Lately, I have been wandering into the dangerous land of 300+ part counts

[firerider521]

370 parts

And I think I like it. Credit to Temstar for the awesome Zenith IV launcher.

(Maybe I'll share this craft in the Spacecraft Exchange. After I get some screens of it in action)

[BlazingAngel665]

Only 370 parts? My PC eats that for breakfast. The craft looks really cool though. I really love the torrodial tanks sticking down. They look really sharp. I almost thought they were rover wheels actually.

[Whackjob]

3,900 parts. 168 rocket motors, in 8 clusters of 21 motors each. Launches at 1 frame per second. From liftoff to fuel out takes one hour twenty minutes.

Prior to liftoff.

Edited July 1, 2013 by Whackjob

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[Philipp]

If it takes 80 minutes at 1 fps, that would be about 3 minutes in 25 or more fps.

[AceMgy]

Looks like you removed a lot of struts from that design since I've last checked your thread, Whackjob. Good work on optimizing it.

I swear you must really hate your CPU the way you play KSP, it's hilarious.

[MR4Y]

Any reasons for you to have Subassembly Loader and Subassembly Manager at the same time?

[firerider521]

Any reasons for you to have Subassembly Loader and Subassembly Manager at the same time?

Strangely, I had Subassembly Loader in the old Plugins folder, and the new one in the GameData folder. Fixed it!

Also, Whackjob, that is insane. Insane insanity. Repetitive redundancy?

[inigma]

Wackjob has really gotten into the game.

[FuryDrone]

firerider521, can you post .craft file? Your ship looks awesome, I would try it.

[firerider521]

I'll post it in the Spacecraft Exchange once I confirm that it DOES, in fact, have enough fuel to actually get to the Mun and back. Apollo-style missions are a little harder than I anticipated.

[FuryDrone]

Yeah, NASA had some issues with them as well. :]

[tyrant264]

all I can say is WHY!!! and ADD MORE SRBS!!!!

[firerider521]

You wanted it, you got it!

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/38918-Positivity-III-2-Man-Mun-lander-Apollo-Style-PICTURE-DENSE?p=497486#post497486

Craft file, pics, an' everything!

[Streiger]

This looks totally insane. XD And i was proud on my 1000+ Designs and they had already difficulties to start cause of fps drops. I do not think that i would be able to start that one.

@Firerider521:

Its a very good start and a very nice and classy design.

You will see that the huge part ships open whole new possibilities of designs but also can be very frustrating.