Scarecrow71

None of the rides is functional. And you have no tourists. Sending a lander to Eve.

And you forgot a ladder. And parachutes. Jool-5. On a new page, even!

Yeah, I did say that it probably wasn't a good idea. See, for me, the stuff I really want to use MechJeb for...you can't in the Caveman challenge. You can't create maneuver nodes, use docking autopilot, use ascent guidance, transfer to the Mun/Minmus/other planets...none of it is usable because you don't have any of the buildings upgraded. The only thing MJ is useful for in the Caveman challenge is orbital information, especially time to Ap/Pe. There is some dV information you can get in the VAB with it, but I'm not sure it's any different than what you can get out of the VAB without it. I mean, I was able to complete my Normal Caveman without it, so it's not entirely needed to do it. But until you upgrade the buildings? You can't really use most of what it's designed to do.

I, like @jinnantonix, am still loving this challenge. I know I'm the originator of it, but I love learning all this history.

Kosmos 186 / Kosmos 188 And that completes Kosmos 186 / Kosmos 188.

Banned for thinking Kerbal Space Program only applies to the first game.

Sure do. TUBM is not, in fact, a computer.

Banned for not realizing that this is not, in fact, a forum for anything other than Kerbal Space Program, regardless of the amount or type of Lounge games being played.

Granted. Your soul is in the possession of the devil, mate. I wish Australia was closer to my house.

Ooh, too bad you only have stock parts. I install Kopernicus and head for Duna.

Nope. Now @ColdJ?

There is a reason that should have been forgotten. And darn you to heck for making us remember!

It's an interesting conundrum, to be sure. As I mentioned in my original post, we get into splitting hairs about what one would know from playing the game vs. what one would know from extensive testing. It's one thing to know that a particular craft you've built in other career saves will be able to do x, but entirely different to build and rebuild and rebuild in several different ways to find out how to push the limit of what it can do just so you can complete a challenge and earn that coveted badge. Where does the line get drawn? What separates the two? If someone knows, then they are smarter than I am. To your question, I'm not sure there is a real solution here, other than "Don't Ask/Don't Tell". I mean, this whole thing wouldn't have come up if the original poster hadn't explicitly come out and stated what they were doing. Had he not said anything, nobody would have asked if he was testing outside the Caveman career he had going on for the NCD difficulty. But, if you are looking for an honest, let's-try-this-and-see-what-happens solution... Perhaps make it a rule that, in order to try any difficulty harder than Normal, you must complete the easier difficulties in order? For example, if you want to do Moderate, you have to do Normal first. You want to do NCD, then you have to complete Apatite, Vandadium, Topaz, Corundum, and Diamond - in that order - before attempting and submitting NCD? I don't know if it's a good idea, but it's the one I have.

Another mission!

Venera IV And that completes Venera IV.

For starters, I'll point you to the help guide. Yes, I know you are posting in the sub-forum for installs without mods. But there's a lot of good advice in this topic. Secondly, do you have screen shots of the craft in the VAB? Also, can you bring up the debug menu (ALT + F12) and check to make sure you don't have input locks...locked?

Tiny ban

And Spock vaporizes Rock. Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock. Look it up.

All your base are belong to us.

And that someone is my wife. TUBM needs to go grocery shopping.

Granted. There are so many of them that they take up the entire screen, leaving no room for any forum posting. I wish Jebediah Kerman was real.

With Clint Eastwood. Heartbreak Ridge.

Banned for continuing to not announce the new page. It's a new page, by the way. Several posts ago, but someone has to announce it.

Considering the user above me has no profile picture, I win by default!