SOURanger

Anyways I did some messing about in my sandbox and decided to run my entry under 3x grav hack, it seemed to be more, how you say... "suicidal". This video covers everything I did from launch vessel to escape atmosphere. To avoid clutter/spamming i will not post a video on this thread again til I get to the apollo-esque mission and thus complete the challenge, but the entire run will be searchable on the tube. Nb: There is much wrong with it so I'm treating this as my 'pilot video'. I liked this one better...

You sure it's hacked gravity causing the phantom acceleration? I don't think I ever had a ksp release where that never happened ever. I think there'll be a way to get around the dubious conics but I haven't tested it yet, have you tried disabling grav hack to plot the maneuver,then re enabling grav hack to perform it, just doing whatever the maneuver tells you to and ignoring the dubious predictions? I found that I could plot a mun>Kerbin return trajectory despite the equine products just by trusting the ejection angle from the mun. So long as I DIDN'T time warp through the soi change the game would sort its maths out then.

I think this is a superb idea but you need to set us ground rules ie: decide whether this has to be completely stock or whether mods that help with dv calculations or contract packs are allowed (I'm assuming we can't have KW rocketry), decide how you're scoring us and at what point the challenge is complete (completing tech tree for example), also will there be an easy normal or hard mode? Decide upon these things and I will eagerly take this on. Peace.

Here is my submission for normal mode, "BringYourOwnAirbags"... Now as for hard mode, how much of the deathtrap has to return to Kerbin exactly? Will I get away with just the root part or does it still have to look mostly like a car?

Thanks for replying and helping me to understand that this is not going to happen using stock parts. Turns out my part count would exceed 20k at the most conservative estimate.

I need help reversing this equation when I know the dv I want to acheive but want to know the mass of the aberration I will have to build (the dv I want is 90km/s). I can figure out dividing dv by g x isp but don't know what to then do with the answer to that. Can anyone help?