shepard1701

Well then... I guess I'll just have to impress as best I can. At the absolute worst, I guess that means I should make sure that the last ship of this particular class/variant is worth all the development. Though I do hope he accepts more submissions... because these represent only the largest class of ship that I've designed. I also have a fighter design that's really, REALLY cool. Haven't launched it yet, but then, it's a fighter, so it's gotta have a transport of it's own, which is the part I've been having trouble with. It has two variants. A torpedo bomber, and a fighter. Also, my Fighter/Bomber... I do think that SB Corp, or at least ShepYards subdivision, would be willing to... sub-contract... another group to design a carrier for them. (All of my patience in designing a heavy lifting vehicle was used up getting my Cruisers into orbit... ) EDIT: Oh... and all of those are fully re-loadable, in case you can't see.

Hello everybody. Long time player of KSP, huge fan of SpiritWolf and just everything Macey's doing. I actually had some designs submitted to him quite a while ago. Anyway... I'm basically posting here as an unofficial representative of the KSP and Macey fans at the Spacebattles webforum. If you've never heard of it, feel free to check it out, we're a lot of fun, and a fair number of us are fans of KSP, and HUGE fans of... well... Spacebattles. I'm currently in the final stages of preparing my submissions, and... well... I'd like a little help. Maybe even a verdict from Macey himself on this. Of the course of the last week or so, I've been developing my cruiser design which shall serve as the workhorse of the SB Corp fleet in the Jool system, aligned with SpiritWolf, but also working toward's it's own agendas. Now, there are at present two iterations of this design which I have currently in orbit around Kerbin, ready to set off for Jool. While technically of the same class, they are both a little bit different. The first is the (working name) SBC Boreas, which has a part count of 381, and weighs 103 tons. It is totally unmodded. It was launched without mods. It was refueled without mods. It will travel to Jool without mods. Unfortunately, all I have image wise for this is a few images, as I wasn't mashing down the screencap button while sending it into orbit. Mainly because I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I do have a few screenshots of it's desperate circularization burn, and of course an image of the launcher used. The launch was terribly inneficient, and really stupid, and I REALLY should have been recording the entire time, because it was super dramatic and amazing. Suffice to say, it happened by the skin of it's teeth, but it got into orbit. The Second iteration of the design is currently working name SBC Auster, also in orbit around Kerbin and docked with my fuel tug (which I will also be submitting for general use). It weighs in at a whopping 576 parts. Another thing not helping it's frame rate problem is the fact that I tried to use ladders for running lights, and that just MURDERED my frame rate, no matter how good it looked. (I will note, I have a slower machine.) Again, I do not have images of the launch, but I do have one of the entire vehicle prior to launch. Which brings me to my current position... I am willing to accept that, alone, those images may not be enough evidence to prove that I can get this thing into orbit, even if I provide evidence of my Jool transfer when I make my final submission... HOWEVER. I have one more ship I will be sending up of the general class. Slightly different. Doesn't use ladder lights, and has a slightly better nose and more reaction wheels, but is the same basic design as the first ship (which went up with full munitions of 10 weapons [the main source of part count, I'll note], wheras the second design went up without munitions but had a less efficient flight path or flight process.) This CURRENT ship that I will be sending up... I CAN take a whole bunch of images of it's launch, maybe even a full video. If I can do that... do you think Macey would accept the earlier two ships of the class? EDIT: I would like to note. The main reason I'm a bit stuck up on getting the first two versions in is because... well... it really was an iterative process, designing these ships. I probably STILL won't really be done with the next design, since there's a lot more that I can do with it. I really LIKE the fact that my ships so far are, all of them, one of a kind, each one a little bit better than the last. EDIT 2 (Because I just keep adding stuff.): Just incase it helps... Some truly good screenshots.