(v2.3) The Planet Six Probe Challenge: Now With Moons/Science Defs

[BashGordon33]

I think I might have found a possible bug with the planet pack. 

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I was looking at Fritz and Derg, at it appears that both planets have a sharp spiny mountain located on both their north poles. Is this a terrain glitch or an intended feature. Erkers and it's sub-satellite don't have this issue, so if it's an intended feature that's fine by me. I just heard of planet makers finding difficulty with the north poles of their planets.

And I was thinking more of the idea of a possible atmospheric moon. I read the temperature file for End, and that temperature is way too low. Even Oort cloud objects, many times farther from the sun than even the most extreme Planet 9 predictions, have a surface temperature of around 6 degrees kelvin. In reality Planet 9 (and it's moons) would have a surface temperature of around 30 degrees kelvin at the lowest, the Kuiper belt average is 50 degrees. From these predictions I think an atmospheric moon should have either a Hydrogen or a Helium atmosphere.  If you really want to go all out, have a few Liquid Oxygen or Nitrogen oceans, assuming the moon is heated by tidal forces from End. Oceans are hard to code though, so I wouldn't worry about it if you don't want too. 

[Whirligig Girl]

  On 8/2/2016 at 7:58 AM, BashGordon33 said:

I think I might have found a possible bug with the planet pack. 

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I was looking at Fritz and Derg, at it appears that both planets have a sharp spiny mountain located on both their north poles. Is this a terrain glitch or an intended feature. Erkers and it's sub-satellite don't have this issue, so if it's an intended feature that's fine by me. I just heard of planet makers finding difficulty with the north poles of their planets.

And I was thinking more of the idea of a possible atmospheric moon. I read the temperature file for End, and that temperature is way too low. Even Oort cloud objects, many times farther from the sun than even the most extreme Planet 9 predictions, have a surface temperature of around 6 degrees kelvin. In reality Planet 9 (and it's moons) would have a surface temperature of around 30 degrees kelvin at the lowest, the Kuiper belt average is 50 degrees. From these predictions I think an atmospheric moon should have either a Hydrogen or a Helium atmosphere.  If you really want to go all out, have a few Liquid Oxygen or Nitrogen oceans, assuming the moon is heated by tidal forces from End. Oceans are hard to code though, so I wouldn't worry about it if you don't want too. 

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Polar spike is not intentional, but it's also not major enough for me to care to fix it.

Additionally: I know End's temperature is impossible. I also don't care. It's a *mystery* woo!

 

[John FX]

  On 7/13/2016 at 6:49 PM, Elowiny said:

You think your ship was overbuilt? Mine had 16k Delta-V and I nearly ran out of fuel! I really need to plot my trajectories.

 

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You think your ship was overbuilt? Mine is in orbit around the moon of planet 6 with 27K Dv left...

[njmksr]

I accept the Super Mode challenge-- with a twist: I'm going to colonize Erkers. With a giant mothership. And build an orbital assembly station there. Because I can.

Or is that more Hyper Mode, @GregroxMun?

Are any other mods than NFT banned?

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[Whirligig Girl]

  On 8/21/2016 at 8:21 PM, njmksr said:

Or is that more Hyper Mode, @GregroxMun?

Are any other mods than NFT banned?

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If you can pull it off, it's potential Hyper Mode.

Case-by-case basis. No Orion Nuclear Pulse or anything too Overpowered.

[njmksr]

  On 8/21/2016 at 9:04 PM, GregroxMun said:

If you can pull it off, it's potential Hyper Mode.

Case-by-case basis. No Orion Nuclear Pulse or anything too Overpowered.

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Is B9 HX permitted?

If so, I will begin preliminary design on the IXS-031 USS Armstrong.

Edited August 21, 2016 by njmksr

[Whirligig Girl]

  On 8/21/2016 at 9:05 PM, njmksr said:

Is B9 HX permitted?

If so, I will begin preliminary design on the USS Armstrong.

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If I recall correctly, the B9 massive parts only look futuristic, but are actually balanced with stock stats. Right? Isp in the 360s range?

[njmksr]

  On 8/21/2016 at 9:12 PM, GregroxMun said:

If I recall correctly, the B9 massive parts only look futuristic, but are actually balanced with stock stats. Right? Isp in the 360s range?

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I think so, with the tremendous power of the HX engines being balanced with a fuel economy that would make the designers of the Prius quake in terror.

[njmksr]

The Armstrong is getting ready to kick Erkers' (and the rest of the End system's) a**!

A question for @GregroxMun: does the clock start ticking if I launch a spacedock to build the ship?

 

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[njmksr]

@GregroxMun, we have a problem.

The Armstrong has launched, but it crashes my game every time

Too many parts.

[Whirligig Girl]

  On 8/21/2016 at 10:57 PM, njmksr said:

The Armstrong is getting ready to kick Erkers' (and the rest of the End system's) a**!

A question for @GregroxMun: does the clock start ticking if I launch a spacedock to build the ship?

 

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Based on the scenario I made, yes.

[Mycroft]

 

  On 8/21/2016 at 9:13 PM, njmksr said:

I think so, with the tremendous power of the HX engines being balanced with a fuel economy that would make the designers of the Prius quake in terror.

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The HX engines have a first mode with a ton of power and abysmal ISP, and a second mode with low thrust and reasonable efficiency. Thought you might know, but wanted to be clear. 

[Whirligig Girl]

  On 8/30/2016 at 5:39 AM, Mycroft said:

 

The HX engines have a first mode with a ton of power and abysmal ISP, and a second mode with low thrust and reasonable efficiency. Thought you might know, but wanted to be clear. 

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Both of those sound reasonably balanced.

[JacobJHC]

Which difficulty would this qualify as?

 

[Whirligig Girl]

  On 12/17/2017 at 10:52 PM, JacobJHC said:

Which difficulty would this qualify as?

 

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Consider me impressed!

[JacobJHC]

  On 12/18/2017 at 1:38 AM, GregroxMun said:

Consider me impressed!

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Awesome. Do you have any new planet packs in the making to look forward too?

[Whirligig Girl]

  On 12/18/2017 at 1:47 AM, JacobJHC said:

Awesome. Do you have any new planet packs in the making to look forward too?

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This is my newest one.