Visari

Warning: do not try this at home. I wanted to build a space dock, a realistic orbital construction site. More than anything, I wanted the location to be somewhere exotic, a place hard to reach, a workplace only complete maniacs would dare inhabit. So I decided the perfect location for this space dock would be far away from kerbin, around Tylo, moon of Jool, in an extremely low orbit for the best possible view and adrenaline pumping EVAs. Using full realism (FAR, DR, TAC LS, RT, no MJ), I managed to get the first parts assembled in only 2 launches, with another 2 launches to set up commsat networks around kerbin Geo, Jool, Tylo and Pol (source of kethane/ore) Even at this immense distance from the sun, the large solar arrays are capable of powering life support for plenty of kerbals, multiple converters and any engineering tools used in the construction of a ship silently speeding across the surface at radar altitudes as low as 200 meters, at more than 2 km/s! Unfortunately, the game decided the station was too low and despawned it multiple times while loading other craft, or using timewarp in those craft, which prevented further construction Docking at this altitude was crazy and totally worth the effort.

I'd love to see the MachingBird Challenge without airhogging at all. Limiting people to only one intake per engine would make sense to me. (could be checked by showing the intake air resource maximum, I suppose) Although maybe adding another category would be too complex. Maybe it fits a full realism challenge a little more, with FAR and deadly re-entry mandatory (poor kerbals )

rather than being able to reorient in flight, I'd like to see the option to do so within the VAB. think of something along the following: Just a quick paint example.