What did you do in KSP1 today?

[Vanamonde]

5 hours ago, Eclipse 32 said:

question for the mods: where would a "the complete history of Kerbal Space Program and the KSP forums" go?

I would say in Kerbal Network, since it's about the KSP community. 

[Eclipse 32]

ok!

ummm... where is that?

nvm, found it

[Eclipse 32]

MODDEERRRRSSSSS!!!!!

 

 

In a forum post from late 2013,^[2] Squad member Jeff C.(NovaSilisko) described an idea he had for connecting many easter eggs into a story concerning a civilization which predated the Kerbals. Experiments with interstellar travel resulted in the homeworld of this "precursor civilization" being flung out into an extremely distant orbit. Before they froze to death, they launched monoliths and other messages onto many planets and moons in hopes of seeding intelligent life. Instead, they created Kerbals, not-so-intelligent life.

The planet would not show up in any map and would be too distant to be observed with a telescope, making locating it by chance nearly impossible. However, players would be able to find transmitters beaming out SSTV signals on various bodies, each one of which would provide part of the orbital parameters necessary to locate it. The planet would be a bit smaller than Kerbin, covered in ruined cities and frozen oceans, and perpetually in twilight due to being so far from Kerbol.

The only element of this narrative which made it into the game is the SSTV transmitter on Duna, which transmits an image originally intended to depict 4 members of the precursor civilization standing on their homeworld, with the logo of their government. Had the narrative story been completed, it would also have contained part of the orbital parameters. Because the story was never implemented into the game, this explanation for the SSTV signal's imagery is arguably non-canon.^[3]

 

 

 

 

stolen from the wiki

[Eclipse 32]

i borked the game by messing with better time warp and making "Uber Rails Warp" that the max speed is something like 10000000000000000000000000000000000x real time. ima go get rid of it to be nice to my computer.

[Mr. Kerbin]

Made my first Tylo lander (uncrewed, no ascent).

[AlamoVampire]

I just wasted about 3 hours trying to catch a comet. I am beyond frustrated now. So much so that I nuked the ship I sent after it. It had decent fuel, decent stuff on it but it just could not reach out and talk to the KSC. Im tracking the comet, and going to spam fire com sats across the system then go after it again. It has a HUGE orbit and I wanted to catch it close, but guess that wont happen now. I will try again, and i will maybe succeed. If i can do this in this new test save thats refreshing my skill, then mayhap I can run the one down i found in my main save 4 years+ ago. wish me luck

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[Duke MelTdoWn]

I revived my old Mission Report thread instead spamming here at length about my career game. See there for more details!

The highlight of day 58-59 was that 'Gege' and 'Gege II' Miners both landed in East Farside Crater to set up a new Experiment Station. The landing site was pretty steep and the landers kept sliding downhill, complicating this task.

I had also taken on a contract to do seismic scans near 'CareerRover 08' close to KSC.
After driving around like an idiot for half an hour, I had enough.
I designed the 'La Bomba' research drone to fly there!
This design was further refined in Sandbox into 'La Bomba II' which can go Mach 2.

'La Bomba II'
Research Drone
3x Juno
Launch mass: 2.9 tons
Price: 13,185
Max speed: Mach 2 at 8000 m
Service ceiling: 18,000 m
Endurance: ~ 30 minutes

I also took up the challenge of Lyra to make "the most beautiful-looking SSTO I have ever constructed so far". And failed.
At first it started out alright.

Then I added more range, more passengers, more practical docking etc. etc. and ended up with this.

'Bird of Prey'
Passenger SSTO
1x Rapier
Launch mass: 20.0 tons (without passengers)
Price: 36,233
Delta-V: ~ 1500 m/s left after insertion into 75x75 km Kerbin Orbit (with 4 passengers)
TWR: 1.4 in Low Kerbin Orbit (with 4 passengers)
Crew capacity: 4

[Eclipse 32]

wooo just hit 100 rep!

[AlamoVampire]

@Eclipse 32 welcome to the 100+ club! 135901142025

[Duke MelTdoWn]

I continued with career, I am now at day 60. More pictures in Mission Reports.

There is a Mun to Minmus transfer window and 4 shuttles left the Mun with 32 crew for MinmusStation I. Will get very busy up there in a week or so!

The highlight was that 'Pannychis' did its final ejection burn for Eve! Arrival in 178 days.

'Sandworm' was very busy on Minmus grinding out contracts. I salvaged an RTG from a rover I was supposed to repair. Instead I dragged its picked over corpse to the contract site using the crane.

[FTLparachute]

While testing a plane I was building, all the control surfaces ripped off and the plane crashed into the sea at over 1100 m/s. Completely unsurvivable.

But, as Valentina Kerman once famously said, 'bet'.