Strand a Kerbal for others to rescue.

[Pds314]

Strand a Kerbal off Kerbin for another player to rescue, or rescue a Kerbal that another player has stranded!

 

Strander rules

1. Max budget will be 10000 funds in the VAB/SPH. This should be more than enough to make rescue very challenging.

2. Capsule required. Feel free to terminate the capsule after you EVA the stranded Kerbal. (EDIT: a lawn chair is not a capsule. Especially not if you strap it to the outside of the vehicle xD)

3. No using the EVA pack.

4. If the Kerbal dies or goes more than 200 Gigameters from Kerbol without interference, they are considered rescued. Strand them. Don't kill them or send them to other stars.

5. No Eve Surface. It's far too easy to get to for the difficulty of getting off of it.

6. No cheating, part mods, or glitch-powered reactionless drives.

7. Upload a persistent.sfs in sandbox mode with normal physics and the Kerbal stranded.

 

Rescuer rules

1. Once you mess with the Kerbal, it's your fault if they die.

2. No budget limit but the cheaper and faster the rescue mission, the better.

3. You may use EVA pack to help rescue to Kerbal.

4. No cheating, part mods, or glitch-powered reactionless drives.

Edited November 1, 2020 by Pds314

[ralanboyle]

Oakie dokie, Smokey! This is a great idea, and I'm on a work trip with nothing to do in my off-time for a month! Let's do this. I hope others make submissions. I'll strand one for you. I'm actually not sure how to share mission files, can you fill me in? 

[Lewie]

3 minutes ago, ralanboyle said:

 I'm actually not sure how to share mission files, can you fill me in? 

In your ksp folder, there is a folder named ‘saves’ inside there is where you can find the save files. (Just copy and paste to add/share files from there) 

Cheers-

Lewie

[Pds314]

My stranded entry.... and oh wow 10000 funds might be a lot. I didn't even use any gravity assists and rescuing this Kerbal might be tough.

Rescue Jeb from the Polar Kerbolar Moho-Duna orbit. (EDIT: broken link, to be repaired)

Jeb's Final Orbit: Rescue him!


Editor cost is 9998 Funds. In terms of Vacuum Delta-V it has 8577 m/s, so that's gonna be enough to go pretty far. Especially because somehow by the grace of the Kraken we manage to reach a 154 by 70 orbit with 3022 of that.


Pollux takes us to a 150 km Apoapsis. Any harsher on the ascent and we would have melted.


Goodbye Kerbin


We reverse our control point for the third stage.


Alright, years later, by the power of timewarp, we do another burn far from... well far from everything really.


More years later, we're gonna bring our orbit a bit lower.


Jeb is a little toasty but ultimately fine.

Edited November 1, 2020 by Pds314

[ralanboyle]

@Pds314 I loaded your file and it shows as a career mode save called "Wimp 2" day one with nothing seen in the tracking station. I haven't done this before so what am I doing wrong?  

And here is mine: Who's up for a Laythe Ocean rescue? Here is the save file. 

 

[Pds314]

10 hours ago, ralanboyle said:

@Pds314 I loaded your file and it shows as a career mode save called "Wimp 2" day one with nothing seen in the tracking station. I haven't done this before so what am I doing wrong?  

And here is mine: Who's up for a Laythe Ocean rescue? Here is the save file. 

 

Hmm. That's really odd. I will try re-uploading but not at my PC atm.

10 hours ago, ralanboyle said:

@Pds314 I loaded your file and it shows as a career mode save called "Wimp 2" day one with nothing seen in the tracking station. I haven't done this before so what am I doing wrong?  

And here is mine: Who's up for a Laythe Ocean rescue? Here is the save file. 

 

It's certainly  possible to do this mission profile with a capsule but I definitely didn't see one in the video... Maybe I should make clear that "capsule" is not the same as "lawn chair?"

Edited November 1, 2020 by Pds314

[Eleutherophile]

Great idea! Will make sure to throw something together... Stranding Kerbals is one of the few aspects of the game I'm good at.

[dnbattley]

I managed to engineer a pod in perfect polar orbit of Moho within the cost parameters, but sadly failed at my ultimate objective: stranding the pod at the bottom of the mohole... I'll keep trying.

[DerkyJerkyWreaksHavoc]

On 10/30/2020 at 10:40 AM, Pds314 said:

Strand a Kerbal off Kerbin for another player to rescue, or rescue a Kerbal that another player has stranded!

 

Strander rules

1. Max budget will be 10000 funds in the VAB/SPH. This should be more than enough to make rescue very challenging.

2. Capsule required. Feel free to terminate the capsule after you EVA the stranded Kerbal. (EDIT: a lawn chair is not a capsule. Especially not if you strap it to the outside of the vehicle xD)

3. No using the EVA pack.

4. If the Kerbal dies or goes more than 200 Gigameters from Kerbol without interference, they are considered rescued. Strand them. Don't kill them or send them to other stars.

5. No Eve Surface. It's far too easy to get to for the difficulty of getting off of it.

6. No cheating, part mods, or glitch-powered reactionless drives.

7. Upload a persistent.sfs in sandbox mode with normal physics and the Kerbal stranded.

 

Rescuer rules

1. Once you mess with the Kerbal, it's your fault if they die.

2. No budget limit but the cheaper and faster the rescue mission, the better.

3. You may use EVA pack to help rescue to Kerbal.

4. No cheating, part mods, or glitch-powered reactionless drives.

looks like a job for... The BlunderBirds!

[ralanboyle]

Okay, I've redon the Laythe Ocean mission with a Mk1 Command Pod. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nEqN7_adWnBbskO-qhbwj-C8kgRhRIDc/view?usp=sharing