how many times you have visited dres?

[Parv Kerman]

dres is a unique planet. So how many times you have visited dres?

Edited March 28, 2016 by parv kerman

[DoctorDavinci]

 

Once with 80 Kerbals, 37 remote landers, 4 party buses, 4 rovers and 20 or so satellites sent in 4 giant 800+ part monstrosities (1100 parts being the largest one)

[Parv Kerman]

ok, that's HUGE!!

[DoctorDavinci]

Here is my mission report if you care to take a look: Dres Love Missions

[Parv Kerman]

wow you made it awesome!! I'm not that experienced player of ksp.

[DoctorDavinci]

Thanx ... took awhile to do and the lag at times was horrendous but it was a lot of fun

I'm waiting for 1.1 to drop so I can redo it with even larger motherships and more overdesigned stuff and many more Kerbals

[Parv Kerman]

1.1 is an awesome version. I liked the new spacesuit. they should add more awesome planets like dres.

[Mikki]

Only once, looking down from high orbit... Asteroids from ADM where way more interesting...

[Parv Kerman]

no, dres is an awesome planet!

[Parv Kerman]

dres has a valley too, which other planets do NOT have. I recently visited dres.

[Warzouz]

I did one mission to Dres. I sent my first new space station concept prototype. Let's say I miscalculated

But in the end, I sent refuel, did several landing and stripped Dres for science. Then there was crew rotation (2 more flights, I think). In 1.1, I'll make use of those asteroids.

[Parv Kerman]

I See

[Mat2ch]

Uhm... Once... with a probe. I should go back to Dres someday.

[Malich]

Twice so far. Was planning on sending a larger mission on my current play through but not sure I'll quite make it to that launch window before 1.1 drops and I start fresh.

[Jetski]

Never. Dres does not exist.

 

Seriously, though. I pretty much visit dres every career. Basically just a Mun mission with a transfer stage. I finally used the Dresteroids for refueling for the first time. Kinda novelty but not overly useful.

[Parv Kerman]

5 hours ago, parv kerman said:

dres has a valley too, which other planets do NOT have. I recently visited dres.

it exists and it is unique too

6 hours ago, parv kerman said:

no, dres is an awesome planet!

it really is

[Red Iron Crown]

I went there after it was added, for completeness.

I went again sometime later to try to set up a synchronous orbit that dove through the canyon daily. I think it's possible but never managed to make it work.

I went a third time after it got asteroids to see if setting up a refining operation there was worthwhile (spoiler: it's not).

So three times that I can remember.

[Randazzo]

Not since 0.90, and I failed to visit the canyon.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/100183-vanguard-astrodynamics-modded-90-career/&do=findComment&comment=1749448

 

[panzer1b]

Plenty of times actually...

Dres is the ONLY place where i can get asteroids very easily, and thus the entire planet is basically surrounded by asteroids, each of which has their own base on it with IRSU, a couple starfighters and defensive weaponry.  Eventually plan on doing some battles there but i need to finish the fights at minmus/duna 1st.

[Gojira1000]

At least 4 times I remember with crews. Probably an equal number of probes. I go there every career, any more.

[Renegrade]

Actually, they're right, dres doesn't really exist.  It's actually a bug that merges the Mun and Ike and performs some surface transforms on it, and places it in a boring orbit.  It's pretty much an optical illusion.  When you land there, you're actually rapidly flickering between the Mun and Ike in some sort of Star Trek-y quantum phase inversion fluctuation.

I've been to that optical illusion (and it's tiny, un-noteworthy canyon that the terrifying Mohole eats for breakfast) somewhere between three and five times.  I've done a manned return from it at least once, but my detailed analysis confirms the 'dres is a bug/illusion' theory.

So, in conclusion, dres is an angry space potato cut-n-paste of the Mun and/or Ike.  I might be more interested if it had a mun of it's own or something (dresteroids were a valiant effort in that direction, but ultimately fail to raise my interest level sufficiently), but it doesn't, and will always remain the angriest, nastiest space potato until something truly interesting happens there.

TL;DR version: dres is an angry space spud (that doesn't really exist).  I've been there 3-5 times and the boring nearly killed me.    11/10 would be bored to death again -- IGN

[numerobis]

I have never been. I've only landed on Kerbin, Mun, Minmus, Eve, and  Laythe -- I've flown by a few other satellites, but never landed. I'm not even sure I've landed on Duna! Probably a while ago.

[KerikBalm]

4 hours ago, parv kerman said:

it exists and it is unique too

it really is

Really, quoting and replying to yourself... that sounds like something someone would do if they are lonely and desperate for attent..... wait a minute... did Dres make an account on the KSP forums, with the name parc kerman?

 

10 hours ago, parv kerman said:

dres has a valley too, which other planets do NOT have. I recently visited dres.

Its more of a canyon, the Mun has two... Duna has at least 3 features that one could call valleys.

 

That said,

With only 5 planets, every one is special. Dres gives you a transfer window challenge unlike most others...although it is similar somewhat to the challenge of an Eeloo mission... which is also just a mun lander with a transfer stage.... Eeloo's not even so far away... for a significant part of the time, its closer than jool

[cantab]

I've been there a few times. My Smith probes flew by Dres along with every other planet on their gravity slingshot fest. And I put a probe lander on it in my 100 Worlds save - but in that modded system Dres has become the innermost moon of Jool.

[worir4]

I live on Dres,,,,