Whackjob

I put on some more floors and I hit spacebar. I might do a gravity turn in a half hour, or an hour.

Well, if I need to make something that is a physical torus, I'd like the part connections to connect, rather than having heavy parts held together by fishing line, creating a weak point and probable point of failure.

I've only got my recent pictures handy. So... This is what I've got recently. More to come. I have to finish building the front of it. Thank you! There's no honor, honestly. I'm just a guy. I tuck my beard into my lapbelt when I drive, like everyone else.

What spacecraft am I exchanging?

The only Jewish wisdom I know is that you never buy your gribenes from a mohel.

I have now a system more powerful than any i've had my hands on. And even better yet, it's a rental. The brakes have come off.

I would like the parts tree to be completely redone. In KSP 1, once you go past a certain level of complexity, serious errors seem to creep in. That and torus style structures are impossible. Every part is a child connected to one mother part. You cannot, say, put in one part where it connects to two so they hold together. I would also like to build craft outside of a VAB where I can zoom up and out as much as I wish, so that way I can build very tall or very wide. Or both.

I ran in to a series of very fortunate events culminating in having an event in November where I will be getting married. Life is good, you know?

I must have missed the link where I offered it up for exchange. Honestly, it's real tough to delve back in and lurk here where every thread I make is shuffled off to where it can be ignored and forgotten. It's a crazy thing where general stuff about the game, like engineering, isn't general enough to stay in general. I'll go take a walk.

Sigh. What spacecraft, and what am I exchanging? Is there a ban on me having a thread in general anymore?

I'd call it a rover, if anything. It just happens to, I hope anyway, have SSTO and refinery capability. I'm putting it down for the night, but here's what I ended up at. I was unable to get her airborne. I'm not surprised, I've got a lot more wing to build. The overall structure of it, the wings will comprise the "top" layer, and the rest will hang below. Kind of like old-time planes... the fuselage center of mass is below the primary wing. This should give me a little extra stability. The engines in the front are purely for braking. I really don't think the wheels braking alone will cut it. To pick up another night.

I may very well have to create something more powerful than just elevons. I'm considering setting up a control group of mainsails in lieu of elevons. There's also the possibility of vernor thrusters, a dozen or so in each cluster.

Hallo, Mikki! Wing construction has begun. Barely. Come see the mass inherent in the system! Do you see it oppressing me?! The only reason that appears airborne is because it was doing 200m/s and the end of the runway dropped sharply.

Remember the big rover? I thought I should take some time to attempt a newer version. A larger one. One that I actually took somewhere interesting. But, I had a thought. Why not not just a big rover? What if it was a spaceplane? What if it was an SSTO? What if I put a refinery on it? I have started testing large landing gear assemblies. Per my usual proclivities I will keep it stock. Friends, you know how my life is like, these days, so I feel like I can promise you nothing in the long term. It could evaporate again in the fuzzy see of other greater responsibilities. I will try.

Sorry I am very late in my replies. I shall answer both with a few screenshots. When it failed: When it worked:

I remember when this made sense to me. Those sideways Rockomax32s were actually drop tanks...

I'm torn between "firing 80 mainsail engines at once" and "firing 168 aerospike engines at once."

Oh, I still lurk. I still have the replacement machine I slapped together when I fried the old one, so I can't go as big as I like, but I'm still dabbling here and there, as it were.

To my understanding, he's still got that pieced together potato computer he got back online with after he ruined his gaming laptop. He'll get a machine he an build big with again at some point, but I know he and his girlfriend just went halfsies on a house,and homesteading is a crazy crazy thing with all sorts of surprise expenses.

Spunky fellow, that one. He still pops in, from time to time.

Aye. It was an Alienware m17x laptop. It was my gift to me for getting home from the middle east in one piece. A stupid purchase, but there you go. I was putting a thing in orbit, it was so long ago that I dont' recall for sure just what it was, or what it was for, but I do remember it was 6,700 parts. I *think* it was during one of my attempts to land a tower lander on the mun, with the lander being what I hopes was a kilometer tall.