rowns Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 HI all,For a few weeks ago i found this game, thanks to youtube . In the beginning i did like to build rockets, but after a few days i wanted to reach something. So i did make my first topic on this forum: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/29998-2-questions. It was short but, it was the begin of something. I did try to fly to the mun but i did still fail every time i did try it. So i did start to do the tutorials, that did help me a lot, but then i did came to the last tutorial flying to the mun, but i did really understand what to do, so i did make a new topic: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/31253-Tutorial-Help/page1. This one did help me a lot to. So today i did finally succeed to bring my kerbal in space and now it is flying around the world, sad enough for him he wont come back i think, because it doesn't have engines to return to his family . In the future i hope that i can buy the full game, and do even more stuff. right now i will stay at this forum, and look and learn, and i hope to update this thread example when i reach the mun. When i have the full game i will ask more then thousands question, and i know 100% that there is always somebody who is gonna help or at least try to help..I want to thanks everybody who helped me with reaching that what i have reached now. Greetings Rowns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 So right now i have fun with just launching rockets, and let them fly around the world. Next step it to try to fly to the mun, and just fly around. Somebody knows what a good rocket looks like and with only parts that are in the demo?Greetings me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Built that one in the demo originally; it gets to the Mun and back. Only problem with the design is the narrow base and relatively small amount of fuel to work with for landing and return. Seven RT-10s on the first stage, second stage is a central LV-45 with LV-30s on the edges. You don't see them, but there are fuel lines running from the outboard fuel tanks to the inboard tanks and radial decouplers for them as well. Lander's got an LV-909; rest of it should be visible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internetlad Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Built that one in the demo originally; it gets to the Mun and back. Only problem with the design is the narrow base and relatively small amount of fuel to work with for landing and return. Seven RT-10s on the first stage, second stage is a central LV-45 with LV-30s on the edges. You don't see them, but there are fuel lines running from the outboard fuel tanks to the inboard tanks and radial decouplers for them as well. Lander's got an LV-909; rest of it should be visible.I forgot how restrictive .17 was lol.The biggest issue is escaping to orbit. Once you're there a mun landing is a cakewalk. Just burn prograde at your periapsis until your orbit intersects with mun orbit, then burn retrograde when you get caught in the mun's sphere of influence. You're now orbititing the mun. From there a landing should be easy. Try to make sure you have enough fuel to get home (I'd recommend using the same method, get in mun orbit and burn until your orbit reaches kerbin.)Best of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt'n Skunky Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Happy Launching!Arrr!Capt'n SkunkyKSP Community Manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 So today i did succeed to orbite(is it the right word?) the mun, with my own rocket i was lucky because i was almost out of fuel.My rocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphos Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Looks like you've got a nice space program going there! I believe the demo has maneuver nodes so don't forget to use them! Good luck and keep up the good work! (and yes, you are correct, the correct word is orbit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 What is that? maneuver nodes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphos Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 The newest version of the demo I believe is a stripped version of 0.18. When your craft is flying, and you're in map view, you should be able to click on your predicted path (blue line) and create a maneuver node, then you can pull the prograde, retrograde, ascending, descending, etc. icons to get a more accurate burn. I use them in my docking tutorial vid if it needs further explaination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted May 30, 2013 Author Share Posted May 30, 2013 Oke thank you, i did watch a youtube vid yesterday and now i know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1499 Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 I hope it all goes well! I also hope that you enjoy so much you buy the full version. Best money I've ever spent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted May 30, 2013 Author Share Posted May 30, 2013 I hope it all goes well! I also hope that you enjoy so much you buy the full version. Best money I've ever spent.Hi thank you great to hear that you enjoy this game aswel, well next week(sunday)is it my B-day so i will ask if i can buy this game(i hope they accept it) Here is another picture i did make yesterday it is the Mun, Kerbin and the Sun on almost one line, i did like it so why not post it aswel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerZin Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 Nice picc Press F2 next time to remove the UI and get a even better shot You can also press your middlemouse (defult settings) and you release the camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 Nice picc Press F2 next time to remove the UI and get a even better shot You can also press your middlemouse (defult settings) and you release the cameraHi,Thank you for the information didn't know that. Today i did finaly land on the moon thanks to Scott Manley and this tutorial: . my rocket does almost look the same but then only built with the parts i did have in the Demo.Here some pic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specialist290 Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Nicely done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 Nicely done!Well it did take 3x before i survived the landing and even the 3th one wasnt a good landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 Hi all,Today i did land a unmanned rover on the mun thank to this tutorial: . Sad enought i did need to drive it 16km to my mun lander. But i have a question, sometimes when i fly to the mun i can make a perfect orbit(if it is called like that), but most of the time i cant make a orbit around the mun and i need to land exact on the spot. hope you know what i mean, so how can i make sure that that isnt going to happen next time?Greetings me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattLugar Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Looking forward to my first Mun landing... I've got probes in close orbit of Kerbin, Mun, and Minmus now and I've done a docking rendezvous (using the Gemini 6a/7 tutorial). Seeing all these pictures is so awesome and inspiring. Having such a blast with this game sofar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atimucink Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 After playing this game for now almost 3 months i finaly succeeded to fly to a other planet then Mun or minmus, thanks to Scott Manley's tutorial, i did finaly fly to Duna. This with my first rocket based on Scotts rocket, i did use MJ only for make it fly in a 100km orbit around kerbin and for the phase angles, after that i did do everything be hand and with maneuver notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hailedbean Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 well done, Scott's tutorials helped immensely when I first started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowns Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 Ya he is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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