Enkiel

attempt #2 at Eve trip was a success. I used the Eve atmosphere to slow myself down, which was scary, even at 66 km... I also lifted my Mars station, to land it on Ike. That was quite a challenge, since the station doesnt have much thrust, and i had to jettison half its ore to get in orbit, and use that ore to make some fuel once in orbit to reach ike...

forgot my tourist for an Eve mission, which was aiming at testing different part of the mission for them.... the "good" news is that i learned how close i could get to eve to be sucked in, which is much further than i though. EDIT : and i realized this AFTER landing on Eve...

i slowed down on KSP when Steam said i played 100+ hours in the past 15 days..... now i'm down to 70.... but don't tell my wife!

last night i attempted to build something to get to Eve orbit... I built something i felt that could get there and tried. I wasn't into any worthwhile window (i actually nearly did the whole turn around the sun to reach it), but i manage to reach it. Once i did, i figured "hey, lets try and see how suborbital i need to do for the tourist contrat... No matter how close i got, i still couldnt get a complete... which also helped me realize that you can't get very close to Eve without being dragged down.... So i landed. Still no suborbital mission complete??? then i realized.... i forgot the tourist! It's okay tho, it was only in "simulator"...

maybe they live underground!

I think, the only thing i'd like of KSP 2 would be to be more "futuristic", or at least to be able to move into time to more advanced stuff. more than one planet system to travel to planet/moon base, obviously. terraforming Mega vessel (think, Galactica). Maybe more interration with the kerbals.

Finally, i said screw it and fastforwarded to the next Duna window, and sent the base they requested. 69t pretty much empty. i think i over did the rocket to send it to orbit (over 1900t, and 650 000$ total), but i wanted to do it on first attempt. Now all i need to do is wait for the 5k ore to fil up (requirement for the base), then transfert it to fuel, and off they go back to kerbin! (the top is detacheable for an easy return)

landed this 65+ tons monstrosity on Duna, with 2 tourist, 2 scientific (that will never get back to kerbal) and a few other crew for xp. Part of the mission was to get 5000 ore, and with just 4 solar panel, i think their window back to kerbal will be just enough to fulfil that requirement (1y36 days i believe).

once drove for 150 km with a crooked rim because i tilted the car on the side....

these days, as i'm testing my Duna station rocket, most mission fail at about 9000 m altitude, where it stop gaining speed...... the station itself is roughly 100t... so its quite a challenge to get it in the air...

Learned a very important lesson last night ; Dont try to land in a crater filled zone during the night with a 100t lander that is very high... it took me 3 hours to get it to land and sit still...

i had trouble with one of my roover, wheel just werent answering. I had to manually edit them in the savegame to have it works... do you have the same issue with different type of wheels?

Had my 2 minmus station docked together to begin a little train. Was actually fun, but very annoying since i had to go edit my savegame to activate the wheels on the station (for some reason, they wouldnt activate at all). Didnt get any good picture of day time, but a good idea of the two module to connect ; The whole station must be close to 250t, with well over 6000 fuel... with 8 puddle, i'm not sure i can lift it off minmus tho... The good thing about this... monstrosity is that it allowed me to get all kind of mission done, one of them being mining 2550 ore, for 500k... I did a similar station in sun orbit for a 800k pay. I did send 2 poor scientist that will most likely die in it eventually, but the whole thing should bring me 2000 + science...

Landed my base perfectly on minmus, and managed to get a satellite in Eve orbit... with over 5k dv to spare...

Fixed my issue with Drill on my Mun base (for the record, no matter how long they are, keep them close to ground if possible) it's not pretty, its not light, but it filled all requirement (and yes, that is a big orange tank, without any way to detach it from the base.

Built a station for the mun (First station ever). took me 2 night to land it... just to realize that my drill are too high.... DAMNIT!

EDIT : thinking about it... is there a way to move the drill on my ship? i though engineer could do something like that, but i can't find it on the wiki....

awh goddamnit... well, thanks!

So i finally landed my base on the mun, but now, when i tried to start the drill, it says "No ground con" (which i assume is control). Edit (wow, i forgot the question!) so, um, what's missing?

Last night i finally got my first 3 star crew. And had some fun on minmus...

yeah, its not so unlimited. and it seems like you have a specific number of 1, 2 and 3 star missions... if i declide a 1 star, another 1 star pop up.

I often still get mission in the 1 and 2 star range that ask me to go to minmus, while the 3 star one ask for Duna...

never scissor with the runs

I'm pretty much at that point as well. Obvious goal from the quests (errr, mission) seems to go to Duna, or start building station. I think either are a fine challenge, and by that point, you should definately have all the research you need to complete both.

sure it is! that fuel isnt coming from the cloud!