The ultimate Jool 5 challenge (part 4)

[DennisB]

On 9/29/2024 at 1:04 PM, king of nowhere said:

ah, nice one. I thought if there was no connection, those experiments would stop. had no idea you could pick them up and collect their science. just like i beat the previous record by finding a trick to collect surface science from water, you beat me by finding a way to recover deployed experiments. congratulations on pushing the boundaries of what was assumed to be possible.

I've just found this post from 2020. I was definitely not the first one, who did this. Like in my case, that discovery happened by "accident" too, like some real life discoveries.

On 3/3/2020 at 7:39 AM, a2soup said:

To anyone who may find this in the future: The fix described above worked great, but it was actually unnecessary to set the experiment back up since it turns out that when a Kerbal picks up an experiment with 100% complete but untransmitted science, they hold that science just like any other science result and can take it back to Kerbin with them. They may even be able to transmit it after putting it in a commnet-connected craft, but I didn't test that unfortunately.

I hope this helps someone out there, since I was unable to find any documentation of these mechanics anywhere online.

 

[32r]

Level 3 mission completed.

I used an giant ISRU SSTO with only a specialized lander for Tylo.

All 5 kerbals on the craft landed on Laythe, Vall, Pol and Bop. Jebediah did the planting of flags of those but it could be any of the other 3 base kerbals as they were in the same cockpit. Tylo only a hired kerbal Marvin landed and planted.

Full youtube playlist of nearly the whole mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwgjryDrro&list=PLnWZIgmJNhlXihkkThDAbd9G2oV57U-Uc

- Which game versions did you use? I used the latest one which i believe is 1.12.5.
- What mods did you use, if any? I had quite a few loaded. I used only stock parts. The only ones that impacted my game in any way are: BetterTimeWarpContinued, Kerbal Engineer Redux, Click Through Blocker, Kerbal Alarm Clock, Toolbar Controller, Waypoint manager. All of which only provide visual benefits apart from BetterTimeWarp.
Note: I also opened the alt+f12 menu a few times but as you can see in the recordings I only used it to check in the console if any parts broke while landing. Never used any function that would alter the gameplay in any way.

Edited October 15 by 32r

[king of nowhere]

On 10/15/2024 at 4:31 PM, 32r said:

Level 3 mission completed.

I used an giant ISRU SSTO with only a specialized lander for Tylo.

All 5 kerbals on the craft landed on Laythe, Vall, Pol and Bop. Jebediah did the planting of flags of those but it could be any of the other 3 base kerbals as they were in the same cockpit. Tylo only a hired kerbal Marvin landed and planted.

Full youtube playlist of nearly the whole mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwgjryDrro&list=PLnWZIgmJNhlXihkkThDAbd9G2oV57U-Uc

- Which game versions did you use? I used the latest one which i believe is 1.12.5.
- What mods did you use, if any? I had quite a few loaded. I used only stock parts. The only ones that impacted my game in any way are: BetterTimeWarpContinued, Kerbal Engineer Redux, Click Through Blocker, Kerbal Alarm Clock, Toolbar Controller, Waypoint manager. All of which only provide visual benefits apart from BetterTimeWarp.
Note: I also opened the alt+f12 menu a few times but as you can see in the recordings I only used it to check in the console if any parts broke while landing. Never used any function that would alter the gameplay in any way.

reviewing your submission now. unfortunately, there was the giant server crash that prevented any work for a long time before.

was your full mass roughly 300 tons?

[32r]

On 10/31/2024 at 5:33 PM, king of nowhere said:

reviewing your submission now. unfortunately, there was the giant server crash that prevented any work for a long time before.

was your full mass roughly 300 tons?

385205 KG