I'm bored what should i do in Kerbal Space Program?

[Blaarkies]

15 hours ago, kBob said:

One other possibility: try a hard(er) level in career see what you can do with few parts and a shoestring budget.  Build an empire from nothing.

That helped me keep going...its the most intense and fun career I have ever done. Mining bases are necessary to save up on funds, harvesting every binome of all science is essential to unlock the techtree and seriously considering the rep hit from dead kerbals makes you think twice about willy-nilly launches and suicide burns.
My goal is to build an extravagant surface mining base(on Laythe), by use of a VTOL-dropship-spaceplane...i guess like Halo? 

Edited July 11, 2016 by Blaarkies
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[KerikBalm]

Do you mean on Kerbin? Laythe? Duna? Mun?

I started doing this... but I wouldn't call it extravagent...

The base... the same one I can deploy and move on Laythe or Duna, for example

 

The dropship for relatively low grav, airless bodies:

 

The dropship for Duna:

 

The dropship for laythe:

 

Using modded engines for Tekto... modded engines for a modded planet seems fine to me:

The engines are supposed to model turborockets/ air augmented rockets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_turborocket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-augmented_rocket

So lately... I've been doing the dropship adn surface base thing (loading new moduls into the dropships in orbit is quite difficult)...

I also entertained myself by installing kopernicus and making new planets

Mars with oceans!

Mars with oceans and life:

 

[Blaarkies]

@KerikBalm
I meant to say Laythe, got ahead of myself there 
Those are absolutely amazing, kudos, bravo, well done! 

How does the cargo ramp work out for you, does it give any headaches?
Also, do you have some bases solely for getting cheap fuel(like Minmus)...what system do you use for lifting the fuel to orbit?

My plan was using the cargo doors type(facing downwards). Land the VTOL and open the door, but before unhooking I would extend the base's landing legs then undock. Then retract the VTOL gear as I slowly throttle to lift off, leaving the cargo on its own landing legs.
This all fine and well in fantasy land, but in real life(where kerbals work for a living) there is that annoying "cannot deploy while stowed" feature that bugs out whenever you least want it to. Also, if the landing spot is not flat and water level, the VTOL engines will drift...and then there is the panther in afterburner mode that might not give enough lift(this thing needs to be able to make Laythe orbit afterwards to collect more payload). At least the davon-throttle-control-systems got the VTOL engine covered, it is really fun controlling craft with zero reaction wheel or rcs, but only from differential engine thrust

If I can just get it on the surface, then a base crawler rover can assemble these parts(I had great success with crawlers on Minmus...way better than the forklift on the Mun)