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BobCat Ind. - Colonization, exploring and research vehicle
nhnifong replied to BobCat's topic in KSP1 Mod Development
Can I suggest that you make the inflatable part a lot bigger, and inflate slowly? -
This was a problem in the old Cortex Command, but you had to hit the spacebar as soon as it went full screen or it would crash. If it consistently uses all your memory, move some parts outside of the parts folder.
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To Mech-Jeb or not to Mech-Jeb, that is the question...
nhnifong replied to Vostok's topic in KSP1 Mods Discussions
Moho is very hard to get to. I've made it before twice with stock or at least fairish parts and only used mechjeb for smart A.S.S., but didn't have the fuel to do an orbit capture (so I docked with ion craft and used those to push the incoming craft into orbit.) I have ion pushers in orbit around most bodies for this reason. -
Set up the most consecutive encounters of Joolian moons you can with only one initial course correction burn in Jool's SoI! So you might encounter Tylo, and that would send you into Vall and then into a plain old Jool orbit. That would be 2 encounters. base score = encounters ^ 2 If you end in a plain Jool orbit, 0 extra points. If you end in an escape from Jool, 4 extra points. If you end in an escape from the sun, 8 extra points. If you end up falling into Jool, 4 extra points. If your trajectory makes use of aerobraking, 2 + aerobrakes ^ 2 If you visit bop and at least one other moon, + 5 If you end on a sub-orbital trajectory into one of the moons, -5 if you crash, +5 if you land (obviously you may use fuel to do that) Prove whatever you do. take enough screenies to leave no doubt.
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They still work. You should remember to save copies of everything. I'd give them to you if CBBP approved.
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What do you think about new nuclear engine?
nhnifong replied to Pawelk198604's topic in KSP1 Discussion
I only bring it for long extended missions which may visit multiple planets. But if I'm just going to Duna or something, I get there quicker with a regular engine. -
Newbie help with mods (Solar Panels)
nhnifong replied to Psycked's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
The station panels for Kosmos have never produced energy, but you can make them by copying the module from the bottom of the cfg file of the solar panel from deep space pack, into the bottom of the cfgs for each of the panels in Kosmos pack, and tuning the energy gain to your liking. These are the masses in tons I decided upon, which are proportional to the apparent size of solar collection area for each panel. The electrical gain in EPS energy units is 0.05 times these masses. so the gain for TKS for example would be 0.012. I don't know what this multiplier should be for EEP, so test it out. Kosmos_TKS_Panel 0.24 Kosmos_Salyut_Panel 0.16 Kosmos_Alamaz_Panel 0.5 Kosmos_Common_Long_Panel 0.63 Kosmos_Common_Short_Panel 0.45 -
I can't wait to see the inside of the VA capsule ÑÂúþрþ!
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If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
nhnifong replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
That sure was the smelliest 6 months I've ever experienced. -
What will life be like for the average person in 2090? Make your best effort to truly make your guess as correct as possible. Honest attempts only if you don't mind. Here are my guesses: Life is characterized by a sharp divide between the informational and material worlds. Transportation is expensive and time consuming, and only the rich do it, as status statement. The only things physically transported are crops and raw materials. The shipping carriers operate at huge loss and are subsidized by a failing U.S. government that lives off it's inexplicably large remaining reserve of natural gas. Blimps have made a comeback in the private sector. Most of your time is spent interacting in the global virtual worlds online. Most of what you need can be download and manufactured or grown within a few miles of home, it's that or you can't afford it anyways. Netspeak is completely incomprehensible to old folks without years of training and immersion. Africa is still starving. The middle east is still fighting. You carry a battery with you during the day and it is the only thing in your pocket. it is about the size of a typical cellphone battery without the cellphone but it holds hundreds of times more energy. You can buy a new one if you lose it for about half the price of a meal. If you need a computer or phone, any random piece of gadgetry within arms reach will suffice once you power it, root it, and give it a tunnel to Sweden, you primarily interact with things via cameras and micro-projectors. Space around earth is very slightly less empty. Most of the stuff up there is broken. There's lots of little solar thingies the size of a coin flying around in the upper atmosphere though for God knows what reason, but they're cheap. There's a bunch of these in the atmospheres of other planets too, accidently DDOSing the only relay satellite. There are a mind numbing diversity of currencies in use. None all that much more reliable than say, the Peso, with the exception of natural gas. Most places are very very crowded.
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At what point have you gotten "to" the Mun? if you just mean getting into it's SOI, well then barrel at it full throttle the whole way, But if you mean landing, then I guess you'd want to spend the first half of your journey accelerating, and the second half decelerating, and an idle part in the middle with a duration depending on how much fuel you lack (relative to the cost of burning full throttle all the way there and back) If you asked me to ballpark it, I'd guess you could get there in about an hour of kerbin time on a rocket that pushes the limits of physical stability (1000 parts)
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If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
nhnifong replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
"On this sol begins the era of life on Mars. Simpler life forms may have tried before us, with less determination and adaptability, but this time, let us hope that we sow the seeds of a flourishing world of wonders such as our first home, Earth. This moment marks a pivotal event in Life's colonization of the Solar System, by way of Humanity, it's sapient guardian. We wish only to grow" -
TO DUNA!.........Which..........Which way is that again?
nhnifong replied to Spinecone's topic in Welcome Aboard
Exactly my problem with mathematics. Poor variable naming habits. -
Macports is a command line utility. It's used the same way as apt-get and other package managers. sudo port install gnuplot
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If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
nhnifong replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
I, for one would not like it if that phrase was re-used. We're breaking new ground, and stretching our horizons, why not try to out-do the old? -
Where would you build your house in the Kerbal System?
nhnifong replied to nhnifong's topic in KSP1 Discussion
C'mon pics anyone? -
If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
nhnifong replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
Life finds a way -
Escape pods for interstellar spacecraft.
nhnifong replied to RedDwarfIV's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Sorry if I hit a sore spot, but it seems you are coming to the KSP forums to justify the opinions you have already decided upon, because we are more likely to agree with them. While you can do this all you want on the Net, it will only result in your tolerance of others becoming distorted because of your selectivity. Be careful not to become hardened and righteous from this. I'm not really into RP but I think you need to share the decision making process more if you want them to participate. This ship is designed for humans anyways, it's not going to be a perfect machine, it's going to have all kinds of whacky features because we are fickle, and have a discordant collective identity. -
Where would you build your house in the Kerbal System?
nhnifong replied to nhnifong's topic in KSP1 Discussion
I'm just going to posit that this volcano only spews hot water and no lava, and that the whole place is like a Space-Hakone -
If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
nhnifong replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
Wow this place is pretty RED -
If you could build your house and live anywhere in the Kerbal system, where would it be? (I know these places are pretty sparse, but just pretend they are properly colonized) I would live in the caldera of the volcano in Laythe's northern hemisphere. Post a pic if you can like this.
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If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
nhnifong replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
That's one small step for man, and zero steps for woman. HAR HAR WE'RE WINNING. also That's one small step for man, and one giant leap for Eukaryota -
Those KOSMOS tanks sure look awesome dont they By the way, kethane works OK in 0.17. It's got some bugs, but they're the same bugs that were in 0.16, so it's no big deal.