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Favorite Joolian Moon?

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  1. 1. Your favorite Joolian Moon?

    • Laythe
      101
    • Vall
      29
    • Tylo
      10
    • Bop
      10
    • Pol
      22

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llamatoes

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Jool, most of use have been there, some of use have a a colony, and a few of us are still trying as hard as we can to get that Bloody lander to Tylo.

My personal favorite moon is Vall, as I think the best parties have no atmosphere, and my colony is there, and it looks cool and my least favorite is Laythe, because it doesn't look too great, and anyway, who needs oxygen?

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Sol_Rokks_Teddy

Sol_Rokks_Teddy

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I have been to jool exactly 2 times, on the second visit i made my first landing in the joolian system, then my second, and third as i landed on bop, pol, and vall (over-engineered the craft and ended up with 9km dv on the surface of bop and about 400L of fuel orbiting). I think my favourite place was pol, easy to land on and has a very nice view of the system from the mountain tops.

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Shadow86

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It's a bit of a no-brainer. Laythe's the only Joolian moon that really stands out.

Now, if Tylo had vicious kerbal-eating alien creatures, or Bop a crashed extrakerbinean (human?) spacecraft, then they might be serious contenders.

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Aladran

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I like the icy plains of Vall and the mythical Stonehedge.

Laythe is nice, but bleh, I hate it in a way because it has so few emerged terrain to land on...

Tylo is too dense to be fun.

Bop is dull, I'm actually fighting my way from the equator to the Kraken corpse, 30Deg Cliff and low grav = a hell of a ride in rovers.

Pol is funny with it's weird shape, I need to give her more love.

My vote goes to Vall.

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Flixxbeatz

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Laythe would be the unanimous winner here, since it is the most popular destination in the star system in-game (I once made a thread before asking what makes Laythe the most popular destination before the forum accidentally everything).

So I'll be going to Tylo, Bop, and Pol. :D

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Spatzimaus

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There's really no question, it's clearly Laythe. If I had to pick a runner-up, it'd be Pol. The problem is that Tylo, Bop, and Vall are just BORING. They're fundamentally the same as all of the other airless moons out there, so the experience of landing on them is just not worth the effort to get to them. Yes, Tylo is a challenge because its high gravity requires a large delta-V expenditure, but once you've got a hang of the basics of landing on airless moons, it's just not interesting any more.

Laythe is the only moon with an atmosphere, the only non-Kerbin atmosphere that can use jet engines. To make things worse, Duna's atmosphere is too thin to do the fun parts of flying, and Eve's is just too thick, so Laythe is really the only one that allows for entertaining flight. Laythe's terrain is also significant, with oceans and steep landmasses; landing on Tylo, for instance, you're likely going to land on some place that's mostly flat even if you put no effort into choosing a landing site.

The reason I'd put Pol as the second favorite is that it's got interesting terrain; it's a very lumpy moon, a la Gilly. That makes it interesting to land on, while still having a low enough gravity to be fuel-efficient as a refinery site and a high enough gravity to avoid the Minmus/Gilly bouncing issues. Ike's in a similar situation; they're great places to explore with a rover.

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NASAFanboy

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Vall is just an oversized Minmus. With a stonehenge.

Laythe is my favorite moon, it is the analog of my favorite moon in real-life (Europa), and contains oxygen. And water. Just like Europa. I love it so much I planted flags on every island claiming it for the United States of America. Because I'm an overly nationalistic American who supports international cooperation.

I'm hypocrite.

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ddavis425

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Gotta say Vall. I don't really know why, but I just love that place. I like how the moon is covered by flat areas surrounded by mountains. I don't really care for Laythe, it just feels like I'm still on Kerbin, except with different stuff in the sky.

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