VenDei

Here's my circumnavigation of Kerbin by mostly land, I hope it qualifies. The (still)1.2.2-install is heavily modded, with Mk2 Expansion, SXT, Near Future Construction, USI Survivability and DMagic Orbital Science being components in the construction. (I think. The major ones, anyway.)

Sorry for not posting in 2 weeks, but I was forced offline because of ISP-troubles. But since Squad did NOT put crippling DRM into KSP that makes an offline game unable to function without an online connection, I had quite some time on my hand to proceed with the mission. Just shy of 55 m/s on dead flats, I think I maxed it at 60-ish on a slight downhill slope in the desert. In your average grasslands I could do speeds around 25 m/s to 30 m/s. We left off here: The inevitable happens about at about a third of the way: We even lose the wheel alltogether, and we fly in a spare. But my inexperience with KIS/KAS keeps me from making a repair. In retrospect, driving closer to the plane might have done the trick... The loss of a wheel was deemed acceptable in the end, and so the mission goes on on nine wheels. Anyway, to make a long story short, they did it, even with Valentinas reckless speeding. Mission clock read 14 days, 4 hours, 45 minutes and 38 seconds, a lot of which was spend on water, even if water was only a small portion of the way. The reactor was at a power setting of 3 percent, delivering 15 EC/s, using 0.02 Units of Enriched Uranium. The path is what I imagine pretty much the standard for a manual equatorial-ish circumnavigation with minimum water on the way: I put some more pics in the album, they don't need to go all here bloating the post.

Sorry for the late reply, but ISP-troubles... Don't bother with dialects, read books in German, watch films in German. But those are probably valid for any language you want to become good in.

No one quite knows where this idea came from. Maybe it was the unveiling of the D4 "Glowdart"-Drone that can go reasonably fast anywhere on Kerbin without anyone being on board, but someone snapped "Enough with this computer nonsense, we'll show you what KERBALS can do!" And what kerbals can do, supposedly, is drive a rover around their planet. All the way. The vehicle is your basic, overgrown Mk2-body on Hextruss-chassis with 10 wheels, a nuclear reactor and all the scientific instruments available for mopup in any biome the crew comes across. Because Jeb has the flu it's Valentina driving, with Bill and Bob in the back. As someone raised the objection of "there's water to cross, y'know", six inflatable floats were put on, als well as four tiny electric fans. This will prove to be no quite the brilliant design-decision, as while on land the Kerbin Explorer has a topspeed of just shy of 55 m/s, on water it's more like 1.2 m/s. But everyone keeps dry feet. Anyway, the kerbals head out west... To be continued. Addendum: The eagle-eyed may spot the Bon Voyage-icon. It's an autopilot. It will not be used in this mission, as the goal is a manual circumnavigation. Actually it can't be used, as I did not put the autpilot-part on the craft.

Completed the construction of a station core in LKO.

Flying around a greenhouse for science and money.

It's the V and D from my screenname in a hexagon over wings.

Hello, Name is VenDei from Germany, and I have been playing KSP on and off since... .23.5? .24? something like that. Since I have a look here now and then, anyways (especially for mods), I thought I might as well register, so, here goes. -- VenDei