Too Big For Platform

[EmperorJon]

I tried to solve the problem, but...

Behold!

The Beeeast

An attempt at equalising out the ground leve it rests on.

...which as you can see, fails. All the lateral couplers explode and the engine on the right tends to think it\'s on a pogo stick.

Any idea how to fix it?

(Yes, I\'m well aware that those engines have a tendency to the ship to fly in one particular direction, which is why I put 2 symmetrical to see if they balanced out... they do. So then I thought, why not 4? Bad bbbaaaaad idea.)

[Damonjay]

i once made a joke about putting the BFE-5000 on a tricoupler. but i never thought anyone would actually do it:P

you have made jeb verrrry happy

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

Bet you can reach light speed if you made that thing fly

[xzbobzx]

Make it bigger and it won\'t even need the launch pad.

[Sordid]

Make it bigger and it won\'t even need the launch pad.

That\'s what I was going to suggest. Make it so big that the launch pad and launch tower actually seem like motes of dust in its vast shadow.

[xzbobzx]

That\'s what I was going to suggest. Make it so big that the launch pad and launch tower actually seem like motes of dust in its vast shadow.

Exactly, make sure that even the VAB will be too small to cage your beast!

[JupiterII]

Spread the legs aprat enough so it sorrounds the launch pad instead of being on it

[comando222]

Spread the legs aprat enough so it sorrounds the launch pad instead of being on it

That\'s what i was going to say.And when you do so...Just hit the big red button and make Jeb happy...

[EmperorJon]

Can\'t do that. The tower\'s in the way. I already had to shift it, as one of the legs spawned inside the tower.

[Damonjay]

couldnt you make the gap between the engines slightly larger?

[EmperorJon]

How would that help?

[Damonjay]

if you made it large enough that the Engines were on either side of the tower. on the grass rather then the platform

[EmperorJon]

Holy... didn\'t think of THAT.

Thanks Jeb. XD

[Damonjay]

wasnt sure if that was sarcasm or serious. but anyway if you made them large enough you could probably fit another BFE-500 in there somewhere

[chowl]

just move it to where it is behind the circle in the assembly bay, it\'ll sit on the grass behind the pad.

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

just move it to where it is behind the circle in the assembly bay, it\'ll sit on the grass behind the pad.

I did that before by accident

[chickenplucker]

First I must say that I did not know about the beautiful piece of machinery known as the BFE-5000 before reading this thread, so thank you . And secondly I did find a way to make your idea work (just noticed your using 4, your a madman ), next challenge is to make it somewhat controllable and reach orbit. Struts are your friend

Heres the craft file if you would like to play with it.

Parts it uses;

BFE-5000,

Sunday Punch pack - largelongfuelTank, and 1 to 3 metre frustrum fairing

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

Welp.

Jeb does approve.

[RedRockets]

Its like a gear-head\'s attempt to hit light speed.

[chickenplucker]

After much yelling among the three Kerbals, it was found that the above design was lacking in grandeur. Jeb some how landed a grant from Tri State Fuel to fund more tanks for the rocket.

The above all though impressive, flew like a wet noodle. The KSP board members refused to honor Bills request for a taller VAB building to allow the building of struts down the entire length of the rocket in the name of saftey. So the rocket was rebuilt in a slightly smaller form.

Flying the above was like watching a .gif load for the first time. I lost patience to see where it would stop at around 20mins in, and one of my Xeon\'s cores was starting to give me dirty looks. Unity really needs to get multi core support in that engine. Once it was up I gave it more 1/4 throttle and promptly ripped it in half, so I had some wierd asymmetrical space station to play with.