Kertech

After some mucking about whilst doing the serious exam revision I finally started doing a new career save and got upto the interplanetary relay building stage I used to do a dedicated trio of relays for each planet but robotic parts made this option attractive... This is my outer planet relay (there's three of them) the smaller inner planet relay was a bit simplerto launch, just loved the folding limbs to give the dishes space... Time to launch some planetary probes... With this save I've also decided to do things properly and actually make some subassemblies of standard parts (rockets, probes etc.) Imaginitively called the atlas family which currently have 1 tone, 4 tonne and 10 tonne variants... Been mucking about with weather balloons, Jeb was horrified by the lack of motors!!! And made my first useful spaceplane (though very not stock, those shiba engines are amazing!!) Just to wrap up, launched the first three of 7 Vagrant probes, designed to become the first relay for their planets as well as gain orbital information, don't really want to do probe landers when the relay can suddenly go over the horizon and you lose all control!!! But I'm back kerballing and it's good!!!

The way I answer this question is with kerbal engineer (KER). It gives you a thrust to weight ratio and you can change which body you're around! I aim for about 1.5 take off thrust to weight but that's cause that's what I'm used to more than any technical reasoning. Side note terrier might be over kill out there, apart from tylo and laythe, jools moons have pretty pathetic gravity!

Cool thanks, was wondering where that came from (put in a whole load of mods at once!)

I have a hail button on my antennas, is this remote tech or other (mod problems) and if so what does it do?

For me kerbals are only sent into space (after first missions) once the hardware has been built, so interplanetary ships and stations are autonomously built then a crew transfer happens. Crew transfer vehicles are tested first before use, again autonomously. (I play with TAC, keep fit so there are plenty of ways for me to kill my kerbals already...)

Posted this earlier, only realized the glaring mistake just now! The return pod on the right, has no thrusters, none at all, it was meant to have rcs to de orbit, but me being an idiot didn't press x!! Time for a kerbal solution... Join them together... You'll then see a second error, the capsule with RCS has only got two thrusters, which means only two directional translation!! docking this was amassive pain, having to rotate to change the plane of translation every ten seconds!! Reentry was a bit hairy, the docking port jr isn't the best attachment point... had plenty of fuel but de orbiting with two rcs ports took ages!!! Snapped apart within the atmosphere, luckily they both have parachutes!! Bill and Bob home safe...

Early career communications set up Started off with the Lunar sat 1 mission Jeb in command to place the first comsat in lunar orbit His sparrow pod for return is a dainty little thing Repeat for minmus Finally the launch of the first space station Set up to eventually look like this (after a lot of fiddling...)

@danfarnsy Thanks for the update, your selfless action to keep one of KSP's most loved mods running are amazing! Hope everything is going well otherwise. I'm sorry about the others who were pestering for updates, it's stress you don't need!

@MoridinUK curious, WoT reference??

Kopernicus Outerplanets mod Xen’s Planet pack Kerbal planetary Base systems ScanSat Dmagic Orbital science Remote tech Tac Life support Deep Freeze Keepfit MechJeb HyperEdit Community Tech Tree KAS KIS ResearchBodies VesselMover Safe Chute Atmospheric autopilot Cacteye Kerbal Alarm Clock Tarsier Space Tech Champagne Bottle Redux SSTU Surface Experiments Ven’s StockPart Revamp Crowd sourced science Eve Biomes NearFuture Propulsion Electrical Connected living space Infernal robotics Infernal Robotics rework Probes plus Station science Stock alike station expansion Kerbal Atomics Cryogenic engines Interstellar fuel switch SpaceY KWredux Empty node hider KER KJR VX series engines Arkas Planet Contract Configuror Solar science Jool Biomes Kethane Universal storage Cx Station parts My mod list atm, Essential are KER, KAC, KJR, All the rest are there cause I like it Table seem odd I know, I keep a table so I know what I have, what they're called in folder, version number, game number the build is for and forum link! Did it on a fresh install so a lot of work up front but long term it's SOOOOO much easier!!

Currently - Revising and sitting exams, Normally - Revising and sitting exams, with time taken out to go cross country running and maybe do some actual medicine!!

The only console I've ever used is a wii, mario kart, and random games on it are fine for social gaming only really. KSP isn't really social, it isn't multiplayer (other than when modded) and I feel like the core community here are pretty happy with the game they play already to want to have to learn new commands, play without the mods they love and lose their save games. That said if it brings new players to KSP who are put off by the computer requirement (I have friends who don't play PC games cause they assume it requires an expensive gaming machine (my humble laptop will argue that point) ) but already own an XB1 or PS4 then best of luck to them and SQUAD. As the existing community it is important we DO NOT DISCRIMINATE between PC and console players, we all were new to the game once and had no clue about orbital mechanics or action groups etc. so let's be the happy welcoming community we all know and love!

Hmmm, might do, I just had quite a lot of fun sending them off in suborbital/orbital trajectories...

Some messing about Millenipost stuff Squat is the way to build a rocket according to Bill Brief flight over to the pyramids And decided if remote tech was gonna be there then kerbal would probably have built a ground network. 16 identical stations transmitting around the kerbin system attached to three low tech (probe core, communotron, solar panel and a battery) low orbit probes. How to stop the planet blocking your view, make the planet your view!! Start of the larger side of fun

Weird mobile devices say 999 still, edit it just mine being weird... happy milleniposts

Decided to build a recoverable satellite launcher/ crew transfer vehicle... Ground tests held out Next build a booster (early career so it's a bit lumpy, later models will be cooler to look at This one is loaded with science instruments for return Built a probe for the Kerbin system, science is needed for munar programs! Finally Icarus 1 proved I don't understand remote tech very well, since it lost communicationshortly after leaving the system, but the booster loked great anyway!!

So I started a new game (fresh install and everything) and decidedto do it right and make a table of mods and which ones need updating details about them etc. (can you tell I'm procrastinating from revision) then had to check they're working with 1.1.3 (which not all of them are but still plenty oftime till exams are over!) Built a large civilian space station Built a small science station And tried some early career mode things (not very interesting to look at as we all do this...) Found TAC has an issue atm so deinstalled it

Wondering where this is coming from, in VAB/SPH I'm getting parts which have no icon, no object when placed loads of them (will take a screen shot in a bit) all starting with SSTU and having a long description??

Was about to report the same error, good luck with whatever RL throws, I'm sure everyone will be patient

Don't know if this has come up (couldn't be bothered to read ten pages, but have scanned with ctrl-f for freeze and deep) but wondering if you cryo a kerbal does the time spent in the cryo tube reduce their fitness or does it keep them fresh? I'm wanting to use deepfreeze for the long distance stuff!

When using the count down to burn time you need to start burning before your marker, if the estimated burn time is up it is half of that before and half of that after, what you're trying to achieve is all the acceleration happening at 0sec, but cause that would require an infinite accelleration you need to start before, e.g. A 2 minute burn will begin at -1minute and end at +1minute. Hope that clears things up and happy mun encountering! The the other way to reach the mun though is just time warp until it appears just over the horizon, burn prograde, watch the map screen until you get an encounter! Just make sure you have a more or less 0' inclination. happy flying After re reading I would also suggest, if you AP is flying off, cut your engines, fly to apoapsis, then burn prograde there! If you're way too high then it'll only take a few hundred dv! The navball is the greatest tool in the world!

Didn't realise1.1.3 had come out till steam decided to auto update (just when i had gotten so bored of revisingthat I allowedmyself some ksp time! built a new station Built a smaller station for experimenting on animals and larked about with space y

Spamming tiny probes early on in career mode and sending them as far as you will sped the game up! Especially if you can fit 3+ in a launch Normally before I make orbit I fling something into solar orbit, brute force straight up style!

@CatastrophicFailure what mods are you using or the lander capsule and engine on the service module,they look great!

No ksp was played and won't be played for a month till my exams are done (turns out neurology is hard ) But I'll be back with a new save in the ever increasing version number of ksp (maybe with updated mods by then!)