Vehicles

[Oafman]

Yeah, I sometimes spend ages trying to think up clever ways to get large rovers into orbit. Then eventually I realise I'm not that clever, so I just find the centre of mass and strap them to the top of a big rocket.

And when all you're doing is strapping a rover to the top of a big rocket, absolutely nothing can go wrong...

Edited July 15, 2014 by Oafman

[ArmchairGravy]

Xzibit Special

[Jon Tash]

I make rover and other ship with wheel all the time and even some of them are SSTO too.

This one was able to go to Minmus and return after a long drive.

[GluttonyReaper]

Nah, they're pretty fun to build:

[RoboRay]

You can't really play KSP without building vehicles.

[federicoaa]

I tend to roverize my landers. First, wheels are actually better for landing, and can be repaired. Second, you don't need an accurate pin-point landing, you can use the wheels to go to destination.

[Alshain]

Nah, they're pretty fun to build:

Is that a prison bus? Do you get a lot of need for that in space?

You can't really play KSP without building vehicles.

Edited July 15, 2014 by Alshain

[RoboRay]

LOL, I'll accept it.

[How2FoldSoup]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/Alshain/abwht.jpg

I logged in just to give rep and say this was the best post in the thread so far. I do love some of the rover designs and they're giving me ideas. I like building planes more so I haven't really gotten around to building rovers yet. I haven't found a design style I like.

[Docsprock]

I enjoy playing silly rover tricks. Its what I primarily make. Unfortunately, it appears as though I am not able to post pictures, yet?

[Captain_Brian]

I voted hard to build but useless, but the fact of the matter is that they're easy to build but useless.

They just take too long to drive to different biomes, making them useless unless you have MechJeb to control the rover while you do something else.

[obi_juan]

I made a truck to explore EVE, and in my last game I made rovers to explore all the satellites of Kerbal (Mün and Minmus). I visit all the Mün biomes with only 2 rovers.

[Godot]

Almost all of my one-use manned landers have a small rover on the underside, that gets released after landing.

I found them to be extremly useful in order to extend the range of my Kerbon auts ... either to visit Biomes a few kms away from the landing site, or to do sightseeing of Muns anomalies.

Guess, when Duna gets different Biomes, Rovers will become even more useful

Edited July 15, 2014 by Godot

[zekes]

Oh yay I can post my vehicles (90% of my time in KSP is spent on them)

P1000 Ratte

KingPanzer ES

Landulurk Mk I

Pak 50

HMS Queen Elizabeth Battlecruiser

HMS Electra Destroyer

[magnemoe]

Probe rovers are nice to look at various locations like artifacts and geographical features. I once landed them on the poles almost all bodies in Kerbin,

Duna and Eve has a an mountain peek at the poles, Eve north pole is very dramatic with an knife edge ridge up to the pole.

Tylo has mountains too, Moho south pole is flat, Laythe, Eeloo, Val and Ike has flat poles, Minus has a crack in the surface layer.

[Wooks]

they are not hard to build, but useless. it's fun to send a rover to another planet, maybe to get two adjacent biomes. but there is no point in driving around for miles since there is nothing to be gained.

I strongly disagree

[Blind Dead McJones]

I have a design that I've placed on my mun base and also used on my first Duna mission:

This version has four seats and is entirely stock. The one at my mun base has some KAS parts and only two seats (because that one was a prototype). I might replace that one soon. This is one of the more stable rovers that I've ever built, and it's relatively hard to flip over if you keep it at a reasonable speed. Unfortunately Kerbals have a hard time with that concept, but it still works relatively well regardless.

I wanted to leave one at every base, and send one with every exploration mission. My current mission is my first mission to Dres, and unfortunately I forgot to send the rocket with the car on it. I've never put it anywhere lighter than the Mun, either, so I don't know if it works well on Minmus.

[NoPanShabuShabu]

I've travelled a globe in one:

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[Franklin]

Poll needs a 'they're easy, fun for a minute, but really just pointless' option. Like others have said, beyond easter eggs and adjacent biomes there's nothing worth driving around for. You land where you land, and collect what you were collecting. They'd have a use if bases had a use, but they don't either, so

Hopefully Squad gives us more uses for rovers (or anything beyond rockets in general), but until then reusable landers are more efficient.

[Wooks]

Poll needs a 'they're easy, fun for a minute, but really just pointless' option. Like others have said, beyond easter eggs and adjacent biomes there's nothing worth driving around for. You land where you land, and collect what you were collecting. They'd have a use if bases had a use, but they don't either, so

Hopefully Squad gives us more uses for rovers (or anything beyond rockets in general), but until then reusable landers are more efficient.

This is mostly a sandbox game, the challenge is up to you. Rovers are awesome.

[StrandedonEarth]

I haven't built many rovers, mostly for rescue missions, since pinpoint landings are pretty tricky. Here's one of my first rescue rovers, crashing into the crashed lander(barely visible under the navball)

Then I graduated to a Tylo Rescue Rover (test flight), which drove over 100km across Tylo (with many krakups) to rescue a stranded kerbalnaut

[Spartwo]

Roveteer

Do I need to elaborate?

Edited July 16, 2014 by Spartwo

[LethalDose]

So today I decided to build a ute and it took about an hour...

(Drove it around for 5mins, got bored)

Anyone else got any cool vehicles, list below.

IMO, rovers have a very limited number of uses, namely moving resources and kerbals between relatively static locations that relatively near close to each other. For example:

I call this lil guy the "Hunchback". It can move up to 3 kerbals between a landing site and a static base. It's automated, so it can drive and from a location un-kerballed, and has 30 days of life support for emergencies (I use TAC-LS). With vessels like this in place, you don't have to worry about really precise landings and can save fuel and weight for your landers. I also use them for refueling trucks at KSC to move fuel to planes on the hangar's skirt.

Also, I'm surprised that none of you have complained about the pic...

LOL

It's hilarious.

[LethalDose]

So today I decided to build a ute and it took about an hour...

(Drove it around for 5mins, got bored)

Anyone else got any cool vehicles, list below.

IMO, rovers have a very limited number of uses, namely moving resources and kerbals between relatively static locations that relatively near close to each other (landed vehicles, KSC, bases, anomalies, etc). For example:

I call this lil guy the "Hunchback". It can move up to 3 kerbals between a landing site and a static base. It's automated, so it can drive and from a location un-kerballed, and has 30 days of life support for emergencies (I use TAC-LS). With vessels like this in place, you don't have to worry about really precise landings and can save fuel and weight for your landers. I also use them for refueling trucks at KSC to move fuel to planes on the hangar's skirt.

Also, I'm surprised that none of you have complained about the pic...

LOL

It's hilarious.