Squidiness

Ok, so I already started my Mün base, but it's a mess; I have some cheap lander on one edge of a small crater and some gargantuan mining lander on the other, so it really doesn't qualify as a base at all, does it? I've considered docking everything together at the Münar surface, but I'm terrible at precision landing, and that's why the two landers I wanted to be close together ended up 2km apart, so I don't think this is an option. I've also considered constructing it in orbit and then landing it, but the CoM would be off, so this would be fine if I could use parachutes, but since the Mün has no atmosphere, and I can't use parachutes, It would probably fail. I've considered (and already have) landing a bunch of facilities in roughly the same area as each other (their compactness would depend on my more or less non-existent precision landing skills), but this just turns out to be a mess, and I see no use for a spread-out colony other than to waste some time and funds. Now, I've constructed a mobile base (keep in mind it's still in the VAB, just waiting to be launched), which seems now to be my only option. It's CoM is off, however, so the rocket to get it to the site on the Mün in one piece always flips over ten seconds into the launch, and I'm not sure what I'll be able to do about it, or if there's anything I can do about it, for that matter. Anyways, how can I fix this problem? And if a mobile base isn't a good idea, what else can I do? Thanks in advance!

I've been thinking of doing something like this, only problem though is that it's CoM is shifted (what do you expect from a rover?), so I can't get it to launch without it tipping over 10 seconds in

I actually go to it quite often, and I've found that the asteroids in it's orbit are handy for refueling without needing to actually land

Wait, so that's a thing now? I never disabled it, but I've never noticed that Well, that's where I'm headed next, right after my Duna mission, which, in it's current state, isn't looking too good . I've got some pictures of the Duna expedition, if anyone's interested

Much rocket so space wow ^ Added emojis for extra cringe

After all of my Duna landings, I realized that flat land seems to not exist on Duna, and if it does, Where can I find it? Thanks in advance

What use is connectivity?

I actually don't know, I think found out about it when I was about 8 or 9, and my first Duna mission was so bad it wasn't even funny

I almost always name my ships after Greek gods and goddesses, since there are so many of them and they all sound kind of cool

I'm actually really far in the tech tree, and I have those already. I also realized, however, that the Fuel lines in the tug were going the wrong way, which was my problem XD. The mission succeeded anyway, though. All that Fuel left over in the tug was not wasted though, because it had SAS and everything, I was able to transfer Fuel from the big tank to some smaller ones the LV-N's were attached to, and I flew REALLY close to Moho, and eventually crashed into the sun, you know, for fun, and !!SCIENCE!!

My game is 100% stock, which I thought was obvious What's a comms network?

So I've sent manned missions to Minmus, Mun, and Ike, but I don't know what to do now. I've now finished most of the tech tree, and I don't know if I should head for the Eve system or the Jool system, so which one should I head for?

Are you kidding me? There's no way in heck I could launch a behemoth like that. I actually performed an Ike Round-Trip recently (Duna would cost too much deltaV for takeoff and orbit) with a moderately-sized lander attached to a huge "propulsion module" with 4 1.25m-wide half-sized duel tanks, an orange fuel tank, and 4 LV-N's, and apparently, the LV-N's didn't live up to their reputation of being very efficient, because they hardly got me out of Kerbin's SOI. So all the way from 100km above Kerbin, to Ike's surface, and then all the way back to Kerbin's Oceans, I was using up the fuel reserves of the lander, and I finished the final burns with monoprop, and the whole time I had a calculator out trying to find the very best transfer windows, and I returned to Kerbin from Ike with much less than 1000m/s of DeltaV left (somewhere around ~600m/s), which was, to me, nothing short of a miracle.

1. got it 2. Wait a second, there's a 1.25m ISRU? I really need to update KSP 3. I got LV-N's now, and they got me to Ike and back with only a few units of monoprop left to spare 4. got it 5. got it Thanks for reminding me to update KSP! I don't know how to update though.... oh, well....

Wow. Just wow. That is amazing.

yeah.... moho's hole ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Well, I started actually using this site a week ago

Yesterday, I had to make the choice between the Mun or Minmus, and I wanted to go to Minmus, since the choice seemed clear, since everyone was telling me it was cheaper to get to and it had more potential science, so I went to Minmus. Unfortunately, I didn't make it with the (relatively) microscopic fuel supply I had aboard the vessel, so I went for the Mun instead, got an intercept, (barely) reached a stable orbit, (barely) landed, squeezed all the science out of the Mun I could, lifted off, docked to the orbiter (I got a <1km intercept without even reaching orbit yet or anything close to it, that's about how lucky I was), and got back on a suborbital trajectory with monoprop alone. Then, for about ten minutes, I loaded my 5-Kerbal crew onto the return module (the middle portion, which is docked to the top of the lander and looks like it is disconnected from the lab module), got Danuki Kerman to load up all the remaining science experiments into his capsule, and they were headed home. The Processing Lab of the Lab module and the capsule of the lander (with some extra science on it) both survived on re-entry too, and not only were they uncontrollable pieces of debris, but they had no parachutes or any other kind of thing that would provide a soft landing, which was nothing short of impressive, considering they were coming in at over 3000m/s (6710.808mps) Now THAT made me feel dumb

Cut me some slack, I just discovered this site no longer than a week ago

I've seen posts dead for five years straight— and that's nothing short of remarkable— but I always decide to post something, whether it's a joke, an entire map of Kerbin, or a rage-filled rant (okay, maybe not that last one)

Thanks for the advice! I know now that this vessel is incapable of achieving a Duna round-trip, even with its ISRU, so I'll go to Minmus.

I know this is 5 years old, and the landmasses have changed, but here's mine (Since the continents have changed in shape, and the Itaalic Isthmus is gone (it was another suggestion), I had to do it from scratch: I'm really bored and have nothing to do, as you can clearly see

That is very vague and doesn't mean much What's the "Lounge"?

This is a KSP Forum

A "mum" mission XD