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I guess the OP has now figured out that there are people really good at this game and that MechJeb, while useful, is far from efficient.

This doesn't appear to be a challenge of any sort. Please read the guidelines before submitting one.

Maybe this will keep the infiniglide nonsense out of every other atmospheric challenge. We can only hope.

This is a request and not a challenge. Requests go: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/forumdisplay.php/52-Rocket-Builders

Have you considered making the rules standardized for power for a more even playing field? Something like: you can use 1 RT-10 (actually, that was recently a challenge) (gives 30 seconds of un throttleable burn, then nothing). Or 1 tiny fuel tank and a rocket (specify which) Right now, your rules are so vague that people will end up stacking separatrons on really light things. I think your challenge is looking for glider capability, and so standard power would give you a good measure. *also* you're going to end up with infiniglide exploiters (even if by accident). Also, please read the guidelines. You need some sort of quantitative scoring design to designate a winner. You also should give us an example of your own creation, and score that as an example for how scoring works.

Use the SpacePort. http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/ It's free to upload.

And now we have confirmation that it's possible. Did you have to turn off clipping to stack the wings?

The craft will show. With a legit craft, there would be no reason to accelerate time before launch (making a total travel distance of over 1M), no reason to hide the makeup of the ship (not letting it crash), no reason to speed up physics, and no reason to not provide what is required for a valid submission (an entire flight).

Sometimes people cheat on these things. It's a fact. It's why the standard response is a request for the craft. It makes it obvious. Either they edit the craft and it performs nothing like what they claim, or they post the real craft, and everyone sees it's a fake. It's also part of the reason, when mine was going twice as far as the closest competition, I put the craft up to show there was nothing out of sorts with it. The nice thing is, except on the piloting challenges, it's trivial to just check out a craft. If people withhold the craft, they're hiding something, if people post it, it proves if it's legit or not really fast.

He's also accelerated time before launch and other funny business as evidenced by total distance traveled in here. Physics warping which is also in use here, leads to oddities as well. No wreckage shot which would show part counts out of the norm, etc. After playing for a long time, it's pretty easy to tell when people pull shenanigans on these things. an RT10, with 4 swept wings (there are more than 4 clipped in there from the looks of it though), and no funny business is not going to produce what he has without manipulation of some sort. If it's legit, the .craft file will show it, hence the request.

No offense intended, but please post that craft, because to get that kind of distance, it appears that there is some funny business going on. I can tell it looks like you've potentially turned off clipping and stacked wings for one, but that design by itself isn't going to perform like that without triggering some of the physics bugs.

This is one that will be won with jet engines, I am sure.

When I replied, it said "make a ship from halo" with no attempt, and no scoring or other way to determine a victor, or anything else.

No, I don't accept because this isn't a challenge, it is a please make this ship I want type request. Did you read the challenge guidelines? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/24898-Challenge-Submission-Guidelines

I considered some balance with a droppable part, but the challenge is explicit in only being allowed a single stage, so I did not.