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  1. FTLparachute
    ah. can't complain about development, you've been cooking nonstop the past while (it's gone from this to now in 4 months). merry christmas
  2. FTLparachute
    Quick bug report - all bodies in AnuneExpansion have the biomes of their template bodies e.g: Arachnid has Laythe's biomes.
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    Props to the scatterer on Arachnid's surface. It gives it this really nice fog, making this probably one of the nicest places in the Kerbol System to look at.
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    Said retrograde orbit was not even close to Sapp and even with the amount of waiting the Aron encounter took a lot of fuel. I would have if I could have
  5. FTLparachute
    Sorry to keep asking - define 'explore'. It's quite vague what that actually requires you to do.
  6. FTLparachute
    tell me about it. at least I've gotten the ascent stage's mass down to 350 tons - that's under half the previous design. the problem is that my laptop is really struggling with running KSP, so until I get some better RAM and GPU I can only really chip away at Tyrant.
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    This is a good distraction from working on a Tyrant return.
  8. FTLparachute
    Just checking - are part mods/part reskins (i.e Restock) allowed?
  9. FTLparachute
    It helps de-clutter things a bit. Think so. Idea: Link to that post on the Beyond Jool thread - stops it getting buried in the mission ideas topic.
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    As of late, I stumbled upon the mod Beyond Jool. An alternate outer planets mod to OPM, it is very well made and one I would highly recommend you try out. Now, after getting some SpaceDust configs into the pack and realising that I need a much more powerful computer to begin attempting Tyrant, the mod's big bad and (spoilers) the villain of this post, I decided to do a Cassini-esqe mission to Sarkin. Mission Goals - Orbit Sarkin, the mods Saturn analogue - Fly-by all of Sarkin's moons - Land a probe on one of the atmospheric moons The Launch Launching the rocket took 2 attempts as attaching the interstage to the bottom caused the entire lower stage to remain on the rocket. The transfer stage has about 3400 m/s on it, as before it goes to Sarkin, I've decided to make a quick pit stop Wait, that's another modpack! Yes, this is Crokslev, from the Minor Planets Expansion. I wanted to do this as 1) Beyond Jool has MPE compatibility and 2) MPE's 1.1 update has given Crokslev a significant glow-up. I did pay for this, as my shoddy trajectory cost me the whole transfer stage to recorrect. But, 5 years later, I had arrived. The Landings You may notice 2 atmospheric probes on the probe. These are for the 2 bodies small enough not to incinerate a probe - Moach, a dead moon still retaining an oxygenated atmosphere, and Volatus, the Titan analogue orbiting Tyrant. Approaching Moach - the probes are detatched early so as to save fuel on the main probe. Tyrant visible in background. Unfortunately, the first one was wrecked, as the drogues were not enough to slow the craft. This looks quite intimidating. Until recently, this used to be identical in colour to Eve. The aerobrake in question, done against Volatus' orbit. Sarkin and Tyrant overhead. Tyrant, by the way, is a terrestrial with greater GeeASL and radius than Alternis Tylo. Touchdown! The Volatus lander was much more successful. Although the entry speeds were upwards of 8km/s, I correctly judged the thick atmosphere would slow the craft fast enough to keep it only slightly charred. At least I had one success. Foreshadowing + The rest of the flybys Unfortunately, my sporadic quicksaving came back to bite me when a borked fly-by of Tyrant left me in a revesed orbit of Sarkin. However, I was still able to fly-by the other inner moons, Kotta and Aron. Kotta, an oblate moon. The large crater on the right is Sushut Crater. Aron, the Enceladus analogue. The 'Crater of Nertea' is plainly visible. The 'Grand' Finale Now, I was at this point hoping to do a dive into Sarkin similar to the one done by Cassini. This plan was thwarted by two factors (Sarkin's atmosphere being very short and thus getting very thick very quickly, and the orbital velocity being 25km/s), which, instead of a fireworks show, instantly deleted the craft. Conclusion While the mission achieved most of it's objectives, the lengths to get to Crokslev and the sabotage by myself Tyrant left me unable to reach the other two moons, Sapp and (big shocker) Eeloo. Despite this, I enjoyed the rest of the mission.
  11. FTLparachute
    In the interface for creating messages, there's an eye symbol under the 'Font' options. That's the expandable box.
  12. FTLparachute
    Looking forward to 1.0.9, keep up the good work
  13. FTLparachute
    Considering Beyond Jool's Tyrant is harder than Alternis Tylo, this is going to be a very tough nut to crack.
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    Always good to see
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    Creepiest moment for sure was on Console. I was experimenting with how fast you could eject a kerbal using Physics warp and the reaction wheels in the MK1 pod. After successfully ejecting one at 2x10^28m/s or something like that, I returned to the KSC... only for the game to seemingly deload the map views of every body and turn the KSC buildings into windows through Kerbin. Eternal night. Thanks to XBOX deleting old screenshots I lost the images, but this video by Danny2462 shows the effect pretty well.
  16. FTLparachute
    OK - basic configs for atmospherics are done.
  17. FTLparachute
    Just want to quickly check - where should the antimatter belts for Tyrant and Sarkin go?
  18. FTLparachute
    hi. me again. kotta's taking its textures from DresRevamp. Might as well post something that isn't me complaining - working on SpaceDust configs for BeyondJool.
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    Ah.
  20. FTLparachute
    Sadly no. Doesn't even want to do it through Spacedock (downloads but zip is read as 'invalid'). My guess is that it's probably just my end playing up more than anything, so I'll look into fixes for this myself.
  21. FTLparachute
    Sorry to be a nuisance, but when is 1.4.1 going out on CKAN?
  22. FTLparachute
    I have a couple - Proper Methone analogue (i.e much smaller than Ovok) - Phoebe knockoff - Small Amalthea ripoff in either Anune or Jools rings Agreed, though the small SOI of Rage could cause some problems
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    Rage looks good now.
  24. FTLparachute
    PS - Here's a Transfer to Rage using a Jool gravity assist.
  25. FTLparachute
    I have been tempted by NFLV, but I want to keep it as stock as I can. That's still after I cut the outer boosters from 6 way symmetry to 3 way. Even with all that mass, the payload is only Jeb, a lawnchair and 32 spent sepratrons.
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