Aragosnat Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 That's hilarious.Nothing new. Tis fun to do that on the Moons. Minmus you can get escape velocity from main sails. On Duna. One main sail can get you high enough up so that the Kerbal can finish the orbit off with his EVA pack. Well Gilly Kerbals just need to jump. Have not tried placing a cannon on it yet to fire a Kerbal off. Most likely the will Leave Eve's SOI. Or the Very lest make it very far out unless they are heading towards Eve.Last night I flew this SSTO craft: As you can see it has tipped wings going down which made flying intresting when turning. It kept rolling to one side or the other. Now I know if it was even with the rest it would have had no problems at all. But, I wanted to try out a craft similar to SG-1s Death glider design. Still.. It flies nice on Kerbin and can land as well even at strange angles. =^.^= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelinmage Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Built my first glitch-powered craft, an infiniglider. These things are hard to fly. O.O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaveFunctionP Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 The Prometheus mk2 is performing a rendezvous with Kerbal Station after aerobraking ~10k dv from a warp 5 return from Eeloo. MET ~8 days. The mk2's shakedown mission performed excellently to put it mildly, bringing back more science to pad the reserves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Tested my Munar orbiter. First time round the controls locked in the capture burn for some reason, I hit x but nothing happened. By the time I'd throttled down with shift I was on a collision course. Killed the game and restarted to go back to my last save that time.Second time round the controls were fine but I still mucked up the capture burn and got a periapsis of just over 2km. I watched as the mountains got closer and closer before chickening out and burning straight up. That put periapsis behind me, but below the surface, so I slightly panicked and wasted the last of my fuel in a futile prograde burn. Leaving Jeb to get out at apoapsis and push the capsule into a stable orbit.So I had to rescue him. Made the revised Munar orbiter, with slightly more fuel and a much improved launcher, and performed the rendezvous without a hitch. Who needs RCS?Orbiter I'm now happy with. Lander probably wants further testing. And I've learnt to give a decent safety margin on my delta-vs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelinmage Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) I built an F-15. Looks good, and flies... but not very well. Of course, that may very well be due to operator error.Completely bone-stock, just with a little part clipping.I wanted to just have the horizontal stabilizers as the sole control surfaces for aesthetics, but that was definitely way too little.Also, the standard jet engine looks closer to the real thing, it's just way underpowered.Javascript is disabled. View full album Edited March 13, 2014 by zeppelinmage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUAV8R Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I had 2 game crashes lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-rod48 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Oh God I had a hard time today. So I had to send my new Mun base up in pieces, and since this was a land-based refueling station i needed a large tank for fuel storage. Problem was, i designed the station with the large docking port on top.... Since i already had it landed i had to land the tank ON TOP OF THE BASE! First i tried a straight on landing, couldn't do it. then i went to landing nearby and RCS-ing it on top. Took me about 30 tries, with my funky controls, low on RCS and the fact that the docking port liked to pop off at every opportunity. Glad i got that over with....Base came out well, has 4 fuel transfer rovers so i just land things, drive up and refuel and take back off, Transferring around Kerbin, then the Mun again. No need to worry about refueling in orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
problemecium Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 FINALLY actually found the dang Desert Temple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Othuyeg Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) That's hilarious.If you liked it, here is a simplified version that shot the volunteer over 5km http://www.twitch.tv/othuyeg/c/3875148Nothing new. Tis fun to do that on the Moons. Minmus you can get escape velocity from main sails. On Duna. One main sail can get you high enough up so that the Kerbal can finish the orbit off with his EVA pack. Well Gilly Kerbals just need to jump. Have not tried placing a cannon on it yet to fire a Kerbal off. Most likely the will Leave Eve's SOI. Or the Very lest make it very far out unless they are heading towards Eve.It could be an idea to place a cannon on minmus on top of a rover and use it to launch probe cores across the solar system. Could be a nice way to give your ion powered probes that extra push as they are launched into interplanetary space. (nope, propably wouldn't work, but still... an idea.) Edited March 13, 2014 by Othuyeg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Farted around with my Eve ship. Built a parachute cluster that I'm happy about; will have to see how well it does on Eve. First thing's first though, I think the stupid thing is still short on delta-V. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geschosskopf Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 By dint of docking 4 or 5 tugs together and shuffling leftover fuel around, I retrieved my stranded gas station attendant from Jool orbit and got him down on Vall, which allowed the kethane to start flowing to Laythe 16,000 units at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTehNoes Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Tested my Munar orbiter. First time round the controls locked in the capture burn for some reason, I hit x but nothing happened. By the time I'd throttled down with shift I was on a collision course. Killed the game and restarted to go back to my last save that time.Second time round the controls were fine but I still mucked up the capture burn and got a periapsis of just over 2km. I watched as the mountains got closer and closer before chickening out and burning straight up. That put periapsis behind me, but below the surface, so I slightly panicked and wasted the last of my fuel in a futile prograde burn. Leaving Jeb to get out at apoapsis and push the capsule into a stable orbit.So I had to rescue him. Made the revised Munar orbiter, with slightly more fuel and a much improved launcher, and performed the rendezvous without a hitch. Who needs RCS?Orbiter I'm now happy with. Lander probably wants further testing. And I've learnt to give a decent safety margin on my delta-vs.Did you run out of electricity on the dark side of the moon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadweasel Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Today, I finished the next chapter of the Kerbal Khronicles, and moved on to the image work to go with it.I had done quite a bit with one of the images, but one thing I neglected to do was hit that SAVE every few minutes. As a result, naturally, Photoshop saw an opportunity to honor Murphy and flush all my work down the drain with a random crash it had never done before.Of course, there's no autosave feature in Photoshop CS5.1. Thanks Adobe. Thanks very much. Grrrr... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Did you run out of electricity on the dark side of the moon?I don't think I could have. The engine was an LV-T30 so would have been running its alternator, and anyway it was a manned ship so AIUI running out of electricity will lose me my attitude control but not my throttle.In this case I lost WASD and X, but Ctrl (not Shift, that was an error!) still throttled me down. Which makes me think it was either a bug in KSP or a stuck key on the keyboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codey737 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I fixed the Sabre engines in B9 and I decided to use them for the first time. The mission was a great Success! 2k Dv left..time to go to Minmus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadweasel Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Because I feel the need to crow about it, "Eff your crashes, Photoshop! I came back and did it even better, so nyah!" Here's a sneak peak at one of the images I've been working on for the next chapter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfull Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I finished work on my giant Gateway Station.The habs are porkjet's and the giant solar arrays are from Near Future Propulsion.I just need to send crew to it now, and I'm considering moving it to geosynchronous orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knowlesie468 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Started a new save called the Kerwegen Space Agency and installed the KSO mod and SpaceX pack. Treating it as realistic as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redrobin Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Woosh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccollo Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) Using KW rockets and joint reinforcement, I made a moderately sized rocket.Apparently, it's just the struts that make the rocket magically fall apart, so I didn't use any.It actually flies, and it's quite reliable =P Edited March 13, 2014 by maccollo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerLoki Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I'd hate to see your definition of "huge". Looks like Whackjob has competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBigD60 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 No kidding, it's like a Christmas tree of boom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalfunctionM1Ke Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I was pressing on my Science Mission to Jool earlier on my Stream. Here are some beautiful shots from it.Feel free to Subscribe so you can hang out with me when my stream go live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 My name is JC, and I am an SSTO addict now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadweasel Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 My name is JC, and I am an SSTO addict now. http://i.imgur.com/6Pg3bfZ.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/nnNtp2s.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/kqAe51o.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/Pgufcnw.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/gQIH3eZ.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/s5Cwh9S.pngHaven't you read the Supervillain's Handbook? This is where you're supposed to twirl your mustache and gloat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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