Wayfare Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Managed to badly mess up my "let's try SCIENCE!" career-mode persistence file while trying to edit a rover near a polar Mun lander... Things went very ugly. It's OK though, I was using that save to test out experiments and the tech tree and learned what I needed to know. So I started a new career which began with a good chuckle for Mission Control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerdog2000 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Currently working on my interplanetary fleet to Jool. Going to consist of 3 identical ships with landers set for Bop, Pol, and Vall. With one backup ship that will head off to Eve if the Jool mission goes well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantner Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 (edited) Managed to rescue Jeb's failed mission to the Mun (didn't have enough fuel to get back into Munar Orbit, let alone back to Kerbin!).Landed within 2kms of Jeb with a probe lander, then used the fuel I had left in the failed lander to 'hop' within about 500m of it.Got Jeb home nice and safely.Next Stop, Minmus! First Orbit/flyby, then probe lander, then manned orbit/lander. Never actually been there so working my way up to it.Hopefully soon I can unlock nuclear engines and can start going out to Duna, etc. (and it won't run out of power like my kamikaze probe I just sent out into space to get some science yay for solar panels!)EDIT: Just been to Minmus. Landed pretty well (2nd attempt), collected science and took off... Funly enough, im on my 3rd approach to Kerbin, first 2 times I've crashed when trying to land... Edited October 21, 2013 by pantner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralMDBK Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Today I did my first ever Extreme Eva mission with Jeb on Minmus in career and brought everything back in one piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerbMav Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 After my four days forced vacation from KSP I found a probe named "South Pole Survey" with Goo and lots of fuel (for its size) - so I plotted a flyby to the Mun and after that was done emptied the tank to enter a Kerbin parallel Kerbol orbit - all the way sciencing like hell and depleting the batteries over and over (the obligatory eclipse stopped me for quite some time ...) due to the weak solar panels.Went for a spontanous Munar landing - craft was top heavy, decoupled the first two stages while darting downwards from 25km to turn it back up, third stage was two weak at this altitude, the light lander with its three landing engines supported by the return stage managed to reach orbit from about 10km, landing engines and legs decoupled midflight, return stage circularized around Kerbin, reached the Muns orbit, made science 20km above the Mun and returned to Kerbin.Dont know if FAR helped to salvage the mission or killed the original craft in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leberschnitzel Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 I deleted all my saves and started new. First project in Sandbox: New Station for long range tanking purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeventhArchitect Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Id di nothing. But yesterday I spent 5 hours going from Kerbin, to space, circled past the mun once, then got back to Kerbin, sent a probe that landed on the mun, then sent a round trip ship to Duna and back, all within 5 horus of having started a new game. One .22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV Ron Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Currently busy with other projects. A painting presentation for my uncle, Museum inventory, and yard work. Like some others, I archived a bunch of scenarios from the Save folder to start fresh with 0.22. Will soon continue Career Mode with a second Mun flyby, this time with scientific equipment, a Minmus flyby, then some landings and returns.Dr Jeb will soon return to Sandbox with his crew in the Tardis to continue the tour through the Kerbal Solar System. Currently, they are planning their landing on Duna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Did a couple of Munar flybys for science. Won't attempt a landing until I unlock fuel ducts. Seriously need to pick up work on the Constellation Challenge again, which means I need to migrate my savegame and rockets from 0.21. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 In career mode I did two things. One, I finally landed in the dessert to the west of KSC, across that small section of ocean. For some reason it was more of a problem than landing on the north polar area. The same ship should have easily made it but kept missing. I think it was changing the first stage that messed it up a tad - SAS had problems with that first stage trying to go off in strange directions. After a fatal landing in the mountains I decided I needed to either make a aircraft of some kind to land on the gentle slopes of the mountain or make a rocket car to take samples from the airfield and the shoreline near KSC. Which I did. Sad to say the shoreline near KSC counts as KSC. But I did get some more science points. Now I have two projects. Try to land on or near the mountains, again, without exploding. I think that will require some kind of flying machine and me developing new don't-crash-into-mountains skills. OR try to, without MechJeb, put a craft into stable orbit (which funny enough may be easier to do than landing on the slopes of a mountain). You know, no slopes to slam into. Of course, that would allow me to bring the ship down in a totally different part of the planet, so I may wish to bring two science labs and double on the other science stuff. Which of course would add mass and so on...decisions, decisions.Funny enough I have no yet transmitted anything yet. I have always planned to recover everything. Maybe the put-thingie-into-stable-orbit project should start using unmanned probes first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burkinator Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 In my sandbox save, I'm doing my 3rd trip to Eeloo. My 1st one I'm not sure counts, because I used cheats to bring the crew back (got them on the surface without cheats, though). My 2nd was a round trip without any cheats whatsoever, mainly to prove I wasn't a lying cheating scumbag. This 3rd time had a lot of firsts for me, though. I got there when Eeloo was near apoapsis, I got into a polar orbit (planned a landing site near the north pole), and I brought a rover (now much easier to develop, thanks to sub-assemblies).In my career save, I'm experimenting with Munar free-return trajectories in order to get as much Munar Orbit science with as little delta-v as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzerbeard Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 I just took it easy and had a nice cup of tea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJoseph98 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 I made it to Minmus in career mode and got 250+ science in the mission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xacktar Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 That is amazing, Ashflare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzerbeard Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 That is amazing, Ashflare. Hah, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidboi Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Well I just discovered that the polar ice cap on Kerbin is 32m high...whilst trying to do a science probe air-drop from 20m ASL. That ended badly for poor Donton... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seret Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 My most successful balls up to date!Sent a probe to Minmus to do some science. Except that somebody's slide rule clearly needs new batteries because the fancy pants Mun slingshot didn't work out and the probe took off on a Kerbin escape trajectory.What to do? There's only one thing for it lads, burn like hell! And what do you know; Jool encounter! Much science!I knew the probe was overpowered for a Minmus mission, but that's ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JebidiahsBigSister Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 This Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirrobert Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 I sent 2 probes out of the Kerbin system, and discovered I could get them on a Duna and Eve encounter. Yeay, science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylon00 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 After getting my new GPU to work, I finally played KSP on max settings for the first time!To celebrate, Jeb told the clamps they could have the day off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LTrotsky Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 First day in the KSP world. Made 4 simple rockets. They all crashed because there is no decoupler available in career mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerdog2000 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Launched my 3 ship mission to Jool successfully, unless I find out I don't have enough fuel to get home... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlamedSteak Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Finally got the small solar panels unlocked in career mode, so put a satelite into low Mun orbit and then followed it up with a probe landing on the surface. Then did some hardcore SCIENCE! For some reason I'm having a helluva time managing my fuel in this release, I haven't run out yet, but I've had some really close calls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteevyT Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Gameplay footage from a few days ago, but just uploaded it to YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlamedSteak Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Ha! I got caught out exactly the same way (with the staging of the chute) on my first career flight too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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