Vanamonde Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 On 1/13/2025 at 5:53 PM, Eclipse 32 said: question for the mods: where would a "the complete history of Kerbal Space Program and the KSP forums" go? Expand I would say in Kerbal Network, since it's about the KSP community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 ok! ummm... where is that? nvm, found it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Kerbin Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Made my first Tylo lander (uncrewed, no ascent). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 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 044601142025 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 (edited) 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 Edited January 17 by Duke MelTdoWn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 wooo just hit 100 rep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 @Eclipse 32 welcome to the 100+ club! 135901142025 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) 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. Edited January 17 by Duke MelTdoWn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTLparachute Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 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'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 On 1/15/2025 at 9:32 PM, FTLparachute said: But, as Valentina Kerman once famously said, 'bet'. Expand 287 gees are nothing for our little green rocket girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimera Industries Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Today I realized, that all this time my Jool 5 Mission report misspelled the word "avocado." Special thanks to everyone for not making fun of "avodaco." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavscout74 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 On 1/14/2025 at 5:55 AM, Mr. Kerbin said: Made my first Tylo lander (uncrewed, no ascent). Expand Hopefully it fairs better than my first Tylo land. There were a few pieces of debris left after running out of fuel a few dozen meters above the surface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 It seems not many people are playing anymore. 'Bird of Prey' made it into the "Most popular items in the past week" category in Steam Workshop. My thanks go to the eight (8) subscribers who made this possible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 On 1/16/2025 at 10:47 AM, Duke MelTdoWn said: It seems not many people are playing anymore. 'Bird of Prey' made it into the "Most popular items in the past week" category in Steam Workshop. Expand Observer bias. It's the other way around - KSP¹ concurrent players on SteamCharts in (more or less) on the rise for the whole year. Steam Workshop, however, was never that popular. I guess there are less players using it, but that's all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 i was just installing some mods via CKAN, and for one of the mods, it attempted to install REALISM OVERHAUL. i vetoed that in Favour of RealPlume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIROLD.co Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 On 1/4/2025 at 6:55 PM, FTLparachute said: you did war today? Expand On 1/5/2025 at 12:39 AM, Iapetus7342 said: Was it without reason? Expand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 @GIROLD.co, welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTLparachute Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 how did war go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIROLD.co Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 On 1/16/2025 at 4:54 PM, FTLparachute said: how did war go? Expand yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I continued with career and am now on day 61. Details in Mission Reports. The highlight was that I rescued Lagerbree from low orbit using a 'Bird of Prey' (stylish coupe version). I also flew some drones and scanned a Giant Quartz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke MelTdoWn Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 I completed Career Day 61. Details in Mission Reports. The highlights: 'Thors Hammer' launched and executed its trans-munar injection. The 'Light Reusable Launcher' of 'Cerulean' Base was recovered 3.2 km from KSC. I am getting good at judging where to set the reentry periapsis. A VIP booked a trip to Mun orbit. But he is stingy with the money, so he only gets to fly on a 'RyanAir'. Lost the nosecone during ascent at about 15km due to overheating, which slowed me down. I should have barely enough delta-v left to get to Mun orbit and back. 'MunMiner II' did its first aerobraking pass at Kerbin. Do not put storage containers on the windward side if you want to keep their contents! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 i discovered the massive aerobraking uses of Jool. i came in like gangbusters on it at around 30 KM/S, and upon hitting the "surface" i was traveling around 88m/s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse 32 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 i was screwing around with blueshift, and on my way back to kerbin, the game was just "YOU WILL GET A MUN ENCOUNTER WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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