Crazy OP Contracts?!

[Starwhip]

While playing in Hard Mode, I came across a "Test KR-L2 Liquid Fuel Engine orbiting Kerbin" contract.

But it wasn't your average contract.

The reward? Over half a million (580,000+) funds. And a bit over 1,000 science. (Plus 800 some odd for the outsourced R&D) In hard mode.

(Hadn't even landed on Mun yet... might have done Minmus.)

I was like, "YEP, I'M FREAKING DOING THIS ONE!"

Built a bizzaro craft that went to orbit, tested the engine, brought it back down. (A 20,000 fund payload is a little bit much to just leave floating around... )

I wuz loaded afterwards.

What super-high return contracts have you guys gotten?

[theend3r]

The ARM engines testing missions yield ridiculously high rewards. I pretty much ignore everything except those and exploration missions. Currently sitting at about 14M funds, just about enough to launch some of my costlier vehicles. Once.

[Torquemadus]

LFB test contracts currently offer an insane amount of money. These pics show me playing on custom difficulty at 30% resource rewards (compared to 60% for Hard difficulty). This flight is essentially a free lunch. I got offered equivalent contracts for the Skipper and Mainsail which weren't worth the cost of the fuel needed to launch the mission.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Try 1.1 million funds, 670 reputation and 6000 science.

For testing an engine on the ground

GG.

[Starwhip]

Try 1.1 million funds, 670 reputation and 6000 science.

For testing an engine on the ground

GG.

We need some rebalancing here, obviously....

[theend3r]

I've stumbled upon this one right now:

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140401041942/creepypasta/images/1/1c/What.gif

We need some rebalancing here, obviously....

I did have all my administration "things" focused on money and science, but even removing those benifts it was still about 700000 funds, 900 rep and 4000 science.

[rodion]

indeed they are amusingly overpowered. out of 2.6m funds sitting in my account at present i think 2.1m came from a couple of Kerbodyne contracts...no doubt it's a condition that won't last forever.

[SciMan]

Maybe not stock parts, but.....

I think I've gotten like 2 million from a contract to test the HPD engine from B9 r5.whatever, just for getting the thing in orbit. And again for getting the thing in orbit around the mun.

Bonus points for the fact that I already had the thing in orbit on a massive mothership. Gotta love having a 1700 ish ton mothership waiting in LKO, for about 125 parts total. Talk about a bigger stick! It's got 12km/s of dV when fully fueled and no cargo, if the engines are in high efficiency mode. At that point it has a 0.5:1 Thrust to Weight ratio, so it's not taking hours for burns, either.

These parts are pretty much Whackjob scale rockets, but without the 10000+ part count.

[magnemoe]

An aerospike in Mun orbit brings in 600k, more fun as its so simple, probe and power, long 1.25 meter tank with aerospike behind and two trashcans.

[smysha]

I've stumbled upon this one right now:

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

...and testing Turbofan engine landed on Minmus

[weeble]

My highest stock contract was for something like 200k

[moogoob]

Not individual rewards, but the Explore contracts can pay out a lot. In one trip to Jool (orbit + science), Pol and Bop (orbit, science, land, science) that's 13 separate payouts. I made millions from a robotic mission that cost barely over a hundred thousand.

[ayana]

Sent an empty LFB to Eve orbit, got 5 million or so. And something around 3000 science.

[Javster]

...and testing Turbofan engine landed on Minmus

Ok, the engine didn't work without air, space has no air, let's test it on a planet without air!

[Hidden Gunman]

I was offered an @500 000 fund, 500 science contract for an engine test, but the parameters gave me a window of 1400m altitude at a speed between 450 and 550m/s, commencing at 11500m altitude. I thought money for jam, but being a 'fly by guesstimate' player I've had ten attempts and can see another ten attempts to come *facepalm...

[Doc]

1.100.000 for testing an Aerospike around minimus. Icing on the cake is a LV-1R test for 300.000 *also* around minimus.

1.400.000 for a <50k launch... Which is a good thing, since my giant OKS LKO gateway station & Duna explorer mission have really been sucking up funds.

[deadshot462]

Test contracts should be replaced with satellite placement contracts.