totm oct 2022 The All-Contract Challenge

[Superfluous J]

Congrats on TotM!

And congrats to me for completing Mission 5: Bring. Him. Home. Because no one has ever titled a mission that.

To recap: I started this mission with EIGHT contracts to complete:

1. Test the Spider on escape trajectory from Mun

2. Build a surface outpost on mun with antenna, docking port, solar panel, and room for 5.

3. Plant a flag on mun

4. Dock 2 vessels around mun - we already have a satellite there with a docking port.

5. Repair that satellite Bill couldn't fix.

6. Science data from surface of mun.

7. Rescue Rydas from the surface of Mun.

8. Surface deployed mystery goo from Mun

Along the way, I also picked up a "Science from space around Kerbin" contract, for a total of 9 completed. For all that work, I got - wait for it - three HUNDRED science points.

Wait, did Bob forget to carry the one again?

No. I got 300 science. Find out why in the Imgur link.

https://imgur.com/a/kV4zOz4

Edited October 7, 2022 by Superfluous J

[Superfluous J]

Mission 6, with far less contracts yet double the launches. Triple if you count the revert.

https://imgur.com/a/B86SEty

[Superfluous J]

Note: I've added a couple mods since starting that I didn't mention, but none of them are any more "cheaty" than the ones I previously mentioned.

• AstroGator - which I said I installed last time but apparently I was wrong about that. I installed it now for sure
• AutoAGL - because I kept forgetting it wasn't installed.
• KSP Community Fixes - For the obvious reasons, particularly how it causes the game to remember who was sitting where on reverts.

Mission 7 is actually 2 missions, because the first one was just a little rescue mission around Kerbin, to rescue someone (an Engineer named Franvan who very likely will never see a capsule again unless I have 2 missions at once that need an engineer) and get "transfer kerbals between ships around Kerbin."

The second was a flyby of Minmus, in which I also got high and low science (as the contract requested)

Neither was particularly hard, so not many pictures. But the pictures that are available are here:

https://imgur.com/a/dF9jK62

Mission 8 will be a bit more involved as I send 2 satellites and an orbital station up there, and one of the 2 pilots that are contracted to go along will return. The contract that that will satisfy will hopefully give us one to land there, which is where the ca$h money science will happen.

I've also taken 2 contracts to put satellites around Eve, but the window's over a year away. I've got an alarm for so I won't forget. Though who knows I may still forget.

EDIT: Oh, and I upgraded the VAB and the Tracking Station to 3. They join Mission Control and the Launchpad. I could upgrade a couple other facilities but really don't need to right now and who knows how much money I'll drop on the Minmus Multi Mission that's coming up.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Superfluous J

[Superfluous J]

Next up, Minmus!

https://imgur.com/a/soJYqjt

Short recap:

• 2 simple Minmus satellite missions, which I managed to screw up.
• 1 simple "orbit and return" mission, which I managed to screw up.
• 1 simple "put a station around Minmus" mission, which I managed to not screw up.
• In spite of all the screw-ups, I managed to complete every contract (yay!)

[Superfluous J]

Time to suck Minmus dry of science!

https://imgur.com/a/QleRjJ2

I was able to get both surface and "space around" Minmus, so I took full advantage.

[Superfluous J]

I hate to do it but I'm going to bow out now. I have no doubt I could complete the challenge but with the announcement of KSP2 (even 4 months in advance) I've lost all desire to play KSP. The last thing I want to do is be burned out on KSP when KSP2 drops, even if I don't end up buying it right away.

Anybody who is NOT feeling similarly, though, I wholeheartedly recommend this challenge as it was very fun and got me doing things I'd never do in a career otherwise.