martooth Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I had received a contract to test a small stack decoupler in orbit of the mun between 1000-3000m, which at first seemed like a cake walk. Then i tried to accomplish this and realized there isn't alot of places on the surface where below 3000m won't have a small hill for you to crash into a couple 100m's away. After several attempts at tricking the game into thinking your still in "orbit" when your on course to smack into the landscape and still were below 3000m to do the test (which I found difficult while moving at speeds of a super low orbit, because you did still have to be technically orbiting to complete the contract), i finally found a sweet where you could still technically be orbiting but below the surface in one of the craters where I dropped below the 3000m, did the test then burned away before smashing into the crater wall. This definetly took some work and was totally the most difficult contract one I've completed to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Augustus_ Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 "Rescue Thompmin Kerman, who is stranded on Jool's surface."WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THESE STUPID KERBALS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holyvision Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Yea testing the ARM engine when landed on other planets is kinda nuts, also don't get decouplers in strange places. The "test xxxxxx while spashed down" ones are easy to do, but often are out of place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holyvision Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 "Rescue Thompmin Kerman, who is stranded on Jool's surface."WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THESE STUPID KERBALSI think we are seeing the Kerbal reproductive cycle in process. They just pop out of matter around the universe, similar to daises -- prior to .24 only those lucky enough to be born on Kerbin had any chance of survival. Seems legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimdall5008 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The craziest contract I accepted was (or still is...):"Test KR-1x2 in landed on the Mun."When I accepted in confused KR-1x2 with LV-1R. And I was stupid engough to laugh about the 3 million paid for this, before I realized my mistake...From the science perspective it might be interessting what I could lift with the biggest booster from the Mun, but how to bring it there with only the first 10 technoligies in the tech tree? Okay the contract runs for 3 years so I might still have a chance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanHavoc Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I've had a couple of interesting contract's pop up during this latest career play through. One of the most recent was really one of the most pointless. I was asked to test a PB-ION Electric Propulsion System landed on Minmus. The request, in of itself, isn't unreasonable - but as I did not have access to Ion Propulsion tech, it meant I was taking the drive to Minmus with no fuel to speak of. Naturally, when I ran the test, nothing happened. The fun part is I got paid 94,500 in funds and collected 135 science and 225 reputation for this waste of time. Pretty sweet stuff.I also had a mission wherein I was supposed to test the S3 KS-25x4 Engine Cluster in Kerbin orbit. Again, not unreasonable but as I had no access to the large Kerbodyne parts I was forced to design a means to get the part into orbit using only what I had on hand. It worked, and I was paid nearly 1 million in Funds for my trouble but I never could quite get past the ridiculousness of the whole affair - case in point: They've also asked me to test a Kerbodyne KR-2L Advanced Engine on an escape trajectory from Kerbin, and to test an LFB KR-1x2 splashed down at Kerbin. I've had fun, but sometimes I do wonder about the sanity of the contract writers in KSP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Augustus_ Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Another crazy one was "Rescue Angel Kerman, who is stranded in orbit (Close to Kerbin distance, which would cause him to die) around Blacky Karman." I was using StarSystems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityCasket Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I had to test the abort rocket while landed on Minmus. This actually saved me because my main landing engine was blocked by a stack separator, so I had to land on RCS, which was almost exhausted after landing. A little trial-and-error allowed me to use the abort rocket to give me a 25kM apoapsis, with barely enough RCS to get into orbit. It actually saved me from having to waste money on a rescue mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LethalDose Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 (edited) "Test the Turbojet Engine in flight over Kerbin. 260-460 m/s. 15600 - 23500 m altitude"You may not think this a crazy contract, and you may be right... But I got this contract when I was finishing the tier of science prior to tier with TJ's and you've gotta be out of your Kerbaling mind if you think I'm actually going do it. The nice ppl at C7 can their turbojets back when they pry them form my cold, dead hands.I can't wait till the ask me to test their R.A.P.I.E.Rs... Edited August 1, 2014 by LethalDose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poryy Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I believe I got a "test Small Gear Bay while flying at Jool" once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acemcbean Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Through some severe Game-Breaking boredom, I once got "Rescue Omley Kerman who is landed on Kerbin"I seriously died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lammatt Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Testing launch clamps on the mun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volcanix Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 How should you test launch clamps on other planets without changing something in the game files?My craziest contract till now was to test a Small Gear Bay on an escape trajectory out of Kerbin.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reactordrone Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 You guys do realize that you can empty rocket boosters in the VAB, to save on weight, and not worry about other issues with them, right?Sure but where's the fun in that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwermetaller Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hello,this is my first post to this forum.. Been reading for a few days now. Got this game about a week ago and yesterday I got a contract that was like "Test blabla on escape trajectory." and without further thinking I thought reaching escape trajectory is not all that hard (on my first mission to the Mun I almost accidentally slingshotted myself out of Kerbins sphere of influence)... Well, what I didn't know was that this little thing I had to test up there was a frickin' LFB KR-1x2... Well, somewhen it started to work out by just building an unrealistic spacecraft looking like this. Ah well, it was fun and a nice challenge... Now the mission to Minmun can continue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWalrus123 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Explore ike... And I got it from maxxo construction toys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZodiaK Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 in my early stage career mode game, I built a Duna orbiter (nice name too, 'red dawn one') and I accidentally accelerated to jool instead. Now I'm getting all these jool contracts and I haven't even landed on Duna! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daffs Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I always find the parachute tests crazy. I end up testing them on the way up as I can control the speed more accurately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I always find the parachute tests crazy. I end up testing them on the way up as I can control the speed more accurately.I found that the test often fail if you do them going up, I tend to test most then returning from orbit. The weird ones get its own test probe and I tend to burn downward to get the needed speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV Ron Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Test poodle and hydraulic manifold on an escape trajectory out of Kerbal. Used an all SRB rocket for the test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohlookabirdie Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Plant a flag on Eve.... suicide mission... i've never even attempted a Eve return to orbit, and o dont plan to any time soon. maybe once i've visited all the planets and moons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunChaser Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I got a contract to test the ion engines in orbit around Kerbin--I haven't unlocked the xenon fuel yet. Most of the "while landed on Kerbin" and "while splashed down" contracts are just silly. Best contract so far would be to test the launch clamps on Kerbin, which got me way more money and science than it should have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbleck Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Plant a flag on Eve.... suicide mission... i've never even attempted a Eve return to orbit, and o dont plan to any time soon. maybe once i've visited all the planets and moonsI have two kerbals in a science lab landed on eve with like 8 flags planted around them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAIZAI Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Testing the Turbojet engine while landed on Minmus sounded pretty darn stupid to me...but I did it as I needed the cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenteb07 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Testing the Turbojet engine while landed on Minmus sounded pretty darn stupid to me...but I did it as I needed the cash.Got the same but I have to test it on Ike instead :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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