trbinsc Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Since the 0.14 official seems to have broken the save, we\'ll have to restart. I have landed 'Mun or Bust 10' on the rim of a crater. Unfortunately, I forgot that the lander had an engine until the last moment and the impact broke off a landing leg. Also, beware of the low orbiting debris! Post the contents of saves.zip in the KSP application of a KSP install that you don\'t care about. Who will go next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I\'ll go, I\'m just finalizing my miniature Munar lander, but I have a 6 tank fuel delivery ship that can keep the Mun base powered until there are stock solar arrays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
togfox Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Stock parts only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I hate to break it to you trbinsc, but your lander has collapsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trbinsc Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Well, it happens when you have a leg fall off. Oh well, I\'ll have to land a replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I tried again just in case it was a one off, unfortunately the lander fell once more, with the decoupler again landing on its side.Here is the save folder, don\'t worry too much about the screenshot\'s name, see if you can figure out the reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trbinsc Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Unless someone else wants to go next I\'m going to land a replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Mind your head, a pair of my boosters are in a degrading orbit but as drag does not affect 'on rails' debris, they will orbit for some time.I try to make my rockets self cleaning by either crashing parts into the Mun or dropping them into the atmosphere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trbinsc Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 I try to do that too, but sometimes the mission is more important than orbital trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I expect that orbital debris will become more of an issue over time, just as it will become a more pressing issue in real life as more satellites reach the end of their life with no easy means of recovery.On my next go I\'ll watch my boosters for a while to allow them to deorbit naturally, Darkshadow has asked me to put his Munar rover near the base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belkaland Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 It seems to me that its obvious that Apollo 18 was film on the Mun. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Not seen any ambulatory Mun rocks yet, and they didn\'t fall through the moon in the film I just hope the devs have never seen Moontrap, nah they all seem to be too young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clee-saan Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Hi everyone, I just downloaded the Save file from sal_vager\'s post and I\'m about to send another lander to your little party, I hope that\'s okay.I\'ll update this post with the new save files once i\'m done 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Perfectly ok if you use non-stock parts be sure to let us know and don\'t you dare infect our landers with the beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clee-saan Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 And as promised here it is ! The Prometheus Class Mun Lander Mark 3 (stock parts only) has joined the other two landers at the base site.I left the orbit insertion booster and the transmunar injection fuel tanks neatly in orbit around Kerbin and the mun, respectively.Protocol would dictate that the two auxiliary boosters be jettisoned before lift off, and that the return trip be made only with the return stage\'s small booster, but this requires pinpoint accuracy, so in case one of you wants to take her back home someday I suggest using what\'s left of the auxiliary boosters\' juice to make the first impulsion.So yeah that\'s pretty much it! And the ships has been cleared Beast-free by the Kith-Sa\'s engineers, so we should be good =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Could someone send the save to me when they are done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Could someone send the save to me when they are done? Clee-saan was the last to fly it, he\'s uploaded it with a pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Okay, I\'m attempting to land on the mun now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 When you\'re done we should wait for trbinsc to turn up, he said he was going to land another ship, I will take both the persistence files and try to combine them.It should be easy as they are plaintext. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Okay, I tried looking this up but I couldn\'t find it. How the heck do I open up the LT-2 landing struts to land on the mun?? I thought I had to hit space but that made me go to my next stage and I died >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Press the 'G' key my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Oh wow I done goofed hard. While you\'re here, is there any way to accurately land close to the other ships on the mun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clee-saan Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Use G to open your gear And yes there is a way. The trick is to have your orbit pass straight above the target landing site, and kill your horizontal velocity. From there you just have to keep your speed in check for a smooth landing, while fine tuning along the way with the RCS. You\'ll get the hang of it, don\'t worry !How far from the landing site did you crash ? You should upload your save anyway, and add to the various space debris and discarded equipement scattered on the moon and in space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I flew by feel mostly, so I\'m not the best person to ask, but what I did was this.I got to Munar orbit (obviously ) then I tilted the orbit so I\'d fly directly over the base.I like to come in low and fast which probably made it harder, but when I was about 18k away and 5k high I made a full burn to stop my lateral movement.Bare in mind I had 6 full tanks of extra mass I was delivering so it took longer than normal to slow down.When the direction marker had reached the edge of the navball I tilted vertical and used low thrust to prevent my lander from dropping too quickly, and I adjusted my angle a little so I\'d fly towards the base.When near and above the base I corrected my sideways movement and continued to drop at around 50 to 70 m/s, I reduced speed nearer the ground then hovered on the engine, very carefully moving with ASAS on and using WASD to tilt ever so slightly.I hovered over to the base, which was only about 500 meters away by now, and landed, even with 6 full tanks I could hover for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 How far from the landing site did you crash ? You should upload your save anyway, and add to the various space debris and discarded equipement scattered on the moon and in space I landed about 1 km from the site but I ended my flight because I thought I was supposed to XD but some guy\'s space debris finally got stuck in the orbit of the mun while I was trying to get there.Anyways, here is a very slightly different version than the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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