[Stock] Road Trip!

[Crocket]

The space program is bankrupt from a ludicrious mission involving 97 Mammoth engines, 100,000 units of rocket fuel, and a sparking Z-100 battery. However, Rockomax has given them 5,000 funds in bailout money and has created a "Score Sheet of Awesome", where 1 point is 1,000 funds for the KSC. Their list is below (and quite long):

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SCORE SHEET OF AWESOME!!!

Points are measured per Kerbal!

 

Kerbin System

Mun

Flyby: 2 points

Orbit: 3 points

Landing: 4 points

Minmus

Flyby: 1 point

Orbit: 2 points

Landing: 3 points

 

Duna System

Duna

Flyby: 5 points

Orbit: 7 points

Landing: 9 points

Ike

Flyby: 4 points

Orbit: 5 points

Landing: 6 points

 

Little grey thing in our telescopes (we at the KSC assume they mean Dres)

Flyby: 6 points

Orbit: 8 points

Landing: 10 points

Sciencing it: 1 point (only applied once)

 

Jool System

Jool

Flyby: 5 points

Orbit: 8 points

High-atmo: 12 points

Low-atmo: 20 points

Laythe

Flyby: 6 points

Orbit: 7 points

Landing: 8 points

Vall

Flyby: 3 points

Orbit: 4 points

Landing: 5 points

Tylo

Flyby: 6 points

Orbit: 8 points

Landing: 10 points

Bop

Flyby: 3 points

Orbit: 4 points

Landing: 5 points

Kraken!: 3 points

Pol

Flyby: 3 points

Orbit: 4 points

Landing: 5 points

 

Eve System

Eve

Flyby: 5 points

Orbit: 10 points

Landing: 15 points

Gilly

Flyby: 1 point

Orbit: 1 point

Landing: 1 point

 

Moho

Flyby: 6 points

Orbit: 8 points

Landing: 10 points

 

Eeloo

Flyby: 10 points

Orbit: 20 points

Landing: 30 points

 

Feats of Awesome

Jool 5: 50 points

Grand Tour Flyby: 50 points

Grand Tour Orbit: 100 points

Grand Tour Landing: 200 freaking points, dawg!!!

 

 

Here are the general rules:

• Your craft must cost no more than 5000 funds.
• Your craft must have at least one Kerbal on board for each lander.
• A single ISRU refuel is permitted.
• Mods and debug menu are forbidden.
• If you do not return, your score is halved.

Science Route:

You may do science along the way to perform a 100%-committed Research Rights Sell-Out for additional money when you get home. Transmitting science is forbidden.

The start:

Medium-mode Career save, all tech unlocked, 0 science, 5,000 funds.

Rockomax's Top Roadtrippers

1. @ManEatingApe with 130 points and an initial cost of 4,976, which means 125,024 funds recovered! Christ on a cracker...
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Edited August 15, 2016 by Crocket

[Jetski]

Is this a multiple launches challenge (eg a career) or is it meant to be a single flight?

[Crocket]

40 minutes ago, Jetski said:

Is this a multiple launches challenge (eg a career) or is it meant to be a single flight?

It was meant to be a single launch, but a career might be interesting.

[EliteGuy3]

A trip to Minmus only costs 4900 for some people, and it's easy to get there and land as well. I believe that the Mun points and the Minmus points should exchange, so that:

Mun

Flyby:2

Orbit:3

Landing:4

Minmus

flyby:1

orbit:2

landing:3

This is just in my perspective.

I will enter into the challenge soon, but not until I get out of Hawaii and back to my computer.

Also, Normal mode Career is basically easy. A challenge would be in Medium mode.

 

Edited July 19, 2016 by EliteGuy3

[Crocket]

21 minutes ago, EliteGuy3 said:

A trip to Minmus only costs 4900 for some people, and it's easy to get there and land as well. I believe that the Mun points and the Minmus points should exchange, so that:

Mun

Flyby:2

Orbit:3

Landing:4

Minmus

flyby:1

orbit:2

landing:3

This is just in my perspective.

I will enter into the challenge soon, but not until I get out of Hawaii and back to my computer.

Also, Normal mode Career is basically easy. A challenge would be in Medium mode.

 

I consider Minmus *slightly* more difficult because of the inclination change required to get there.

Also, changing to Medium mode.

[EliteGuy3]

9 minutes ago, Crocket said:

I consider Minmus *slightly* more difficult because of the inclination change required to get there.

Also, changing to Medium mode.

Ok, I'd understand that, and thank you for taking my comment into consideration.

[Firemetal]

On July 19, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Crocket said:

I consider Minmus *slightly* more difficult because of the inclination change required to get there.

Also, changing to Medium mode.

Nope. Less gravity, easier to land. Was my first round trip to another body in KSP. Also sometimes you can get an encounter with Minimus without a plain change. Because of this, you need much less delta v to go to Minimus than the Mun. 

[PT]

On 20.07.2016 at 0:33 AM, Crocket said:

I consider Minmus *slightly* more difficult because of the inclination change required to get there.

Meh. You have window with no inclination once per week (~14 days orbital period). No need to match inclination at all.

[EliteGuy3]

Found this forum!

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/108674-stock-fly-me-to-minmus-for-cheap/

Hopefully this will get things started. You will need to have research rights sell-out to make up for that extra 350 credits, so Jeb will need to take a crew report or surface sample somewhere.

[Crocket]

I changed the Mun to 2-3-4 and Minmus to 1-2-3 because of popular demand.

[ManEatingApe]

Let's get the ball rolling... 4,994 funds to Mun, Minimus and back. I look forward to seeing this thoroughly beaten!

 

Rest of album here

http://imgur.com/a/j1zdE

Fun challenge @Crocket although may I suggest changing the title to something more a little catchy. Mostly so that people can figure out what the challenge is about!

Edited August 2, 2016 by ManEatingApe

[zolotiyeruki]

I'm curious as to how this would work as a career save.  Could you attach parachutes to your boosters, and give yourself credit for their "recovery" (even if you didn't actually recover them in game)?

[Nefrums]

It should be possible to do an orbit jool 5,

I might try that.

[ManEatingApe]

Here's a Grand Tour Flyby for 4,976 funds, (or the bargain price of 332 credits per planet).

It did take a little under 200 years though!

Flybys:

Duna -> Ike -> Tylo -> Laythe -> Val -> Pol -> Bop -> Tylo -> Eeloo -> Jool -> Dres -> Jool -> Kerbin -> Kerbin -> Kerbin -> Moho -> Kerbin -> Eve -> Gilly -> Eve -> Kerbin -> Minimus -> Mun

In addition to the flybys there was a brief dip in Jool's atmosphere, an orbit of Eeloo and a jetpack only landing on Minimus.

Also particularly tricky was a Gilly flyby at Eve escape velocity. That took some very delicate adjustment of the maneuver nodes!

 

There were so many gravity assists that I made a little table to keep score:

Planet	Assists
Kerbin	5
Eve	2
Jool	2
Tylo	2

 

The full album (linked at the bottom) is a little long so here are some highlights:

Grazing Jool's atmosphere

Cheap Eeloo orbit

Dres close encounter

Gilly flyby at escape velocity

Minimus jetpack landing

Running out of fuel just above the ground

 

Rest of the photos here...

Grand Tour Flyby full album

Edited August 14, 2016 by ManEatingApe

[Crocket]

Okay, if anyone can beat 130 points they get serious props. Not that ManEatingApe doesn't already get props for getting 130 in the first place, but it still stands.