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Very nice mission, but remember EVERYBODY: SHOW PICS OF YOUR SHIPS RE-DOCKED AFTER THE LANDING PHASE OF EVERY WORLD! It's obvious that your ships can dock, and up until now with several people I've been nice enough to assume they DID dock, and I really don't want to say "sorry you didn't prove it so no, it doesn't count" but I'm seriously considering it. Just a quick picture, that's all I ask.

I don't know if you can really consider it "wrong" per se but I tend to spell it Eelollo. Sounds better with a short o in the middle.

First off, nicely done set of missions! Secondly, I'm now surprised this has never come up. I never even considered it before but thanks for keeping to the spirit of the rules

Oops you're right I always forget about that as I never really use those. In short, No. Longer winded, Using an Okto is like using a pilot with 0 stars. Scientists and engineers on your ship don't help with that. Though they do allow some control outside of comms range, they do not allow you to do things a level 0 pilot could not do.

Only the pilot's stars count for Kerbals. The game will take the best pilot, doesn't matter where they're sitting. Or the best probe core. Essentially all you need is SOMETHING that will give you those modes. If you have a pilot and an Octo2, and reaction wheels of course, you'll be able to do anything a level 3 pilot can do. No antenna necessary.

Love the idea, see no reason to not force you to plant a flag exactly where you want a building.

Also in the VAB, probe cores say what kinds of stability assist they have. If in doubt use the octo2, it does everything.

Yes, they are. If you want to put the work in they're part of the stock game so I feel they're fine. Yes, it does. Just make sure you only land one time, and you can get as much flying science as you can stomach grinding. Yep! Though once you land you're done. No sneaky taking back off or even taxiing to another biome no matter how close it is.

Sure. In science mode there is nothing a created Kerbal can do that a regular one can't, and all Kerbals are free so go for it. Yeah just get one on the rest of the missions and you're fine. I do see the docking ports. I'll watch your moho mission tomorrow.

I'd look through the code for the mod ForScience. It does just that.

Maybe that was to get 5 stars, for like engineers and ISRU. I think back in the day that was beneficial for Kethane, like it is for stock ISRU. The big problem is that it was like 4 years ago and I can barely remember last week

Did that change? I've not farmed levels in a loooooooong time but last time I did, I sent a 16-kerbal ship into a Mun slingshot that then left Kerbin's SOI, turned around, rocketed back to land on Minmus, exited each. and. every. Kerbal. from. the. ship. to. plant. a. flag because they didn't give everybody credit back then, and then returned them all to Kerbin.

That would be awesome. I'd buy a DLC with a tier 0 of everything and a slew of 0.3125 meter parts. ...assuming of course that they all worked in career mode *cough*missionbuilder*cough*

Oh no I didn't mean to use it here. I just meant if you think the Skipper's big... Hoo boy you got some eye-opening engines to unlock Thank you

I, too, can't create an account. I thought I had one but none of my (4!) different KSP logins work. Creating an account seems broken, the page just doesn't continue when you fill in your info and submit.

I actually thought of a mod, that would totally blank the screen and maybe put up words to the effect of "To keep you from seeing anything you may not want to see during loading, we've blanked the screen." But I'm not going to put the time and effort into writing it.

In what terrible hellscape do you live, in that you have the means and ability to purchase games on your computer but no rights or ability to update them?

Hm. I recall them adding it, but not when. A few years probably. 1.1?

Sure no problem. Remember, the challenge actually doesn't say anything about completing the tech tree, so if you can do Eve and Jool on lower tech (for reference on Jool, see @ManEatingApe's entry) you can cut science as low as you'd like. I just wouldn't want to do it my own self Do you have a pic in orbit of Dres, docked post-landing?

Please list in detail every unique mission you've done, so we know what to suggest. That should keep you busy for another couple hundred hours.

Photography - Lesson 3: Meh. Just use your phone camera.

That's fair. I think it's fair to say the modern computer is one of the most complicated things that we as humans actually are capable of understanding in its entirety.

The OP was not asking how to write c#. Or even assembly. The OP wanted to know how computers know to run code the way they run code. Understanding that it is all - at the core - little switches flipping based on how they were set up before you start running power through them is critical to the whole thing. Also, it's the only one offered so far that doesn't involve using an already made computer to explain how to create a computer.

Not a da-go-bah without someone making that joke.

I've looked through the forums and the google for this, and found naught. I doubt, though, that in over half a decade I'm the first to notice this. I was just on the wiki and found this old map of Kerbin from well before I started playing: You'll note it has some major differences to the current map of Kerbin: (Sorry it's not perfectly aligned. I didn't have the time or gumption to do image editing). Now if you ignore the rivers and the mountains and deserts, the only real MAJOR differences are the missing land bridge East of the KSC, and the well-known crater roughly 90 degrees West of the KSC. One other thing though that I noticed just now, roughly (though more than) 90 degrees WEST of KSC is a ring of mountains and highlands with a central peak, that is surprisingly similar in size to "the crater." This is not in the original map. The KSP devs added it. And it's roughly (but not exactly) at the antipode of the crater. Is this an indication that the asteroid that made the crater hit so hard, that it deformed terrain on the OTHER SIDE OF KERBIN?