zetacross

Thanks for all the recommendations, I have a larger mothership in orbit around Moho with all the refueling needs, in case the rover doesn't have enough fuel. I also can plonk in a miner->refinery ship on Moho if I really want; so fuel isn't really an issue. I also have a refinery on Minmus and a giant 600t fuel tank I can easily get into Minmus orbit. I'm also landing only small planets and moons, which won't take much to get into orbit. Big planets I can use liquid engine SSTOs instead. Worst, I just need to land a 5 part rocket(from mothership) and stick the experimental data(KAS) on it and fly that home. I kinda just want a faster way to land a tiny ship many times. I'd usually just target a spot on the map, aim my rover that direction and lift, later slowing down; This eats quite a lot of fuel but it is faster than driving, but it still is kinda dull after doing it so many times. Or any suggestions/examples on what other people use to hop around airless planets. Or do you guys just science once then screw that planet? Yes, it's my first post and I've played Kerbal for like 2 months and having fun, but only recently being able to get outside Kerbin > What happens if a ship was made like a porcupine with landing struts. Does the rating on struts [10m/s,15m/s] represent how fast I can crash the thing without it breaking? > Could you make a reasonably high speed hovercraft? Tried doing that but small bumps on the surface explode my ship into fireball going over 70m/s > Could you make something like a star wars ball droid and roll that one direction? > Is there another what I can brake in airless planets besides burning retro? Thanks for all the comments!

Disc: I have mods installed [McJeb/EL/KW/Interstellar/More planets etc] So I have a tiny-ass rover (~4t) cramped full of scientific gear, with one scientist roving around Moho going to each of the 12 biomes collecting science in a box. That tiny rover will then shove it's way back to Kerbin with 200+ experiments. I did the same on Minmus and got like ~200k science. I'm using Kerbal Research & Dev mod(so i kinda do want science but the MPL way is kinda too cheaty) Is there a faster way to travel/land/relocate rover with no air . McJeb doesn't do landing well(or it takes longer) so I'm doing them manually, which gets dull after a while. -> Tried a large MK3 bus with huge wheels but the wheels crack and jam under pressure even on Minmus -> Tried a ship with engines facing both ways but hilariously hard to balance properly and stop from flipping. -> Landing fast on airplane landing wheels tend to make your ship flip someway when it touches the ground -> Can I like make RCS fire downwards like some sort of harrier jet? Engines are way too hard to balance without ship flipping -> Is there a mod/way I can calculate when to brake(burn) downwards to land softly enough? Technically, I can just shove 8 MPLs into one mega ship and just spam experiments .... but where's the fun in that?