JoeNapalm Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 22 minutes ago, Bubbadevlin said: Today in KSP I finished up my stock paddle boat/steamboat. I still have not came up with an appropriate name for it, any ideas?!? (I want it to be something Mississippi river themed, but with a K ) Kalypso? Korsair? Kerbin Klipper? African Kween? -Jn- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarrisonChisholm Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 On 1/15/2016 at 10:39 AM, Laguna said: I've been a long, long fan of Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority books, and that thing immediately reminded me of many of the images used in those books, especially the work of Peter Elson, and this image in particular: It's because it's so...round and non-standard. Spacecraft 2000-2100 was my major non-Star Wars influence growing up. Very cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guz Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) watched Edited January 20, 2016 by Guz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tfin Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 3 hours ago, Bubbadevlin said: Today in KSP I finished up my stock paddle boat/steamboat. I still have not came up with an appropriate name for it, any ideas?!? (I want it to be something Mississippi river themed, but with a K ) Mississippi... so, not the Klermont then, since Fulton's North River Steamboat operated on the Hudson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 4 hours ago, Bubbadevlin said: Today in KSP I finished up my stock paddle boat/steamboat. I still have not came up with an appropriate name for it, any ideas?!? (I want it to be something Mississippi river themed, but with a K ) The S. Klemson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) Today I experimented with planes that used hydrofoils to get unstuck from the water. This one works fairly well, though my impatient dives for the water resemble normal landings only by the fact that when things stop moving around, the plane's right-side up and nothing's damaged. When I can restrain myself, I glide it in at a shallow angle and flare just as the foil is about to contact the surface. When done right, it just about lands itself from that point on. Usually it just digs in. I'm still trying to figure out if that's a curable problem. (eta: Or just maybe I'm not a particularly deft pilot.) Taking off from the water is easy. Turn on SAS, firewall the throttle, and then don't touch anything. As it accelerates, the slight positive AOA of the foil brings the nose up in a way that allows the wings to help lift the plane from the water. At first, this reduces drag, but as speed builds, so does lift, and for a second or so the plane is flying with the foil on the surface, then just flying. The elevons attached to the foil are set to pitch and roll. The small vertical elevon is set for yaw. Edited January 20, 2016 by SSgt Baloo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbadevlin Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tfin said: Mississippi... so, not the Klermont then, since Fulton's North River Steamboat operated on the Hudson? You know what, I like the Klermont, especially since the Clermont was the first steam boat, and this is the first stock paddle boat (as far as i am aware) Thanks for the great names guys! Edited January 20, 2016 by Bubbadevlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev7787 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 First Munar base and Space Station Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speeding Mullet Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 14 hours ago, Evanitis said: *think, think* Any chance you can launch the largest tail plane ever seen in KSP in time to meet the re-entry? I just landed a class C and went through exactly the same issue as you. In the end I just went for 37Km from interplanetary space and rode the tumbling potato right in at 3.2 km/s. It was carnage, but the critical parts survived, which brings me to what I did in KSP today(ish): SM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tez613 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Started an multi module interplanetary ship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RizzoTheRat Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Been working abroad for the last few months so only getting to play KSP at weekends, and then not all that often. Finally succumbed last night and took my work laptop home. Installed KSP, KER, KAS, KIS, ScanSat and RemoteTech, started a new career game and got as far as doing a flyby of the Mun with a couple of materials labs and goo containers. It's good to be back. Think I'll add in life support and Kolonisation this time too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenobi McCormick Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) Update since my last post: My final mission went well. Chose Vall as a target because the last time I landed there we were still using Tosh's Cart Plugin for rovers. The trip cost 3/4ths of a million funds to launch, returned 12,000 science(10,000 recovered, balance transmitted), then...well, stared at my space center. What now? Where to do? Effectively that save is sandbox. So I close the game, download Unity 4.6.4 x64, and do the hack. Yay. Works. Well, then what? I'm still pretty much sitting there staring at the VAB with no real goal in mind. I guess I'll throw flying wings at the stars until one stays up there or somethin' iono Edited January 20, 2016 by Kenobi McCormick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DunaRocketeer Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 My current workhorse recieved an upgrade last night. Why use a Mammoth when 4xMainsails are so much cooler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evanitis Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, Speeding Mullet said: Any chance you can launch the largest tail plane ever seen in KSP in time to meet the re-entry? I had to realize that my mistake was impatience. I did my first asteroid rendezvous closer to Duna's orbit instead of the logical way inside Kerbin's SoI. And I wanted to bring it home -right away-. That resulted in a high-energy transfer. The angle of the orbits of Kerbin and Stimpy didn't -seem- too big, but that extra ~2.5k m/s velocity felt too much to deal with painlessly when having less than 0.1 TWR. I guess using nukes on an asteroid holding ~800 tonnes of ore wasn't the brightest idea either. I think if wanted the extra challenge, I could have launched appendages to rendezvous on an escape trajectory with interplanetary speed, or I could have looked for the most aerodynamic profile of the asteroid to aerocapture anyways... but impatience won, so I reloaded the save of the initial capture, waited 3 years for the best allignment and arrived nice and slow this time. This way a simple Mun gravity assist was enough to get a safe Kerbin orbit without any further hassle. Now only the fun part remains! Edited January 20, 2016 by Evanitis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerhamster Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Things are looking up on Minmus with the arrival of the first ore tank. Bill fresh from his near orbit experience at the hands of the cherry picker was delighted to keep his feet on Terra Mintia as he set up the support legs and removed the transport package. With everything connected Kerbin gave the thumbs up to the big switch on, while the others cowered in their cabs Bill stayed outside in a fit of bravado. Initial signs are that it actually works but one of the three engineers on site is now permanently in the control module. In comfort. While the others sleep in the rovers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puggonaut Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) In Oribt the MKIII Version , its got , wait for it 10 Nuclear Reactors , 4 crew members an the rest of it is Plasma Containers , gonna leave it parked there till the rest of it gets built an sent up to add to it , crew quarters an a few other bits to add . Also working on a MKIV which hopefully will make all 3 rings revolve oh an also Orderd 8GB of Ram for me PC may aswell abuse the 64bit version i'm running now with 16GB i'm hoping things wil be a smoother . Edited January 20, 2016 by Puggonaut 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxwellsDemon Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Fulfilled a couple of satellite contracts... collecting Funds to upgrade the VAB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeNapalm Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) I overbuilt the #@$% outta my mapping satellite deployment platform. Then...I put on MOAR BOOSTERS! Then I ripped the wings off an SSTO and made it a quad tilt wing. (And it flew, right outta the box!) Then I pulled the wings off that (forgetting to save it) and made it a STOL flying wing, which also flew, until a rogue wobble in the rototrons smashed half my control surfaces and I had to ditch, with Death having one hand heavy on the yoke. SSTOcean, but no casualties. Can't get to my pics, right now, but suffice to say - THIS is why I play sandbox. Go big or go home! -Jn- Edited January 20, 2016 by JoeNapalm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donziboy2 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 56 minutes ago, MaxwellsDemon said: Fulfilled a couple of satellite contracts... collecting Funds to upgrade the VAB. Tourists actually pay pretty well. I use a 12 kerbal ship, fill it half with tourists and pick up a few stranded kerbals. Im up to 11M and I have about 60days before the first transfer window to Duna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 30 minutes ago, Donziboy2 said: Tourists actually pay pretty well. I use a 12 kerbal ship, fill it half with tourists and pick up a few stranded kerbals. Im up to 11M and I have about 60days before the first transfer window to Duna I love bringing tourists along on missions for some extra cash.... plus they're fun to watch freak out.... lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaMensae Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 19 hours ago, GarrisonChisholm said: Spacecraft 2000-2100 was my major non-Star Wars influence growing up. Very cool stuff. As it was for me, though the second book, Great Space Battles, with the introduction of Peter Elson's artwork, was an even bigger influence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarrisonChisholm Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 29 minutes ago, Laguna said: As it was for me, though the second book, Great Space Battles, with the introduction of Peter Elson's artwork, was an even bigger influence. Whatttttt?!? I do not know of this thing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaMensae Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 14 minutes ago, GarrisonChisholm said: Whatttttt?!? I do not know of this thing!! There's actually four books total in the (original) TTA series. I didn't know about the last two until much later, when that new thing called the World Wide Web came about. The other two are Spacewreck: Ghost Ships and Derelicts of Space (probably the best one, even surpassing Spacecraft 2000-2100...could be KSP history book ) and Starliners: Commercial Travel in 2200 AD. This is a nice (simple) website about the books. GSB is considered to be the weakest of the books, as it was a publisher-mandated rush job, and it suffered for it. Still, the main story is great, and the Peter Elson artwork is just fantastic...my avatar image was an Elson used in the book for a specific ship that was key to the main story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerBlammo Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Oh I loved those TTA books when I was a kid. They are partially responsible for me being the nerd that I am today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shirt Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Trumpets please. Finally made Eve orbit (twice!) with a little (read lot) help from my KSP Forum friends. Album is from second successful launch. Pic 1 - The landing gear/heatshields/launchpad is way overdone, but this is a WIP. I started at abt 190 m above sea level (Lat 0, Lon -8.1) fairly level spot on the beach with 7536 dv (from MJ set to Eve). Pic 2 - The launch is quite visually explosive. Pic 3 - The ship rising above the pad. Pic 4 - Double stack set of tanks dropped just before. I missed getting them in the shot Pic 5 - First aerospikes drop Pic 6 - Last radial engines dropped. The heat builds before I could adjust and shortly after the nosecone blows up. This happened on my first successful launch too. Pic 7 - Who needs nosecones? Circularized orbit! Pic 8 - My little bolt in spaaace. First attempt I had 45 dv left. This time I have 176. I have previously tested landing. It is a rough ride but I can do it. This launch was a hyper edit landing so chutes were not included. Now I have to either scale this back some or figure out how to get 56 tons plus landing pad to Eve from Kerbin. Minor details after getting off Eve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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