The "Why is this even in KSP?!?" Challenge

[Tosh]

FINALLY

Too bad the game can neither save nor switch vessels while one of them is landed on another

UPD: uploaded barge.craft. Requires Cart plugin.

Don\'t ever use cart steering (<J/L>), otherwise carts fall off! Use <A/D> instead. Also be very careful when leaving runway; I\'d recommend driving slightly to the right and exiting at the SPH slipway crossing. Don\'t exceed 10 m/s while in water.

Ah, yeah, hydroplane is not included

UPD2. Ninja\'d

[maltesh]

But that\'s a perfectly adequate means of transportation and, should therefore, be in game.

May I ask what inspired that crazy, genius, contraption?

I\'d edited the Cylinder to make the Piston about a month ago, used it and a Kosmos reverser to make a one-shot launching pad pogo stick (as I hadn\'t yet edited the Piston to be more crash tolerant), and forgot about it until this week.

Remembering Minmus\' low gravity, I figured that the hang time would be long enough for ASAS to flip the craft upright if it started to tumble, and for the most part, I was right on that score.

Some revisions were in order.

This variant can jump twice as high, but isn\'t much better at forward motion.

I halved the speed of the pistons, from 30 to 15, (the DR Cylinder has a default speed of 0.30), and was able to get horizontal velocities of about 0.3 m/s across the ground mid-jump but not much better.

Still getting too much rotation. I suspect I\'m going to have to design to individually set the heights of the pistons.

[Czman007]

My attempt at a landing pad

From another angle

Probably not the best design...

I used the Nova Punch and Cart mods

[Tim_Barrett]

I can\'t even get near this boat without the lag dropping my framerate... good luck landing on it!

[Mynorus]

That\'s a boat?! More like a flipping Battleship! That should be in a MOVIE. That is now PLAYING. Alright, guys. I referenced your movie. Where\'s my $14?

[sss]

Not my work:

idk why... but it looks lke a cow..

:D

[sss]

Increased the speed and collision resistance of the Damned Robotics cylinders.

Will have to redesign for better forward motion.

XD

[sss]

I stuck the flight chief\'s car on the roof of the VAB.

I also picked up Kerbin with the same truck.

I cant belive it.

the first time i ever LOLed out loud.

[Phoenix Aerospace]

I also picked up Kerbin with the same truck.

-Snip-

Turn the picture upside-down, and THEN, we\'ll talk.

[Cooly568]

Were those requests? If so, knock yourselves out. Just be warned, this thing is so big it may cause immense lag and/or melt your computer.

I will try blowing it up when I get back from California. My computer is pretty darn powerful.

[Twinky827]

I can\'t even get near this boat without the lag dropping my framerate... good luck landing on it!

OOC: Tim... I... Hate.... You...

I\'ve been trying to get a battleship in the water as big as yours for MONTHS! And now i Realized you hid an anti - gravity thing in the bridge....

[SteevyT]

I tried to make a ring ship.

However, every time I go to the runway, this happens.

[sss]

I tried to make a ring ship.

-snip-

struts, nuff said.

[SteevyT]

struts, nuff said.

I tried, the struts I could place didn\'t help, and it is too big to run them across.

[cardgame]

Extend the fuselage to the rear.

[Tim_Barrett]

That\'s a boat?! More like a flipping Battleship! That should be in a MOVIE. That is now PLAYING. Alright, guys. I referenced your movie. Where\'s my $14?

It\'s actually based off the 'Yamato' from an anime... so if you want to see a movie/show, there are tons of them all over youtube.

[SteevyT]

Extend the fuselage to the rear.

Still too big

[RedDwarfIV]

It\'s actually based off the 'Yamato' from an anime... so if you want to see a movie/show, there are tons of them all over youtube.

wasn\'t that supposed to be an old battleship that they bolted space engines onto a shoved a Wave Motion Cannon into?

[leopardenthusiast]

I have an amphibious patrol craft. If I wasn\'t using my first-model iPad, I\'d get some screenshots, but hey.

YMMV on if it\'s unusual enough for this thread though.

[pushingrobot]

It\'s actually based off the 'Yamato' from an anime...

Funny--I was about to suggest you call it the Yamato

Now you\'ve got me wondering if a passable Wave Motion Gun could be built using particle emitters.

And I must say, of all the things I\'ve seen in KSP, that definitely wins on style and coolness (and makes good marks on awesomeness and radicalness).

[RedDwarfIV]

Also, why were its laser cannons rifled?

[pushingrobot]

They\'re not rifled, they\'re circularly polarized.

[sjwt]

Damm! I am so disappointed, I read that as shark!

Good job though!

[r4m0n]

Riiiiiiiise from the grave, oh mighty challenge thread!

But no, seriously, don\'t do that.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, one good thing out of the resurrection is that I have another excuse to post this thing.