WeeBabyStevo

Thanks for hosting the challenge! And thanks for just checking my craft file rather than complain about my light picture count. I had a TON of fun doing this. It is great that there is such an involved KSP Community doing stuff like this.

This is my Level 1 Submission. (0.90, $1.2M, 312 Parts, Single Lift, One Kerbal to Eve Surface) I have been playing the game for a few weeks, just before 0.90 dropped. When I got on the forums and saw this challenge, I figured I was just about ready for it. Sometimes it is good that you don't know what you don't know. For example, I didn't know what asparagus staging was when I started this challenge! I went through a lot of designs both before and after I learned about asparagus. I tried to find a region on Eve that was fairly flat using MechJeb's predictor. My final landing drifted a bit and was only 650m high, lower than I would have liked, but flat enough. This was my second mission to Eve. The first mission had a lot more f5/f9 landing runs and then my ascent didn't have enough go to make orbit, anyway! Back to the drawing board! On my return to the Kerbal Space Center I was almost too accurate. My nuke-powered tug nearly smashed into the pad. Probably bad form bringing home the nukes like that anyway... Wow, I learned a lot by taking this challenge. I am ready to do another! Or maybe take this one to the next level! One other tip for those of you using KSP on more than one computer. I used a tiny program called SymLink Creator to make a "hard link" of the save folder to a dropbox folder. I did the same on my computer at work. The game sees a hard link as tho it is seeing the save folder in its actual location. This is invaluable if you want to pick up right where you left off between 2 computers with no fuss. Minerva.craft