What do you usually write on flags?

[lxknvlk]

Hi guys! What do you usually write on flags? I dont want to write anything banal like "Jeb was here" or "Hello from Kerbin". Maybe there is a way to make flags useful, maybe write time of planting or smth. else.

[problemecium]

I tend to include the real-world date I planted it for posterity's sake, along with a little description of what the flag's for, e.g.

First Kerbal Duna Landing

Jebediah and Bill landed here after traveling to Duna in Kerbatar 2 on 30 May 2014.

[Fingal]

On Mun & Minimus I always write the biome on it so I can double check if I've been there or not, it's very helpful in the early stages of a career game.

[Fr3Runn3r]

On Mun & Minimus I always write the biome on it so I can double check if I've been there or not, it's very helpful in the early stages of a career game.

Yeah, I'm doing that too at the moment (+kerbin). I plan on going out and deleting all those flags though once I'm done with science there. Otherwise I tend to just name them something generic like "Mun Landing 01" because I can never think of anything on the spot.

EDIT: After a quick peruse of my persistence file I've decided to simply go in there and rename/replaque the flags once I'm done sciencing.

Edited May 30, 2014 by Fr3Runn3r

[Sirrobert]

I don't place flags, because I think it's very annoying that they always sit there in my list of active flights.

I'll probably start using flags when we can modify that permanently

[tutrakan4e]

It's always like "YES FLAG HURRY" if my ship's falling down as I'm placing down the flag, "I hope the flag doesn't fly off into deep space" on Eve's moon or "The most amazing landding ever" if I do a perfect suicide burn or even "First Mun mission". For the Description I usually do doge stuff (such land, much impress, pale blue dot wow). Same for naming my ships- Puller Stage; Beter Puller Stage; Betterer puller stage etc. I'm not very creative.

[Dwight_js]

I write things like:

"Hans Kerman Memorial.

In loving memory of Hans, who gave his life in the name of science and the advancement of Kerbkind. He took one step at timewarp 4, and poof, he was no more. Let his abandoned ship stand as a memorial to his brave sacrifice (actually, I took his ship and left mine because his was in slightly better shape. But you get the Idea).

Signed,

Bob."

"Second Mun Landing Site.

On this spot Kerbals first set foot on the Mun for a second time. Bravely making their initial return to the place where others had previously been - well, they hadn't been exactly here, the first-first ones landed a little ways away from where this first-second landing site is - partly because the first one had been done, partly because there's more science here! Oh, and as before, we're here in peace for all Kerbkind, again.

Bill Kerman."

[Sirrobert]

First set foot for the second time.

Lol

[michaelhester07]

"Jeb wuz heer"

[Starwhip]

"Hey, were on the Mun!

And we have no fuel!

--Bill, Year 1, Day 42"

[Guest]

"Suck It Koviets!" -Jebediah Kerman. My first Mun landing

[Boris_T_Roach]

After my first successful landing on Laythe...

Boris

[KvickFlygarn87]

Stuff. I sign with "Somekerdude Kerman"

[Starwhip]

Hey, this makes me wonder: Did Neil Armstrong ever write something like this on the Moon? If you were to trace something in the dirt or on a rock, since there is no erosion to speak of, it would stay there forever.

I'd have no idea what to write, though.

Just a thought.

[Dwight_js]

Hey, this makes me wonder: Did Neil Armstrong ever write something like this on the Moon? If you were to trace something in the dirt or on a rock, since there is no erosion to speak of, it would stay there forever.

I'd have no idea what to write, though.

Just a thought.

Eugene Cernan wrote his daughter's initials on the moon at the end of the Apollo 17 mission.

[NovaSilisko]

Obscenities.

[Starwhip]

Eugene Cernan wrote his daughter's initials on the moon at the end of the Apollo 17 mission.

That's pretty cool. But if you knew that (And I assume you are not Eugene Cernan) then that must be public information. Armstrong could have kept what he put there private and nobody would ever really know.

(Unless you had a pretty powerful telescope, that is.)

[The Destroyer]

"Bob ate all the snacks" "Bill was sacred" "We made it" " "

[Duke23]

I used to try to wax eloquent for my landing sites but after doing so many it's often more like "East crater" and "landing #4358" and "I hate Minmus" and "screw this hill" etc

On major missions I still try to write something interesting or tell a small story ("after nearly becoming a tiny green splat, Jeb became the first kerbal on Duna at this spot" or whatever)

[WinkAllKerb'']

Obscenities.

serioulsy ? xD nova nova ralalalalala you're a bad guy, cheers mike' for me.

[iansmcl]

I put 'pertinent' info on the flag, like biome, unique info about that mission, for the title. And then a quote from the Kerbal in the description. Or I use them to memorialise killed Kerbals.

[Concentric]

Normally, the flag itself is named after the mission and landing site. Things like "First [Duna] Landing" and so on also appear, though only for the first. Typically, the plaque contains a short message referring to the journey - "A parachute only landing", "Less difficult than expected", "The secret is in maintaining altitude", "And there go the solar panels, smashed off as the lander falls on its side" etc.

edit: Ah, that's right - the plaque text is in the persistent.sfs. I'll go look some up.

Firsts: "First successful rocket return", "Site of first return from Mun orbit", "This is the site of the first successful Mun Landing!", "The site of the first Minmus landing (greater flats)", "Here Jebadiah Kerman first set foot on Duna"

"East crater of Mun, second successful Mun-landing"

MunTherm: "Here landed the first MoonTherm mission" "MoonTherm's first mission also landed here"

MinTherm: "Took surface sample, seismic scan, temperature. I think I may be getting the hang of this" "Biome-hopping is much easier here - must be the lower gravity" "Third landing in this trip - should probably head back. Don't want another fuel disaster"

"Solar panels are fragile", "Mountains, yo"

At the Minmus flats: "Not Great, but it's no Lesser"

AEGIS: "Aegis landed here, let's check the rover!" "Aegis also landed here.... fuel extremely low..."

"Bill landed the ion lander from the Duna-Laythe lander test flight here"

"Jebadiah Kerman landed here on his return from the first Duna landing"

"Rotation, rotation, rotation. That's key to landing on slopes."

"Start with a low orbit to ion-land. 10km on Ike is good. Low throttle until the end. RCS boost for finish."

"Had to land on the transfer stage... and it fell over and broke some solar panels..."

"These things are so damn finicky. Control your vertical speed with great care."

"It's kind of like a mini-Apollo mission."

"Testing the flight-recorder"

"Pinpoint upsidedown IVA landings. Also, many attempts to send a box."

Edit2: Argh, how do spoilers tags work? Edit3: Nevermind, figured it out. Spacing sensitive.

Edited June 4, 2014 by Concentric
Adding in some PlaqueText from persistent.sfs

[James_Eh]

Depends on who is planting it. The original 3 have kind of boring flags, like "One great step for Kerbalkind" and such. But when the rookies get involved things get strange. Billy-Bobrod always puts "PARTY!!!" on his flags. (I have to keep flags turned off in map view or all I can see is "PARTY!!!" everywhere...) The others hate him. Kenlie has taken to putting limericks onto his flags. And Dale often drifts into deep, philosophical thoughts along the lines of "Why am I here? What does this signify?"

[NecroBones]

I usually name it something boring, but something that will indicate to me later what it was (such as "11th Mun Landing, Midland Craters, 2014-05-30" or some-such). The plaque will get some witty comment pertaining to what I went through to get there.

[TrooperCooper]

Flag name: KASA 4th Mun Landing

Description: "We came to recover the dead bodies of the 3rd landing."