The Kerbal race to space - Lap 1 science - Lap 2 bodies - Lap 3 ticker tape parades

[nadreck]

Ok, I started career mode a 2nd time on Monday and I am challenging myself to a space race against the KST (Kerbin Standard Time) clock and calendar.

The challenges (all in a new game created in career mode):

LAP 1 - Climb the tech tree fastest

Objective to max the tech tree - 10738 science points in the shortest elapsed Kerbal time

Scoring: 1 pt per minute that it takes

Resolving ties: Count fatalities - lowest count wins

LAP 2 - Flag the planets and moons - probe Jool and Kerbol

Objective to visit and flag all astronomical bodies except Jool and Kerbal from the same game used for Lap 1 in the shortest elapsed time (my plan is to take some hyperbolic Kerbol escape trajectories to get to Jool and Eeloo much quicker than Hohman transfer orbits would) (LV-N's required). Also to complete this lap probes must have penetrated Jool and as close as possible to Kerbol.

Scoring: 1 pt per hour to the last probe or flag

Resolving ties: Count flights in progress - lowest count wins - if that is tied count fatalities and lowest count wins

LAP 3 - Return at least one Kerbal from the surface of each body where a flag was planted

Objective to bring a Kerbal back from each to the accolades of the Kerman clan

Scoring: 1 pt per hour until the last Kerbal returns

Resolving ties: the lowest number of Kerbals still in space (if that is tied of course the lowest fatality count)

Lowest score in each lap wins

I am tracking my progress in a thread in the mission reports section of the forum: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/59003-Kerbal-Space-Race

Edited November 20, 2013 by nadreck
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