How hard can rocket science be anyway? (I try RO-RSS)

[Hyperspace Industries]

First off, No, this is not an rp1 playthrough, I may be crazy, but I'm not that crazy!  First update coming "tomorrow".

Edited September 24, 2021 by Hyperspace Industries
It's a sandbox mode playthrough. Without part failure, construction time, or life support.

[Hyperspace Industries]

Update 1:

I know nothing cubed about how to play ro/rss! But, I am learning!

Here is my first launch just to test that this realism overhaul thing works:

4 srbs, 3 decouplers, 1 explorer 1 probe and a rtg...

Went about as well as you'd expect.  

Some things in life are easy, some things are not:

Getting sub-orbital was easy.  I shattered my goal of going sub-orbital before the end of October this year. I mostly copied the design from the first episode of Beardy Penguin and N9 gaming's excellent for all kerbalkind series.

Getting to orbit, was hard, and I haven't done it, but here are my abominations of attempts:

Basically, it's 3 space shuttle srbs and some other srbs taped together into one bouquet of boosters, it flies surprisingly well.

I'm not even sure what I was thinking with this one.

This one, on the other hand, did not fly surprisingly well.  

So, what have I learned? First off, I have acquired a more accurate sense of the energy difference between orbital and sub-orbital flights, and second, I have learnt that I have a lot left to learn, I already knew that, but I hadn't understood the exact amount.  

Next step, is to download the craft files for ro/rss, and try to use them, or maybe not, find out next time on how hard can it be....

[Hyperspace Industries]

32 minutes ago, Hyperspace Industries said:

Next step, is to download the craft files for ro/rss, and try to use them

Well, turns out the craft files are incompatible with ro engines and another ro mod I need, so much for that plan...

[Hyperspace Industries]

Here we go again!

Staging is intentional.

That's not gone well!

Smooth recovery...

Kerblamo!

Staging tuned for decent twr.

The thing exploded so fast, you'd think we triggered the flight termination system!

Debris keeps falling on my head, keeps falling on my head...

Well, that's it for today, I think I'm going to take break from RO for now (slang for giving up, until I inevitably try again). I'm going to go play regular modded 1.12.2 ksp and read eyes turned skyward (the alternate history, not the romance novel) and maybe even finish reading Mostly Harmless (the 5th part in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy "trilogy"). 

 

Edit: been reading the expanse books actually, at book 2 now...

Edited October 3, 2021 by Hyperspace Industries
Oh, by the way, if anybody can give me a craft file for a RO orbital launcher, please do, I'll do my best to reverse engineer it.

[CastleKSide]

I tried rss a few years back and did a few launches. I like to claim my computer gave up before I did.

[jimmymcgoochie]

First time I tried RSS, I put together a rocket that had the delta-V for stock Kerbin, launched it.. and fell wildly short of orbit. Turned on infinite fuel to see just how far short I was and watched the rocket gain another 6km/s before making orbit, at which point I said “nope”and deleted all things RSS from my computer for well over a year. Getting things right in RSS/RO(/RP-1) is more of an achievement than stock, but the challenge is also much greater and requires a lot more planning and less winging it, more payload optimisation to shed every last unnecessary gram and less “MOAR BOOSTERZ!!!!1!ONE!1” to brute force your way through.

[Fletch4]

i wish i had the guts(and the computer) to play with ro/rss installed.

[Hyperspace Industries]

On 10/27/2021 at 1:49 AM, Fletch4 said:

i wish i had the guts(and the computer) to play with ro/rss installed.

My "lil' laptop that can" soldiers through it with many lag spikes, and I don't have the guts necessary for RO, I'm just not fully aware of the danger yet.  

 

Also, I tried once again, and failed because I don't know how to use an interstage.

Hope 1, more like Nope 1!