The Space Race

[DrMarlboro]

I decided I would share what me and friends do for some competitive gameplay in ksp with the community. We call it:

THE SPACE RACE

The goal is simple, be the first to reach the Mun

But there are some rules to follow to make it alittle more challenging.

1. Start a new career save - in this career save it must be normal difficulty and have the option No purchase required on research disabled, and you may start with no more than 25,000 funds. *must be using some form of life support mod,

2. you must have at least 1 Kerbin day between launches of spacecraft, aircraft can be launched as many times as you want. This includes contract launches.

3. you must establish the following before landing on the mun:

   a. You must have performed a space walk above kerbin before a sat network can be set up.

   b. You must have at least 3 comsats in synchronous orbit of Kerbin before entering the Mun's SOI.

   c. you must have at least 3 satellites in orbit of the Mun before a manned mission can enter the Mun's SOI.

   d. You must land at minimum 3 munar surface probe landers on the Mun before attempting a manned landing.

   e. all facilities (including the runway/sph) must be level 2 before an unmanned landing can take place.

4. You will need to post a screenshot/video of you completing each task (so a shot of the third of each thing in its orbit/landing) And note its date (the day it happened). We will mostly use the honor system on this as i foresee issues with being able to tell the time stamps from screenshots.

5. You must remember that this is all for fun! so if at any point you get frustrated, or decide you don't wish to do it, stop. If we aren't having fun than we've already lost the space race!

 

THE POINTS!

It all come down to this.

It all comes down to the points, doesn't it.

Space walk: 100pt plus 50 for Being the first.

Kerbin sat network: 300pts, plus 50 for first, and 10pts for any additional sats up to an aditional 50pts

Mun sat network: 450pts, plus 75 for first, and an additional 25 for each sat up to an additional 75pts (each sat must have its own launch)

Survey landers: 600 pts, plus 100 for first, plus an additional 100 for first, plus 50 For each additional lander up to an additional 100 pts. (each lander must have its own launch)

Mun landing: 800pts, plus 200 for first.

 

 

MODS/RULES I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO MAKE

 

Any visual mod, or info mod may be used. No part mods may be used out side of TAC, USI, or other life support mods. Asteroid day is also permitted.

There shall be no f12 cheats, no hyper edit, and no use of any exploit that somehow violates the spirit of the challenge.

 

* me and my friends use life support mods, but that may be changed if enough of you request it.

 

THE LEADER BOARD

1. Jetksi, Completed Space walk on D1, 1hour, 14 minutes. 150pts total

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HONORALBE MENTIONS

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A FEW SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

First and foremost, just have fun, thats what this is all about. Secondly (and more importantly for my fun an sanity), I understand that this will take several real days, if not upwards of a week for most players. Please don't feel like you have to rush your submissions, just post what you've done, and I will keep the score running. To help make it easier on me though, please head your submission with (SPACE AGENCY'S NAME) SUBMISSION.  and as you progress, update the original post. I will keep a watch on the submissions as best I can, but if i do miss something don't be afraid to PM me and let me know. 

 

With all that out of the way, I am debating doing a kind of rolling thing where we reset the board every so often and maybe add or change some rules here and there. Let me know what you guys think. Also, if someone could maybe make some sort of badge for this it would be great! I'd do it myself but I have no idea how to make them... sorry guys.

Edited January 20, 2016 by DrMarlboro

[Jetski]

Sounds fun, I'm in.  New career start with normal settings aside from what you specify? Or easy? Occurs to me this will go very quickly if I can set rewards sliders as high as I want Planning on using USI life support if that's ok.

[DrMarlboro]

7 hours ago, Jetski said:

Sounds fun, I'm in.  New career start with normal settings aside from what you specify? Or easy? Occurs to me this will go very quickly if I can set rewards sliders as high as I want Planning on using USI life support if that's ok.

I forgot about the sliders. It's normal settings with no purchase on research turned off. I will amend the rules accordingly. 

On that note, welcome to The Space Race. If we can get enough people competing it will be a blast. And usi life suport is perfectly fine! As long as you have some kind of life support they're all satisfied in the legal department. 

Edited January 19, 2016 by DrMarlboro

[Jetski]

OK, first 4 days done, first 4 launches done. Did a manned orbital shot with EVAs in high and low space, then on to unmanned program.  3 kerbin com sats are up (2nd launch), moving into position.  Some of my mun sats and survey landers (3rd and 4th launch) are in LKO waiting for com sat ring to complete so they can enter Mun SOI.  I'm finding the 1 launch/day rule to be a little limiting, but hey, it's your challenge.  Basically doing a launch, warping a day, doing another, etc. Kinda fun doing some contracts with the com sats, etc.

 

[DrMarlboro]

4 hours ago, Jetski said:

OK, first 4 days done, first 4 launches done. Did a manned orbital shot with EVAs in high and low space, then on to unmanned program.  3 kerbin com sats are up (2nd launch), moving into position.  Some of my mun sats and survey landers (3rd and 4th launch) are in LKO waiting for com sat ring to complete so they can enter Mun SOI.  I'm finding the 1 launch/day rule to be a little limiting, but hey, it's your challenge.  Basically doing a launch, warping a day, doing another, etc. Kinda fun doing some contracts with the com sats, etc.

 

So, my plan was that anything that wasn't specifically a plane destined to stay in the atmosphere would count as its own launch day, but since i didnt clearly specify this, we'll let it slide for your, and any other entries. And the point for having to wait between launches is so that people have to be efficient in gaining money/science and increase the competition between players. I'm going to have to reevaluate my rules on the second go around because a spacewalk shouldn't be possible on day one, and that first rocket you build should complete day one for launches. Nice job though, we'll add it to the board.

Edited January 20, 2016 by DrMarlboro

[Jetski]

You may have trouble keeping people out of space on the first day, I was in orbit and spacewalk EVA 14 mins into career. And I'm far from the best player around here  Take a look at the caveman challenge to see how people get to space with low cost and low tech.  Could have made a Mun flyby on the same flight but was following challenge rules.  I'll keep at it tonight, should get at least survey landers down I think.

[Nefrums]

It all depends on what you define as a launch,  If you can launch any number of atmospheric craft from the runway before launching anything from the pad it will be possible to complete all prerequisites and make a maned mun landing with the first launch.

 

[Jetski]

21 minutes ago, Nefrums said:

It all depends on what you define as a launch,  If you can launch any number of atmospheric craft from the runway before launching anything from the pad it will be possible to complete all prerequisites and make a maned mun landing with the first launch.

 

I interpreted this as a craft going to space = 1 launch (he mentions "spacecraft"), but I defer to OP.  The 1 launch per day rule is making me lean towards spamming comsats and unmanned landers on a single launch. Otherwise it's just 1 ship/day ticking off numbers until everything's there, no competition possible