Toaster355

That orbital tug looks pretty familiar...

August 17th, 2014 Ares 8 | Kibo Exposed Facility _____________________ Bob: "See you soon, '8!" A Jupiter 130 heads into space with no Orion, instead carrying one of the final Freedom components; the Kibo Exposed Facility. The crew of Ares 8 eagerly wait to follow it into orbit in a couple hours. The protective fairing of Jupiter detaches from the vehicle, exposing the payload to the vacuum of space. Mounted to a modified Orion SM, KES carries another addition to the station; miniRAV, mounted to the very front of the stack. miniRAV will manipulate scientific payloads for the Kibo Science Facility. ____________________ After a couple rendezvous burns, the spacecraft slowly crawls towards the largest Kerbal-made object in space. Once parked by Kibo, RAV 2 swiftly leaves her spot on the station to attach to KES. Once attached, the Service Module is ditched. RAV 2 guides KES onto the grapple fixture on Kibo, where they will wait for the crew of Ares 9. _____________________ August 17th, 2014 Ares 9 _____________________ Commander Carbert Kline Pilot Neilbald Baker Mission Specialist Jesdas Dunn Payload Specialist Bob Koch _____________________ Bob: "Here we come, '8!" _____________________ After a couple hours and a few rendezvous burns, the crew of Ares 9 draws nears the massive orbital outpost. Jesdas: "Ground, we've got a good hard capture up here. Great to be back. I really wish Digee could've been here with us." _____________________ RAV 2 is fired back into life as it manipulates KES back to behind Kibo. Jesdas leaves the airlock and rushes to payload. She draws her electric drill and permanently attaches KES to the station. Many cables are attached as well for sharing power and such. _____________________ Jesdas returns to Freedom, where her and her crew head to bed, just as they pass behind the planet, concluding Ares 8 and their day. _____________________ Remember when I was apologizing for being inactive for only a week? Heh... I'm sorry if you all were underwhelmed. I have never been in less of a Kerbal mood these past couple months, and still might not be for more. However, no matter how much of a Kerbal mood I am in, I will NEVER abandon this thread. I will keep going until I accomplish my final goal... Thanks for Reading!

I am so sorry for the wait!!! Ares 8/9 will be finished and out tomorrow or Sunday

I'm sorry for overpromising and underdelivering a couple weeks ago The flights will be out soon, hopefully not in 2 weeks again! Also, a bit of an embarrassing question... Why the hell are my profile pictures so low-res once uploaded??? How do I fix this???

Dammit, Discord! Does this mean we have to replace every image we used Discord for in the past with Imgur?

That is really strange; I can't see the pics in my signature either, but I can see the Ares 8 + 9 teaser. I'll try re-uploading and replacing them all in a bit.

Ares 8 + 9 Soon THANK YOU FOR TOTM AGAIN! ____________________ Happy late Valentina day! I know, It's been almost 2 months since my last post here. I was just suffering from some massive burnout and the forums pooped the bed. However, I am attempting to heal from it and you can expect the next post within a week; and now you can look forward to 1440p screenshots going forward!

Yeah, that's true. Cheap HOTAS' don't have nearly as many buttons, let alone hat switches, for proper combat. However, and I'm not sure if you know this or not, but you can use the shift, ctrl, and alt keys to more than triple the keybinds you can have on your HOTAS! that way you can still keep your hands on your it most of the time, only reaching for the keyboard to press modifiers. As for the landing tips... I'm thinking we can get each others' Discords and fly together! It will be easier to help you out if we are both communicating in real time, and we can dogfight each other and stuff. But it's up to you I'm just toaster355.

Wait, are you not flying with a HOTAS? I do NOT recommend flying with a mouse and keyboard; even a 30 dollar stick or 70 dollar HOTAS will do the job infinitely better than a keyboard. For the keybinds not working, I'm not sure. Though I will add that the brakes on combat jets like Hornets are quite ineffective compared to many civilian planes, as they are only designed for landing on long military runways or trapping on carriers and you may not be used that.

Yeah, that is pretty strange. It didn't notify me either when Freedom was nominated in December or DIRECT this month. I only discovered that I was nominated in December when @Kerbalsaurus and @TwoCalories congratulated me in both of my threads (thank you again, guys!), and now when I looked at my DIRECT thread and saw "totm feb 2024" near the top.

Oh, sweet! I'm about to start learning the Strike Eagle. I'd love to help you though Nope, not a mistake, haha. As realistic as the manuals are, I don't think I've ever used them; I imagined they are a pain to search through, and you seem to have confimed that. Watching videos is just an easier way to learn the modules you fly (especially 60 second tutorials, gosh people that make those are saints) and that's what I've been doing for years.. Good job. we were indeed getting off topic but you made the right call.

Thank you again! I knew you would, haha. You would LOVE the DCS F/A-18C module if you're willing to learn it. Not sure if I'm gonna keep it though, as I'm still toying with a new profile picture.

Congrats to all you talented winners! And THANK YOU all so much again!!! Very glad you all still care about and enjoy my work here! I'm aware I've been gone for over a month now. But don't worry, I've almost finished healing from my intense burnout and I will make a comeback soon.

Yeah... I feel the exact same way. Just not really in a Kerbal mood (especially how dreadfully long the load times are and how horribly optimized the first game is compared to a sim like DCS (even Super Mario 64 even feels like it was more optimized than KSP), even with a pretty fast computer like mine), and the forums have decided die recently, which is a horrible combo for us mission reporters. Hopefully the Kerbal drive will eventually return. Happy 2024 though, everyone!

Yeah, it was a bit expensive to pay for the HOTAS, TrackIR, PC upgrades, and modules. But trust me, yes! There are many, many multiplayer servers and many different things to learn in each module. I've had a ton of fun learning and flying in the past year.