-Gamah's "Copy me, quick!" Running Challenge Thread

[soranno]

Yes, that`s the very one I watched. It seems having it on 3 shows me everything I need, but maybe turning up the limiter will keep the chain from ending somewhere prematurely.

[bulletrhli]

3 seems to be really nice, apparently there is a conic mode of 0 which I have tried before with limit up to 5 and it seems nice, but, I am very picky XD so, not sure if I want to stick with mode 4 and limit 5 or lower my mode to 3.

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

The real question is, how do I get it to not show me all the paths I'm not interested in, and only show me the path of my mouseover, target, and vehicle?!

[soranno]

More of concern for me is trying to place a maneuver when two paths are very close.. because I really don`t want to be planning a maneuver for 150 days away when the burn should be taking place in 7 hours.

At least this is keeping us occupied while we await the next step of the challenge

[bulletrhli]

The real question is, how do I get it to not show me all the paths I'm not interested in, and only show me the path of my mouseover, target, and vehicle?!

Definitely check out this video.

Also, you can add or remove the # of lines using the conics path mode limit feature which pdtv also talks about.

More of concern for me is trying to place a maneuver when two paths are very close.. because I really don`t want to be planning a maneuver for 150 days away when the burn should be taking place in 7 hours.

At least this is keeping us occupied while we await the next step of the challenge

Yeah, that can be a bit of a pain, I try zooming in as FAR as possible, or I click on the orbit of the object farther back then place a maneuver for than I just drag it into position.

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

Yes, I have that problem as well. The best way I've found around that is to zoom in on the map as much as I can, and look at the orbital plain from above. Sometimes I've had to go as far as placeing that node on the far side, and dragging it around to where I want it.

And yes it is. Lol. but I suppose the OP had to sleep at some point. Which I will be doing in a few more hours. Or maybe he's having a hard time coming up with something good and unique. In the meantime I'll just continue to fly my planes and bomb things.

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

@bulletrhli

Great minds think alike. it just took me 1 minute longer to type it up.

[bulletrhli]

He hasen't been online but I do not believe he will have any troubles making a challenge. He just wants more people to join that's all Keeps it interesting the more people you have. On the KLF server I am on faithfully, I have let like 30 other avid players know about this and I am sure they would check it out

[Xeldrak]

Allright - I'm set.....just.....you can start now ^^

[-Gamah]

Alright guys, I'm working on the next challenge now, sorry for the delay! Working massive hours lately!

[-Gamah]

The new challenge is to rescue your minmus stranded Kerbal! But there's twist!

You must send 3 kerbals in an orbiter to pick him up, no landing!

Example mission here:

http://www.use.com/3cf3ebaf03f6c637163c#photo=1

Normally I'd use imgur, but it's acting up for me...

[bulletrhli]

Not going to lie, I lost my save file However, I am purposely going to crash into minmus, but, saving the kerbal, then go and rescue him! Welcome back Gamah!

[kookoo_gr]

Done, see album for full mission status http://imgur.com/a/jVX8J#0 got to say though that was my first extreme EVA, keep posting challenges. Do we have to keep the flights we had over the last 3 challenges or do we end them?

Edited May 1, 2013 by kookoo_gr

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

Done. Does my ship look familliar? Lol, if I hadn't spent so much time designing it and making it work maybe I would have been first.

[SollyK]

I'm confused here are we supposed to do an EVA orbit of minmus? I probably won't be able to work on this till tomorrow afternoon so I don't know if I'll end up getting in on time but I was just wondering.

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

oh, well, the OP didn't say anything about it being EVA manditory, but then again, I didn't see that 3 had to go up to get 1. I sent 1 up to get 2, since my original Minmus rocket had 2 passangers. Do I need to redo the flight?

[Xeldrak]

Yeah, this is what you get for living in europe - you get all the fun while I am asleep

Anyways, I went the extreme EVA way:

Time to get Orbus into Orbit with his Jetpack:

Rescue-vehicle Cosmeg-1 is beeing launched

Aligning orbits:

Orbus in sight!:

Time for reentry:

Back on Kerbin:

[bulletrhli]

Man, you guys have REALLY nice aesthetically pleasing rockets!

[Xeldrak]

I hope you dont mean me - this was just the simplest thing I came up with that would fit the mission parameters.

Kerbies_are_my_Minions rocket on the other hand....I'm still not sure if I should admire it for its awesome looks or just call it an abomination

[bulletrhli]

Well, I was talking in general, but, now that you say kerbies are my minions, yes, I do like that, its different that's for sure, but you also had a nice rocket never put your rocket designs down, just remember, some people cant even get to the Mun >

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

It IS an abomination! It's supposed to be. lol. Go watch "Despicable Me."

On the side not, notice that my rocket could easily carry 3, but I only sent 1. I didn't see that part. I don't have time to launch another mission this morning, but if I promised to still get credit for being second, I'll relaunch with 3. I did manage to bring 2 back instead of 1 though. With my crew cabin I could still do the same.

[-Gamah]

It IS an abomination! It's supposed to be. lol. Go watch "Despicable Me."

On the side not, notice that my rocket could easily carry 3, but I only sent 1. I didn't see that part. I don't have time to launch another mission this morning, but if I promised to still get credit for being second, I'll relaunch with 3. I did manage to bring 2 back instead of 1 though. With my crew cabin I could still do the same.

2 of the 5 submissions have been scored, so long as you do it before 3 others

Scores updated and thread bumped.

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

I'll get to it right now. just got home from work.

The hang up will be, the ship still is orbiting Min, but has no crew and I saved after transfer. So I'll have to send crew to it first. lol

Edited May 2, 2013 by Kerbies_are_my_Minions

[Kerbies_are_my_Minions]

Since I tend to flood threads with pics, here's only 5. but I do have more of the trip if you would like to see them.

Three Go UP!

The path to Salvation

The transfer

Coming home

Three go up....

... 5 come down!

I had to alter my landing section a bit or else somone would have been stranded in orbit. lol.

[SollyK]

I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for Gamah. I wasn't exactly sure what the challenge requirements were. But I do have to say it was a lot of fun. The only thing that was a pain is it took me ages to get an intercept. That was my first non kerbal rendezvous.

Mission Album

http://imgur.com/a/4eKDH