PSA: When landing an asteroid on Kerbin to furfill the contract....

[Sonny_Jim]

Make sure you 'land' it on land, apparently 'splashed down on Kerbin' is not the same as 'Landed on Kerbin'.  :\

[Leftotian]

31 minutes ago, Sonny_Jim said:

Make sure you 'land' it on land, apparently 'splashed down on Kerbin' is not the same as 'Landed on Kerbin'.  :\

Yup, had this problem with ore recovery mission. Floating in the ocean didn't count. On my second attampt it broke in half and ore sunk to the bottom - contract complete. Kinda silly. Floating on the surface? Nope, to difficult to recover, we won't pay you. Oh, it's at the bottom 1000 meters deep? Sweet, here's your cash!

Edited September 8, 2016 by Leftotian

[Sonny_Jim]

Yeah by that measure I suppose none of the Apollo missions landed back on Earth because they splashed down 

 

Currently in the process of making a Jetboat to go drag it back to land.  Screw you game, imma gunna complete the contract even if you have silly rules.

[Plusck]

Ore tanks have stupidly weak joints. It took me a dozen tries to land 3000 units (parachutes were plentiful, but land at 8.5 m/s and the joints all fall apart).
Since then, I cheat and lift new, never-been-in-orbit ore off the ground for a second.

[SpacedCowboy]

I say, "nice find!". Bet a lot of players didn't know that.

[Sonny_Jim]

So I resisted the urge to just ALT-F12 that contract away and created a Jet boat-with-wings thingy to go grab that pesky asteroid and drag it back to shore:

http://imgur.com/a/YuoVv

Edited September 12, 2016 by Sonny_Jim

[Signo]

"Splashed down" and "landed" give you a complete different set of science reports - as far as I know it is possible to recover both sets for any biome on Kerbin (there are "splashed at mountains" and "landed at sea" too). Just at the end of the landing strip there is a "splashed at Kerbin shores" pool as an example. 

 

[Sonny_Jim]

I believe the contracts look at the situation variable.  If you look at the KER readouts in my screenshots you can see it change from splashed down to landed and complete the contract.

[GeneCash]

Maybe the game can't believe rocks float...

[Reactordrone]

1 hour ago, GeneCash said:

Maybe the game can't believe rocks float...

Does an asteroid weigh the same as a duck?

[Champ]

15 hours ago, Reactordrone said:

Does an asteroid weigh the same as a duck?

Depends : what breed of duck ?