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  1. boolybooly
    you can copy paste them, easy peasy
  2. boolybooly
    Weird is allowed. *bangs gavel* @camacju having flagrantly broken the K-Prize rules by blatantly submitting a mission report for a VTOL rocket "Untitled Space Craft" to a spaceplane challenge, the K-Prize commitee feel compelled to award the dubious dishonour of gatecrasher to add to your many achievements. FYI all previous achievements stand and technically exhonerate you from receiving a gatecrasher listing but since you went the extra mile to break the rules and submit a report it seems only fair to give the mission its own special gatecrasher listing with bespoke quip and confirm you are entitled to display the appropriate gatecrasher badge if you so choose, since that would appear to have been the object of the exercise. All for fun and fun for all!
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    Thanks, you are welcome, glad you are enjoying it, everyone needs a hobby! Congratulations on completing the K-Prize successfully with the Bactrian Salvage SSTO named for the camel I take it? (Which name I took from the imgur post title but can shorten it if you would like.) Also *SPOILER* for displaying missioneering ingenuity and careful management of risks in accomplishing two career salvage missions in one launch and returning to land safely on KSC runway thus earning the kudos of an Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class for docking in orbit and landing on the runway as well as an Utilitarial Commendation for salvage from orbit (x2). Thanks for your mission report in the form of a screenshot story and welcome back to the K-Prize party guest list. P.S. I realised I had not awarded the APPA you were due for orbital docking in your first mission, sorry for that, which has now been corrected.
  4. boolybooly
    What an extraordinarily efficient design @camacju . Congratulations on completing the K-Prize successfully with a mission earning the unusual kudos of Advanced Pilot Precision Award x5! Thanks for your mission report and welcome back to the K-Prize roll of honour.
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    I am finding similar, but in an (unmodded) game save started before the update with ships built and put in play before the update. So its hard to know if a fresh start would fix it and I cannot make an official bug report without trying that first. When I add a part to a complex structure like a space lab space station, it imparts a significant velocity to the structure and often rotation as well and it looks like it gets a significant stress from somewhere, which may be what is causing your explosion. (AKA Kraken drive effects.) I get the physics need to be updated OK but the velocity for the structure the part is added to should stay zero relative to the previous velocity for the structure, I think that will need a bit of code to do that in the same way it had to be done for launch stabilisation. EDIT - its more complicated than that in fact as I just tried switching parts on a small undocked ship with a big ship also in the engineering radius and when the part was added to a completely different ship the big ship still got a shove. I think it might be because the big ship is big enough that part of the ship is outside the engineering radius, so when the parts inside are updated there is a tiny mismatch between velocities for the parts outside the engineer bubble and the parts inside, or something like that and it causes visible stress on the craft. EDIT 2 - Not that simple. I just tried undocking a small craft and moving it away from the big station so the big station was outside the engineering bubble and no green highlighted parts showed on it in engineering mode when I brought an engineer to the small craft in EVA and tweaked it, but on moving a part from one location to another on the small craft, the big craft it undocked from still got a big shove and rolled around all over the place in the background as it were when the part was welded in place on the small craft. Something is definitely not right here.
  6. boolybooly
    In which case I am pleased to confirm a successful K-Prize mission! Congratulations @A Nicheling on orbiting with Goldfish and landing safely on Kerbin to earn K-Prize certification. Thanks for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize roll of honour, aka the K-Prize party guest list. Feel free to copy paste the badge into your sig if you so wish. (See account settings > signature.)
  7. boolybooly
    Hi, thanks for submitting a mission report to the K-Prize @A Nicheling, I have to ask if that was an orbit or suborbital flight? This is because there is no confirmation of orbit in your post and the velocities shown in the screenshots are consistent with a suborbital hop to the edge of space, like Virgin Galactic. Is that right? To explain, an orbit means going fast enough so that the PE (lowest point) is above 70,000m and the ship can keep going around Kerbin indefinitely, like the International Space Station. If you look at the rules on the first page of this thread, rule #2 describes this FYI. Let me know if the flight did make orbit or if you want to try again.
  8. boolybooly
    Yes.
  9. boolybooly
    wow, this is huge
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    Congratulations @QF9E on acquiring the Altitudinalist Record at 1005Tm (= 1.005 Pm) with Nuclear Beast and returning to land safely on KSC runway with all landing gear deployed. This earns the extra-special one of a kind kudos of Altitudinalist Record Holder as well as the professionally esteemed Advanced Pilot Precision Award. The Altitudinalist Record was previously held by @camacju and prior to that @dvader for pioneering flights which illustrious history may set the stage for things to come in KSP2. Thanks for your mission report and welcome to another ticket for the K-Prize party, better make that two kegs!
  11. boolybooly
    Well I hope that was just a warm up @QF9E because camacju already claimed 242,000 Gm. i.e. 242 Terameters. Nevertheless congratulations are again in order for achieving an unusually high altitude and safe landing against the odds with the front gear failing to deploy, which has earned a discretionary crisis management award from the K-Prize committee. Also an Advanced Pilot Precision Award, Utilitarial Commendation (40t) with The Beast for taking a usefully large payload to orbit and the highly regarded Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with Utilitarial Commendation (40t recovery) for docking in orbit and bringing the payload back to KSC runway also with The Beast. Thankyou for your mission reports and participation. Your K-Prize party ticket count has increased to nine and all will be welcome. I had better notify the Dog & Booster to order another keg.
  12. boolybooly
    That is really nice. The glass is beautifully done and also the head movements within the helmet are just right, no bits of hair poking through, though guys are easier than the gals for that in KSP and the head moves within the helmet and the helmet also moves but not as much. Good job. Also the grass is definitely greener on the other side of that hill ! I want to sing the sound of music !!
  13. boolybooly
    @QF9E of course the K-Prize commitee forgives innocent misunderstandings, but I am sorry to have to inform you that awarding the extraordinarily prestigious altitudinalist record can only be done for a mission which was flown, as I recently explained to @camacju ... who later took the altitudinalist record to new heights using bettertimewarp mod, which it looks like you already have installed. Can you do better !? Meanwhile further congratulations are in order for two extraordinary missions, one with the very capable Wasp to land on distant Dres and a shakedown cruise to explore the considerable potential of Nuclear Beast. - Expeditionary Astrokerbal Distinction (Dres), Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Wasp. - Kosmokerbal Commendation with Nuclear Beast. Expeditionary because Dres qualifies as a planet having a SOI bordering Kerbol SOI. Kosmokerbal Commendation for exiting Kerbins SOI and visiting Kerbol's. Thankyou for your interesting mission reports, as always the more the merrier and welcome back to the roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list.
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    The more the merrier @QF9E It looks like your "Leave Nothing But Bootprints" campaign is compatible with the K-Prize when using a spaceplane so feel free to make as many mission reports as you like. More congratulations on landing Hornet on Ike in Duna's SOI. This nets an Exploratory Astrokerbal Distinction, as well as an Advanced Pilot Precision Award for bringing Hornet back to the KSC runway. Thanks for your mission report and welcome back to the K-Prize party guest list aka roll of honour.
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    Congratulations to @camacju on completing another K-Prize mission with the remarkably small payload lifter "cheap mun" which lofted an even smaller kerballed Münshot vehicle into orbit and returned to land safely on KSC runway as did the Münshot vehicle for an impressively low total mission cost. This mission, while designed for a different challenge, abides by the K-Prize rules and kudos applies to the lifter, earning an Advanced Pilot Precision Award and a Utilitarial Commendation. Thanks for your mission report and welcome back to the K-Prize party guest list, aka the roll of honour.
  16. boolybooly
    You are welcome, hope you enjoyed the challenge. Payload depends where you left Avenger. You stated bootprints only so I assumed it landed with Hornet, which means it is treated as a craft entire, because no payload was left behind. Also if fuel from the Avenger was used to move the Hornet then it is part of the Hornet. You mentioned running on fumes?
  17. boolybooly
    The K-Prize committee are delighted to offer their congratulations to @QF9E on completing two successful K-Prize missions with Avenger and Hornet in addition to a previous successful mission with Queen Amidala. These craft comprise a capable duo but FYI the rules mean that in the case of subcraft separation the K-Prize kudos are awarded up to the point of separation and continue after reintegration. Hence the highly regarded award of an Exploratory Kosmokerbal Commendation for achieving orbit around Laythe with Hornet and returning safely to Kerbin in addition to the sought after Advanced Pilot Precision Award for landing Avenger on KSC runway taxiway. Thanks for your mission report and welcome back to the K-Prize roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list.
  18. boolybooly
    Thanks for explaining @dawg , that all makes sense now. Congratulations on completing the K-Prize mission and achieving a Pilot Proficiency Medal for landing on KSC terrain and an Advanced Pilot Precision Award for orbital docking in the same mission, a rarely seen combination. Thanks for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize roll of honour
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    @dawg can you please clarify, the linked account is not self consistent and I would like an explanation before recognising it as a K-Prize mission. How did the SSTO achieve anything related to the primary Jool 5 mission if the mothership was at Minmus and the SSTO was in LKO? Did I miss something? Did the SSTO navigate to dock with the mothership or did the mothership navigate to dock with the SSTO? If so how many times and where, was there any fuel transfer, if so which way? Did you not use a spaceplane to land on Laythe? If so did you have two spaceplanes named Indefinite? (The mission report above your linked report shows a combined spaceplane mothership in a vertical launch.) Did you launch a second space plane? Or did you separate the spaceplane from the final launch of the mothership. What is going on in this mission pls thx
  20. boolybooly
    No need to apologise for participating in the K-Prize because here at the Dog and Booster we are pepped for take off! Sol Mk.IIc did remarkably well but as you should know by now, losing parts due to explosions is against K-Prize rules, see timecode 24:15 +> for dual exploding Gigantors. So do you want this linked as a gatecrasher, with suitable quip? Or would you prefer it was quietly brushed under the carpet. You can choose since you already shared a successful K-Prize mission. Either way you can now display the gatecrasher badge if you so wish, if that was the shiney medal you were looking for.
  21. boolybooly
    Congratulations to @Reinhart Mk.1 on completing the K-Prize mission earning another Expeditionary Astrokerbal Distinction for Duna (including an Exploratory AD for Ike) as well as an Advanced Pilot Precision Award for landing Gloria Mk.IIc safely on the KSC runway. Congratulations also to @camacju on achieving the altitudinalist record with a very big AP over Kerbol taking the trophy from @dvader with a five fold increase. Sorry to say the utilitarian mission report did not mention landing again, if you could clarify the status of Tern at the mission endpoint then it will be possible to adjudicate. Thanks both for sharing your mission reports and welcome back to the roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list.
  22. boolybooly
    OK I am glad you found a way to avoid a tedious stock timewarp flight but an altitudinalist record can only be achieved as part of a completed K-Prize mission. The minimum K-Prize mission is make orbit and return safely to Kerbin. The screeny is interesting but does not show a complete mission. For the altitudinalist record to count, a mission report is needed (images or text if you like, we are on the honour system here) recounting how the craft reached an altitude and completed the K-Prize mission by returning to land safely on Kerbin.
  23. boolybooly
    Congratulations @camacju on completing the K-Prize mission successfully with the supremely efficient and useful Tern design and earning the highly regarded kudos of an Astrokerbal Distinction for landing on Minmus and Advanced Pilot Precision Award for returning to land on KSC runway. The potential apoapsis above Kerbol demonstrated was prodigious but sadly does not count for the altitudinalist record if the mission craft did not actually go there, sorry. This is because the K-Prize has to be awarded for missions actually flown, else people could submit a high dv design from the SPH spec and noone would know if it could really make orbit and the K-Prize would mean less, so the mission has to be flown to test the craft against the game physics engine. Also, so you understand, the Kosmokerbal Commendation (KC) is always considered included in the Astrokerbal Distinction, (which therefore supercedes the KC - FYI) because you cannot land on a planet without entering the SOI. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list.
  24. boolybooly
    Congratulations on completing the K-Prize mission with a carefully researched and developed mission profile and craft design @Lt_Duckweed for Tiny SSTO building on the design of @tseitsei89 's Special Speck of Dust and refining it to achieve a lighter takeoff mass of 0.835t to earn the special kudos of minimalist record holder and take the crown! Which is a fine example of how friendly competition can foster progress. So thanks for your mission report and welcome to the K-Prize roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list.
  25. boolybooly
    K fixed.
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