My Proudest Accomplishment to Date

[jandcando]

I have been playing KSP for a while now (981 hours on Steam), and I just completed my 1.0.4 stock career mode in a way I'm pretty proud of. ...And by stock I mean only stock parts. I still use KER and stuff. Anyway, I just completed a contract where I had to extract 2550 units of ore from Bop and ship it into orbit of Jool. Instead of doing it all at once, I did 4 trips from the surface to the mothership using a small lander that ran on monopropellant and carries a large ore tank. It was refueled by the mothership thanks to the ore it brought up and the mothership's IRSU converter. The lander had enough delta v to land, hop to a new location (empty of ore), and take off while full of ore and rendezvous with the mothership in a 25 km orbit of Bop.

I know it might sound lame to call that my greatest accomplishment, but it is the first time I've ever done a mining operation like that in such a remote location as Jool. I've sort of stayed away from Kethane and Karbonite so far.

Here's a screenshot!

I also learned a valuable tip from all this for getting into equatorial orbit (0 inclination) of any body. Get yourself in a high circular orbit and watch KER's readout for latitude. When it hits 0 degrees, burn normal/anti-normal to get into a really nice equatorial orbit. It works pretty well.

[Geschosskopf]

That's a far from trivial task and worth being proud of

[Wallygator]

Rep to you sir. A job well done.

[jandcando]

Thanks guys!

[Gustavo6046]

In fact pretty cool. I wish to rule one mission this big... I am planing Mission Koulomb and Station Two, but this made me glad I am still a forum novice. XD

[Scotius]

Remember, NASA can't pull this kind of mission yet More seriously, this IS and accomplishement - you have the right to feel proud.