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This is a fairly easy challenge. With the recent release of the Final Stand DLC for Battlefield 4, the HT-95 hovertank was added. The HT-95 is a prototype of the Nekomata hovertank from Battlefield 2142.

The challenge is to recreate one of the hovertanks from the Battlefield games in KSP. It can use any method of propulsion, and mods are allowed.

Scoring will be based on how accurate the design is and will be split between the HT-95 Levkov and Type 32 Nekomata. Winner gets a virtual cookie. :D

I can't submit my own design due to my PC being fried, and I'm posting this from my iPad.

Despite this being a poorly planned challenge, here are the scores:

TYPE 32 NEKOMATA

1st - Darren9

2nd - RocketscientistV

3rd - Spartwo

HT-95 LEVKOV

1st - TopHatDragon

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Cmdr. Arn1e

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Pictures? Video? some sort of link?

Cool idea for a challenge, but it needs fleshing out a lot...

How is this a challenge if there is no leaderboard or scoring of any kind?

None of this is meant offensively, but yeah, needs work... and being able to show it's possible is one of the biggest points!

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$@&%#€@$¥#£$$&!!! No more challenge posts from me. They NEVER work. :mad:

Whoa, whoa, whoa! no need to get angry!

I only pointed out that some sort of image or video would help convey the idea better than just text, and that a challenge needs, well, rules or something, otherwise you might as well just post in spacecraft exchange to get people to build a particular thing for you! Just building something isn't too much of a challenge... but making it look exactly how you, the challenge setter, wants would be challenging if you restrict parts and mods...

It would be even more of a challenge to deploy such a tank to another planet or moon; this would require more design AND pilot skills to pull off, so could be the next level of the challenge...

What would you do if two or more of your challenges suddenly took off, and you found you had no time to play yourself any more?

Again, none of this is meant offensively, just trying to help you get the hang of setting challenges - I had similar when I posted my first challenge, and because this is the internet you just don't know what the other forum users are thinking or feeling, so it is easy to take comments and suggestions negatively - this is not our intention :wink:

Just edit the original post later, or let this failed attempt dissappear into the forum history and re-make it when you can do some testing and playing yourself again, as it's quite important that you see if it is possible at least :)

(Actual) EDIT: And if you take a look at some of the other posts in Challenges, I have said very similar things in them too! I think you might want to take a look here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24898-Challenge-Submission-Guide (Ninja'd on this one, lol)

and at the more popular Challenges (the ones that are still going with over 1,000 posts are good) to see why they might do so well :)

EDIT 2: Oh, and by the way, you didn't listen to any of the suggestions on your previous challenge, or ask a mod to close it or anything... You could have adjusted that challenge... but instead you chose to post another, similar challenge, with all the same faults as the first... then you got angry instead of thinking of a way to fix it...

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my K button doesn't want to play nice...
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I guess I will submit proof as this was an interesting challenge to try and I already wanted to make a hover tank.

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Nice one, Challenge on :D:wink:

(are those vernors in use? curious, hehe!)

EDIT: and looking long and hard at your pic, it kinda reminds me of some sort of flying Churchill tank! (Driven enough of them in world of tanks... gotta support the home country lol :wink:)

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I can't play KSP right now. My PC is fried.

I do read your suggestions. I'm just a bit braindead a lot of the time.

I did read that bit, which is why I didn't specifically mention it this time round :)

Still, you've had someone step up and prove it can be done, so maybe come up with some sort of scoring, so we can try and emulate or beat the bar that has been set :wink:

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And just for clarity for the scoring, I took the liberty of appropriting an image of the tank (courtesy of google :wink:)

V_patank02.png

Looks like it could fit well in the kerbal world :D

EDIT: As for the scoring, so far it will work for the short-term, but maybe come up with some sort of test for it or something... maybe do the destroyed space-centre assault course or something, get people to drive it up mountains and over different terrain... this could be the answer to speed-circumnavigation of Kerbin people have been searching for, for so long hehe ^.^

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Well here's my submission, I based it off the image on here

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Nice work! Nailed it xD

Yes they are vernors, if you use SAS and them on VTOLs it is so much easier to balance.

Aha, thanks for that, I thought Vernors would be better than the standard RCS thrusters :D

I think that more experimentaton is needed; I think it should be possible to make the vehicle 'hover', but it will take a LOT of fine-tuning for each vehicle before it's close to 'perfect' hehe :wink:

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