as far as you can drive oxygen-breathing car

[Koolkei]

gonna try now

[MarvinKitFox]

The Great Journey is Complete!

(journal & album on page 2 of this thread)

I travelled from KSC to KSCF-2 (well, almost, ok!?).

The trip used about 19800 of my 21600 fuel.

It took about 18 hours!!!

Distance? Shrug.. Something like 1600 km.

I learned two valuable lessons.

1) Never, EVER hit the brakes while at warpx4 time. Doubly so if you tend to whack f5 because your pilot survived despite the awesome fast-forward-crash.

2) Never, EVER again participate in a challenge that requires 18 hours of rover navigation!

[OTehNoes]

1) Never, EVER hit the brakes while at warpx4 time. Doubly so if you tend to whack f5 because your pilot survived despite the awesome fast-forward-crash.

Have you tried removing braking from the front wheels? I do it to all of my rovers now so they don't flip under heavy braking!

[MarvinKitFox]

Have you tried removing braking from the front wheels? I do it to all of my rovers now so they don't flip under heavy braking!

Oh sure.. Climbing through that ravine taught me all sorts of things about braking, centre-of-mass, traction, etc..

Virtually none of which apply if you see your goal just ahead, and floor the gas. The x4 warp didnt help, either!

(meaning.. i was dead numb after traversing the half of Kerbin in one trip. Brain was dead, and so should I have been, but Jeb lucked out and only slid about 500 m downhill rather than going *splat* )

[Koolkei]

The Great Journey is Complete!

(journal & album on page 2 of this thread)

I travelled from KSC to KSCF-2 (well, almost, ok!?).

The trip used about 19800 of my 21600 fuel.

It took about 18 hours!!!

Distance? Shrug.. Something like 1600 km.

I learned two valuable lessons.

1) Never, EVER hit the brakes while at warpx4 time. Doubly so if you tend to whack f5 because your pilot survived despite the awesome fast-forward-crash.

2) Never, EVER again participate in a challenge that requires 18 hours of rover navigation!

lol, dont do it all at once, do it bit by bit, updating every little time of the way

a question

we cant make it with infinite fuel. but are we permitted to send a refueling probe/plane?

Edited February 28, 2014 by Koolkei

[Koolkei]

here's my try

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a bit extra explanation

1. there was some weird physics going on when i was going uphill, because the engine is tilted slightly to the back, it pushed my rover FORWARD, instead of creating a Downforce. i tried shutting 3 of 4 engine off but let the last one run on full throttle, i was enough power to push my rover to 15m/s uphill without any power from my rover wheel. I DID NOT DO THIS ON PURPOSE, heck i didnt even knew that was happening when i weirdly enough going 30m/s+ UPHILL

2. like i typed up there, some places have uneven surfaces, looks smooth, it doesnt appear much until you pay close attention to the wheel, or go over it when you're on at least 2x warp speed. so when i go over it, i cant do anything because 90% of my movement is out of momentum. the tires barely have any grips, so i doesn't decelerate as fast as usual, but i also can't accelerate, pushing the brakes also barely have any effect. on flat surfaces it's fine, but on the hill down slope that thing is some scary ****.

also i was pushing my brakes when i was going downhill when i was going over 'that' terrain, suddenly it ends, i got back to the normal surfaces and my front rover tires suddenly got 100% grip back and whoosh, my rover is 75 degrees to the air( somehow accidentally i made my rover very, VERY stable,and very VERY hard to roll) but somehow survived without a scratch literally, not 1 of my tires is broken

3. i set the rover like a real life FR car, the front 3 wheels, i disabled the motor, they just function as steering because front and back steering is unstable at higher speed.

and the 3 back wheel i locked the steering. just these 2 small stuff really increased my rover's stability by a sky. of course i bind 2 action group button to toggle them in case i need it. but so far i haven't need used it. what happened on note no. 1, i tried to power it purely by wheels, only the 3 back wheels, and it still goes upto 20m/s on a 30 degrees uphill slope, thats like only 70% of the power available to be used. i got the feeling even a 45 degrees uphill slope wouldn't be a problem

4. for everyone else trying this after me, putting the wheels support beam/cube on an angle like i did, it cushions some uneven ground impact to the wheels and your rover structure itself, making it more stable, AND gives you higher ground clearance for tackling difficult surfaces

[JtPB]

We should make it with drop tanks.

a question

we cant make it with infinite fuel. but are we permitted to send a refueling probe/plane?

What you two means?

[OTehNoes]

What you two means?

I think they're asking if they're allowed to refuel.

[JtPB]

I think they're asking if they're allowed to refuel.

so no, i already said clearly that refueling of any kind is not allowed(but you may do a docking port for optional refueling, without using it).

[Koolkei]

so no, i already said clearly that refueling of any kind is not allowed(but you may do a docking port for optional refueling, without using it).

you haven't said that on the first page.... and i didn't feel like browsing through the page hehe

well bummer then, my rover could've brought another 4 fuel tanks......