Community Laythe Colony!

[KAL 9000]

Leave your craft files here, and I will fly them up to build the Official KSP Forum Laythe Colony! Mods used: KAS/KIS, MKS/UKS, DMagic Orbital Science, MechJeb, Tantares, Tantares LV, kOS, Hullcam VDS, B9 Aerospace (Praise the Kraken for 1.0.5 compatible!), OPM (for future colonies by you guys further out), SCANSat, VesselView, Universal Storage, and JSI/Raster Prop Monitor.

Edited December 10, 2015 by KAL 9000

[DMSP]

I once tried something like this, I couldn't hold it together, the craft never got by a rough draft.

 

Good luck!

[DrMarlboro]

I'd love to donate some .crafts because heavens knows I have thousands of old ones that I'd love to share with others, but there's a few things we need to know to make things simpler. 

1) any standardization measurements (such as docking port heights, weight/part count constraints)

2) do you want just the craft/building, or a craft with lifter and means to make it to laythe. 

3) what type of craft do you want? Are you wanting a command building, science module, hab, solar or comms array? Do you want rovers and boats and the like? And what do you want first?

 

Let us know and I'll be sure to share. 

[KAL 9000]

1 hour ago, DrMarlboro said:

I'd love to donate some .crafts because heavens knows I have thousands of old ones that I'd love to share with others, but there's a few things we need to know to make things simpler. 

1) any standardization measurements (such as docking port heights, weight/part count constraints)

2) do you want just the craft/building, or a craft with lifter and means to make it to laythe. 

3) what type of craft do you want? Are you wanting a command building, science module, hab, solar or comms array? Do you want rovers and boats and the like? And what do you want first?

 

Let us know and I'll be sure to share. 

1) If it's an MKS module, just use the appropriate MKS base with those amazing crew tubes (the KAS ones). If not, I will post the .craft subassembly file soon (2.5m size). It's basically just a large reaction wheel with landing legs and ladders strapped to it. No docking ports, because I'll be using KAS pipe end points and MKS KAS Crew tubes.

2) I have a lifter, just make sure Rockomax Brand Decouplers can attach on the top and bottom.

3) Once a module is safely on Laythe and connected to the colony, I will ask for another. Right now, we need a long-range rover to scout out a site and supply modules to drop down beforehand.

1 hour ago, DMSP said:

I once tried something like this, I couldn't hold it together, the craft never got by a rough draft.

 

Good luck!

Don't worry, with all these brilliant people on the forums, the modules will be awesome and we can come up with solutions to problems as they come up.

[DrMarlboro]

Ill get to work on it. I've never landed on laythe though... so I'm not entirely sure how to work that out.. we'll see what i come up with 

[KAL 9000]

3 hours ago, DrMarlboro said:

Ill get to work on it. I've never landed on laythe though... so I'm not entirely sure how to work that out.. we'll see what i come up with 

Don't sweat it, I made a landing system craft, too!

Please use only the above mods. Thanks!

Edited December 10, 2015 by KAL 9000

[KAL 9000]

I am now working on a craft to transfer the parts to Laythe. It's called the KSS Pride of Kerbin. Make sure you can put a Clamp-O-Tron Sr. on your crafts so they can dock with it.

[KAL 9000]

I have finished a command center, but this will be my only module. Please have your forum name in your module name, for example, mine is: Command Center (KAL 9000). I will post .craft files soon.

[322997am]

I made cargo das boot for 1.0.5 and it works like a charm at 50m/s. I'll upload it when I get to my pc (I'm on my iPad now)

[KAL 9000]

2 hours ago, 322997am said:

I made cargo das boot for 1.0.5 and it works like a charm at 50m/s. I'll upload it when I get to my pc (I'm on my iPad now)

Did you use the recommended mods?

[123nick]

On 12/8/2015, 10:16:40, KAL 9000 said:

Leave your craft files here, and I will fly them up to build the Official KSP Forum Laythe Colony! Mods used: KAS/KIS, MKS/UKS, DMagic Orbital Science, MechJeb, Tantares, Tantares LV, kOS, Hullcam VDS, B9 Aerospace (Praise the Kraken for 1.0.5 compatible!), OPM (for future colonies by you guys further out), SCANSat, VesselView, Universal Storage, and JSI/Raster Prop Monitor.

u should add the WBI pathfinder mod, great for colonys, and the worskhop mod, too let u build parts onsite, and the extra planetary launchpads mod, to let u build ships onsite.

[KAL 9000]

On December 18, 2015 at 9:35 PM, 123nick said:

u should add the WBI pathfinder mod, great for colonys, and the worskhop mod, too let u build parts onsite, and the extra planetary launchpads mod, to let u build ships onsite.

I wanted to make it more challenging by having everything shipped from Kerbin. I have finished the KAL 9000 command module and I will launch it into orbit today.

[KAL 9000]

The command module is in orbit and awaiting crew and a transfer stage. I launched it on a Tantares LV N-1 (overkill, I know).

[RocketSquid]

You should put kerbal planetary base systems on the mod list. It's very useful and fairly small (not too many parts). Link: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/114758-wip105-kerbal-planetary-base-systems-v0210-update-17112015