"Go ahead and drop the boosters."

[Whackjob]

"Go ahead and drop the boosters."

Uh, oh! The Whack is working on a new project... *evil cackle*

Edited November 13, 2013 by Whackjob

[regex]

Those engine clusters look menacing.

[User Unrelated]

Not quite as big, but I had a nice cluster earlier... I finally got the hang of launching enough fuel for a trip to, and back from the Mun, and it involved a pretty menacing looking cluster of 8 boosters... 6 fired off simultaneously at launch, and the remaining 2 pulled the craft into orbit...

nowhere near as menacing as yours, but I thought it looked pretty cool with the limited tech tree that I have so far

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Whack! Keep it going. I am thrilled with what you will come up with

[7499275]

Whackjob... Here we go again with your incrediable CPU melting creations. You should get a custom title for this madness you continue to make.

[el_coyoto]

This is a Whackjob booster. All craftsmanship is of the highest quality. It is studded with struts. This item menaces with spikes of engine clusters.

On the item is an image of Whackjob striking a menacing pose. The Kerbals are making a plaintive gesture.

Whackjob did it again!

Can't wait to see where this will lead...

[Boris_T_Roach]

And another sign he needs a job building real space craft

[Depth]

Boosters, I see.

You just put it on a radial decoupler and add a strut at the top then?

[Moar Boosters]

Mmmmmmm.

Those are some tasty looking boosters.

I'm going to go ahead and say it though.

You don't have enough of them.

[aeTIos]

wow.

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[lajoswinkler]

Damn, I like it.

But does it really need that much monopropellant?

[Sirrobert]

Mmmmmmm.

Those are some tasty looking boosters.

I'm going to go ahead and say it though.

You don't have enough of them.

How fast does is accelerate?

[arq]

This is a Whackjob booster. All craftsmanship is of the highest quality. It is studded with struts. This item menaces with spikes of engine clusters.

On the item is an image of Whackjob striking a menacing pose. The Kerbals are making a plaintive gesture.

This item commemorates the victory of struts over physics in Autumn 162.

You could look into Ferram's Kerbal Joint Re-enforcement if you wanted to go bigger with less struts. But I'm sure it would kill the sport...

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Needs to be bigger

[Whackjob]

No pictures of the actual craft segment for the moment. Still a WIP and subject to drastic changes. But yes. Segment. I'm building in orbit this time around. Those boosters are helping lift what I expect to be about one seventh of the actual craft.

[phunk]

Any idea what the final part count will be? I'm building a station in orbit and over 800 parts now and painfully slow.

[Whackjob]

Of the station? My command-and-control module is about seven hundred parts. Planning on three leg-and-engine midsections, the aft transplanetary drive, probably two crew berthing areas.

[Killerdude8]

I must ask, What are the specs of your Divine machine to allow you to run such monstrosities?

My CPU would cry white hot tears of firey molten death at the thought of these ships.

[Whackjob]

I must ask, What are the specs of your Divine machine to allow you to run such monstrosities?

My CPU would cry white hot tears of firey molten death at the thought of these ships.

Processor: Intel® Core2 Extreme CPU Q9300 @ 2.53GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz

I should probably just put that into my sig haha.

Edited November 13, 2013 by Whackjob

[Killerdude8]

Really?

it only takes 4 of these things to not burn up in a firey death.

[Jarin]

Wait, I thought KSP didn't do multiple cores very well, and you've got it running across 4 separate CPUs? o.O

[Whackjob]

Nope. Just the one. I think the other three sit around and criticize my building.

#EDIT: Just to clarify... it's one CPU with four cores.

[Arsonik]

I was going to comment that the payload must be huge if those boosters only got the damn thing to 22km........ And then you go and tell us that is just 1/7th of the payload?!?!?! Dear god that is crazy.

[Whackjob]

Crazier if you notice the part where I said it'd have legs.

*evil cackle*

[Moar Boosters]

I must ask, What are the specs of your Divine machine to allow you to run such monstrosities?

My CPU would cry white hot tears of firey molten death at the thought of these ships.

You don't need an uber computer to build massive craft in KSP. As long as the max delta v time slider in the options menu is all the way to the right, big craft just make your computer run slower.

The main challenge is having the patience to test your craft when it takes so long (in real time) to perform each test-launch. It's quite frustrating when you get 20 minutes through the launch before the rocket fails. Add a few more struts, and then wait 20 minutes to see if it fails again in the same portion of the flight. Due to the complexity of bigger rockets, they take more launches as well to get things right, so it can turn into a very time-consuming process.