Just Jim

Space Station Cristoforetti-B (Upgraded after 1.0.4 was released)

Ahhahahahaha Yup! that one is my all time favorite, other than the first Godzilla. I love old Sci-Fi... many of the old classics are so Kerbal in so many ways.... - - - Updated - - - Oh real quick... I forgot to mention in my original post. I'm not using any mods other than chatteterererer... lol... and Asteroid day. No MechJeb or Engineer or any of that. I find them way more confusing to use than just doing the math in my head and hoping nothing explodes

Oh wow... thank you all! I am so glad y'all are getting what I'm trying to do! But your not going back quite far enough... lol. My lander designs were inspired by.... wait for it..... Godzilla vs. Monster Zero! 1965 hehehe I'm 52, and I still love old sci-fi and monster movies, and this was on a couple weeks ago, so I recorded it. And when I was watching that beautifully campy old-school rocket land on Planet-X, I thought to myself, you should build something like that in KSP. The Oreship came first. I didn't know what to expect, except I didn't expect it to go this far. But it turned out to be a lovely ship to fly, and the widened base makes all of them very stable to land, even on shallow slopes. And the Mk1 inline cockpit IVA view makes them all super easy to dock. So thanks again for the nice comments... I'll post the next chapter as soon as it happens... lol.

Ahhh, fantastic! I thought that might be the number you meant, but I would have screwed up the zero... lol. Thanks! - - - Updated - - - OK, let's try this. Hopefully, this will be my album showing up - - - Updated - - - Oh cool, there it is!!! Thanks again Dman!!!!!!

No. While my ship has gas lines, I found they're not needed, and I'm removing them from the next version.

My Super-Heavy Ore Grinder, or SHOG for short: This beast can drill and hold 12,000 units of ore on Minmus, deliver almost 4000 units to my space station in low Kerbin orbit while keeping itself refueled all the way there and back to land on Minmus and do it all over again. As big as she is, she translates well docking, and lands quite smoothly. The nicest part landing is I can use the poodle engines to keep her coming down at a steady rate, and toggle the rhino engine on and off to act as a sort of landing brake. I love this ship!

OK, I just made my mission report. Here's the link if anyone wants to check it out: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/130318-Moonkricket-Space-Agency-and-interplanetary-tourism-center?p=2113272&posted=1#post2113272

Real quick: My name is Jim, and I signed up a couple days ago. Was told this is the place to show off screenshots...lol... and I've got quite a few I would love to share. I've been playing since 0.9, but started a new career when 1.0 was released, and I've gotten way beyond anything I thought..... ... but it all starts with a girl named Val T. Kerman, who wanted to go into space more than anything. From the first day she was hired, Val was getting into trouble But senior astronauts Jeb, Bob, & Bill knew she was something special, and she was soon promoted to gathering science on and around the space center. And after that she began taking tourists on sub-orbital trips. (This was before 1.0.4 came out) Having made a lot of money on tourists, the space center was able to fund manned missions to the Mun and Minmus And launch large survey satellites But then came a contract for a large Mun base... which I will continue in a reply so this doesn't get too long. - - - Updated - - - Chapter 2: Munbase Tereshkova The contract for the Munbase was huge, and many designs were considered before one of the biggest was chosen But how does one put a monster like this into orbit? Conventional rockets just turned into giant exploding bobble-heads. And the only thing that came close to working was a skycrane, originally intended for landing. Then a junior engineer asked "Why not just build a huge skycrane???" And after many test launches, the Tarantula Skycrane system was born And sunrise the next morning was launched The biggest issue turned out not to be fuel, but overheating, and after 1.0.4 came out I had to add a bunch of radiators to keep it from exploding. But in the end, it got to the Mun in one piece, and landing was easier than I expected. the problem came when I staged the last skycrane, and they went off course and exploded just a few feet over the base But luckily they missed, and Munbase Tereshkova as brought online To be continued... - - - Updated - - - Chapter 3: Space Station Cristoforetti Encouraged by the success of the Munbase, the engineers began experimenting with different designs, including a potential seabase And they launched, Cristoforetti Station, our first heavy space station. And began experimenting with different shuttle designs But then 1.0.4 was released, and parts of my space stations started blowing up. But did my engineers quit? Absolutely NOT!!! They evacuated everyone off the station and launched Station Cristoforetti-B To be continued... - - - Updated - - - Chapter 4: Let There Be Landers So after all the issues brought up by version 1.0.4 were resolved, the center landed a colony base on Minmus And the engineers began working on specialized landers for the Mun and Minmus. the first were the ore-miners, the workhorse of the fleet. These are meant to mine ore, process it into fuel, and re-fuel the space stations. Their success means never having to send up fuel from Kerbin again! And eventually a much larger version was designed, the Super-heavy ore-grinder, or SHOG After that came tourist landers, meant to ferry tourists from a space station to the surface of the Mun or Minmus and back safely. Not the prettiest of my ships, but very easy to land and dock. And finally the Advanced Science Lander, which found something amazing on it's maiden test flight And wile all this is going on, Jeb, Bill, & Bob ran off to fetch a nearby class-A asteroid to play with But now the space center is silent and deep in thought... we have just received contract offers to explore Duna & Ike To be continued... - - - Updated - - - Chapter 5: Duna So in one hectic day, the center launched a station bound for Ike, a colony base for Duna, and 2 survey platforms, lead by Val in a modified Oreship Landing on Duna turned out to be much smoother than expected But while this was going on, Val discovered a weird, creepy black area while landing on Ike Val named this area Kraken's Swamp, and planted a flag so our scientists can explore this further, and headed back to meet up with the space station But new orders have come in. The Worlds First Agency wants Val to return and land on Kerbin with that ship! This could get hairy... it's got 20 parachutes, but those were meant for Duna, not Kerbin. So this is the end of my report for now. Will Val be able to land an Oreship on Kerbin and not turn into toast??? Will Jeb, Bill and Bob be able to turn an asteroid into a space telescope??? Stay tuned... this saga is far, far from over....

OK, I made an album. Posting pictures are easy, but I'm not finding an Album Code anywhere

Oh cool, it worked the first time!!! OK, so I've whittled it down to only about 50 screenshots I want to share... lol... should I do it here or start a new post of my career game?

OK, I started an Imgur account... let's try this out:

Wow, thanks everyone. Quick question: How do I post pictures? I have around 130 screenshots already uploaded to Steam, but I don't know if I can use them here.

Hello everyone, my name is Jim, and I'm a Kerbal-holic... lol. I've been playing KSP on Steam for almost a year now, and I have to admit, I am seriously addicted. I don't need help learning the game or anything, I thikn I have everything figured out. I just wanted to start an account on this forum as well as one on Steam so I could stay up to date on things like upgrades. I'm very, very excited about version 1.1.... bring on the antenna's... antenni??? lol Currently I'm in my 3rd year of a fantastic career game I started right after 1.0 was released. Had some issues when 1.0.4 came out, but survived without too many things exploding... lol. I now have space stations over Kerban, the Mun, and Minmus, and the Sun. And one currently headed to Ike. And I have bases on the Mun, Minmus and one headed to Duna. My fleet has survey platforms, shuttles, tourist landers, refueler/oredrillers and advanced science landers... lots of cool stuff. I will gladly share screenshots as soon as I figure out how to post them. So anyway, I just wanted to say hello to y'all.