Scarecrow71

I hope there is a link to watch it after the fact. I won't be able to livestream it tonight.

Whenever I get this one, I put the decoupler ON TOP of the command module.

Better late than never! How are things going, @ColdJ?

While I think ion (electric/Dawn) engines might be the way to go for missions to Mun and Minmus, as well as for powering rovers on celestial bodies, the burn time needed to transfer to anywhere beyond Kerbin's SOI might just be too long to be effective. Now, that isn't to say you can't do it. In fact, YMMV, and if you've got an idea I say go for it. I'm just putting out there that it may not be very efficient to do so. But hey, I've been wrong about so much in this game that I'm willing to admit that I might wrong here once again!

Aloha! Let us see if @18Watt will show up!

Neptune is blue due to the absorption of red and infrared light by its methane atmosphere. Saturn, on the other hand, looks yellow due to sunlight being reflected off the planet's thick clouds. Jool is a gas giant, so any number of gases could cause it to look green. Alternatively, high concentrations of chlorophyll could do the same thing.

@Xeldrak Not sure if this challenge is still active, but I completed it as part of the Kerpollo Challenge. The mission thread: According to the first post in this challenge, I think I've accumulated the following points: Reach Moho SOI (30 points) Reach Moho SOI with a manned craft (10 points) Land your craft of the surface of Moho (40 points) 1 Kerbal on the surface (10 points) Return at least a part of your vessel to the surface of Kerbin (40 points) 1 Kerbals returned (20 points) Return some kind of science from the Moho SOI to Kerbin and retrieve it (10 points) Return some kind of science from the surface of Moho to Kerbin and retrieve it (10 points) Return a surface sample from Moho and retrieve it (20 points) Plant a Flag at Moho (5 points) That's a total of 195 points gained from this one flight for this challenge. I even made a badge that I hope works! 125x125?

Your crashes are real...and they are spectacular. Oh llok a new page.

I don't think it is accurate. If it was, I wouldn't be so low on funds. I've done almost everything for Kerbin and Minmus, and I'm at 85000 funds. I tried a Mun landing today, and I lost half the funds upon return to Kerbin, dropping me to 47000. Again, I'm gonna hit Duna next and see if I can generate funds. I might have to use an admin strategy, and I may have to think about condensing missions more than I have. No biggie, really; the best thing about KSP is the replayability factor.

My problem right now is that I've got 85000ish funds, and I have to spend them wisely. I am going to try for Duna tomorrow and see if I can get something. If I don't, well, I'll have to start over and try some other strategy!

Well, I may have to start over then. If i can't earn funds in any way right now, I'm dead in the water.

@Noobi I also would like to ask if you have tried a different video card/GPU on your machine? Do you have the capability of taking this GPU and trying it on a different machine? I know, I'm still focused on a hardware issue here; I'm just trying to (hopefully) eliminate all the problems I can!

I guess I have to ask explicitly; I think the question here itself got buried and missed in the other 2 places I mentioned this. Is there a way to earn funds in KSP besides contracts? I know that there are World's Firsts, but I cannot seem to find an extensive/exhaustive list of the ones that exist and the amount they provide. I know there are Administration Strategies, but they don't seem to actually earn enough to make them worthwhile. I know I could alter the settings to increase the funds multiplier, or I could use the Cheat Menu to just give myself a lot of funds; both of these, to me, are cheating and I can't bring myself to do either of those. Why the question? I'm trying to do the No Contract Challenge, and I've stalled. I am sitting at 84000ish funds, and I've got several buildings to level 2. Unfortunately, I need to get R&D to level 2 so I can collect surface samples AND to spend the science I have. And the last mission I did included: EVA in LKO EVA in High Kerbin Orbit EVA in High Minmus Orbit EVA in Low Minmus Orbit EVA on the surface of Minmus Plant a flag on Minmus Rendezvous and docking in Low Minmus Orbit And although I did all of those, my last mission was a complete wash. That is, the amount I apparently earned barely offset the cost of the rocket I sent up there. This means that I have stalled out in earning funds, which will make this current career save nearly pointless...unless I can figure out some way to generate funds. I don't want to cheat, so using mods that are basically win-buttons aren't the way to go. I know there is at least 1 mod out there that creates several different types of things you can mine and sell for profit, and I would be ok with those (I need to learn ISRU anyhow, and having to actually work to get to Mun and mine and come back to sell I don't see as cheating as you have to work to do it). But are there any other ways to generate funds? Again, I ask about an exhaustive list of World's Firsts; I would rather start with those and see if I can pick them up. Thanks in advance!

Actually, I would love to have a tool where I could enter different values and see the potential outcome. I might be in the minority, but I like math. And I wish I could see the math.

Guess I'll have to update my version then. Thanks!

@PDCWolf What mod is that last screenshot from? I love the visualization of the transfer, and am curious about where it came from.

And they get chased out by Smaug. The Lonely Mountain

The latest entry here. I'm stalled with making funds. I thought for sure that EVA and planting a flag on Minmus would get me something, but I earned almost nothing. Any suggestions, beyond Administration Strategies?

With the Astronaut Complex upgraded, I can now do EVA off Kerbin. This opens up a lot of science that I didn’t get to this point, as well as a few World’s Firsts that should generate some funds. So I’m taking a trip to do all of the following: Near Kerbin EVA High Kerbin EVA High Kerbin Science High Minmus EVA Near Minmus EVA Near Minmus Science Minmus Surface EVA Minmus Surface Science Minmus Surface Plant Flag That’s a lot of science to garner from that trip. I think the only World’s Firsts here will be EVA near Kerbin, EVA on Minmus, and plant a flag on Minmus, so we’ll have to see what funds I have after this trip. I could use the same ship (essentially) that I used to originally land on Minmus, but I want to make a couple of changes to it. So I used this: I have a tendency to over-engineer rockets, which is going to come back and bite me in the behind in this challenge. However, in this case, I am glad I did. After I got off the surface of Minmus and back into orbit, the lander and the mothership were headed in opposite directions. So I had to execute a maneuver to turn the mothership around and get it going the same way the lander was (Bob is in the lander, and he can’t create nodes without line of sight to the mothership). Didn’t take too much dV, but I’m glad I had it! So, the real bummer part here is that I gained literally nothing in the way of funds. I started with 84111…and ended this mission with 87540. I gained a grand total of 3000 and change. That is not good. I am going to have to consider using an admin strategy here. I know I can get some cash from going to Duna and/or Ike, but is the gain going to be worth what I spend to get there? Hmmm.

Is it possible to set our own individual preferences to sort by date? Or is it an "all or nothing" kind of thing with the code?

Yeah, I forgot about the Autosave thing when I landed poorly. And so I reverted back to the VAB, which isn't all bad. Yes, I lost an hour of playing time futzing around with the original build and launch. But there are a couple things I can do better this time, so it's not a big loss. Annoying, but not too terrible.