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    @Tallinu yes, you are right, as long as the mods dont alter craft physics from stock then its fine. The purpose being to enable comparison between missions and permit meaningful competition for some of the kudos titles. I havent tried Atmosphere Autopilot, but if it simply stabilizes and guides the craft as it appears to then its fine, MechJeb is OK too. You have a striking craft design which from the sound of it has already completed the K-Prize. I will wait for the promised video in the hope you will supply a name. I am afraid Kerbal transfer doesnt count unless you leave their cabin at the station... The problem is a pilot swap would be a zero mass Kerbal transfer achievement and it would require complex rules to make sense of passengers which I am not going to get into. So payload delivery is what counts for utilitarial kudos. Hope that makes sense
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    Do not despair @HeroBrian_333 for here with some piloting tips is Calman Kerman, rescuing Tanlin in a career game working search and rescue spaceplane called Gogitem. https://imgur.com/a/j2tGD1i Took a while of R&D to work out how to use the RAPIER with new atmosphere physics as I have been playing this career a while on hard and so only recently acquired RAPIER technology. I am awarding myself an APPA for making orbit and landing on the runway.
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    @TheFlyingKerman re: first mission (Jan 26 mission ) sorry if I missed a 1st class there. In my defence tbh the screenshots you are using are so small and blurry they are difficult to decipher and I could not see what was going on clearly and the text did not mention docking. Are you saying that the "installation complete" screeny is of ship and payload all docked with an existing station core which was already in orbit? If I might make a suggestion, such fine vessels and elegant piloting deserve slightly more detailed screenies. Have you tried IMGUR ? So to today's mission erm... I am hoping that was a Utilitarial Commendation to Minmus with APPA please let me know if I am wrong. Congratulations anyway and sincerely thanks for you mission report and for participating in the K-Prize.
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    @TheProfessor2112 OK, I can see why you might have missed it as it is only in the small print, I will revise the rules to make the no refuelling bit clearer. If completing the mission is how you want to play it then that is just fine, thanks for saying, please take all the time you need, np.
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    @lapis it would help if you described what you did in the way of completing the K-Prize mission @TheFlyingKerman looking good, congratulations on another Utilitarian Commendation with APPA for HKA-6B. Thanks for your report. @TheProfessor2112 Great craft and nice mission but I would like to draw your attention to the rules on the first page, specifically rule #1 provisos B and C as I am sorry to say refuelling is not within the K-Prize rules. So you can choose to have a gatecrasher listing or complete the K-Prize mission as a successful mission, which supercedes a gatecrasher and grants you the right to expunge your record. I will wait on your decision. The minimal K-Prize mission is to take off to orbit and land safely.
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    Not modded in any way. This is how it ended up after the update. I checked composites and metamaterials and they are also listed there in research but I have not researched these yet. I guess what has happened here is that I unlocked them before the devs moved them to higher tier research and then they became locked again, but were not removed from the unlocked listing in Advanced Construction research panel. So hopefully all I have to do to get them back is unlock the higher tiers. Thanks that helped
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    I have a problem with my Steam version career save after the latest update which relocked a lot of parts in my ongoing game. Unlocking again I can cope with but some parts are completely absent now, like EP-50 Engine Plate for example. It is not visible in decoupling or by searching in the VAB but is showing as owned in the research building interface. Furthermore ships built using the EP-50 are showing a warning when trying to load them that they are missing a part named "EnginePlate3" but they load perfectly well and contain EP-50 even though it is not available to build. Does anyone know what is going on and is there a fix? I tried looking at bug reports and saw none about this yet. I tried verifying the game and it redownloaded two files but this did not fix this issue. If I go to a sandbox game save all the engine plates are available as they should be, it just seems to be the career game which is bugged. I would prefer to rescue this career game because it is on hard settings and I have spent a while getting this far, also there is no guarantee a fresh career game will be free of the bug.
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    Merry Christmas to the intrepid crews of Kerbal Space Program, may the Christmas star guide you all to a safe touchdown! best booly
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    In which case, congratulations once again @Aquaticfantastic on completing another successful K-Prize mission which has been listed beneath your previous with the following kudos... - Utilitarial Commendation, Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with the R8-ZR. ... for completing a K-Prize first and delivering fuel to an orbiting ship. Thankyou for your mission report and welcome back to the K-Prize party guest list aka the roll of honour.
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    OK @Aquaticfantastic if you want to include that delivery mission for listing and kudos a text report will do, just need to know the name of the ship and details like dock/transfer in orbit and landing location and that no parts were lost etc.
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    Congratulations to @Aquaticfantastic on a successful K-Prize mission resulting in the award of the highly prestigious Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with the R8-ZR. Thankyou for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize party guest list, aka the roll of honour. Regarding the question of delivering monopropellant to a space station in orbit, I think that counts as a Utilitarian Commendation, because it is transporting mass into orbit just like the release of a small satellite. Interestingly though there is no precedent for that as noone has done it yet to the best of my knowledge and so it is not included in the rules, so I will amend the rules.
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    Congratulations to @Bitrefresh on completing the K-Prize mission snatching success from the jaws of doom with the following accomplishments (added beneath the first mission listing). - Utilitarial Commendation, Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with Condor Mark VII. - Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Merlin Mark VII. Thanks for your engaging mission report and welcome back to the roll of honour aka K-Prize party guest list. btw I left the Merlin entry as a standard APPA as I was not sure where it landed and took the mission log at face value for KSC terrain. If it landed on the runway then its an APPA 1st class and this can be corrected in the listing.
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    It is definitely allowed @Bitrefresh , its also perfectly OK to replay from F5 saves as many times as you want.
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    Congratulations to ... @JacobTheFoxx Pilot Proficiency Medal with SpeedyBoi V1. ... on completing the K-Prize mission successfully, landing at KSC beach. Thanks for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list! @Bitrefresh Thanks for your mission report for the flight of The Condor Mark V. I am sorry to say the loss of parts you mentioned on landing so courageously and desperately at the island runway is an automatic disqualification for the K-Prize. Since you already completed the challenge successfully you have the choice to have your mission linked as a gatecrasher, though the default is for the gatecrasher to be deftly brushed under the carpet and left unlisted, so say if you want the gatecrasher listing.
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    Well alright then congratulations to ... @AVeryNiceSpacePenguin Advanced Pilot Precision Award with X-20 Dynasoar SSTO. ... on completing the K-Prize mission successfully in a compact and effective craft. Thanks for your mission reports and welcome to the roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list.
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    Congratulations to ... @Hydrothermalventclam Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with the OV-01 Kestrel. ... on completing the K-Prize challenge and earning a 1st class award for the precision double achievement of landing on KSC runway and docking in orbit. @Mjp1050 Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Moustache. ... on completing the K-Prize challenge with a distinctive trefoil design and landing safely on the KSC runway. Thanks for your mission reports and welcome to the K-Prize party guest list aka the roll of honour. @AVeryNiceSpacePenguin since you asked, tbh I dont know if it counts because its not certain from the mission report whether the X-20 Dynasoar SSTO made orbit, since none of the screenies show it did and the report did not explicitly say that it did. If it did make orbit (with PE > 70km) then all you have to do is state this fact somewhere in the mission report as text and it would qualify.
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    Thanks for your video report of an awesome far reaching flight to Ike there @PrvDancer85 going around is perfectly acceptable, its where the mission ends which counts and the KSC runway is ... simply the best ... ! So congratulations on earning the kudos of an Exploratory Astrokerbal Distinction (Ike) and an Advanced Pilot Precision Award with LfoOnly3. Welcome to the K-Prize party guest list, aka the role of honour, fancy dress optional.
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    Red Dead Redemption 2, another fine game from the Take Two stables, well reputed 'round these parts... yip.
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    @Aquaticfantastic If you read the first post of the thread it gives you a few pointers. Which means you make a mission report in this thread, looking at the other mission reports should give you an idea, which can be text or image or video. To publish videos or images here you need to host them elsewhere and add a link by the appropriate means. I dont know how you do that with a PS4 as I dont have one. Imgur has its own button on the toolbar. I think a YouTube link is recognised automatically. Anyway its your call and I hope you can find a way but if you need to make a text only report that is good enough as above. We are on the honour system.
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    Of course, if you look at the first post rules you will see there is kudos specifically for delivering payloads to distant orbits or planet surfaces. If you mean picking up a payload there are kudos examples worked out for ore transport so we will have to see if a mission is comparable. If you could be more specific and I could give you a more specific answer. Congratulations are in order to @ValCab33 for a highly professional mission of mercy, utility & precision with Pegasus VI. Thankyou for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list, well flown
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    I play quite a lot and finally have got to say something about the map mode and arbitrary fading of craft and their orbit traces which are not the focus. Please give me a button which stops all the fading entirely. I guess whoever added it was trying to help but the algorithm continually guesses wrong about what I want to see and what I dont, basically I want to see everything. (I am not talking about the orbit trace bright / fade slider already in the game, I mean that whole craft and their orbits are faded out.) For instance today I wanted to switch to a craft I knew was approaching Minmus inside the SOI on an escape trajectory which needed a deceleration burn to insert into an orbit. So in the map after finishing maneuvers with another craft outside Minmus SOI, I switched to focus on Minmus and the craft I wanted was not visible at any zoom level, only orbiting craft were visible so I had to go through the tracking station. This doesnt help and it should not have been faded. This is just an example, the fade is continually obstructive and never helpful, it even happens to the craft I am focussed on sometimes, it just isnt working right. Second quality of life suggestion is please have a way to toggle MNV display to permanent in the tracking station. It is such a pain trying to read all the node times when they are continually blinking out for four seconds and you have more than half a dozen. If you could do something about those that would be great because they are the foremost of my list of desirable changes.
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    Congratulations to @BigFatStupidHead on completing the K-Prize mission with The Bump and Grind with an Advanced Pilot Precision Award for taxiing skills! Thanks for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize party guest list aka the roll of honour. (I am assuming none of those mods alter physics at all, correct me if I am wrong e.g. is that just a cosmetic upgrade to the nose cone or is it a new part with different attributes to the stock nose cone?)
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    no mission, no kudos also pls consider rule #2 Thanks and congratulations on earning an Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with the Flying Vee. Thanks for your mission report and welcome to the roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list. FYI re: the UFO mission, was very interesting, looked like fun, an effective VTOL which clearly made orbit and landing OK eventually but unfortunately the mission appears to show a vertical takeoff which breaks rule #2 so is a technical gatecrasher. Since you have a successful mission you are immune from the ignominy of gatecrasher infamy. Rule #2 is intended to exclude rocket SSTOs and while not perfect it defines the challenge. So to explain the workaround set in precedents like Cupcake's creative video adventures, a mission with UFO could count as a K-Prize if the mission report showed horizontal velocity >0.0 m/s prior to lift off i.e. a rolling VTOL, even if that is, technically, an oxymoron!
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    Yes absolutely, tip - if you ctrl-F the OP roll of honour post you will find five exemplary Kosmokerbal Commendations, four of which specify the Mün as one of the SOIs visited. Only missions outside Kerbin's SOI get Exploratory or Expeditionary kudos though, so since the Mün and Minmus are not outside the Kerbin SOI the missions to these SOIs receive the appropriate highly regarded kudos awards but to receive the exceptional kudos signified by the ex- prefixes the mission has to be further afield like Duna / Ike for example or Eve / Gilly. See the prefixes notice just below rule 9 on the front page. Its pretty straightforward. @sturmhauke FYI the links you posted don't link to a K-Prize mission. @Xd the great likewise, I found a couple of X33 ships but no mission, to explain, the K-Prize award is intended reflect a report of a mission you actually flew. Congratulations to... @SpaceAdmiral Advanced Pilot Precision Award with SSTO Prototype 2. @Scarecrow Advanced Pilot Precision Award with X-Wing (video). ... on completing the K-Prize mission and returning to the KSC runway both, demonstrating piloting precision to earn the coveted Advanced Pilot Precision Award. Thankyou for your mission reports and welcome to the K-Prize roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list, see you at the Dog and Booster.
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    Congratulations to... @TheFlyingKerman Utilitarial Commendation, Advanced Pilot Precision Award with HKA-4B. ... on completing the K-Prize mission successfully with a neatly economical and professional looking mission, completing dual satellite launches as well as a safe landing on the KSC runway. Thankyou for your mission report and welcome back to the K-Prize party guest list aka the K-Prize roll of honour. I added your listing beneath the previous entry for HKA-3A btw, as is the K-Prize way.
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