Blowing your Budget

[Mars-Bound Hokie]

If anyone playing Career mode has ever gone bankrupt - or even gotten close to it - feel free to share your stories. If you haven't and still want to post on this thread, when did you spend a good chunk of your space program's money within (let's say) a 24-real-world-hour period?

• DISCLAIMER: This thread does not apply to Sandbox or Science mode players, since money isn't an issue.

 

I'll start us off here.

 

I had just made a 20-person docking-capable self-refueling SSTO, but the downside was that it could not land safely at some places due to a poor TWR there.

 

Since I planned to use this as the new standard tourist transport craft, I had to launch ore transports and more landers so that I could complete landing contracts and refuel the plane in orbit without worrying about crashing on the surface due to poor thrust. I soon sent several spacecraft to multiple locations in preparation for this new change; I also had to send a space station to Eve to complete a contract. Here are the expenses I incurred that day

 

EXPENSES
Quantity	Item	Destination	Price	Total
1	Hera-class Space Station	Eve Orbit	1111771.0	1111771.0
1	(STANDBY) Gilly Lander	Gilly	157399.4	157399.4
1	35-person Surface Outpost	Ike	747688.3	747688.3
1	19-person Self-mining Lander	Vall (SB)	639425.0	639425.0
2	Station Expansion Module	Duna Orbit Gilly Orbit	235702.2	471404.4
4	Mass Ore Transport	Ike Vall Dres Eeloo (SB)	552223.0	2208892.0
2	Mass Ore Transport (LITE)	Mun Minmus	255799.0	511598.0
TOTAL			Items	Price
			12	5,848,178.1

• Expenses calculated with Excel

 

 

• Some of the items in the picture are not mentioned in the expenses chart, since they were standing by for their exit burns for weeks IRL.
• I also have some of the items in the expenses chart on standby (and two on the Mun and Minmus), so they won't show up on this picture. 

 

What about you?