Vanamonde

Lazurkri: Vostok:

Gives you a real sense of accomplishment, doesn't it? Looks a bit drafty.

A while ago I was proud of myself for pulling off the trick of driving over an arch. Turns out it's not such a feat. In fact, the cart mod is so sticky you can drive over an arch by driving under an arch. The hardest part was finding a place where the slope was gentle enough to drive off without getting stuck, so I had to go around, laterally.

N is the brake for the cart, but it's the kind that only is applied while you hold the key down. Neither V nor B seem to do anything. Incidentally, I just discovered that both of the Kerbals in my cars picture were Willin Kerman.

If you're like the rest of us, there will be many more missions in need of rescuing.

Does anybody know what key this is? It would be very useful.

The handbrake is a mod, right? I've never tried it. Does it stay braked when you leave the vehicle? Htting B on regular landing gear only brakes as long as you hold the key down.

You know you can just leave Commander Elbald there until you learn how to reach him with a 3-man capsule with an empty seat, right? The story doesn't have to have a sad ending. Instead, it's the beginning of a whole new exciting adventure and technological triumph. The Rescue of Commander Elbald!

After something similar happened to me, I too build my planes now so that they can rest on the ground with their gear retracted. Also, I've started putting kickstands on my rovers. The one on the left looks cooler, but can't be fitted on top of a rocket. The one on the right is functional on Mun, but the operator has to jump on and off the platform because there's no way to fit a ladder.

The scheme outlined here is how you award poinst to others, and the thingy under your name is how many points others have awarded to you. I think. Right?

So they can rotate but not change attitude? As for attitude control, I've been meaning to try two smaller engines angled out from the main one, like on the old Atlas rockets. In ASCII-CAD, that's something like: /I\ with the slash and backslash indicating the angles of the side engines around the main engine represented by I. But I haven't gotten around to trying it.

It would help if we could see a screenshot of your plane. If the landing gear is uneven, are you not placing the items with the "symmetry" tool? That's one of the round gray/yellow buttons on the upper left of the assembly screen. Whatever you place on one side should be mirrored on the other if that is turned on. Or if your planes are falling over while rolling, everybody's planes do that. It's a bug that they know about and are working on. For right now, place the wheels as widely apart as possible, and it will still veer to the side, but hopefully keep going long enough to takeoff. If the engines just don't start at all, mostly likely fuel is not getting to them from the tanks. Some parts transmit fuel to the tanks and some do not. The ones that do say "fuel crossfeed" on them. Put crossfeed parts between the tanks and engines, or you can use the little fuel conduit thingy to link a tank to an engine, but placing the conduits can be a little tricky sometimes because they don't always stick right where you want them to. Oh, or you might not be turning the engines on. You have to tap the spacebar once to turn them on at the start of the flight, and then they respond to the throttle.

I'm kind of pleased with this ship: It's stable and steerable, and the 4 legs and wide base keep it from tipping over on sloped ground. There are linear RCS thrusters on the underside for last-second braking before touchdown. And it's got just enough fuel to get back from Mun, and so is no larger than it needs to be. Craft (if anybody's interested): http://www./?p30y8xhatfucaz7 (By the way, I'm not offering that as competition with Ziff. His advice helped make my version work.)

How is the Mars-alog going to work if it's closer to the sun than Kerbin? Will it only look like Mars but be warmer?

By the way, the problem isn't solved; it's just been made manageable. When I took one of the guys out for EVA during the transit just now, he floated around watching the ship do a pollen dance.

Since they'd always be opposing each other at the same throttle setting, how could that get anything done?

Lookie what just made 2 successful test trips to Mun and back: Dispensed with SAS, made the upper stages lighter by drastically reducing fuel, rearranged things to discard the first 2 stages before reaching orbit so I'm not trying to steer with a county strapped to my behind, orbiting Kerbin at higher altitude, and other stuff you helpful guys suggested. (Fendleton, I couldn't use that trick because it kept claiming it was "under acceleration" and wouldn't go in to warp. ) Thanks a bunch for the help, gentlemen! (And ladies, if any of you were.)

After my first successful Mun landing, I crashed on every attempt for the next 3 days. Just because you did it once doesn't mean the challenge is gone.

Well? Where are the screenshots? Posting those is the best part.

Oh, for crying out loud, people! Nova's picture is obviously an extinct Martian playing a gaelic harp: (Oh, just pretend the damned thing is spoilered, okay?) (Thanks softweir!)

Say what-the, what is it you're calling attention to in that pic? I'm afraid I don't see anything.

The old ones came from beyond the stars. Would that it were that easy. "That is not dead which can eternal lie." He's been dead before, and he'll be dead again. The proper pronunciation of his name is anyone's guess, but HP did sometimes spell it Kthulu. Point? I have no point to make.

Are you saying that you don't know how or that it's not working? If the former, press F1 and whatever you're looking at (except the mouse pointer) will be saved in the "Screenshots" folder within your KSP folders. Then the best way to post it currently is to upload that screenshot file to a service like Imgur, then take the URL that Imgur gives you for that screenshot and link to it in your post.

That's what I meant. It's good thing you're playing creative games and asking questions instead of just shooting badguys.