had 16k Delta-V and I nearly ran out of fuel! I really need to plot my trajectories.

 

Edited July 13, 2016 by Elowiny

[HoloYolo]

14 minutes ago, Elowiny said:

You think your ship was overbuilt? Mine had 16k Delta-V and I nearly ran out of fuel! I really need to plot my trajectories.

 

I managed to plot a maneuver from Kerbin and I only had to do 2 200 m/s correction burns. Insertion burn was 2.5 km/s. I managed to get it to 2.5 by the correction burns. Before the first one it was 4k and before the second one 3k.  

[Elowiny]

1 minute ago, HoloYolo said:

I managed to plot a maneuver from Kerbin and I only had to do 2 200 m/s correction burns. Insertion burn was 2.5 km/s. I managed to get it to 2.5 by the correction burns. Before the first one it was 4k and before the second one 3k.  

If I can manage to be as efficient as you I'll be able to complete the Super mode easily.

Edited July 13, 2016 by Elowiny

[HoloYolo]

8 minutes ago, Elowiny said:

If I can manage to be as efficient as you I'll be able to complete the Super mode easily.

Good luck.

[Whirligig Girl]

My attempt and success at Difficult Mode

It relies on my new Nuclear Supertug.

Delta V: Lots.

It is rather large though, so it needs this behemoth to get it into orbit, Kerbin escape, and starting 1/4 of the transfer burn.

With this ship, I not only Complete Difficult Mode in 13 Years and 388 Days (Kerbin Time), but I also managed to visit one of the moons, Friz.

Full Mission Album (Spoiler Alert):

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[Elowiny]

2 minutes ago, GregroxMun said:

My attempt and success at Difficult Mode

It relies on my new Nuclear Supertug.

Delta V: Lots.

It is rather large though, so it needs this behemoth to get it into orbit, Kerbin escape, and starting 1/4 of the transfer burn.

With this ship, I not only Complete Difficult Mode in 13 Years and 388 Days (Kerbin Time), but I also managed to visit one of the moons, Friz.

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Very impressive!

However, I have one little question :

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The map view states that Enkers has a gravity of about 0.05, yet it is only half as small as the mun. It is intended?

 

[Whirligig Girl]

5 minutes ago, Elowiny said:

Very impressive!

However, I have one little question :

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The map view states that Enkers has a gravity of about 0.05, yet it is only half as small as the mun. It is intended?

 

It's only slightly lower than Pluto's surface gravity, and considering that it is smaller in radius than 1/10 of Pluto, I think Enkers is reasonable. (It's actually 0.566, which is closer to 0.6 than 0.5)

Edited July 13, 2016 by GregroxMun

[Whirligig Girl]

v2.3

• Swap the orbit line colors of Friz and Derg to match their real colors.
• Fix the ugly spikiness on the craters of Friz and Derg
• Make Friz, Derg, and Erkers less overbright in localspace.

Edited July 13, 2016 by GregroxMun

[GarrisonChisholm]

Hello. My name is GarrisonChisholm, and I am CKan Dependent. 

 

So, I have the file in my download directory, three folders and a config file.  I have changed the config to True to support my OPM installation.

Into what folder do I place these folders and the file?  Do they all 4 things go together independently, or as their single parent folder?

My apologies for the question, and thank you for helping me break my CKan dependency.

[ProtoJeb21]

On 7/12/2016 at 10:16 PM, GregroxMun said:

Hyper Mode: Impress Me.

How about planting a flag and putting a small outpost on every moon around Planet End, as well as a small space station around the planet itself?

[Whirligig Girl]

13 minutes ago, ProtoJeb21 said:

How about planting a flag and putting a small outpost on every moon around Planet End, as well as a small space station around the planet itself?

That would impress me, yes.

On 7/14/2016 at 0:28 PM, GarrisonChisholm said:

Hello. My name is GarrisonChisholm, and I am CKan Dependent. 

 

So, I have the file in my download directory, three folders and a config file.  I have changed the config to True to support my OPM installation.

Into what folder do I place these folders and the file?  Do they all 4 things go together independently, or as their single parent folder?

My apologies for the question, and thank you for helping me break my CKan dependency.

You want to have at least the following things in GameData: (with their contents shown to make sure you've got the right part of the folder in.)

GameData

--[folder] Kopernicus
----Cache
----Config
----Plugins

--[folder] ModularFlightIntegrator
----ModularFlightIntegrator.dll

--[folder] OPM (If using Outer Planets Mod)
----ribbons
----KopernicusConfigs
----KarboniteConfigs
----A Whole Lot More.

--[folder] CTTP (if using Outer Planets Mod)
----Textures

--[folder] Planet9
----KopernicusFiles
----PluginData
----Textures
----settings.cfg <--edit this to change setting.

--[.dll] ModuleManager2.6.25.dll

Hope this helps.

[Crocket]

The pic in the OP shows a body named Pledna. What's that from?

Also, does Hyper Mode have a time limit?

[septemberWaves]

11 hours ago, Crocket said:

Also, does Hyper Mode have a time limit?

I imagine that that depends on just how impressive your attempt is.

[GarrisonChisholm]

On 7/17/2016 at 10:40 AM, GregroxMun said:

That would impress me, yes.

You want to have at least the following things in GameData: (with their contents shown to make sure you've got the right part of the folder in.)

...

Hope this helps.

All good!  It works.    But *man* is that a hard solution.  It took me about an hour, but I (accidently) stumbled across an intercept and I felt like by lure had just bobbed!  With much caressing, I now have (in my OPM system) a 31 year intercept at ~ 16.5km/sec, and down to only 3,000km Peri!

...well, *i* am tickled anyway.

Thank you *very* much for making this Gregrox!

[Whirligig Girl]

On 7/17/2016 at 9:35 PM, Crocket said:

The pic in the OP shows a body named Pledna. What's that from?

Also, does Hyper Mode have a time limit?

Hyper Mode means "impress me." If you take 200 years to do something, it's less likely to impress me.

Pledna was an idea I had early in production and ended up scrapping it. It might come back later.

[_Augustus_]

On 7/19/2016 at 0:36 PM, GregroxMun said:

Hyper Mode means "impress me." If you take 200 years to do something, it's less likely to impress me.

Pledna was an idea I had early in production and ended up scrapping it. It might come back later.

I want Pledna!

[BashGordon33]

Quick question: Dose the time limits mean total game play time or Mission Elapsed Time? And dose this planet have an atmosphere? Because I want to attempt an aero-capture if it dose, to save a bunch of fuel. 

[Elowiny]

8 hours ago, BashGordon33 said:

Quick question: Dose the time limits mean total game play time or Mission Elapsed Time? And dose this planet have an atmosphere? Because I want to attempt an aero-capture if it dose, to save a bunch of fuel. 

Since it's a gas giant, well yes it does have an atmosphere.

[John FX]

OK, going to try for difficult. Built a probe with 30KDv in vacuum, this may increase depending on the lifter.

See you in a few years

EDIT : Just landed on Erkers with roughly 27KDv left in my ship

Will post images later, have to go out now and drink cider at a BBQ in a park.

Edited July 23, 2016 by John FX

[BashGordon33]

@GregroxMun Yeah sorry I didn't realise there were 2 different forums 

[PotentiallyHabitable578]

The ninth(sixth) planet! I can't wait to try this one out. See you all there!

 

Edited July 24, 2016 by PotentiallyHabitable578

[John FX]

Here are some pictures of my attempt. Ive left it in orbit with around 27KDv remaining. Might try and do something with that.

 

 

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