To the Mun on the Cheap

[SlowThought]

Greetings. I've been playing with the demo version a few days now, and have made several successful Munar orbits (including one Kerbanaut on permanent spacewalk),

and have been looking at some of the things the KSP community has been doing on YouTube. It strikes me that nuclear reactors, plasma drives, (WARP drives? Really? I thought KSP was about GOOD physics?) etc make the game way too easy. I may change my mind once I've thoroughly explored the demo world, but there's a lot of fun to be had trying to be creative with such a limited number of parts, and such limited performance.

Anyway, you'll be hearing more from me.

Edited April 22, 2014 by SlowThought
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[Vanamonde]

Welcome to the forum, SlowThought.

For pictures, upload your screenshots to a free service like Imgur.com, and copy-paste the BBCode link they provide into your post.

[Taki117]

Welcome and happy flying. Warp Drives (At least in KSP Interstellar) are really late tech and require exotic matter to function, and with lots of planets to explore you kinda need it.

[Endersmens]

It strikes me that nuclear reactors, plasma drives, (WARP drives? Really? I thought KSP was about GOOD physics?) etc make the game way too easy. I may change my mind once I've thoroughly explored the demo world, but there's a lot of fun to be had trying to be creative with such a limited number of parts, and such limited performance.

There are none of those in the game. Those are mods. The stock game just has an expansion of the parts in the demo. You wont see anything in stock KSP like that besides maybe an RTG, which is used on sattelites in the real world.

[SlowThought]

copy-paste the BBCode link

THAT was the key! Thank you (and thank you to the KSP blogger this morning who put me onto imgur, and who I cannot now find -- I'm happy I found the links to the photos I uploaded).

[Xaelath]

Congrats on uploading your first image and orbiting the Mun!

Welcome aboard, fellow Kerbonaut!

[Bearsh]

Welcome to the forums!

Hopefully you'll buy the full version! Anyways welcome and... yeah heh.

[SRV Ron]

For a limited parts challenge, that is what Career mode starts you out with. You unlock more parts as you earn science points.

You do have enough parts in the demo to attempt a landing and return from Mun. This demo ship did the mission with fuel to spare.

[Superfluous J]

Not everybody mods in warp drives (though IIRC that mod does not just hand you OP parts. Quite the opposite in fact). One of the joys of career mode is figuring out how to do stuff with a limited part pool that makes the demo parts list look like a buffet table.

Here's a trip I took to Minmus with the parts that all of 5 science points can buy:

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[SlowThought]

You do have enough parts in the demo to attempt a landing and return from Mun. This demo ship did the mission with fuel to spare.

Well done! I had already settled on a "mission module" that appears identical to yours, and tried vertical hops at the Space Center (ugly, very ugly, but I'll bet easier in zero G).