I didnt need that anyway.

[Odo]

(Jeb beat the previous mun speed record of 25 m/s with his whopping 60 m/s!)

[Torham234]

Oh please!

[Odo]

Oh please!

Without rocket engines assisting you! This was done entirely with wheels and nothing else. And some scary craters.

Also to give an idea as to how the rover looked before it split in half:

The whole rover is reinforced with plates. THose plates can take ridiculous amounts of pounding, which is why this rover is named the Rampart.

The only reason it exploded was because it was going 80+ m/s through the air after jumping off a steep crater and slammed into the ground unevenly bottoming out the wheels, which in turn blew them off, which in turn introduced the framing to the ground. Product was a split in half rover

Edited October 20, 2013 by Odo

[Torham234]

Without rocket engines assisting you! This was done entirely with wheels and nothing else. And some scary craters.

Back when that screenshot was taken, we didn't have these fancy 'rover' wheels!!

[Odo]

Back when that screenshot was taken, we didn't have these fancy 'rover' wheels!!

Ah.

This rover was built in my first career save. This science stuff sure is fun. The mission of Rampart was to drive to a large crater 100 kms from its drop site and do some EVA science.

Turns out the large crater is called "Twin Crater" and has a 2nd biome within it, a canyon.

It also has some interesting surface sample results.

Ill be driving to the canyon next to get some more science points before sending an unmanned lander to take Jeb back home.

[Torham234]

Nice.

I have just unlocked the rover parts and the seismograph in my career save, so rovers are next up for me(again).

Edit: since we are sharing designs, here is that old rover packed under its landing crane. It sure is nice to have steerable wheels nowadays though. The only way I could steer that thing was with RCS.

Edited October 20, 2013 by Torham234

[Scotius]

Rare elements?!? Why do i suddenly feel lovely smell of resources just waiting to be dug out?

[Odo]

Rare elements?!? Why do i suddenly feel lovely smell of resources just waiting to be dug out?

Surface samples would make so much more sense now if we take into account the planned resources. And now that I know where some good resources are, I can bookmark them and remember for later :3

Also for anyone who is also making a rover in career mode, It is a fun challege. My Rampart Rover ended up being my favorite rover that I've ever made. It's cool what you can come up with you're limited in parts.

Also my advice to anyone who is making a mun rover, give it a shell of plates like I did, front and rear bumpers, the whole deal. Also if possible those black wheels, they do best in low gravity.

Because of those 2 things the Rampart is capable of driving at full speed, even when crashing at 30 m/s it comes out unscathed, no matter how many times it flips and rolls.

Of course not much can withstand an 80 m/s bottom out