The Destroyer Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) Overall, this is a judging competion. Your goal, make a epic looking spacecraft.Heres how its judged:Number of parts: Have 1000 parts? well that scores you 10 points! (100= 1 point)Look: Especially if you post a picture of what it resembles, you could get 10 points max for making it look good!EIVA: Is the crewman able to go into Eva and walk around the ship? 1 point for the inital, but will be judged on how much area he can cover.Capability:1 point for kerbin orbital2 points for mun flyby3 points for being able to return to kerbin4 points to be able to get to mun and back (just orbit mun)5 points for getting to mun AND minmus and back6 points for LANDING on mun and minimus and back7 points for getting into interplanetary space and back8 points for getting to any of the external planets and back9 points for landing on a planet 10 points for landing on a planet and backBOUNS:15 points for being able to land on eve and make it back20 points for being able to land on 2 planets and back50 points for being able to land on all the planets and get back These have a rule tho, of that you must not use cheaty mods like antimatter, Instant orbit generaters, .config edits, Or Persistance editing.Leaderboard:#1 StrangeyD#2 Von Gobble#3 Bsalis#4 Whatisthis#5#6#7#8#9#10RULES:Only 1:Make the best looking! I dont care how you made it, I just want to know that it looks good. But dont steal other peoples crafts! Edited October 13, 2012 by The Destroyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melaus Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I hope by "all planets" you dont mean in a single trip. because if they can land on all planets and get back on one voyage they should get -1000 points for cheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwnedbyscope Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 (edited) or just have one really big ship lol, or have one really big mother ship using nervas with smaller landers would work as well, it would be tricky to do tho as every planet capture would have to be an aerocapture>drop lander>orbit>pick up crew in next pass, to save fuel and conserve delta V Edited October 6, 2012 by pwnedbyscope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Destroyer Posted October 6, 2012 Author Share Posted October 6, 2012 Precisly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwnedbyscope Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 i may have to work on this one, how close do we have to get to each planet? when you say land does the entire ship have to be landed? if not does a kerbal have to land on the surface? if so does he have to come back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melaus Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I dont think you fully appreciate the exponential nature of gaining more Delta-V. for example to move 100 tons a certain distance you'd need a 200 ton stage, and to move 200 tons, you need a 400 ton stage so each stage gets exponentially larger and gets you less Delta-V from it. to get to every planet and back you'd probably need a ship over 50,000 tons (very low estimate), and the largest I've ever seen is in the lower 2000 tons area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Von Gobble Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 or just have one really big ship lol, or have one really big mother ship using nervas with smaller landers would work as well, it would be tricky to do tho as every planet capture would have to be an aerocapture>drop lander>orbit>pick up crew in next pass, to save fuel and conserve delta VTried =\, Once they get too big they become brick like with their manuverability. Well, atleast they look pretty decent for stock.Early model;Next model;latest model; (missing a few panels and the antennae aren't extended)Sorry about the ENORMOUS pictures. Only have 4 posts when I made this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwnedbyscope Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 unless you use ion engines, dont need the fuel it takes to complete such a trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsalis Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 SSTO from a while back. Development was discontinued... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatshtisthis Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 So... this is only judged based on the looks and not the capabilities of the spacecraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melaus Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Thats true, I guess i was assuming it said "stock" somewhere in the challenge, my error, and btw thats one of the coolest space planes I've seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwnedbyscope Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I think there are two parts to it, one if its capable and another if its good looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Destroyer Posted October 6, 2012 Author Share Posted October 6, 2012 Actually, its all about getting points. The challenge is NOT to get to all the planets, the challenge is to get the most points. Heck, it dosent need to do anything, the capability is just for bonus points! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeyD Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Here is my attempt at this challenge, hope you guys like it.SphinX I .. Interplanetary Cruiser of the Kerbal Fleet.Shot of the Ion Engine and auxillary Engines.In orbit after its maiden flight to duna.Next stop Jool.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelmoon Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Please for the love of god can i have that .craft file? Oh and a list of Mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeyD Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Glad you like the ship, I have attached the .craft file to this reply.The mods i was using are:http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/10094-0-16-Electrical-Energy-Plugin-v1-4-%28Aug-15%29Electrical Energy Pluginhttp://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/7790-0-17-Parts-Pack-Deep-Space-Mission-Pack-0-152-releasedDeep Space Mission Packand Mechjeb for a little help in getting it off the ground and into a stable orbit, also to save as much fuel as i could.Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatshtisthis Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 How do you get the Ion engine of the DSM pack to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeyD Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 How do you get the Ion engine of the DSM pack to work?Did you copy over the resource file named Kreuzung, into the resources folder of your KSP game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatshtisthis Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Oh. Thanks.I'll contribute my latest creation, you probably have already seen it already but whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeyD Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 That does look awesome, kinda like a solar sail craft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Aerospace Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 That does look awesome, kinda like a solar sail craft!Nope. It's an O'Neill cylinder, though massively downsized.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatshtisthis Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 (edited) I have to downsize it, building a bigger one is gonna lag like crazy.Still capable of housing Kerbals though, 60 of them.The latest one has an ion engine on it, and looks like a orbital cannon.I forgot I built this in 0.16. Based off the Bentenmaru Edited October 13, 2012 by Whatshtisthis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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