vicwarrior

Damn that looks good, too bad it won't be able to fit more than 6 kerbals, anyways, kind of timely since xcom 2 (or whatever sequel they do to it) has just been pretty much confirmed.

You got the kraken.

From what ive heard, not quite enough to make it worth your while to tug into LKO to set up a refueling outpost as very littloe ore will be left after the fuel you use to get it there. As they take lots of fuel to move around, however, if you can catch one of them on your way somewhere they can make your trip somewhere for pretty much free.

The Big rockeeters that go around the forums tend to use mods, which cause their fair amount of crashes. Otherwise vanilla KSP is pretty stable.

My only kerbal to reach Jeb's level is Val. The amount of times she should have been rescued and the amount of times she has been rescued is uncanny.

Just to make sure, can someone test if solar panels produce more power if you heat them up, with a lets say, a few nukes? It is probably just atmospheric extinction, which is anyways a very nice detail from Squad.

Also, another thing to keep in mind is that you dont need to fill the outpost with kerbals, or keep the outpost there after the contract is done, you can actualy just launch a probe then after the contract is done bring it back to kerbin and retreive it, as long as there is space for kerbals they will be ok.

Thats called a hardware assisted landing.

If it weren't i wouldn't be playing it. You might be not fond fo starting a game with a steep (or vertical) learning curve but sometimes it just makes the game all the better and more fun. (Source: Dwarf fortress player)

Why does it matter? They are going to die anyways.

To minimus you wont need a refueling station, generally your mun lander will easily do the job for minimus. However that refueling station will be usefull when you start your mining infraestructure and go interplanetary.

Jeb, bill, bob and other random kerbonauts babysitting a science outpost on minimus. Meanwhile Val and 2 other kerbals are figuring out mining on the mün. Both dont have parachutes on their respective crafts so they aren't coming home until i send a rescue craft, which im too lazy to do for the moment.

Probes consme power slowly. If your rover uses a probe to control it then that is your culprit. Remember to always bring power sources along probes.

Just 30x less dangerous??? ... do you produce? Nukes?

When you are walking somewhere and you wonder how much DeltaV your legs have.

Many quickloads and quickwaves were done. They had to wait for a rescue that never came.

That lander is tiny, way too tiny, you aren't ever going to fuel an interplanetary mission with it, build bigger, think bigger.

build super motherships and go on a tour across the system, build colonies on all the celestial bodies, take challenges etc etc... This game is a sandbox.

Meanwhile probes on the joolian system: 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01101001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00111111

The best would be to set up a mining ops in either minimus or the mun (personally i like more minimus), have mining rig there mine for ore which you can have refined either on the ground, or in orbit (doesn't matter since ore to LF+O is mass neutral). Once you have enough fuel up in your fuel depot you can have a tug (i recomend nukes for it) pull it to your refueling station in kerbin LKO. It would be a big investment for this set up but you would save much more spacebucks in the future by making interplanetary missions much cheaper as a result of being able to refuel for free at your space station.

There is no power source on the probe, meaning it will die some time after being deployed, also it hasn't any scientific equipment which makes the probe quite useless. Anyways, sticking a small, efficient, engine on a relatively big fuel tank to move a small payload does net you a lot of deltaV.

Every tech that gives more scientific instruments. fuel lines and the space-grade duct tape (struts). 2,5m partsl.

without a docking port connection or a claw grab the game will calculate the two ships as diferent entities, since time warp has to ignore physic calculations in order to be able to speed up the game the two ships will start ignoring eachother, effectively making it so the hitchiker pod separates from your rescue vessel.

A quick question, can you use KIS to connect diferent ships together in order to transfer fuel in between them? I know it should be looking for KAS but it hasn't been updated yet and i want to get ground outposts going in my career.

My Munlander MK2 (designed to land 3 kerbals at either of kerbin's moons) is so overbuilt it actually became my training rocket as it could get 3 kerbals to level 3 in a single launch by, peeking out of kerbin SOI for sun orbit, landing on minimus, everyone plants a flag, going to the mun, landing, planting another 3 flags and returning home with just enough fuel, just recently did calculations and for level 3 i just need to orbit the mun so now new rookies dont suffer the risk of having to get out and push to lower the periapsis the last few Kms when returning home.