[Free For All] 30 sec Altitude Challenge

[Mars90000000]

With newer versions of the game now available since the last installment of this challenge, larger fuel tanks and stronger engines, the 30 sec Altitude Challenge is back!

The rules are simple!

30 seconds, highest altitude,Everything (mods, plugins, bugs, cheat, anything and everything you want) is allowed!

Go as high as you can, and take a screenshot at exactly 30 seconds! Post the screenshot with the altitude showing! (if the screenshot is at any time longer than 30 seconds, it doesn't get counted, but no worries, launch it again! it's only 30 seconds!) (note: you're allowed less than 30 seconds but it's really just a disadvantage for you!)

Multiple entries are allowed.

Fire away!

If you prefer a stock only, plugin/mod/cheat/bug-free version of the same challenge, making it a little harder to achieve higher altitudes, head over to the [stock] 30 sec Altitude Challenge thread!

Highscore:

1) Ojimak (37,045,408,034,834 m)

2) Ojimak (158,258 m)

3) TBD

Runner-ups

- TBD

- TBD

- TBD

Edited May 8, 2013 by Mars90000000

[Dorsidwarf]

1) Open hyper edit window

2) Launch

3) Add zeros to your orbit number for twenty eight seconds

4) Profit.

[Ojimak]

Yeah, this might get kind of insane. Even without using hyper edit, someone can edit the cfg files of a probe core to have zero mass, zero drag, and a very high damage tolerance, edit a single decoupler to have an ejection force of something monstrous, strap the two together, hit launch, press the spacebar, and watch physics destroy itself.

This challenge could get very crazy, very fast.

Regardless, here is my submission, with only use of the debug menu.

Note: I accidentally made the probe core overheat too quickly and the flight ended at only 25 seconds in, so only 158,258 m resulted, relatively low, even considering that this was my first try.

-Ojimak

Edited May 7, 2013 by Ojimak

[Plur303]

1) Open hyper edit window

2) Launch

3) Add zeros to your orbit number for twenty eight seconds

4) Profit.

I have to agree with this. I have a feeling this is going to get very ridiculous very quickly. With hyperedit you can just teleport your ship to whatever distance you want from the sun or instantly make your velocity many times the speed of light. I have flown past Jool in a matter of seconds messing around with hyperedit. I think at least hyperedit should be banned.

Also there is nothing keeping somebody from making a rocket with 100,000 thrust and 0.0001 mass.

But I'm sure there will be some entertaining posts.

[Ojimak]

Also there is nothing keeping somebody from making a rocket with 100,000 thrust and 0.0001 mass.

Your (and everyone else's) point now has pictures to go with it:

On the pad (poor planet Kerbin has no idea what's about to hit it)

Somewhere very far from everything else, 30 seconds later (the decoupler itself hit Kerbin with enough force that it says it splashed down, despite hitting land)

That sir, if you cannot read it, is 37,045,408,034,834 m.

Half a second, and there is a three in the hundred-billions place instead of a zero

Had I added just another 0 to end of the ejection force in the decoupler cfg file, or added another zero between the decimal point and the one in the probe core mass, this distance would have been much larger, as if it wasn't large enough.

-Ojimak

Edit: Just realized that the menu in the image says the maximum g-force was 1.5 g. I wonder if that will ever be fixed.

Edited May 7, 2013 by Ojimak

[toric5]

best way? negative drag!

[Ninety-Three]

I found the edge of the universe.

And in zero seconds too!

Note the docking clamp: All I had to do was make that clamp attached very high up. Very, very high.

[Mach56]

No you didn't THIS is the edge of the universe

Sorry for big pics I don't know how to resize them

[mythbusters844]

My attempt using a separator with ejection force 2147483647 so the game wouldn't crash.

Looks like Ojimak creamed me...

[Blaster]

I tried a stack of TR-XL's. It crashed the game instantly.

[searlefm]

so i quickly modded some part.cfg files and achieved FLT

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7388698241902m

Edited August 11, 2013 by searlefm

[ihtoit]

Challenge accepted.

Speed: 12927m/s

Altitude: 134724m

Used (part count):

nuclear engine (3)

Tristack coupler (1)

200u fuel tank (1)

SAS Module (1) (didn't really need this extra weight but since the launcher was amazingly unstable without it, didn't really have a choice but to use one)

Kersputnik (1)

ALL stock, NO CHEATS.

[quietsamurai98]

Challenge accepted.

[Pic Snip]

Speed: 12927m/s

Altitude: 134724m

Used (part count):

nuclear engine (3)

Tristack coupler (1)

200u fuel tank (1)

SAS Module (1) (didn't really need this extra weight but since the launcher was amazingly unstable without it, didn't really have a choice but to use one)

Kersputnik (1)

ALL stock, NO CHEATS.

You should put this over on the stock challenge.

[Starwhip]

Sun apoapsis in 15 seconds or so. The screenshot, if you note, is only at 1:41.

So I did the calculations: in 30 seconds I would be at 88,681,208,138 meters. Lovely.

I'm not actually submitting anything, but WOAH. No hyperedit for me. Go CFG Editing!!!