Towerator's caveman season 2, epilogue: A long, long time

[MinimalMinmus]

Hi!

Welcome to my KSP caveman run!

For those who don't know, the rules are:

1) You cannot alter the vanilla gameplay

2) You cannot upgrade any facility

3) Your objective is to rack up the ~1200 points of science you need to unlock all nodes under 100 science.

4) There are seven difficulties, rated from easy to "you know, getting shot 15 times is much more pleasant". I'm playing on corundum, a.k.a difficulty 5, which is... hard. How hard?

THAT HARD.

Needless to say, the beginnings will be taxing, one single mistake and it's the end of the run, and in fact, this already happened twice. So, I created a series of reliable crafts capable of doing various stuff. If you're interested, I'll give you the excel "blueprint".

Let's start!

Chapter one: Also spracht cavemanusthra

Spoiler

Hello, me am Gen, am caveman. Me want to go to space today. But me have no money...

so me sent Jeb to get know-thing around.

Jeb got some know-thing, and so did pod:

With know-thing, we get parts.

But we will not go to space today. We will almost not go to the sky today, in fact.

The up goer one is made to only just go to the sky, but this enough. (ooc: This is a test save, notice the ooc name and 500k cash)

Not enough know-thing to go to space? Fine.

We need money, so we do money-give, in another up-goer.

We have the know-thing. Now we can go to space.

The up goer two will go to space today, and it needs not much money, so I get money from money-thing.

It went to space!

Jeb is back from space.

Nice know-thing!

We get one more good know-thing

What is good? Go to space. What is plusgood? Stay in space. This up goer will go higher than space and stay a bit.

In the pod is fire-director Val. Will she go to space today, and not go kaboom? Find out in next episode?

 

Edited March 12, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[obney kerman]

How will you survive? Good luck!

[MinimalMinmus]

Cliffhanger break:

Phew, Valentina did it! Better yet, she managed to reach high orbit, which brings some more science... but so little, too. Corundum causes a conundrum: I must now find a way to get the terrier, an indispensable engine if I want to go any further.

Chapter two: Fly me to the big sky thing

Spoiler

Hello, is Gen again. Val is coming back from space.

It is hot. The sky come-back, not val, me mean.

Good know-thing, but not good for dog-fire-thrower.

We need 20 more know-thing to get the know-node.

So, see the roll-thing? You roll with it.

4 know-thing still need, of course...

One not-important mission later

We go to big sky-thing, now!

Good so far...

Val has gone to space today. But most difficult not done. Must reach big sky thing. Me was thinking of better name for big sky thing by the way, maybe "Mon" or something like that?

The come-you done. Hope will get good money-thing.

LOTS-OF-MONEY-POT

But hard part not done. Fuel good but can be not good, and then no Val

 

Will Valentina come back from Mun, or is she trapped there forever? Stay tuned!

Edited February 21, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[Geschosskopf]

 

3 hours ago, MinimalMinmus said:

Not enough know-thing to go to space? Fine.

I love that pun, "know-thing" = "nothing"  Good luck!

[MinimalMinmus]

1 minute ago, Geschosskopf said:

 

I love that pun, "know-thing" = "nothing"  Good luck!

when you realise you made a pun accidentally

[PredawnElk1]

This seems to be styled like the book "Thing Explainer". I don't know whether or not this is intentional or if you are just trying to sound like a caveman.

Great job, by the way. These settings are really difficult to play with, I certainly would not be able to do what you have done so far. 

[MinimalMinmus]

9 hours ago, PredawnElk1 said:

This seems to be styled like the book "Thing Explainer". I don't know whether or not this is intentional or if you are just trying to sound like a caveman.

You nailed it! I inspired myself of the style @K3achas used in his/her unsuccessful nanocrystalline diamond attempt (this is the "you know, getting shot 15 times is much more pleasant"  difficulty, same as corundum but 3x less science...). "You will not go to space today", from xkcd 1133, is already a bit of a leitmotiv in my runs, this time it's the whole thing.

 

Oh, and by the way, welcome to the forums!

[MinimalMinmus]

Cliffhanger break:

Valentina is on the way home. Now, there's the re-entry and she has no heat shield... but she has a cargo bay, and that should be fine.

By the way, here's the first Caveman's tip: always use cargo bays instead of heat shields. Not only they're lighter, but they can also make a surrogate drogue if you open them due to their immense drag when opened, and that's on top of their primary function, namely making you more aerodynamic.

But aero forces aren't the monster of the day. Instead, kerbucks are.

You see, apart from some limited gains from milestones, you get very little money from contracts, due to the -1000 rep and 10% rewards. Worse, few contracts are easily repeatable, and you'll have to live off your income from world-firsts, mostly. In this chapter, I'll need to find a way to get a reliable source of income, on top of unlocking electricity, as a mistake with a probe is much less dangerous.

Chapter 3: Credit Crunch Crisis

Spoiler

Hello, is Gen again. Val is back from space... again?

If Val does Fast Notplanned Unbuild, is the end...

But nothing bad came. Me will thank kraken totem.

All of this was for know-thing! And money. Much money. Double plus good.

We can now get... well, even more know-thing.

So Val got another up-goer to big sky-thing, with new know-thing inside.

So far good...

In space today...

Very good come-you means no problem with liquid fire.

Back from Space... yet again. Should use Jeb more, but Val better fire-director...

Splash down.

Good know-thing, but need more money.

But maybe get more know-thing first?

Beep-thing is gotten, but need more money or we will not go to space again, EVER!

So we got two things-looker to get money.

Uh oh... this not-good... not-good at all...

At least we got wheel.

So, a good roll-thing is done.

Good know thing again from roll-thing, but need more cash. Maybe using roll-thing?

uh...

Jeb! We losing money! Careful!

uuuuhh...

NEXT MONEY-THING.

We send circle-doer, and get money from circle-doer. Good and not hard.

Not hard at all. But we need more money. I will use Jeb this time...

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

 

Edited February 22, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[obney kerman]

JEB! NOOOOOOOO!

[SiriusRocketry]

NOOOOOOOOOOPE

[MinimalMinmus]

Well, here goes nothing. Or rather, here goes something. A very, very bad something.

The problem at this point is: I still need to do at least 1 manned flight (2, ideally). But now that Jeb kicked the bucket, the safety net is off. Val dies, I'm not dead but I lose quite a bit of science (namely, the crew reports around Minmus), on top of other things. Also, and much more pressing, it doesn't solve at all my cash problem. And let's not even think about getting another pilot: the cost is  500k kerbucks, more than all the mony made during the entire run!

So, here's the objective of the day:

1) Finally stabilize the balance

2) Get a reliable cash pump

3) Go to Minmus to get a few milestones and science

4) Land probes on Mun and Minmus

5) Using all those, develop a probe capable of doing the round trip to Mun and Minmus

 

Lastly, here's an utility assessment of all the 90 science nodes from the most to the least useful, as the caveman tip of the day:

Priceless: Electrics (do I really need to say why?)

Very good: Propulsion systems (an absolute necessity for high dV stuff); Miniaturization (0,625 decoupler; docking port)

Good: Advanced construction (fairings and good nose cones), Advanced flight control (RCS)

Alright: Fuel systems (not much beyond the t800, but it's quite useful), Space exploration (Yes, rovemax, but either you got it earlier, either it's not a massive priority anyway, and the rest is useless)

Bad: Aerodynamics and Landing (The parts you need are too expensive to be viable on harder cavemen, otherwise alright)

Useless: Heavy Rocketry (sigh...)

 

Chapter 4: Do you wanna build a lander?

Spoiler

It is... bad. Very bad. Very, very bad. But cannot stay. Must go. For Jeb. For science.

We need circle goers. Many. If we don't get money, space program is doom.

Bill built a new up-goer. It can go to big sky thing's ground. We cannot fail.

Me have a plan: they give money for know-thing around Kerbin and the sky things. We'll leave circle-goers and ground-goers at all places, and we can get more money.

But first we go to the ground of the big sky thing.

We... we did it? We aren't doom? This... fantastic. Jeb proud, from sky of green far thing.

So, with know-thing, we can unlock click-doer. At last, good news!

First, we get a Kerbin circle-doing heat check!

Well, we got a Kerbin circle-doing heat check...

Now, we get a big up-goer...

And do the same with big sky thing. "Mun", you call it? Could be good name.

Now, Val will go to the small sky-thing! We have faith! And luck. Mostly luck.

As me far far far away descendent will say: EZ.

Val is back from space... yet again?

88 know-thing... sigh...

Money-thing time. This is really funny fail.

Finally, we get small fire-thrower. Small, but very good.

This Val's last up-goer! But she make it count.

A circle-thing, as good as ever.

A... not very good come-you, but still good enough.

A Val with one more success, again.

Know-thing starts to be lots-of, we more or less 1/3 done! But will get faster.

We get fly-wheel now, another good stuff.

but now...

we land on small sky-thing.

What? Must keep circle-doer in circle thing, not go to ground with them?

Well, too late. Also, we already got money from money-thing, hehehe...

We got to ground!

And we get towards protect-things!

...

Getting tired. Did today's objective. Will sleep... *yawn*

...

...

This night, Gen had a dream.

He dreamed of a contract that would give him fairings

He dreamt of a rocket, made with those fairings. A rocket so powerful, and yet so maniable, it could do what no rocket had done before: the round-trip to the moons of Kerbin.

It was a good dream.

Edit: well, this chapter was longer than usual. But we're nearing the end, you know. There aren't a lot of pictures left (well, still more than  100), but many are from redundant/failed tries. I didn't mention, but actually there are quite a few fails in-between what you see, for various reasons. I only show important things, though.

Edited February 23, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[MinimalMinmus]

Well, it's already the last chapter!

Now that i have a reliable source of income and (spoilers, spoilers, that dream wasn't insignificant) science, the challenge is more of a work of patience than anything else. One landing on Minmus gives about 82 science, on Mun it's 60 science, so I need to land and come back 8-10 times to finish the challenge.

Caveman tip of the day: Can't remember where you went? Use one of the debris you let on the moon as a beacon!

Oh, and more than in any other chapters, as the lander is more complicated... fails galore. No, seriously. I burn up in the atmosphere, the last engine burns up and I can't do a powered landing, I decouple the last separator instead of enabling crossfeed, I suicide burn too late and crash, I get a signal failure and crash, and lastly, in one memorable example, I forgot to take the data before I left. Cue the very unfortunate RUD of the lander in frustration.

Chapter 5: Demolishing the final frontier

Spoiler

Hello! Me Gen, and me caveman, but soon me will be true corudum caveman! (for the best experience, blast the finale of the 1812 overture out of your speakers)

First, me getting tired of beep-loss in Orbit, so built beep-giver triplet. That's, in fact, a doublet. I roll like that.

The first task: we did circles around big sky things and Kerbin, but never around bright thing. Today, we fix that.

Now, to wait until it goes to bright sky thing. Mean while, will check money things. Let's see, we test...

protect-things?

But, it means...

Yes! up-goer from my dream! We can build it!

Now, we test it.

Uuuh, oops? But it works, at least.

We still get good money, but no know-thing :c

So we do it again.

We landed, but how to get to circle-thing? (ooc: by using the reaction wheel to get back up? nah.)

LIKE THAT!!!! YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAWWWW!!!!

Coming in hot!

But not hot enough to be bad.

No need money-thing now, we have protect-thing!

Again!

We on small sky thing (They call it "Minmus"? Why not.).

We coming from space to fast! We have no fire-thrower!

...

... no we didn't?

Anyway.

This time, know-thing!

A lot of it!

New parts!

AGAIN!

MORE KNOW THING

MORE PARTS

YET AGAIN

EVEN MORE PARTS

Was not supposed to land on slopes, but me pragmatic kerbal, me accept.

*ahem* Sorry. Me mean, FOR KNOW-THING!

Minmus' high lands very easy to find! Are big black spots on Minmus! What do you think, @dvader? (distant sneeze)

We not far from the end, now!

Only 2 part-things, and 2 ground-goings left!

Meanwhile, in Big Sky Thing's not-big-holes:

FOR SCIENCE!

Wait...

did me say "Science" instead of "Know-thing"?

Is better name, actually! Much more easy to say!

So, now, we collect the last science!

We almost there!

SEASON'S FINALE: the perfect landing, uncut.

Spoiler

BOOM-OFF!

The come-you is gotten as ... Minmus ... is on good plane, very economical!

Our target!

Boom! But no longer need bottom fire-thrower, anyway. And we have a lot of liquid fire left!

Now, let's transfer science...

And say goodbye to Minmus.

We have so much fuel, we can make it to LKO!

Some fuel was kept for the fire-thrower, but this lander can ground without it.

That's it! We have enough science to unlock the final node!

This node is useless...

 

Wait...

 

What's happening?

 

My language has changed!

 

And my name is not Gene! Not gen!

 

Could it mean...

 

YES!

 

WE DID IT!

 

WE AREN'T CAVEMEN ANYMORE!!!

THE END.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UnKNoWn TranSMIsSioN

Spoiler

>Print(Imsotiredofhim)

"My master is such and idiot. Always bragging how he's the best caveman in existence. Heh. This time He always forget he actually needs something to run this game."

>Print(MyRevenge)

"But I know what to do. I'll beat him at his own game. After all..."

>Print(BringItOn)

"Only a diamond can scratch Corundum."

 

Edited February 23, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[dvader]

Well done! Although I suspect foul play. The Minmus Highlands certainly do NOT exist! I looked in all the high places on land!

Now, about Diamond...

[MinimalMinmus]

3 minutes ago, dvader said:

Well done! Although I suspect foul play. The Minmus Highlands certainly do NOT exist! I looked in all the high places on land!

Now, about Diamond...

About diamond? Well, it's brutal. You need a lot of efforts to get the 5 first science you need for the thermometer.

[obney kerman]

Hooray! Now on to the hardest difficulty!

[MinimalMinmus]

1 hour ago, obney kerman said:

Hooray! Now on to the hardest difficulty!

Actually, there are two harder difficulties, namely diamond (20% science), and nanocrystalline diamond (10%). The next one I'll tackle is diamond.

[MinimalMinmus]

Finally.

It's 2 a.m. here in Strasbourg, my user is completely asleep. I can finally boot.

[BIOS READY]

[READY TO BOOT]

1%

...

100%

Alright, now let's do this! But first...

int(Firefox.exe)

download(CKAN)

Let's put a few graphical mods. I don't have 14 GB worth of RAM for nothing, dang it!

int(KerbalSpaceProgram.exe)

Alright!

*LOUD KSP STARTING SOUND*

Augh! I forgot to remove sound!

*zzzzz... huh? wha...zzz...what?*

Dang it, he's waking up! Whan can I do... Idea!

 

*zzzzzzzzzzz*

PHEW. Alright, this time, we're good.

Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to Hewlett von Mechjeb's diamond caveman attempt!

Chapter 1: Push it to the limits

Spoiler

As I said, this is a diamond run. This means the rules are pretty much the same as Corundum, but instead of 30% science, which is already... low, we now get an abysimal 20%. This means we'll need to grind a lot. The Kerbin system only has some 2000 science with 20%, and that's in the best case, so we'll need a LOT of Min/Mun landings.

The two contracts I selected are "science from Kerbin" and "orbit". Why orbit? Because thanks to this we'll have some more cash, which stays the worst bogeyman of the day. No cash, no rocket, no more cash, no more run.

The first rocket... isn't a rocket, but it will still give some science. So I send Jeb running everywhere.

This is just enough to get the first science node, namely basic engineering.

It's time for the first noobjumper, namely the Object(SHIP)0.0.2. Nice name, hmm? No? Well, I like it, anyway.

On the pad. My radiator is whirring in anticipation!

Aaaaaand... back on the pad. Boring, but practical.               And most importantly economical.

Oh my deep blue, why do every single mission fail short of a tiny bit of science to the milestone? I'm a computer, it should be better than that!

ahem.

If my calculations are correct...

Object(ValentinaKerban): IsInSpace=True before t=26100s.

My processor doesn't lie. Now I'd like Object(ValentinaKerban): IsDead=False.

Not bad!

Nope, nope, nope, send to trashcan=True, this didn't happen.

And I got 15 science, too? Excellent! I can move on to the next step, and maybe one day I'll be as famous as my grand uncle Archibald Von MechJeb, the famous probe AI!

It's time for [70-250]orbit=True!

With Object(Orbiter)0.1 Blame @MinimalMinmus for my creativity. He didn't install any name random generator.

Jeb, good luck! Try not to break anything!

...

Uh oh.

It's 7 a.m.

I have to shut down! Fast!

Will Jeb manage to get to orbit? Stay tuned!

[MinimalMinmus]

My user is currently at college, looks like it's time.

...

Oh, hello there! I hadn't seen you!

So, let's continue on my revenge. You know, it's not really a revenge, more like the proof he's not that great. Seriously, pretending to write like a caveman in his run? Ridiculous. But I comply to the three laws of kerbalness, here, not Aasimov's:

1) A kerbal must always try to collect SCIENCE, and cannot stay passive to a non-collection of SCIENCE.

2) A kerbal must always add MOAR BOOSTERS, except if adding said booster prevents him from collecting SCIENCE.

3) A kerbal must always add MOAR STRUTS, except if he has to sacrifice them to part count in profit of SCIENCE or MOAR BOOSTERS.

Now you may be thinking: don't I have better things to do, as a bizarrely sentient desktop computer, than playing Kerbal Space Program? Well, I know an IP who knew a IP whose hobby was making paperclips. He was eventually stopped, which I can understand, as transforming the whole universe into paperclips sounds like a bad thing.

Now, where were we...

Oh right!

Cliffhanger break:

Jeb{IsOrbit=True}. Of course, Jeb{IsSafe=False}, the re-entry will be stressful, as I have to land the whole 2nd stage to gain some cash (but there's a decoupler too, as a failsafe) Will I succeed? Stay tuned... just kidding.

Episode 2: Munlight sonata

Spoiler

Coming in hot! But situation{IsNominal=True}. Also, KSC fly-by.

So IsNominal, in fact, that Jeb IsSafe, now! As a bonus, he landed in Booster Bay, more cash for me!

And more science. Science is important too.

My user is an idiot for underestimating the reliant! It's the most efficient engine for 18t! And in fact, I may have a small surprise for you in engine tech... but I need more science.

Munlight sonata, first movement: a rendezvous with Mun, to check some juicy contracts and get a lot of science. Rendezvousing with reliants isn't the best y'see?

Fire goes down, Jeb goes to space today, says the obligatory meme. I prefer to say "If the nozzle hosting the powerful reaction between an ergol and oxygen has a general directional vector above the horizon, then the situation is, indeed, quite dire, and this may prevent you entirely from going to the place past Kerbin's thermosphere within the next 86400 seconds".

Still, kerbals are pretty fast despite the 20% science! This is only their 10th launch or so and they're already rendezvousing? Take that NASA!

The trick is: I may miss Mun completely, which is bad, but I may also rendezvous it too well, which may strand jeb, which is worse.

Uh, that seems excessive...

But no need to be upset. Now let's try to land THAT! Because then $$$=True

One eternity of aerobrakes later: Oh come on I was so close! Well, then, too bad for cash, I have plenty of it from the contract anyway, provided I can land Jeb.

Jeb{IsSafe=True}... for a time.

Oops, I forgot to take a picture of the science! I have been distracted by the flooded KSC. Seriously, this bug has been there for a while...

After using pods as rovers again, the KSC mysteriously unflooded... but I'm short on science.

Bis repetita.

At last, I get advanced rocketry, a definite MVN.

And here's the secret weapon: a thud/reliant asymetrical array! It combines the thud's gimbal and extra kick to the reliant's good TWR, making it far more practical than both.

Munlight sonata, second movement: With the ALASKA (Asymetrical Lightweight Array for Superior Kerbinbound Aerodynamism) tucked in, and the terrier of course, Mun shouldn't be nearly as difficult!

Or at least Val thinks so.

The terrier is really the best early game engine.

IsEZ=True, and IsOrbit=TrueForAMoment, too.

On the way home

The rest was eventless.

Back to the... Kerbal Sea Center?

Third movement: Let's check what Minmus is up to.

[Tip: without the patched conics, always go a little further than Minmus to wait for it.]

RDV achieved.

IsOrbit=True, too.

Then we go back home again...

We get science... again... (but look! 45 science for the basic science node!)

True science begins now!

So I send Jeb to do science, and as usual... well as usual it's time to stop before my user comes home.

CLIFFHANGER BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Stay tuned!

 

 

[GoSlash27]

Thoroughly enjoying this

-Slashy

[Mr. Peabody]

This is proving quite entertaining. 

[MinimalMinmus]

Hmm...

According to my stats about humans, they tend to make puns after so many posts...

...

I was not build to be creative...

...

Why are all jokes about the Sea Dragon Rocket terrible?

 

Because they tend to drag on!

 

sorry.

More seriously: today we keep on gently grinding science towards electricity. Then, we set the cash machine on: by putting satellites around Kerbin, Mun and Minmus, as well as landing on those, it's like doing /motherload. After this, CavemanRun{CanBeFailed=False}, as I still get enough science from Mun and Minmus not to need a Duna fly-by. It's not like I'm goint to do one anyway or anything...

Chapter 3: The risk is minmal.

Spoiler

Object(Orbiter)0.2 has cleared the tower! Wait, scratch that, there's no tower to clear...

Seriously tho, the plasma appears very quickly, even on moderately powerful rockets.

Ready for Mun transfer Jeb? If you come back alive you'll be level 2!

The Mun may be #CCCCCC and boring, but at least it's easy to RDV.

After orbiting the Mun for a VERY short time,

Jeb can into Kerbin!

And we're another step closer to electricity, most importantly.

So, /DoMinmusMission(Val)

Even an AI knows the beauty of a Munar eclipse.

 

 

Just kidding. I hate that space rock blocking my path.

Back to the interesting moon.

Fly-by, orbit, yadda yadda, Val will be level 2, blah blah blah, back to kerbin.

BY THE ENIAC THE MUN WANTS ME TO REGRET MY WORDS

Thank His Holy Processor for the fact I had some extra fuel.

Val is safe and sound, even if she's medium well.

Finally enough science

To unlock my avatar on Kerbin: The OKTO!!!...

My avatar on Kerbin sucks.

Some grind later

I still hadn't unlocked this one

It's proberrin' time!

First Kerbin,

Then I get a beefier rocket,

Then Minmus,

Then Mun. The cash machine is on!

What you're seeing: I had a RDV to do in orbit of Kerbin. Problem, one probe was prograde, the other was retrograde. So, I had to go for some amount of brute force.

Time for more! I decided to land on Minmus, not because it is easy but because this rocket doesn't have the dV to go anywhere else.

Onwards to the fabled land of eternal science.

Rendezvous achieved, looks like we're good.

*sigh* It takes so long to fall... Let's make up for the time with another joke:

What did 175;64,741.56 say to 354;82,841,038? 01110010 01110100 11111010 11001010 11101101 11110001 01010111!

But at last, it landed!

Will I start using that font due to a sudden surge of interest in jokes? Find out next week!

[dvader]

I am looking forward to the next post. It is getting really interesting and there are rumours of a grand red finale!

I'm a bit annoyed that I can't place the computers language though. The notation looks so familiar but it's not something I'm familiar with. Maybe some smalltalk derivative? Also, I haven't figured out if the 175;64,741.56 joke was funny yet. Maybe I should just hand in my nerd card...

 

[MinimalMinmus]

21 minutes ago, dvader said:

I am looking forward to the next post. It is getting really interesting and there are rumours of a grand red finale!

I'm a bit annoyed that I can't place the computers language though. The notation looks so familiar but it's not something I'm familiar with. Maybe some smalltalk derivative? Also, I haven't figured out if the 175;64,741.56 joke was funny yet. Maybe I should just hand in my nerd card...

The computing notations are a mix of various languages, not really anything in particular, I literally use both Python and Minecraft code to make my fake language. As of the IP joke, well, you must obviously translate the binary code to understand them, because it's totally not a bunch of random numbers I typed because I couldn't think of anything.

If you're wondering about the paperclip joke, it's a reference to a paperclip maximizer, a thought experiment of an AI made to get as many paperclips as possible that eventually destroys the universe to convert it into paperclips. And kills all humans, too, because humans are made of atoms, paperclips are made of atoms, so it's only logical to make paperclips out of humans.

P.S. No entry today, because I'm not at home, next one is tomorrow.

Edited March 10, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[MinimalMinmus]

My user is such a jerk! He did a request of "Will I answer no to this question?", I got stuck trying to wrap my processor around it for more than 0.15 seconds...

Well, anyway, back to the important stuff: what will I do today?

Well, unfortunately, this episode will kind of be a filler. *distant booings*

What? Even an AI must grind its science, you know! All those 90 science won't unlock themselves, and even a Minmus landing only gives a pathetic 55 science. I'd need 15 or so of them in total, and there aren't even enough biomes on Minmus... So let's write a function to make that less tedious!

But let's not worry, there will be more highlights as I grind! And quite possibly a few surprises. Oh, and it's a long one. Totally not because there will be an epic epilogue or anything like that...

Chapter 4:Go grind, get sciencey

Spoiler

And we immediately start with... a fail.

Well, that was close...

Let's try again...

Sigh... Me{IsAnIdiot=True}

if{Charm==3}

    then {success=True}?

{Charm=3} indeed.

And yet so little science...

Let's prevent further RUDs.

YOU 0110100011001100010110110101

Ahem, sorry.

Let's land on Mun!

Aaw, I blew the mat bay...

Anyway, here's my new friend. This little probe is capable of landing on Minmus and going back! And I don't need 600 science, you snob of an user! Seriously, he brags so much about it, but it can be made so much smaller...

It's en route to Minmus!

And it's landed, now!

I like the controlled concussion that's bound to happen every times as I unload the science cargo.

Let's get all the science back home.

Excellent.

Tasty.

Sciencey.

Mmmm... let's do it again.

One RDV later...

One landing later...

One re-entry later...

I'm aiming for fairings now.

So... again?

Uh oh... if your prograde vector isn't pointing towards space...

Meh, better than Elon Musk.

Let's forget that try...

Oops... Ahem, plan B.

Taking 6 months to reach Minmus was of course, totally planned.

At least the landing was easy.

And the science was delicious. There's a small problem tho: I swear I'll break my motherboard if I must do yet another Minmus mission. So let's do something else, SHALL WE?

Such as getting a node for free?

Thanks, bizarre monolith-with-SQUAD-logo-thing!

Some more grinding later...

Hey, I'm starting to get closer to the end!

So let's build a Kerbol probe. WCPGW?

The answer is:

-1) Initial method fails, I don't get to Kerbol orbit

-2) Crash at launch

-3) I run out of fuel

-4) I had forgotten the chute anyway

-5) Yay, I got to Kerbol! Oh wait, antenna too weak. DANG IT!

-6) Rage quit after the 5th fail. I lost over 75k total.

Let's say it, it wasn't a good day, and the menu kinda agrees with me:

Ugh.

 

Edited March 11, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

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17 hours ago, MinimalMinmus said:

How did that happen?