Jackelmyer

Well I'm playing career mode and I'm fairly newbish. I haven't yet dipped into the world of DeltaV but I suppose that'll be my next thing. TWR has helped a lot. I imagine properly calcing deltaV would be equally helpful. Just trying to avoid turning yet another game into a job.

I've been sheepishly trying to use a big orange tank with two X-200-32's attached as my shuttle from my mining platform to orbit around mun. Two poodles, wheels, claw, some drone command pod, solar panels small x2, 250 mono tank... I needed to rebuild the darn thing anyway because the X200 tanks are on the back and the thing keeps doing wheelies. /facepalm So atomic and smaller it is. One other question. Is there any reason why a rovers wheels will occasionally switch it's steering direction? I built this Rover in the VAB as part of my rocket design and build. For whatever reason, after switching wheel directions to get everything running and turning correctly, a couple wheels will randomly invert steering and the rover gets stuck pigeon toed. didn't happen driving around the launch pad. Happens a lot on mun. using the wheels right before the last big rover wheels. Sorry, can't recall the wheel name. Not the shopping cart wheels. More like inner tubing wheels. :-/

So, if there's a link for this already... by all means share it. But this is for No Mod game play. I don't mind comments about mods on this, but I'm trying to keep my game mod-free. Just not a mod fan. That all being said, how the heck do you make the simplest, easiest to use, refueling station on Mun or Minmus? I mean, what's the point of mining and ore on celestial bodies if they're such a pain in the rear to mine and push fuel up to ships passing by? Right now I have a substantial mining base on Mun (minus some blasted busted solar panels). 4 large drills, two large converters, docking ports, the huge solar panels, radiators, it works! Uh... But getting the fuel loaded up onto my fuel Rover via a Claw to connect and then back into space? What a freaking pain. Hardly seems worth it. Rover is 1 orange tank and two of the tanks the next size smaller. Have to use so much of the blasted fuel to get back into space that I have to imagine there's a better way. I just want simple tourism in batches of 16+! Is that too much to ask! lol