Kerbalstar

Hi. I've started this thread to document my 100% stock Jool 5 attempt! I've tried a few times before, but I've always sort of just given up. This thread is to motivate me to finish! I've just started this game, but, you have my word, that this shall soon become a mission report thread! Game settings: Wish me luck!

I'm really liking this @septemberWaves! I like the sounding rockets, and the all un-kerbed start! Keep it up, I'm eager to see more!

I really like the ships and the format @Mars-Bound Hokie!

Very nice @Pawelk198604!

Would everybody give a big hand to @Alpha 360 for coming out of the depths of RL to allow me to copy his PM to this thread! It is in the spoiler below, and in my “history” message above! Thank you @Alpha 360!

Looking good @Victor3! Eager for more!

Sounds very interesting @4472TJ!

Yay, first! Also, small update, but happy for the big fixes!

Military stuff? Oh, the ICBM stuff? That’s just prescion sub-orbital aiming. Well, I can promise you that the next challenge, by @doggonemess well be different.

Ah. But if you were Elon, maybe you actually write quickly, and just do it in your spare time. Ah-Ha! (Just kidding about all of that of course... Unless...) Okay. Yay!

https://www.space.com/42932-spacex-mr-steven-fairing-recovery-test-video.html?utm_source=notification First Elon Musk launches a Telsa to Mars and now one of SpaceX's drone ships is called Mr. Steven!!! Either Elon Musk does read this story... OR @Ultimate Steve IS Elon Musk! Tell us the truth "Steve"! Also, Again this year? So, moar, when? And soon tm I know, but it's like a contractual obligation to ask at least once. No pressure though, I'll wait patiently.

Thanks! Good idea! Thanks! Thanks! I've started working on a new space program, using only replica launchers to establish an infrastructure throughout the Kerbin system.

I get it. Yay!

Announcement: Today(January 7th, 2019), I just wanted to share something with you all. On May 5th, 2018 @Alpha 360 sent @obney kerman, @VelocityPolaris, and me the original PM that started the Newbie Central thread. I have not obtained permission from Alpha to copy that PM here, because I think that he's lost in the horribleness that is Real Life*, especially around the holidays. If I do obtain permission, I will edit that PM in here. Everybody give a big shoutout to @Alpha 360 for graciously giving me permission to copy the above PM to the thread! As you can see, at that time I had(and still do have) a habit of posting on small-scale threads to encourage the newbies to keep going, because I knew that getting encouragement helps people to keep writing. I’ll let that PM speak for itself. Anyway, we had some questions about where it should go. We asked some mods (namely @Vanamonde, and Senõr luizopiloto), and they both said the Gameplay questions and tutorials sub-forum. You might be wondering why a clearly challenge related thread should go in Gameplay Questions. Well, that's because originally it was not obviously challenge focused. Originally we wanted it to be a place where newbies could post their mission reports, with us doing "challenge missions" once a week, with the goal being for the newbies to "1-up" us. People could post anything they wanted at any time, as long as they were below the rep limit (originally intended to be 500). Over the first few days, we decided that the "mini-challenges" should be the main focus of the thread. On May 7th, 2018, the original thread was posted. (It would have been earlier, but I ran into some issues trying to get the picture for the base "base".) @cratercracker, the wonderful artist and generous soul he is made our original badge. It looked like this1, for those who do not know. We carried on for a few weeks, posting challenges, discussing what we should do next, and generally falling into a routine of sorts. On May 9th, @Alpha 360 created our original Discord sever. That same day, I came up with the idea for a schedule2. @Alpha 360 helped me improve on it, and we stuck to it. On May 25th, @Alpha 360 announced that @Lucast0909 had come up with Tier 2-X medals3 for the challenge enters, and wanted to "join the crew"4. I already knew this, as I and @Lucast0909 are friends in real life. Anyway, Alpha had already approved @Lucast0909 joining the team, and everybody else did too. At that point, our team had 5 members. We continued to carry on for a few months. On June 11, 2018, @doggonemess joined the team. It was perfect timing, as @Alpha 360 would be out of town for his next challenge, so @doggonemess was available to do that challenge. Our team now had six people. Both of our new additions would prove to be valuable additions to the team. With the addition of @doggonemess, we now had two skilled medal-makers5. About a month later, on August 11, 2018, @Alpha 360, announced that he was going to cede control of the thread to me. I was surprised, honored, and confused. Here is some of the conversation that went on after @Alpha 360 made his announcement. My quote. @obney kerman's quote. @doggonemess's quote. We agreed to do one last challenge before closing the thread. We had some questions with the new medals, and we decided to go with mission patches. We wondered what to do for the last challenge and eventually decided on a base on another planet. Then we had @Alpha 360 change the title of the thread to indicate that is was closed, handed out the last medals, and began to start working on the Micro-Challenges thread. We worked out a schedule, I assigned some duties to get the pictures for the thread's OP, and I began to work on the post. For some reason, I ended up writing most of the OP on my phone. We posted the thread, and life continued on as normal for a while. On October 18th, 2018, @Lucast0909 resigned his art commissions, being busy with other things that needed his expertise. We were down to one artist out of the 5 of us. On October 28th, 2018, because @VelocityPolaris had not participated for a while, I checked his profile for his last visit date. It read as Oct. 13th, and the "last read" date at the top of our PM thread read September 1st. I decided to declare him officially MIA. He had declared a few weeks before that he was shipping out to college, and I can only conclude, that, like @Alpha 360, he has been lost to the horror that is known as Real Life. If he ever comes back out of the rabbit hole, he is welcome to re-join the team. We're keeping his spot warm. Somewhat ironically, our team now has as many members as it started with, even though we gained two members over the course of the thread. Due to declining traffic on the thread, on December 7th, 2018, we decided to re-structure the thread to keep all the challenges open, so as to encourage participation. Anyway, the reason I wanted to share this with you, is because traffic on the thread has declined to almost zero. I think this is partly due to the holidays, and partly due to the fact that the thread has slipped to the second page. This took me a bit to write, because of RL concerns mostly, and getting permission to copy PMs. I started writing this January 5th, 2018, to celebrate the 7-month anniversary of the thread. It took 2 days for me to finish writing this post. 7 months isn't particularly special, but I think that people really like this idea, and will participate if they see it. I think that the original concept that @Alpha 360 had was great and that people really loved, and still do. So, I'm posting this to give everybody a reminder of how this all started. Just as I friendly reminder, all challenges are now open, and I shall soon be putting all of their medals in the thread OP, next to their titles in the Challenge Index. We also have a Discord server here: https://discord.gg/KNercYn. Pop on and chat with other Micro-Challengers! I am active on there often, so pop in, share some challenges, and look at some of the entries! * Originally typed as Real Lice. 1. 2. 3. A sample of @Lucast0909's work. 4. Apparently, we're like a gang. 5. A sample of @doggonemess's work. Thank you all for reading, --Kerbalstar

Looking good @Vanamonde and @MaverickSawyer!

Yay! Congrats everybody, including @Gargamel!

Umm... This still appears to be in KSP discussion. Just so you know.

I agree! Maybe a chapter right at midnight?

Yup! And a great challenge did you make!

Looks like fun @5thHorseman! Didn't you just say this in my thread... I'll try this... I'll be back...

Yay! Moar soon!

Wonderful @Ultimate Steve! But... You forget to change the thread title. When is moar coming?

Thanks!

Thanks!

Which one would you say is the hardest, and which one is the easiest? I might adapt something, now that you suggest it... (What I originally meant was to do this with the one where you build a stock helicopter. I couldn’t even get a pre-built one of the ground(although I’m sure I could if I read the instructions... ), so that idea didn’t pan out, but I still look foward to doing this challenge!) Very nice challenge @Klapaucius!