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    Are you trying to tell us something djnekkid? Would you like to publish a gatecrasher? Thanks for your mission report RocketScientistV and congratulations for completing another K-Prize winning mission, with a safe landing at the KSC runway earning the highly regarded Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Manley... a touching tribute to the enthusiastic Scott?
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    Thanks for explaining GoSlash27. Congratulations on completing the K-Prize mission with the innovative ion powered EVE express. Sorry RocketScientistV, fixed.
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    So Kando, I like the look of your technicolor ship collection, unless I am mistaken the album doesn't seem to show a complete mission and you have not stated that you did. So your word is good and I just need to know if you claim the K-Prize, i.e. have you taken off, made orbit and landed safely? Congratulations and thanks also to NecroBones, Overfloater and Mesklin for your K-Prize mission reports. Logged and linked. WafflesToo you are right that is definitely a gatecrasher! The robotic look worked though. GoSlash27, did that land safely? (second screen has a preflight timecode FYI) It'snorocketscience, your enthusiasm is welcome and I won't take offence if you want to create a related challenge building on the K-Prize theme also I am happy to be consulted by PM and discuss ideas for such with anyone who wants to do that, though if you want to use the badge art you will have to talk to WafflesToo, who kindly made and donated the K-Prize badges. HF
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    As a fairly practiced player of KSP I have found the new career mode delightful but way too easy and as a result the pace of the game is too quick and it is over much too soon. In particular there is a problem with the fact that there is way more science available than is required by research costs and you can complete the tech tree with a couple of trips to Minmus and a few part tests which are very easily funded. As a result there is no challenge to go further afield. Leaving funds aside for now and focussing on research, to get the most out of the game it strikes me there needs to be much more research cost to balance the science available. So I would like to suggest that each part in the tech tree should cost the same amount as the parent category to unlock the part. This will multiply the total cost of the tech tree and present choices. It will no longer be possible to complete the tech tree in the Kerbin SOI but it will still be possible to unlock enough tech to get to other planets. Further to this I think we should need to unlock 50% of the parts in a category before the follow on category becomes available.
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    Yes and yes concentric. It counts as orbital docking because it requires precise piloting and also counts as a payload providing all the provisos are met. Neat craft Mesklin, looks like you do indeed have the minimalist title plus a few awards. Congratulations and welcome back to the K-Prize.
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    lol Luckily my authoritah is paper thin and easily repaired Overfloater, though I had better put that right or it might confuse the bouncers! RocketscientistV thanks for providing the final screenshot and congratulations on completing the K-Prize with a craft named Falcon B. Captain Woof, bad luck on your second attempt, I am sorry if this is pointing out the obvious but maybe if you didnt go quite as far you could at least complete the K-Prize! Alternatively I could always link your mission report as a gatecrasher, your call.
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    Thanks for explaining Captain Woof, good luck with your next flight. BabyEater 700 is an intriguingly functional design ultraflight and from what you say is clearly a K-Prize winner, I was just curious how you fared with water landings since as you probably noticed ships seem to have a tendency to fall apart unless they are going quite slowly. A partly powered landing with chutes sounds like a good way to achieve that. Well played!
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    Thanks everyone for you entries, which I have logged on the front page. Ultraflight did your Babyeater 700 land in one piece and complete the challenge? Likewise RocketscientistV, can you end the suspense and tell us if yours landed too and tell us its name please ? Captain Woof, ditto, did Viper manage to return to Kerbin for a safe landing, it ain't over till the fat mission controller sings!
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    Thanks for the mission report Firerunner. Congratulations on completing the K-Prize mission with the small but perfectly formed Scarab and landing safely at KSC runway for which you have earned the highly regarded Advanced Pilot Precision Award. Welcome to the guest list for the K-Prize party. Hi Guber K. Thanks for your mission report, congratulations on completing the K-Prize mission successfully and launching a radio relay satellite into Kerbin orbit in the process, for which you are awarded not only the highly regarded Advanced Pilot Precision Award for returning safely to KSC runway but also the greatly respected Utilitarial Commendation for leaving something useful in space. Welcome to the guest list aka roll of honour for the K-Prize.
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    Congratulations AvronMullican on completing the K-Prize mission with Kevyn, that is a handy island for overshooting space planes. Thanks for your mission report and welcome to the guest list for the K-Prize party. Damaske, thanks for your progress report/gatecrasher which I have linked as a gatecrasher but if you get it working I can remove it and give you a full K-Prize listing. I take it the dual engine is clipped and not modded? Overfloater, opening your account for 0.24.x I see with the stylish and well constructed looking Astro-Cruiser. Thanks for your clear mission video and congratulations on earning the coveted Expeditionary Astrokerbal Distinction for landing on Laythe and Duna, as well as the highly regarded Advanced Pilot Precision Award for landing safely on KSC runway. Welcome back to the guest list.
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    Technical Ben is right, Scarab MkII is cute Firerunner, those little delta wings have a reasonable amount of lift in them. Obviously great minds think alike, I have a lower tech level but comparable short body design using those wings for aero testing on Kerbin, called the Bee, has a great thrust to mass ratio. So can I link you for a K-Prize, did you make orbit and then achieve a safe landing OK? Thanks for your screenshots Laie, those procedural wings are very striking. Would you enjoy the notoriety of a gatecrasher link?
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    Launched an orbital lab in 0.24 career mode and sent it to Minmus. It cost 150,000 F but used a nuclear engine well ahead of KSC research schedule (I hadn't unlocked it yet) which was available as a part test prototype, which not only gave it the fuel economy it needs to future proof it but paid for the entire mission with some left over. Two rescued Kerbals crew the orbital lab, while a lander probe does the research work with instruments, getting more science at five flagged landing points where surface samples have already been taken from different Minmus biomes. Though the mission is already obsolete as gravioli detector has just been unlocked, so another mission is needed to provide gravioli data. The probe will land and then return to orbit to dock and prepare instruments for another landing and transfer data to the lab by Kerbal EVA. The lab mission runs parallel to a manned lander mission in a Mk1 capsule which will flag and sample remaining biomes and its pilot will eventually take the data from the probe, collected in the lab, for return to Kerbin. The lab sports two pairs of docking ports at the side to future proof it, allowing for additional equipment which can be added as matched side pods also with double ports for rigidity, eg landing thruster and landing strut pillars or drop tanks etc.
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    Also playing 32 bit after trying x64 due to the right click issues.
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    I agree the funding is so generous for some missions it makes the economic side of the game no challenge once you complete one of those. Needs fine tuning. I hope they make a difficulty setting for career mode which lets you decide how hard you want it and difficult mode makes you struggle for every Fund. The current reward scheme would be good for easy mode. Mind you its not simply a case of scaling back all missions by the same factor. The parts tests for example vary tremendously, some are a bit mean, not worth doing for any reason and barely able to break even but some are ridiculously generous. I think the meanest rewards need to be a bit more generous but the most generous need to be less so.
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    Thanks to Box of Stardust for the BSG Viper lookalike mission report, which I guessed was called Viper, but correct me if there is more to it. Its a cool look and it completed the K-Prize challenge admirably, earning an astrokerbal distinction for landing on Minmus and an advanced pilot precision award for returning safely to Kerbin. Congratulations and welcome to the 0.23 guest list, since you said it was pre 0.24. Thanks Luovahulluus for three or was it four missions? Congratulations for winning a Utilitarial Distinction and Astrokerbal Distinction for the trip to Minmus with a buggy also an Advanced Pilot Precision Award for bringing Big Moth home safely. Well done for winning both the Maximalist record holder title with BEHEMOTH V and the Minimalist record holder title with Minipossu. That is quite an accomplishment and it will be interesting to see if anyone can do better than those in this version. Congratulations shufflermuffler for successfully piloting a large unnamed craft through the K-Prize mission and bringing it back to KSC runway in one piece. Welcome to the guest list for the K-Prize party. Hope everyone is enjoying 0.24, I am taking my time with it, having lots of fun, still dont really have the tech for a space plane due to spending much time messing about with testing parts but its not far off and once my space lab makes Minmus and then Mün (using the atomic engine the Kerbals borrowed from the testing department) and opens up the tech tree for me I should be able to show you some kind of 0.24 space plane designed for testing parts and doing science.
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    Its looks like a very tight test window, which might encourage repeated self expression in the vernacular!!
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    Here is one I did today having regrettably accepted a subtly difficult procedural parachute test after forgetting to read the fine print I had failed to complete it on my first orbital mission so I had to complete it with a bespoke ship to get it off my books. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to combine it with a likewise subtly tricky engine test. It took about 5 tries with this, first a T45 test at high speed 330m/s at 7200 m to 8600m had about 3 secs to fire it as I was accelerating, then I used the T45 to provide attitude control for a power dive at about 12km to test the radial chutes at over 460m/s. I was surprised it held together as well as it did, but I kept fluffing the test windows. Got there in the end though
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    kepicness, yes there is a precedent but the K-Prize mission accomplishments measure whole craft performance so only count while the craft is not separated. So lander separation in orbit means a Kosmokerbal Commendation for visiting orbit and if you leave the lander there then it is also a Utilitarial Commendation for payload to orbit (even if it lands). Thanks for your video reports of your missions with Astroliner VIII (and VIII-C) Overfloater, the second of which does qualify as the maximalist record holder for version 0.23, proving the Astroliner is a behemoth, but considering the way she flies she must be expertly constructed. Glad to see the space truck make another appearance and this and the ingenious base antenna mast assembly process (on Laythe, top vid) and the Duna escape rocket preparation (on Duna, bottom vid) are also worth seeing. So that is two more tickets to the K-Prize party (that's 9 now) and two of the much sought after Expeditionary Utilitarial Distinctions plus two more of the highly regarded Advanced Pilot Precision Awards as well for landing at KSC runway and on/across the island base runway in a remarkably short stopping distance, along with plaudits from forum-wide acknowledged KSP behemoth spaceplane expert pa1983 which can't be bad. So congratulations, well played all and thanks for taking on the K-Prize challenge. The first page is being reconstructed to reflect the arrival of version 0.24 which looks to be a very spaceplane friendly development. Many thanks to the team at Squad for their work.
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    I could just do with a KSP update around about now
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    My pleasure, thanks for contributing to the thread. I hope other spaceplane makers will find your designs interesting. As for hotlinking, all I can do is report imgur's opinion.
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    You can submit what you want Laie, its hard to know what you are talking about without illustrations however if a craft piggy backs on another craft or is refuelled in flight the mission counts as a gate crasher. Thanks for your gallery submission above, the images in the gallery appear to show two successful missions one which ended after landing safely and stopping intact on Kerbin's shores and then the craft then fell apart due to entering water too rapidly and one which also *presumably* achieved orbit though its not shown but the burn node for achieving orbit is shown plotted (please correct me if I am wrong), and then returned to land on KSC runway and earn an Advanced Pilot Precision Award fairly and squarely. So congratulations on succeeding in completing the K-Prize and welcome to the guest list for the party at the Dog and Booster!
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    hebdomad, hi again, the very second post in this historic thread is yours so we can safely say you were in from the start. Welcome back and thanks for your mission report on Ve Gemini, which has undubitably won the K-Prize with an Advanced Pilot Precision Award for landing at KSC runway. Overfloater, congratulations on ticket No7 to the K-Prize party, awarded for the mission depicted for the carefully honed "Plane". Yet another expeditionary utilitarial distinction with advanced pilot precision award. I am assuming the montage was a mission report for the K-Prize and followed the rules. Let me know if I assumed too much. Kaa253 welcome to the K- Prize and thanks for your mission report video for Zond. Congratulations on completing the K-Prize challenge with flying colours and landing safely at KSC runway for which the mission is awarded an Advanced Pilot Precision Award. Luovahulluus thanks for your mission report and congratulations on completing the K-Prize and earning a Kosmokerbal Commendation for visiting Mün and Minmus with your unnamed SSTO. Let me know if you have a name for it. Welcome to the K-Prize party.
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    Thanks for the link TechniCali, awesome craft and challenge thread with some nice looking ships in it, good luck with it. I have given you a gatecrashers link because I believe the mission craft used modded air intakes. Please correct me if I am wrong. I have also given Sputnik's Revenge a gatecrasher link until the various mysteries surrounding the flight are solved! (eg How did it lift off, did it land safely?)
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    Sputnik's Revenge, thanks for your entry, is it a gatecrasher? I cannot see how it took off horizontally or landed in one piece.
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    The OP is right, its cheaper to escape by burning straight up than it is to make orbit first if you test it experimentally. Nullius in verba.
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