Yet another failed day...

[Bekiekutmoar]

In general, I can reach destinations like Duna, Eve, and the Jool system without too much problems. But I've never completed a return-trip. This evening I launched a rocket to Duna with the intention of doing a return-trip. I reached the SOI of Duna in just 56 ingame days, proper aerobraking resulted in a nice and stable orbit, but the landing got messed up again. Positive note: my Kerbals rarely die ... !

[jhz3]

This patch was pretty disappointing to me. I am an unashamed MechJeb user because "winging it" isn't fun for me. With a way to calculate and execute transfer burns and other tedium I can focus on spaceship design and mission profiles, which is where the fun lies for me at least. Imagine my surprise when reading through help topics on launch of .17: "Just hold a protractor up to your screen." That's not exactly the most fun way to play a game, IMHO. After about twenty failed interplanetary missions I just said screw it and decided to take a break from KSP.

[SNapple]

So, just for future reference, the altimeter does count from ground altitude and not sea level/median. I have landed a Munar vehicle quite safely with just the navball and altimeter.

I have never used the altimeter for anything. Especially landing.

[Vanamonde]

Ugh. I spent most of the last 2 days missing Moho by varying numbers of millions of kilometers, and got so frustrated that I decided to land on Minmus for the first time in .17, because it's such a simple old thing that I was sure it would go just fine. Instead, this happened:

The force of the decoupler rips the RCS tank from the ASAS module. Tried it 4 times, and it broke every time. So, no landing on Minmus, and my streak of getting absolutely nothing done stretches on into a third day.

WTF? Never happened before in the 4 months I've been playing this game. Has anybody else seen this happen?

Edited October 17, 2012 by Vanamonde

[segaprophet]

Ugh. I spent most of the last 2 days missing Moho by varying numbers of millions of kilometers, and got so frustrated that I decided to land on Minmus for the first time in .17, because it's such a simple old thing that I was sure it would go just fine. Instead, this happened:

The force of the decoupler rips the RCS tank from the ASAS module. Tried it 4 times, and it broke every time. So, no landing on Minmus, and my streak of getting absolutely nothing done stretches on into a third day.

WTF? Never happened before in the 4 months I've been playing this game. Has anybody else seen this happen?

I blame the babies of the Space Kraken..

[Vanamonde]

That was weird. I noticed in my screenshots that I had the landing legs deployed, and they were extending through the fuel tanks below. For some reason, that was not a problem when I extended the legs several minutes earlier and flew around with them that way, but when I eject the stage below, boom! With the legs retracted, no boom.

[Whatshtisthis]

I got my first colony out to Duna. Guess I'll mechjeb my way to the other planets.