Got Disillusioned but now I'm playing again, sort of.

[Dman979]

Welcome back, @NewtSoup!
I've moved your thread to Mission Reports, since you're sharing your missions here.

[Pthigrivi]

18 minutes ago, Corona688 said:

I think it's brilliant.  It generated intelligent-looking results which I thought must be handmade -- one crater rich in minerals, the other absolutely barren?  Obviously, the mun was hit by different kinds of asteroids!  And my intuitive hunch that varying minerals would point to varying geological features paid off handsomely.  I didn't need to understand exactly how it worked to benefit from it.

Yeah I quite agree. I think we've talked about USI-LS and it has a similar kind of tuned fussiness thats easy enough to understand the basics of but takes some noodling to perfect. 

[NewtSoup]

14 minutes ago, Dman979 said:

Welcome back, @NewtSoup!
I've moved your thread to Mission Reports, since you're sharing your missions here.

Thanks and yeah it didn’t start that way. Just grew 

[NewtSoup]

Mission Scientist Lawig has visited pretty much every biome on Minmus now and is sitting pretty ( oh so pretty... vacant ) at the North pole ( which seems to be on the "bottom" as far as the game is concerned. no matter ).  The game classifies this as "Landed at Minmus' Poles" - Am I to take it that the game does not distinguish between a north and a south pole and that travelling to the other pole would now be pointless?

Answered my own question:

• Poles
• Lowlands
• Midlands
• Highlands
• Slopes
• Flats
• Lesser Flats
• Great Flats
• Greater Flats

I'm missing Lesser Flats and Highlands.  Would be nice to get the full set!.  Got 1300dV left.. I'm sure I could get at least one of them.

Edited May 17, 2018 by NewtSoup

[NewtSoup]

I got the last two... But

I messed up.  58 m/s of fuel left and the best I can do is an inclined orbit :(.    Going to have to make use of

a) the monopropellant in the science vessel
b) the jetpack

Saving First!.. I know the jetpack can get me into orbit off minmus and the command ship has a bit of fuel to spare

Edited May 17, 2018 by NewtSoup

[NewtSoup]

Incomming Screenshots!

So yeah, barely any fuel, about 45 degrees off the equator:
 

 

Burned up all the fuel and the monopropellant - just going to bail now and use the jetpack

Yeah we can do this!  Seperation of 3.5km

And here we have it!

 

On approach!  Going to make it!  ( I did remember to grab the data from the Science Vessel )

I can taste that stale cockpit air already

 

(Realative) Safety!

 

Return trajectory plotted captain!  We'll probably even have enough fuel to circularise before dropping into Kerbin's Atmosphere.

 

Edited May 18, 2018 by NewtSoup

[Superfluous J]

16 minutes ago, NewtSoup said:

Burned up all the fuel and the monopropellant - just going to bail now and use the jetpack

Please tell me you grabbed the science.

I still wake up in a cold sweat some nights wondering if I grabbed the science before jumping out of a fuelless lifter.

[NewtSoup]

I did grab the science

Circularised, sort of at Kerbin, every last drop of fuel used to get me a 40km periapsis


 

Final Descent into the atmosphere

 

Chutes deployed and splashdown



I think I can call this mission an unqualified success!  Mission Scientist Lawig and Pilot Franmon have certainly earned their stars!

[NewtSoup]

My Science Tree looks like this now!



I need 7150 science to complete it.  Where should I go next folks?

[Kerbinchaser]

I despise career too. Started a science save last month and never regretted it. 

Hmmm, where should you go on the tree next? I'm not sure. I'm not used to the tree nodes. Try to go for more probe shtuffs maybe?