HarvesteR Easter Egg

[Andem]

On 6/15/2016 at 0:56 PM, klesh said:

I'd like to see a classy plaque for him at the KSC.  

I would also like to see that OG kerbal sketch he made be turned into a texture on some plaque at a far off location.  

Ooh! A crashed Voyager probe at the south pole!

[Rdivine]

Are we forgetting about Ted as well?

[IncongruousGoat]

A lot of people have suggested putting a statue of HarvesteR on the mountains to the west of the KSC. However... It seems much more fitting (to me at least) to put a monument on top of Eve's highest peak. You know, the one at -25.0159, -158.4558. After all, Eve is the hardest body to land and return from. The greatest challenge, so to speak. And is the greatest achievement not a fitting tribute to the man who started it all?

Although the monument should probably not be RIGHT on top of the peak. I still need to be able to land there. Come to think of it, I remember there being a convenient cliff on that mountain. Perfect to a Rushmore-esque monument, as several others have suggested.

[The_Rocketeer]

On 06/07/2016 at 6:14 AM, IncongruousGoat said:

A lot of people have suggested putting a statue of HarvesteR on the mountains to the west of the KSC. However... It seems much more fitting (to me at least) to put a monument on top of Eve's highest peak. You know, the one at -25.0159, -158.4558. After all, Eve is the hardest body to land and return from. The greatest challenge, so to speak. And is the greatest achievement not a fitting tribute to the man who started it all?

Although the monument should probably not be RIGHT on top of the peak. I still need to be able to land there. Come to think of it, I remember there being a convenient cliff on that mountain. Perfect to a Rushmore-esque monument, as several others have suggested.

If you really wanted the most obscure location, it should be at the bottom of Eve's deepest ocean trench. THAT would be hard to get to.

But that sort of defeats the point. HarvesteR didn't make KSP only for the uber-hardcore spacefarers, he made it accessible to everyone. Having a monument near KSC puts everybody in mind of him whenever they play, not just when they're experienced interplanetary players gearing up for the big finale. Only a small fraction of players ever leave the Kerbin system anyway.

[kiwi1960]

To honour him, it would need to be in a place where it could be seen....

I suggest... a Statue like this one...

 

BUT have it on the hill (mountain?) on the runway island.... that way... you can land there to pay homage... and leave a sacrifice... say... Jeb tied up against the control tower...

And maybe .... have a nuke reactor there that you can turn on which will activate lights to light the monument up... and with luck, it can be seen from orbit.

Yes.... I like this idea and I like my idea as well. Lets keep the dream alive.....

EDIT: Who remembers the STAR TREK first contact movie.... Remember the inventor of the warp drive had a monument built... 30 meters tall and with his arm stretched out towards the sky?? I forget his name... sorry, dementia strikes again. We need to honour the REAL heroes among us....

Edited July 10, 2016 by kiwi1960

[Van Disaster]

If you stuck it on one of the mountaintops west of KSC it'd be dramatically silhouetted every evening, and you'd fly close on reentry back. I'd have it facing west, I think.

Is that a publically obtainable mesh btw? seen it around for a while but never knew it's origin.

[SingABrightSong]

4 minutes ago, Van Disaster said:

If you stuck it on one of the mountaintops west of KSC it'd be dramatically silhouetted every evening, and you'd fly close on reentry back. I'd have it facing west, I think.

Is that a publically obtainable mesh btw? seen it around for a while but never knew it's origin.

If you stuck in on one of the mountaintops west of KSC I'd be worried that people would crash into it on reentry. Not that this would be a bad thing, mind.

 

That's not a mesh, though; it's a craft, composed entirely of stock parts.

[Van Disaster]

Huh, now I look at it on a full size screen...

Yes, it would be a nice landmark for your reentry.

[KerbalScience]

On 7/10/2016 at 10:54 PM, kiwi1960 said:

To honour him, it would need to be in a place where it could be seen....

I suggest... a Statue like this one...

 

BUT have it on the hill (mountain?) on the runway island.... that way... you can land there to pay homage... and leave a sacrifice... say... Jeb tied up against the control tower...

And maybe .... have a nuke reactor there that you can turn on which will activate lights to light the monument up... and with luck, it can be seen from orbit.

Yes.... I like this idea and I like my idea as well. Lets keep the dream alive.....

EDIT: Who remembers the STAR TREK first contact movie.... Remember the inventor of the warp drive had a monument built... 30 meters tall and with his arm stretched out towards the sky?? I forget his name... sorry, dementia strikes again. We need to honour the REAL heroes among us....

send download plz i want it in my ksp game Love it! 

[StarStreak2109]

On 10.7.2016 at 0:54 PM, kiwi1960 said:

To honour him, it would need to be in a place where it could be seen....

I suggest... a Statue like this one...

 

BUT have it on the hill (mountain?) on the runway island.... that way... you can land there to pay homage... and leave a sacrifice... say... Jeb tied up against the control tower...

And maybe .... have a nuke reactor there that you can turn on which will activate lights to light the monument up... and with luck, it can be seen from orbit.

Yes.... I like this idea and I like my idea as well. Lets keep the dream alive.....

EDIT: Who remembers the STAR TREK first contact movie.... Remember the inventor of the warp drive had a monument built... 30 meters tall and with his arm stretched out towards the sky?? I forget his name... sorry, dementia strikes again. We need to honour the REAL heroes among us....

OMG! This is awesome! Well made, sir!

[kiwi1960]

3 hours ago, StarStreak2109 said:

OMG! This is awesome! Well made, sir!

I did not make it, check out the previous posts... someone else made it and I love it too. All credit to him.

[NSEP]

There should be a planet added called HarvesteR but it was never made. Maybe make it come to life. And put a statue of him on the planet.

Edited July 28, 2016 by NSEP

[Northstar1989]

Naming a new moon of Jool (if they ever add more- after all Jupiter has TONS of moons... or better yet, a moon of Gas Giant 2- if they ever implement it!) after HarvestR sounds like a good udea to me.  Instead of a silly monument nobody will ever find, why not a whole moon?!  

 

Regards,

Northstar

Edited August 6, 2016 by Northstar1989

[Francois424]

On ‎2016‎-‎08‎-‎05 at 10:08 PM, Northstar1989 said:

Naming a new moon of Jool (if they ever add more- after all Jupiter has TONS of moons... or better yet, a moon of Gas Giant 2- if they ever implement it!) after HarvestR sounds like a good udea to me.  Instead of a silly monument nobody will ever find, why not a whole moon?!  

 

Regards,

Northstar

I like this... Naming one of the next planet/moon "Harvester" (Or dedicating some easter egg on it).

Maybe a Komet like Halley's Comet.  The HarvesteR comet which goes from one end of the Kerbol system to near the sun.

I'm game with just about anything.  I like the gesture and support the motion.

[Justicier]

I'd definitely like to see a tribute of some kind...

On 8/10/2016 at 11:20 PM, Francois424 said:

Maybe a Komet like Halley's Comet.  The HarvesteR comet which goes from one end of the Kerbol system to near the sun.

 

Very much like that idea. Now that 64bit is a thing, the amount of celestial bodies *could* go up... though I suspect that the KSP team won't do it because they don't want to alienate anyone still using the more limited 32-bit build. I believe it was previously stated by a dev that the game is already near the limit of stability with the current amount.

Edited August 29, 2016 by Justicier

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

A new Gas-Giant would be great.... with a moon for every dev that ever worked on the Project.

2 birds with one stone

[pandaman]

6 hours ago, MalfunctionM1Ke said:

A new Gas-Giant would be great.... with a moon for every dev that ever worked on the Project.

2 birds with one stone

Hmmmm. 

A gas giant called Harvester.  Then every Dev gets to make their own moon, with new starters doing one before they qualify for their first paycheck. 

Awesome,  new moons for most new version releases from now on it is then 

[Mycroft]

8 hours ago, pandaman said:

Hmmmm. 

A gas giant called Harvester.  Then every Dev gets to make their own moon, with new starters doing one before they qualify for their first paycheck. 

Awesome,  new moons for most new version releases from now on it is then 

Dangit, out of likes already! That sounds like a fabulous idea, and I second it.

[njmksr]

On 7/3/2016 at 5:57 PM, RocketSquid said:

Place a trio of statues: Kerbin, Laythe, and Eeloo.

Kerbin to remind us where we began.

Laythe to show that amazing things can be found in strange places.

Eeloo to mark just how far we've gotten.

I ran out of likes, but this is a great idea. Seconded.

[SingABrightSong]

Looks like there is indeed a HarvesteR Easter Egg in 1.2! One of the DSN antennas is the "Harvester Massif"

[Gaarst]

20 hours ago, SingABrightSong said:

Looks like there is indeed a HarvesteR Easter Egg in 1.2! One of the DSN antennas is the "Harvester Massif"

Darn you, I just spotted this and was about to write it here...

Screenshot below (don't look if you don't want to see where it is):

Spoiler

 

[Van Disaster]

Before I attempt to clean up the imported model which looks no fun whatsoever, did anyone already convert that awesome statue-craft into a single thing yet?

[Aragosnat]

Would this count as one?

 

 

Also so a Kerbal named Mike too..

[Deadpangod3]

Maybe a monolith on the edge of kerbins soi, watching over Kerbin, just as he watched over KSP, but have a picture of kerbin from the earliest version of the game, showing how far we've come.

[OrbitalBuzzsaw]

One of the comm stations is called HarvestR Massif! How awesome is that!