MinimalMinmus

The other main problem I see, past the problem of it being a chaotic system, is that it takes a very specific configuration to manage to do exactly what you want. Example: I decide to start with a KEKKJ trajectory, visiting Kerbin, Mun, Minmus, Eve, and Gilly before heading to Jool. First, the "Gravitational assistance-a-holics" of yours know you must get the Mun in a very specific position. BUT you must also wait for Minmus to be here, hopefully not too close, as it would bother you. Then you come to Eve, hopefully grabbing Gilly on the way (which is %@#$£ hard, by the way). Now, you come back to Kerbin twice, while praying Mun or Minmus won't ruin any of your passes. ... And as a Bouquet Final, you must pray for Jool to be right where you want! (and in fact, also hope Tylo is right where you want, to get into the system) Such a combination of constraints is only possible very, very rarely. And while there are other routes, of course, they all have this batsh*t insane timing requirement.

France here, more precisely Paris. Anyone else from here/has ever been here?

This challenge is most definitely possible with a few burns. Bradley Whistance did it with a SSTO, and yes, with no refuel AT ALL until he came back to Kerbin. With no burn, I'd say impossible. With such a small margin, then due to the butterfly effect, and supposing such a "mega flyby" trajectory even exists, then you could imagine a 1mm error for the Moho Flyby results in a 1m error for the Eve/Gilly flyby, resulting in a 1 km error for the Duna flyby, and 1 Mm for Dres. While those numbers are probably false, the accumulated, exponential error would end in a complete fail in meeting the four moons of Jool, and subsequently Eeloo. And 1 mm would be very, VERY small compared to the scale between planets. It's in fact much less than the errors accumulated due to floating-point errors or even small glitches in the physics system (say, you are accounted to leaving Kerbin's SOI a few milliseconds later). So here's my verdict: impossible without, very definitely possible with, even with no refuel or staging.

For the moment, the only worlds I've landed on with a crew are Mun, Minmus and (duh) Kerbin. But I have a 90-ton mothership around Duna that begs to differ, though. As of probes, I have successfully landed a rover on Moho (with 16m/s of dV left...), Eve (3 tries and a sacrifice of the mother probe, but it still counts) and Duna. I also went into orbit of Gilly (twice, and I got trolled by its unsafe low orbit each time) and Ike. Finally, I flew-by Sarnus from OPM. My next plans, after the mega mission on Duna (that will also include Ike) is to go to Dres. Dunno what I'll do then. Gilly, maybe?

I have a tendancy to call this mountain "Mount Bradley Whistance"

Today, I recieved a postcard. https://imgur.com/a/hHdyV Dear Jeb, I've finally finished my trek on Eve! As you can see, I'm having an evening bath on the beach. The temperature is good and hot at 120°C, and the explodium is just right. I heard explodium is excellent for girders, so I'll sure bathe a lot during my exploration of Eve. I'm not a good swimmer however, but even dipping my wheels feels quite good! Yours truely exploration rover "Carmine" To: Jeb 279, Explosion Ave. KSC

How about a few "Kerbolspot" biomes too?

I'm the "Start over when there's a lot of changes" kind of guy, but many don't share my policy. So ultimately the choice is up to you.

I'd recommend Minmus for a first time: it's smaller, and unlike what you'd think, the gravity of the mun isn't enough to prevent you from tumbling at high speed. What the Mun DOES have, however, is craters everywhere that may hinder you or even damage your rover.

I finished a way too long Mün elcano:

Today, I come here for my 2nd elcano. After Minmus, I decided to do something harder. Here's Jool! ... Sorry, had to fire the temp. I mean, Mün! https://imgur.com/a/JfZOA A few numbers about the journey: 1,400,000: the distance in meters 9,350: the total science gathered 202: the number of experiments 21: the number of techs I could unlock 18: the number of flags 15: the biomes I visited 7: the number of parts I destroyed 2: the number of glitches (One that toasted 4 static panels and another that transformed Bob into a tourist...) 1: the number of RUD s. Enjoy!

They look at the plaque very hard, obviously.

To cross the "better difficulty" suggestion, how about the nuke(s) requiring LH, but only on hard? By the way, nothing to add to the suggestion, except maybe that I would like big ions too.

I sent Jeb to investigate a glitch fault in the terrain of Minmus. He tripped, and fell in it. He was pulverized. Ow.

Nice Charon too, and you definitely didn't forget the "Mordor Regio" (what a cool name!). Good job!

I must tell you, Catercracker, all of this is pretty good! I really like the style you use in your drawings! P.S.: the ringed centaur asteroid you can't name is Chariklo. P.P.S. once you've dealt with Pluto and Charon, could you please make a drawing of Pluto's "intermediate moons"? (Nyx and Hydra)

Yeah, but it's the closest you can get... and the topic also partially drifted to IG achievements.

Dun dun dun... and it is named... ksp achievements. Edit: that was before your edit. I see what you mean now, I was talking about in game achievements.

Yes there is, and you can trust me, I have it! Can't remember the name however...

Well, as usual......... there's a mod for that. Achievements aren't very diverse unfortunately.

Well, let's see... I didn't know about decouplers Horizontal orbit speed was alien to me My rockets were stacks of SRBs I didn't understand science I didn't know what a contract was... GOSH

BWAHAHA IT DIDN'T STAY UNNOTICED!!! (the notification did help...) It it quite interesting indeed. Elements, minerals... And yet I can see each time why did you call it "X" or "Y". fave of the lastest bunch: "rubin". ... By the way, why is "ruby" often called "rubin"? Is there a special reason?

That's right, its unit is the Krewton. But it's sometimes converted into Krakenforce,for the sake of convenience.

Besides, let's face it: the kerbalness of a design is given by the equation: Ker=sqrt(m*A)*e*E Where m is the mass A is the acceleration ASL e is the number of things that can explode E is the number of things that actually explode during normal behavior Therefore mass counts.

Plot twist: Laythe is actually the Earth. Don't even ask how it got here.