Choctofliatrio2.0

Or put a normal Kerbal in it and say he's mute?

I started my youtube channel, and immediately ran into some problems. I tried to record KSP, but whenever I record video, my speaking gets all scrambled and messed up. Still not sure why this is happening :/

I like it, it'd be awesome to see the inner workings of your base. I admit I'm a little disappointed. When I saw a screenshot like that, I thought new station parts had been added. Oh well.

I'd like 5m parts. But I think what I'd like more is more science equipment. There are so many different experiments real space probes can do, why not in KSP? Things like magnetometers and solar wind sample collectors.

This is a science save, but whatever. Everything was going well. Interplanetary probes to Duna and Eve were en route, and the Kerbin system had been conquered. Until I got a contract. Extract ore from Minmus and deliver it to Kerbin orbit. Easy, I foolishly thought, as I started planning. First, I built my mining lander. It was the Silent Eclipse, a shuttle capable of hauling 1500 units of ore to Minmus orbit. I then landed it and started mining as I set up the rest of the operation. It was... a debacle. The Silent Eclipse was unmanned and used 4 small drills, so mining took ages. I had power issues where only 3/4 drills could run at a time. Electrical storage was limited, and the only reason it ran through the night was through an accidental glitch. I was meanwhile preparing the station. I had a small station in Minmus orbit, and I added to it. I launched a double mission. One module had a few large containers to hold ore, the other module was a crewed capsule designed to dock to the Silent Eclipse when it returned to orbit. It had an engineer, giant batteries, and several solar arrays to fix the problems the ship had been having. It was at this point I realized I had used up all the Jr. Docking Ports on the ship, which was a problem since the Silent Eclipse required one such port. I sent up a truss with many of the ports. Then, on that fateful day, the Silent Eclipse returned to the station. I docked it fine, and transferred the ore to the holding tanks. Due to me being dumb, in order to attach the upgrade to the mining lander, I needed to undock the tanks and move them. It was at this point I realized the upgrade module had no RCS, and was now floating freely. The Silent Eclipse chased after it as fast as a giant, lumbering ore tanker could go, but it was futile. I then tried to salvage the mission by redocking the tanks. But it got worse. In my designing, I knew that the upgrade's batteries would be sufficient for both it and the tanker, and once it was on station power it wouldn't be a problem. I had no batteries on the tanks. I quickly tried to redock it, but to no avail, and I watched helplessly as its power drained to zero. At this point, my engineer was freely floating in his capsule, no way of getting back to the station. My tank module, with the ore I'd spent months mining, was slowly drifting uncontrollably away. The Silent Eclipse sadly hovered near the station, me too distraught to bother redocking it. That was my first and only adventure into the wonderful world of resource mining!

Rocket parts are people! We're launching people!!!

You called? Cheer squad does need help. I've tried a one-man human pyramid, and it doesn't work XD

Cheerleading, go!

Paper Mache

Moon: Minmus Planet: Duna (Never really been, but still)

Ooh, exciting! I wonder what the plans are!

If it isn't too much trouble, I'd like to be a pilot Looking forward for more!

Interesting! Decoupler force is really only a factor on light upper stages. When you get to stages even around 1.5 tons, the DeltaV force is minimal.

1: I've never noticed too many problems with it. Maneuver nodes being annoying is really the only thing. 2: Rocket Stability: I've had... very few issues with this. The way I see it, if you need a ridiculous amount of struts to keep your rocket together, your rocket isn't built right. I use struts to support a lander on top of a rocket, and to keep boosters steady, and that is all I really need. 3: I agree on this. I have KAC installed, and it works great. I would like more help from the game keeping track of everything, though. 4: I also agree to this, but I really don't know how they could add more exploration. I wouldn't really like the game to add a whole bunch of colonization parts and mechanics. 5: I'd agree with this.

I can give just as many reasons of un-shiny rockets. It just doesn't seem like a priority to add that effect.

...Are rockets normally shiny? I think it'd be cool to have things like cockpit windows glimmer in the sun, but not stuff like reflections and the like.

Pro: Manned landing, no need for return vehicle, cheaper. Con: Loss of Kerbal, less science returned, moral guilt. Your call.

That sounds really cool! 1900s are my favorite period in history, and I've never really seen classes represent the period too well.

Don't worry, I'll fill in for you making images! not really.... Good luck with the course!

Occasionally. Sometimes if it's a plane or ship I use a lot, I'll keep a "flight log" of the various missions it did. Other times just a short blurb to tell me what the ship is supposed to do (What the heck did I build "Jalapeno I" for?)

You can look on the wiki to find the SOI distance and check your closest approach. But I think that's the only real way to do it. That'd be an interesting mod... something to actually show SOIs as like colored spheres in the map view.

That's what I've always thought! A lot of probes have internal instruments. You don't see extra batteries or thermometers attached to the sides of the real Sputnik.

How big is it in diameter? Looks awesome

Wait, do women normally have tongues? I have a bad feeling about the fate of this thread. Keep things PG here folks.

After my failed Moho mission, I was feeling bored, so decided to install Firespitter. This is just me, but I didn't care for it too much. It works fine, it's just not my cup of tea.