No HUD Challenge

[bobston314]

So, this is the first time I've ever posted, so this *may* not be a terribly good post. I'm also a relatively new KSP player, so I didn't do any of the harder challenges, nor know whether or not they are possible.

As the title suggests, this challenge is about having no heads-up-display. F2 I believe is the default key.

Rules: no cheats, visual mods are fine, info mods are fine (e.g. Kerbal Engineer Redux), I'm not sure whether in-flight assistants (MechJeb) work with no HUD. Stock Parts only. Anything that alters stuff in flight (FAR) preferably no. 

Build your craft. Action groups are probably important with the lack of HUD. Before liftoff, you can do whatever (turn on SAS, transfer crew, fly a plane into your craft, i dunno) but when you start liftoff, there must be no HUD. The only time you can get your HUD back is when you've completed the mission. 

Going into  map mode is allowed. Map mode probably will provide you with valuable information about your periapsis, apoapsis, altitude and velocity.

[i don't think I'm missing anything, am I?]

Really, seriously too easy: Get into space.

Very easy: Get into orbit (PE>70 km)

Easy: Get into orbit, and come back and land (and survive the landing).

Medium: Get into either a mun or minmus intercept

Hard: Land on either the mun or minmus, then come home

Very hard: Land on Duna, then come home

No, this is not possible: Do a flyby of the mun, then land on Laythe, then  get into low Eve orbit, send another craft (also without HUD) to dock with this craft, escape Eve, get into kerbin orbit, land on the mun, then come home. Jump out of the spacecraft before it reaches 1km altitude when coming back, and use the jetpack to survive (i recently found out that it is possible to land a kerbal like that). Land within 50 km of the KSC.

There's no ranking, do the challenge just for the fun of it.

Edit: Here's my screenshots of the easy challenge, with an extremely overkill craft. There's not a lot of screenshots, though. 

http://imgur.com/a/MJ1BJ

2nd Edit: Someone notified me that there is a navball in the IVA. My intention was to have a lack of information, so no IVA please.

 

Edited December 14, 2015 by bobston314

[Speeding Mullet]

Hi there, Welcome to the forums!  You will find many helpful and enthusiastic people here willing to help, guide and lend a hand.  Couple of tips as you start out your journey:

It may be a good idea to read the challenge guidelines before posting a challenge.  This challenge is for the most part easily achievable using only the map without the HUD, and visual without the HUD for landings. there's no scoring or ranking system which makes the challenge somewhat vacant of joy or achievement, and really no way to prove that someone hasn't used the HUD in their challenge entry anyway.

If you are "too lazy" to create an imgur account or figure out how to post photos then many people may not be willing to try your challenge on the grounds that you may also be too lazy to apply the rules or generally administer the challenge in a useful way.  This may not be a correct assumption, but perception is important in a challenge OP.

It might be a good idea also to browse through some of the other challenges (if you are not too lazy ) and maybe even try some well known challenges.  People are much more willing to try a challenge from a well respected member of the forum, or a challenge from someone less known as long as it is well thought out.  I've made many posts here, but I still haven't developed a challenge well thought out enough to consider posting.

Any questions let me know, happy to help out people new to the forums.  Just have a thorough browse around the forums in general and you'll get an idea of this wonderful place and people.  Then perhaps have another crack at making this a challenge.

SM

Edited December 9, 2015 by Speeding Mullet

[Endevours]

On 12/7/2015, 10:04:00, bobston314 said:

No, this is not possible: Do a flyby of the mun, then land on Laythe, then  get into low Eve orbit, send another craft (also without HUD) to dock with this craft, escape Eve, get into kerbin orbit, land on the mun, then come home. Jump out of the spacecraft before it reaches 1km altitude when coming back, and use the jetpack to survive (i recently found out that it is possible to land a kerbal like that). Land within 50 km of the KSC.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED (landing a kerbal with the jetpack IS EXTREMELY EASY, as well as everything else)

[bobston314]

On 12/8/2015, 7:05:14, Speeding Mullet said:

This challenge is for the most part easily achievable using only the map without the HUD,

Really? Because there's no navball, so good luck executing maneuvers. I suppose you could maneuver each individual component (pro/retro, nor/antinor, rad/antirad) but then, I wouldn't say that's easy.

By the way, I appreciate the feedback and the welcome! 

[A35K]

Can I suggest banning map mode as well, to make it even harder? With map mode it is still relatively easy.

[absprouse]

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Because there's no navball, so good luck executing maneuvers

There is a navball in the cockpit

[bobston314]

Oh. Right. My intention was to give a lack of information during the flight, including the navball. I banned IVA in an edit.