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After sorting out all the docking issues the biggest issue I had was trying to land the thing without the prohibited parachutes. It really, *really* wants to point nose into the wind because of the low drag nosecones on the front and all the high mass parts and extra draggy bits at the back. In the end I had to resort to some drag-trees bolted on to the nosecones, which sorta worked. But for the sake of the video (which I will post a few days after the official challengers' deadline and voting) I went with a slightly different ending anyway.

I think as restitution for this scenario I'd like to see Whackjob complete his own challenge :P

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... was trying to land the thing without the prohibited parachutes. It really, *really* wants to point nose into the wind because of the low drag nosecones on the front and all the high mass parts and extra draggy bits at the back....

Are you using FAR or stock? We managed to pull off both with different techniques (suicide burn, crash, reload, repeat ad nauseam)

I think as restitution for this scenario I'd like to see Whackjob complete his own challenge :P

He should be taken to The Hague Tribunal and prosecuted for war crimes.

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Whackjob... My hat is so far off to you it's in orbit.

This was quite enjoyable for me when I tried and just plain hilarious seeing all the comments and things the forum teams are putting together. In the midst of a challenge, the forum doesn't turn to primordial anger! They work together, even chatting lightly within teams. I solute you. And everyone else competing :D.

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Are you using FAR or stock? We managed to pull off both with different techniques (suicide burn, crash, reload, repeat ad nauseam)

Stock; the stuck on draggy bits were enough to make an upright landing relatively easy (only 5 retries!) but... well... I decided to take some recent advice that m1sz gave me.

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I am thoroughly enjoying seeing the great efforts going on in this thread. The title was edited to reflect tomorrow's newfound deadline.

Next time you bring a new update (0.25 maybe) just make a new challenge using new parts/features. We will fill your inbox with bug reports and glitches :P

ANYWAY!!, and with almost all the work done, this challenge have been hell and heaven at the same time, made us struggle to find ways of completing it the hard way!, and many, many, many hours went into this (and more to come!)

a superb challenge nonetheless. The only thing I would change, is to take in mind part number. We had some problems with it (mostly, playing at 3-5 fps for long periods of time. I personaly made a new personal record, drove a rover at 1fps), but other people has a worse computer and may not be able to play with the tower alone, not to say with the 1000 gadgets you need to assemble and launch it :P

let's see what everyone did! :D

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Next time you bring a new update (0.25 maybe) just make a new challenge using new parts/features. We will fill your inbox with bug reports and glitches :P

Ted has nightmares about this sort of thing :P

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I've got to say that I'm looking forward to seeing the entries for this challenge more than I did the other two. This one more directly challenges what I consider "real" KSP skill (and bug tolerance ;)), and is apparently difficult enough that all of the teams struggled with it.

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The third challenge was Whackjob level, next one should be Manley level ;)

Maybe before that, we should see how Manley would deal with this Whackjob level challenge :P

In fact, I would love to see that!

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That would be nice.

But really I'd love to see Manley proposing a challenge

Yup, and it would all be about delta-v's and ejection angles and how to do a Grand Tour on 200m/s of monopropellant. I would LOVE that! It would be one aspect they haven't touched yet on the challenges: First an aesthetic one for the pic where flying doesn't matter (hyperedit allowed), then video to show some flying skillz, then Whackjob's building impossibility (most of the challenge is about building support infrastructure), and finally a challenge for the navigators out there to break their slide rules and teach us some orbital mechanics.

Rune. That would be pretty well rounded up.

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Yup, and it would all be about delta-v's and ejection angles and how to do a Grand Tour on 200m/s of monopropellant.

Assuming you are allowed to give yourself a boost to Eve with a rocket first, one could potentially "kick" a ball around the entire solar system using only EVA jets. (But having to constantly come out of warp to stay with the ball might be asking for a bit too much tedium)

Edit: Wait a minute. The balls have 1000 m/s impact tolerance, right? I'm not sure how much energy is conserved in the collision, but that's enough to bounce from a collision course encounter trajectory back into an escape trajectory on some of the moons. The *ultimate* gravity assist.

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Also, a rescue mission would be awesome. I love those :D

That's the next challenge I want, please. Rescue a Kerbal from Tylo without ladders, but with some mass constraint or something. Or maybe in an SSTO.

EDIT: Any of the following challenges would be heartily accepted by our team:

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, getting a Kerbal to Tylo and back in an SSTO,
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Totally not advertising anything here. Anyway, this time, I'm not like, "Can't wait for the next challenge!" I'm like, "Give me a few weeks to recover."

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Assuming you are allowed to give yourself a boost to Eve with a rocket first, one could potentially "kick" a ball around the entire solar system using only EVA jets. (But having to constantly come out of warp to stay with the ball might be asking for a bit too much tedium)

Edit: Wait a minute. The balls have 1000 m/s impact tolerance, right? I'm not sure how much energy is conserved in the collision, but that's enough to bounce from a collision course encounter trajectory back into an escape trajectory on some of the moons. The *ultimate* gravity assist.

Those are entirely awesome ideas you are making less likely by voicing aloud. So shut up! :mad:

Rune. Now seriously, they are awesome ideas. Litho-gravitational assist? Count me it!

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