Around Kerbin in 80 days - Triop's adventure, a live blog.

[Triop]

Our upcoming route:

It might look long, but in reality it's not much . . .

I guess when we get to the end of route 6 it's time for refueling.

TBC

[Bottle Rocketeer 500]

@Triop Build a gas station and fly it there in a cargo plane. Also, maybe put up the little shop you made before next to the gas station so Jeb can relax while his car is fueling up.

[Triop]

15 minutes ago, Bottle Rocketeer 500 said:

@Triop Build a gas station and fly it there in a cargo plane. Also, maybe put up the little shop you made before next to the gas station so Jeb can relax while his car is fueling up.

The plan is to send in a jet that will drop a fueldrum on a parachute.

The shop would be nice, but I don't have the mods installed in this game (I'm running 7 versions of KSP).

Besides, it would never fit in a plane, and I refuse to use vesselmover in this adventure. But the idea is cool, I might design a small "foodtruck" later that I can fly in with the cargo plane. I might install NEBULA for that.

Here is some info about a foodtruck that did Dakar !

https://www.exploroz.com/forum/65057/the-things-you-can-do-with-a-landcruiser--dakar-

Edited January 29, 2019 by Triop

[Triop]

I can go flat out on this terrain, all I have to do is keep heading 225 degrees.

There still are some bumps now and then, so it's not completely safe, but so far, so good.

TBC

[Triop]

I expected this to be boring but going full throttle is big fun !

I almost flipped twice (and my heart stopped). My top speed so far:

TBC

Edited January 29, 2019 by Triop

[kurgut]

cool, I like desert. Will you visit the pyramids?

[Triop]

17 minutes ago, kurgut said:

cool, I like desert. Will you visit the pyramids?

No, but there is a base I might visit.

I made a small video just to give you an impression of what it's like to drive.

 

[Bottle Rocketeer 500]

1 hour ago, Triop said:

Besides, it would never fit in a plane

But I would! I am working on a Beluga-like plane right now!

[Triop]

10 minutes ago, Bottle Rocketeer 500 said:

But I would! I am working on a Beluga-like plane right now!

Cool, if it's stock I'd like to hire you to fly in supplies.

Do you have pics ? I'd like to see it.

 

[Triop]

I think I can take this risk...

I see we are almost out of fuel, so I told Jeb to stop and wait for the fueldrop.

It's time to send out Rolas . . .

TBC

Edited January 30, 2019 by Triop

[Triop]

I'm not happy.

I made the drop perfectly but the fueldrum just dissapears into nowhere, didn't explode, just vanished . . .

I decided to let Rolas fly on to check out the new base.

TBC

 

[kurgut]

@Triop

Crap. Pretty sure it disepeared because you went out of KSP physic range with your plane (2.5 km), so the game just destroyed it since it was still in the air.

sounds correct?

When doing that, I'm use to keep the plane close to the (dropped) object to avoid that..

[Triop]

Ok, Rolas just landed and the fueldrum is gone.

Rolas is about to fly back to Jeb and land there to refuel the buggy.

I was kinda prepared for this so the cargo plane does carry oxidizer.

3 minutes ago, kurgut said:

Crap. Pretty sure it disepeared because you went out of KSP physic range with your plane (2.5 km), so the game just destroyed it since it was still in the air.

sounds correct?

Yep, before it vanished it landed as "debries" then when I flew on it dissapeared.

To bad...

 

[Triop]

 

 

Edited January 30, 2019 by Triop

[Reinhart Mk.1]

This is by far one of the coolest and unique things I've seen with KSP. It's a long thread so i can't really tell where you're at but how far have you made it and what day are you on??

[Triop]

35 minutes ago, Reinhart Mk.1 said:

This is by far one of the coolest and unique things I've seen with KSP. It's a long thread so i can't really tell where you're at but how far have you made it and what day are you on??

You can see the real (Kerbin) time in the left corner of all my pictures. I started at day 3 (first days where used for bridge building).

My current location:

If you like this, check out my Pole2Pole adventure if youhaven't seen it yet:

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Refueling.

Done, we have full tanks.

It's not looking good for Rolas, she never has enough fuel to get home.

She doesn't want to get stuck in the desert so she insist on taking off to the nearby base.

TBC

 

Edited January 30, 2019 by Triop

[Reinhart Mk.1]

YOOO YOU GOT THAT FAR IN A DAY? lmaoooo nice!

[Jacke]

Already out of likes, dude.   Bravo on working around the debris-eating pseudo-Kraken!

1 hour ago, Triop said:

Ok, Rolas just landed and the fueldrum is gone.

....

Yep, before it vanished it landed as "debries" then when I flew on it dissapeared.

To bad...

This is disturbing.  As far as I know, having debris removed outside of physics range only happens if the debris is flying in the atmosphere.  There is a mod to extend physics range.  It can cause some issues, but from what you say, it won't help anyway if debris on the ground is being removed.

All I can see in the Settings that could cause it are the two settings already discussed.  Settings > General > System with "Max Persistent Debris", default 250, and "Tidy up debris cluttering KSC", default on.  Could you have been close enough to the Dessert Base or some other Kerbin feature that counts as "KSC" to have had it "tidied up" ?!?

Edited January 30, 2019 by Jacke

[Triop]

26 minutes ago, Jacke said:

There is a mod to extend physics range.  It can cause some issues

I use that mod in my BDA KSP version, it sometimes blows up jets when I'm getting in range or something.

It does let you switch vessel miles apart which is cool.

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On with the adventure, Rolas made it back to the new base we discovered.

She's almost out of fuel and we don't have any more pilots.

Looks like we have to drive Val and Bill (who are still in the service truck) back to the KSC, set up a refueling plane for Rolas and send Val out to refuel the cargo plane.

Since we get further and further away from KSC setting up tankers on our new found base seems like a good idea.

TBC

 

Edited January 30, 2019 by Triop

[Bottle Rocketeer 500]

12 hours ago, Triop said:

Cool, if it's stock I'd like to hire you to fly in supplies.

Do you have pics ? I'd like to see it.

 

It uses Airplane Plus, Tweakscale, and Airplane Plus Tweakscale. I'll take a picture soon. I should add that it's almost as wide as the runway. According to some estimates, it has a range of about 1,500 km. It flies really well now and handles like a plane that is 100 times smaller.

Edited January 30, 2019 by Bottle Rocketeer 500

[Triop]

6 hours ago, Bottle Rocketeer 500 said:

I'll take a picture soon.

Cool.

I've uploaded my buggy on KerbalX, I removed the KAS part so it's completely stock.

 

[Triop]

It's time to get the service truck back to the KSC, we need Val to pilot our refuel plane.

Driving over 44 m/s is not a good idea. . . 

TBC

[Triop]

We are sending out a service truck to help the service truck, yes, this is actually happening . . .

Meanwhile, R&D are working on a refueler jet to get Rolas some juice.

TBC

[Triop]

Update !  NEWSFLASH !

I flipped, but we landed on our wheels, lost some parts, but we can continue.

This truck is horrible, I've never tested it.

It wants to go all directions except straight forward.

We are halfway there, man, this takes forever . . .

Not to mention that I now have TWO trucks out in the middle of nowhere that needs to get back to KSC . . .

TBC

[Triop]

 

 

Edited January 31, 2019 by Triop