Kerbal Bowl-o-rama!

[dbmorpher]

It's the first ever KSC BOWL-O-RAMA!!!

Grab your nearest polyester sphere and head down to the SPH!

Everybody, Everybody! It's the Bowl-o-rama!

What does that mean you ask?

It means it's time to KNOCK DOWN SOME PINS

Challenge

There are 10 pins located west of the runway and you get to RUN 'EM OVER

How To

Download the Bowl-o-rama file and place it in the saves folder of your KSP folder

Build any vehicle that is capable of knocking over the bowling pins behind the runway

Take a screenshot of your vehicle on the runway

Take a screenshot of your vehicle on the way to the pins

Take a screenshot of what remains of your vehicle after the impact

Score yourself and share on this thread!

Location

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Scoring

Number of pins knocked down * 10,000

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Mass * Width * Length * Height of Vehicle * Number of Pin Debris Left

=

Your total score!

Scoreboard

1. juzeris - 16,600

2. Kerdinand - 3,350

3. Kuzzter - 15.7

4. Montosoy9 - 3.91

5. dbmorpher - 0.336

My Attempt

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My Score

10*10,000/(32.2*3*29.7*20.8*5) = 0.336

Good Luck and Good Bowling!

Edited March 20, 2015 by dbmorpher

[Yukon0009]

Interesting challenge

[Mister Dilsby]

Fun! Can you recommend a consistent way for us all to measure length, width and height of the craft?

[noorm]

Fun! Can you recommend a consistent way for us all to measure length, width and height of the craft?

As reported in the craft file?

[Mister Dilsby]

As reported in the craft file?

Ah, I never knew that information was there! Ok, building...

[Othuyeg]

I hope mods are allowed.

[Guest]

Nice challenge! I think I will submit an entry. Maybe you should add a list of allowed/prohibited mods. Because I think f.e. Adjustable landing gears or Kerbal Foundries would be OK, while Hyperedit or Alt+F12(I know its no mod) should be forbidden.

[Mister Dilsby]

Here is the oh-so-cleverly-named Ball One:

...size paramter= 4.07m * 4.39m * 4.73m * 15.5t = 1309.9 t*m3

Releasing the shrapnel cloud...

Destruction: TOTAL!

I did not include a picture of the Ball post-impact because no parts survived other than the litter of structural pylons.

Score: 10pins/1309.9t*m3 = .00763

[Guest]

Here´s my entry:

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Bowler: I hit 5 pins, and my craft was 4,8 tons heavy, 5m long, 8m width and 1,8m high. That gives me a score of (5x10000)/(4,8x8x5x1,8)=250000/1728=144,6759259 points.

I really liked the shrapnell idea, so I made bowler 2. If multiple entries are allowed, this is my favourite.

Bowler 2: I hit 8 pins, and my craft was 4,9t heavy, 3,8m long, 8m width and 1,9m high. Score: (8x10000)/(4,9x8x1,9x3,8)=5000000/17689=282,6615411 points.

I really hope we are allowed to submit multiple entries, as this was real fun and I have so much further ideas!

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Also, I think we should multiple our final score with 10,000 or so, so the numbers get out of the decimals.

Edited March 20, 2015 by Guest

[dbmorpher]

The multiples thing sounds good

All points are now multiplied by TEN THOUSAND

Dimensions of your craft can be found by pressing the "i" icon in the SPH

Most mods are allowed, cheats probably wouldn't help but I could be proven wrong (unbreakable joints makes the pins indestructible)

I'll update the scoreboard now but I am considering adding a special category for most outlandish method of destruction, what do you guys think?

[Guest]

Most outlandish sounds awesome! I´ll update the points in my post.

[Guest]

I´m sorry for spamming entries, but I got extremly good in this challenge: Have a look at bowler3:

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The extrem small size makes the points extremly high:

I hit 4 pins, mass was 0,9t, length 1,7m, width 0,6 and height 1,3. That gives me a total score of (4x10000)/(0,9x0,6x1,3x1,7)=33518 points! Awesome!

[Montosoy9]

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Edited January 18, 2022 by Montosoy9
Fixing the gallery

[Guest]

Type [ imgur ] insert here the numbers/letters between the last slash and the #, in your case G8jcu [ /imgur ] and leave the spaces away.

Looks like this then:

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Nice attempt! I didn´t even thought about flying!

Edited March 20, 2015 by Guest

[Mister Dilsby]

Been experimenting with tiny, high velocity craft--yeah, just hitting a couple of pins results in a huge score.

OP might consider varying the points based on a strict definition of pin destruction, e.g. full points if none of it is left standing, partial if the top is knocked off or the bottom is destroyed but the top settles in place, etc?

[Montosoy9]

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Edited January 18, 2022 by Montosoy9

[juzeris]

Yeah, the scoring does seem a bit biased towards small craft.

I just did a run with an eeny weeny craft - 0.4t at 1.0*0.6*0.5m, miraculously hit two pins (I think I clipped through some) - one is usual, two was very good, and I get

166 666 points

Feels a bit excessive.

Used MechJeb for targeting, no other mods or console.

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[dbmorpher]

Ok scoring will now be changed to

10,000 * Number of Pins Knocked Down

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Mass * Volume * Amount of Pin Debris Left

Any incapabilities of the scoring system is my fault so I'll update the scores myself

However I'm only going to list your highest scoring attempt if you have multiple entries

[Montosoy9]

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Edited January 18, 2022 by Montosoy9

[FlipNascar]

So the score is terrible because the "ball" is such a bloater.... Although depending on how the rules want to be interpreted there are two possible scores. Neither of them are any good, but it was fun just to do it. Could probably a) use smaller balls use less balls c) another run with better piloting would help and d) after ball release go kamikaze on it.

6 pins, 11 pieces of pin debris left.

Total Vehicle Calculation: 6x10,000/(55.2*3.5*10.4*12.5*11) = 0.22

"Balls" Only calc: Parts calc: 16 Balls at ((2.3*1.2*1.2*2)*16)=105.984; 60,000/(105.984*11) = 51.46

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Here's the "ball" by itself