Duke MelTdoWn Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago (edited) Whoever delivers the most ore in a single flight to Low Kerbin Orbit wins! This is a pure design challenge and can be played in Sandbox. Please indicate if you use any part mods. No cheat menu! The goal is to design a single launch that can mine and move ore. The launch can consist of multiple modules that can rendezvous and dock as they please. The ore must be mined and can not be already loaded in VAB/SPH. It can not be mined from Runway or Launchpad. If you have a Mobile Launcher Platform you are allowed to move your craft to Shores and mine there. The ore to be counted must be delivered with a single return flight to a stable Kerbin orbit between 70x70 km and 200x200 km. Entries in each category will be ranked based on the amount of ore delivered. Mission elapsed time will be used as tiebreaker. Categories Can I play, Daddy?: deliver Mun ore to stable Mun orbit above 50x50 km instead of LKO. I'm too young to die: acquire the ore from Kerbin, Mun or Minmus and deliver to LKO. Hey, not too rough: acquire the ore from Duna. Hurt me plenty: acquire the ore from a fresh asteroid. Ultra-Violence: acquire the ore from Moho. Nightmare: acquire the ore from Tylo or Eve. Speedrun: deliver ore from the Mun to LKO in 3 days or less. Ranked based on in game mission timer from launch to stable LKO of delivery vehicle. Edited 28 minutes ago by Duke MelTdoWn Ranked based on amount of ore delivered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTLparachute Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago (edited) Is there a minimum ore requirement? Allowing 1 unit from any destination seems a bit easy. Edited 2 hours ago by FTLparachute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago (edited) Entries in each category will be ranked based on the amount of ore delivered. 10 kg of whatever purple stuff Eve is made out of is pretty valuable back at Kerbin. (I heard it tastes like grapes.) __________ An example entry out of competition (I stacked the cards against you because I spent months designing mining systems). And this would not count anyways because I used a second rover from a different launch to fill up the Ore Freighter faster. 'Gargantua' Mining System Category: I'm too young to die (ore acquired on Mun) Ore delivered: 180 tons (18,000) Mods: Breaking Ground parts; only visual mods Launch Mass: 1179 tons Price: 988,233 Mission time: 6 days 1 hour 6 minutes from launch to docking with Refinery in LKO Craft file: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3380142778 More pics: https://imgur.com/gallery/ore-delivery-challenge-example-gargantua-h2m5ueQ From left to right: VeHeReLau, Behemoth Orbital Refinery, A/D Stage, 2x Ore Freighter, Gargantua Mining Rover Mission profile: Mining Rover stays on the Mun surface to drill continuously. Ascent/Descent Stage is used to land Ore Freighters. Rover(s) dock with Freighter and fill it up with ore and fuel. 4x Dart on A/D Stage used to bring the heavy Freighter back to Mun orbit. Freighter undocks and uses 4x Nerva to head back to Kerbin. Needs 5 or 6 aerobrake passes at Kerbin to enter low orbit. Ore delivered to Behemoth Orbital Refinery. Picture proof: This example picture is suboptimal because the freighter is already docked with the refinery. The challenge is who can deliver the most ore, not who can design the heaviest launcher Please show resources tab and orbital parameters. With no other entries so far, this would place me 1st in "I'm too young to die" with 180 tons. I hope this challenge motivates you to expand your orbital refueling infrastructure! Edited 1 hour ago by Duke MelTdoWn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTLparachute Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, Duke MelTdoWn said: I hope this challenge motivates you to expand your orbital refueling infrastructure! in my case that's building it lol Might check out speedrun category once i have the time, that seems the most interesting to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted 24 minutes ago Author Share Posted 24 minutes ago I think Speedrun will call for completely different designs and strategies than the other categories. I also added a new category to deliver Mun ore to Mun orbit, these designs will be the most useful in career mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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