I Need Ideas!

[DChurchill]

I'd do it manually, first. You could use MJ for the info panels, but I'd fly it all myself.

[acealeam]

"1.It must be easy to intermediate difficulty (no returning from the surface of Eve, etc.)"

Whattt. That's easy! Just think small and dont over engineer.

[DChurchill]

Just think small and dont over engineer.

That's contrary to everything Kerbal engineering stands for.

[British_Rover]

Design, build, and complete your own docking tutorial.

Seriously, I think there is no better way to learn something than by forcing yourself to teach someone else how to do it.

You could build a simple craft that's already docked together and put it into LKO. Once in stable orbit right click, undock and then use your RCS TO RE-dock almost immediately after undock. Once you get that, use the RCS to move yourself to farther distances. Once you master that, use the RCS to put yourself at an odd angle, etc.

Later you can launch the two peices separately and learn rendezvous.

You know I have been killing myself with docking and that is a great way to learn how to do it. Currently I have done it twice but used up enormous amounts of fuel doing it. The whole point of docking was to build and refuel the space station I am construction. By the time I managed to dock the first time I had used up all but 1 unit of RCS so it was almost a wasted trip even though I could transfer half a load of fuel over.

[Firenexus13]

or... you could do random stuff, like... (i have not done all of this) (Top10)

1. Take a ship place it on gilly/pol/bop/minmus, then make a kerbal (yes, you can use the alt-F12 cheats) orbit it, then land back on the base.

2. make a tower of kerbals on the mun, or anywhere else but laythe, kerbin and eve.

3. Play with mods

4. build random stuff like planes and kerbal kannons

5: Go light speed

6: Se if jeb can go any faster (then #5) in EVA. (this just means head faster then lightspeed in eva, boosters are allowed, as long as jeb is in a EVA seat.

7: go to the moho hole

8: test some stuff in the rocket builders section of the forums, of become part of one.

9: play on the forums

and finally, 10: Learn to make small things that can go big distances.

[Landge]

Have you found every easter egg on Kerbin or Mun?

Have you acheived any polar landings on the north or south poles of Kerbin or Mun?

Or on any other planet or moon for that matter?

[pslytely psycho]

When docking I do love the Lazor docking cam, seriously should be part of the vanilla game....

[cesarcurado]

Build an "armored" rover, land in on Mun and then destroy it with a missile or something similar. (If you don't want to risk the life of the poor kerbonauts make it unmanned instead lol)

Watch the results and find ways to improve it in armoring and functionality.

On Mun because in low-G it is funnier than in Kerbin and Mun is pretty close so it should not take much time.

[Octagon]

Use this MOD (I know its mine): http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/32952-Octagon-Corporation-release-zone

To get to mün and mimmus.

[Whackjob]

Build the biggest thing you can on the ground and still achieve orbit.

[dlmarti]

Sandbox games are like that, just take a break for a few weeks. The Kerbals will come back to bite you soon.

[leax256]

ok I have an idea. it's what I'm doing.

Steps:

1) built or edit a ship in 5 minutes

2) fly a mission with it, ie landing/return from mün

3) repeat steps 1 & 2

If you wanna see a video I made on this idea

[mellojoe]

ok I have an idea. it's what I'm doing.

Steps:

1) built or edit a ship in 5 minutes

2) fly a mission with it, ie landing/return from mün

3) repeat steps 1 & 2

I love, love, love the idea of 5-minute crafts. I cannot wait to try this!

Edited July 24, 2013 by mellojoe

[Whackjob]

Invent a new multipurpose vehicle.