The 0.7.3 Challenge CLOSED.

[Whirligig Girl]

THIS ONE IS CLOSED. GO HERE FOR THE NEWER CHALLENGE!

Download 0.7.3 here

“It started out very lowkey,†Falanghe told the Report. “The first idea I pitched was actually 2D… it could have been done in Flash. Basically you built a space craft, and tried to launch it as high as it would go… and that was basically it. It was kind of like a high score game.â€Â

His employers liked the idea and greenlit the project. Feature after feature would be added until eventually the game was released to the public in 2011 with version 0.7.3, a very simplistic version of the Kerbal Space Program available today.

Let's go as high as you can go! 1 meter off the ground=1 point!

Bonus for orbit: 100000 points.

Screenshots (*required) (use Windowskey Printscreen/printscreen and paste to imgur) are VAB, Inflight, and *stats screen

My attempt:

I get 31023 points.

FOR MAC USERS use 0.10, and no struts, fuel pipes, or stacking liquid fuel tanks, then all you get is a minus 100 points for being a mac user unauthenticity.

Whenever I play an early version of the game, it's like a mix of early Career mode and model rockets.

Edited January 30, 2014 by GregroxMun

[Ojimak]

I went for a somewhat simpler approach.

VAB:

In flight:

Max altitude:

score: 55838

(should be really easy to beat; just waiting for someone to achieve orbit)

-Ojimak

I joined around 0.15.0 after playing the demo for a month or so. It's so cool how much better KSP's become.

Edited November 2, 2013 by Ojimak

[aNewHope]

If I use 0.10, does that still count? first version for mac. No map view included.

[Johnno]

Here's what I got together after a few tries: 277498m

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[Whirligig Girl]

If I use 0.10, does that still count? first version for mac. No map view included.

no struts, fuel pipes, etc, then all you get is a minus 100 points.

[Whirligig Girl]

Here's what I got together after a few tries: 277498m

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That wasn't orbit, was it? If not, then there's no reason to turn over.

EDIT: oh, the craft was not very controlable, was it

[Johnno]

That wasn't orbit, was it? If not, then there's no reason to turn over.

EDIT: oh, the craft was not very controlable, was it

Your edited notion is correct, on launch it started to ever so slowly tilt (no symmetry function so it wasn't 100% balanced) and the only thing I could do was to try and hold it steady. Staging was also a bit rough.

[Whirligig Girl]

Engine thrust also seems to make things explode more easily.

[aNewHope]

I attempted it with 0.10 and even reached escape velocity. But then I realized, that you can't stack fuel tanks in 0.7.3, so it's no legit entry.

Maybe I'll try without fuel tank stacking later.

[Kasuha]

I think I reached escape trajectory. Not sure, but the speed drops very slowly and the altitude keeps building up. Apparently SRBs were a bit overpowered and with use of enough SAS modules it was possible to keep them somehow under control. All it needed then were two stages of tank+engine.

It's shaking a lot at altitude (472 km at the moment), Kraken was clearly not under control yet.

Edit: I added another image to the album after I reached 1000 km. Speed is still over 1600 m/s and decreasing by tenths.

Edit 2: at about 1300 km I noticed that Kerbin started to clip out of the view. Details were not becoming smaller but the circle was decreasing rapidly. And at 1480 km it disappeared completely.

Edit 3: the trajectory seems to be elliptical after all - at 2000 km I noticed the pitch decreased from about 40° to about 35°. But I don't have enough time to watch how far will it go. I believe it could still be considered orbit taking into account the initial pitch and speed after last burn.

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Edited November 3, 2013 by Kasuha

[Simon Ross]

Had a lot of fun with this one :-)

For the record managed to achieve 740943, didn't quite make orbit but working on it.

The beast in the VAB

The beast in flight

And finally, the beast at it's high point

[Simon Ross]

Grrrr, gonna try that again :-)

[Whirligig Girl]

ignore this

Edited November 5, 2013 by GregroxMun

[Whirligig Girl]

Right click on the original image, copy image URL, and that's what you put in the

[PakledHostage]

Here's my entry. A roughly circular orbit at 115.4 km.

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[Simon Ross]

Thanks Greg, was getting a bit frustrated as to how to get the images displayed :-)

[Whirligig Girl]

Please do not call me Greg. It's Gregrox, GregroxMun, or in this case OP.

[CrazedGunman502]

Hey! I'll give this a go! Doing it now.