[Stock] 30 sec Altitude Challenge!

[xoknight]

Yea - not a rocket.

It doesn't say that it needs to be

[Ezriilc]

It doesn't say that it needs to be

But it should.

[Redshift OTF]

Yea - not a rocket.

Sure it is. It went up and fire came out of the back of it! I did no flapping. XD

[Ezriilc]

Sure it is. It went up and fire came out of the back of it! I did no flapping. XD

Whatever helps you sleep at night...

Personally, I don't see the point.

[manni01]

yay sooo happy ~69,000m

sorry to disappoint Ezzriilc, but I have the same concept as Redshift OFT. Kerbal physics allows some crazy stuff with flaps

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[AppleDavidJeans]

Just wanted to chime in

Went on to break 1K km in not even a minute

Design is not mine though. It belongs to some guy on this forum. Can't remember the thread title.

[manni01]

Just wanted to chime in

http://i.imgur.com/Yona1zI.png

Went on to break 1K km in not even a minute

http://i.imgur.com/0p3P5bh.png

Design is not mine though. It belongs to some guy on this forum. Can't remember the thread title.

its the thing with wings and cubic octagonal struts, right? they are physics-less while wings have weird flappy things going on with not even controlling them.

[CDK]

How can you see what the speed and altitude is?

[BagelRabbit]

[snip]

Design is not mine though. It belongs to some guy on this forum. Can't remember the thread title.

Was it this type of craft?

If so, that's me. (Or maybe someone else came up with this as well, and I was just a co-discoverer.)

[OriginalCanadian]

GG?

[CDK]

Fraps. Fraps allows you to take screenshots and videos/movies in a game or anywhere.

[Jan102]

I can't get higher than this only with solid rocket boosters:

This is the rocket:

[SRV Ron]

I can't get higher than this only with solid rocket boosters:

This is the rocket:

The limitation is the SRB itself. Adding more of them in parallel will have no effect on the speed or altitude attempt. Try staging them.

With tweaking the fuel, you should be able to get much better acceleration then what is shown here.

Edited August 6, 2014 by SRV Ron

[SRV Ron]

Played with the staging concept. Key is having all SRBs firing but tweaking the fuel to different levels and dumping SRBs as they run out of fuel. Check out the acceleration at launch. I'm sure it can be done better. You do want burnout at exactly 30 seconds for max effect.

[camacju]

I'm so late to this but I found this thread maybe an hour ago. Here is the Sepratron Crak, version 4. True to its name, it is propelled by a very large number of sepratrons. Of course, I could get higher (the four stages burn out in 20 seconds, so there's room for two more), but my computer was starting to chug significantly and I was already over the previous record.

https://imgur.com/a/Y1U0XW4

56566 m in 30 seconds, no bugs, mods, or cheats

[camacju]

so uh

i found a way to go higher lol

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/763246791205715998/763974950335807498/unknown.png

https://streamable.com/ijpq7n

name: "fast crak}"

60613 m in 30 sec

[moar ssto]

I think the record holder is stratzenblitz75, he got to speed of light within one physics frame, that's a lot of height travelled in 30s.

[James Kerman]

Hello @camacju, that's a cool design! The game has changed a whole lot since this challenge was run so it would be a great candidate for a re-boot.

[Teilnehmer]

My first try — 51 383 m.

 

Edited October 20, 2020 by Teilnehmer

[Kernel Kraken]

I might reboot this if anyone else doesn't want to. With a whole lot of glitches patched, a lot of new ones, and more parts then ever, I think it deserves one. 

@Mars90000000

Edited October 20, 2020 by Kernel Kraken

[Mikenike]

@Mars90000000, Bradley Whistance or whatever made it to orbit in 33, he was at like 65ish K at 30 seconds. Add that on there as well.

On 10/9/2020 at 1:29 AM, moar ssto said:

I think the record holder is stratzenblitz75, he got to speed of light within one physics frame, that's a lot of height travelled in 30s.

Or Bradley, who made it to orbit in 33, he was at like 65k at 30 seconds.

17 minutes ago, Kernel Kraken said:

I might reboot this if anyone else doesn't want to. With a whole lot of glitches patched, a lot of new ones, and more parts then ever, I think it deserves one. 

@Mars90000000

REEEEEEEEEEEEBOOT

[JcoolTheShipbuilder]

hmmm.... i accidentally sent a kerbal to NaN space in a few frames by using an insane overclocked engine.
it also broke the game hard enough to land something on the sun, but it said "No Situation report available"

[Kernel Kraken]

On 10/20/2020 at 11:05 AM, Mikenike said:

@Mars90000000

REEEEEEEEEEEEBOOT

Yeah, why not. I'll have it written up and posted by tomorrow evening.

EDIT: Missed the yesterday evening deadline, PC died and I don't want to screw up with mobile formatting. I've started a policy of taking a break all Saturday to stave off the school- induce panic attacks so I'll have time to write up and publish the challenge then.

Edited October 22, 2020 by Kernel Kraken

[Mikenike]

13 hours ago, Kernel Kraken said:

Yeah, why not. I'll have it written up and posted by tomorrow evening.

Perfect.