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

[Triop]

Checkpoint 28

It's wibbly wobbly out here, but we manage.

Next up: Refueling at South Point base.

TBC

Edited February 18, 2019 by Triop

[Triop]

Ok, I'm getting seasick here . . .

I have some serious dunes coming up . . .

TBC

[Triop]

HERE WE GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate this game . . .

TBC

 

[Jacke]

23 minutes ago, Triop said:

HERE WE GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I hate this game . . .

I was just thinking "perhaps a roll cage around the engine in the front, say maybe put all the parts inside a structural girder...."

[TheFlyingKerman]

 @Triop must have the patience of a saint For some reason I haven't got much success with cockpited rovers.

[Triop]

16 hours ago, Jacke said:

I was just thinking "perhaps a roll cage around the engine in the front, say maybe put all the parts inside a structural girder....

That is possible :

I might do that.

12 hours ago, TheFlyingKerman said:

must have the patience of a saint

Nah, I just don't have a life.

WE ARRIVED.

Saying hi to Eritrey (yes, that is her name....)

Let's get some fuel.

TBC

[Triop]

What a nice big runway.

Fill her up please.

Thank you.

Next up: Drive to the 2nd bridge, I guess it's about 125 km looking at my 50 km checkpoints.

TBC

 

[Triop]

Almost forgot, we need a new fuelcell.

Liz has....USE A LADDER YOU ****

Fixed, go get a band aid Liz, ur bleeding...

Did I say 125 km ?

I can do science me.

TBC

[Triop]

WELCOME TO HELL !

Could I drive through this water ?

TBC

[Jacke]

10 minutes ago, Triop said:

Could I drive through this water ?

TBC

Spoiler

 

 

Edited February 18, 2019 by Jacke

[Triop]

I say let's do it, Edberry is not sure though . . .

Easy, easy . . .

We're floating . . . .FULL REVERSE THROTTLE NOW !

A real challenge up ahead, we are going mountain climbing boys !

TBC

[Triop]

I'm surprised the little Bugger has the power to climb these mountains.

You may not see it in the pictures, but it's verry steep.

I'm on top of a mayor drop now, I'm going to use the brakes a lot so Edberry might live to see another day...

TBC

[Triop]

I got stuck, lol !

WARNING: This next video is of extremelylely low quality, I can't record in the dark, sorry....

 

TBC

[Jacke]

19 minutes ago, Triop said:

I got stuck, lol !

Ah, high-centred like a boss!

When you pulled back, I looked at the terrain, I though you should have gone left or right around that hollow rather than through it.

 

19 minutes ago, Triop said:

WARNING: This next video is of extremelylely low quality, I can't record in the dark, sorry....

I had a gallery of screenshots that were poor due to darkness.  I decided to improve their look and fiddled with them in Irfanview.

And I have two mods that could have fixed this during the mission: Ambient Light Adjustment (still working despite being a mod for KSP 1.3.0) and Minimum Ambient Lighting.  I'd advise you to try them out for the night videos.

Because fixing the shots after the fact took me more time than flying the mission.

[FleshJeb]

19 hours ago, Jacke said:

I was just thinking "perhaps a roll cage around the engine in the front, say maybe put all the parts inside a structural girder...."

There’s a reason all my long-range rovers are designed for crash-tolerance and self-recovery. It’s not a matter of if you crash, but when. The 0.625 MH structural panels are a game-changer.

Redundancy helps as well. I’ve had rovers complete missions with half the parts torn off, and they’re still capable of driving. If you build with the expectation that your rover is going to be peeled like an onion, you’ll get much farther between having to run full replacement missions.

[Triop]

11 minutes ago, Jacke said:

When you pulled back, I looked at the terrain, I though you should have gone left or right around that hollow rather than through it.

Nice observation, I gave myself the option to choose between two routes:

I've never posted this screenshot, I make so many and most I don't use...

I've choosen the orange route btw.

DAY 11, CHECKPOINT 29

It's 51 km from cp28 instead of 50 km, I couldn't stop on the hill...

Finally, daylight

If you think it's only 60 km to the bridge, watch this terrain....

TBC

 

[Triop]

Meanwhile, at the KSC:

 

[Triop]

I made this for @Jacke, my  loyal house cat   good friend.

 

Edited February 19, 2019 by Triop

[Jacke]

50 minutes ago, Triop said:

I made this for @Jacke, my loyal house cat

House cat ?!?

Not likely, sunshine.

But glad you found it amusing.

[Triop]

1 minute ago, Jacke said:

House cat ?!?

Not likely, sunshine.

But glad you found it amusing.

Purrrr ?

[Jacke]

2 minutes ago, Triop said:

Purrrr ?

No problem.

Now get back out there rovering and flying and taunting the Kraken.

[Triop]

2 minutes ago, Jacke said:

Now get back out there rovering and flying and taunting the Kraken.

On my way.

[Triop]

It's horrible out here, up down up down down up up down . . .

But we have good news, we can see the bridge.

We also have some bad news . . .

We lost 2 fuelcells and the wheels, well . . .

Reloading the Bugger fixed our wheel problem, we will fly in some fuellcels when we reach the bridge.

TBC

 

[Triop]

Checkpoint 30

Finally reached the bridge.

TBC

Edited February 19, 2019 by Triop

[Jacke]

Dude, it looks like you're always going down deep into hollows.  Is this contributing to your crashing?

 

57 minutes ago, Triop said:

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

57 minutes ago, Triop said:

 

Spoiler

 

 

Even when driving recce or tank, when I didn't want to skyline and would keep off the ridges, there was also "Tanks don't go where the green grass grow."  As in green grass at the lowest points.