18t <> 18t

[Miro Beero]

Launch Pad cannot support vessels heavier than 18T

Here is 18T exact ship. So technically the Launch pad may only support ships UNDER 18T

[worir4]

You are 0.03 tons over XD

[Yemo]

The craft stats are just not precise enough, should only round up in that case.

You know, for testing you dont actually need fuel in the booster. You only have to activate it by staging.

And 5 chutes are overkill, try 2, max 3.

[sal_vager]

You could take the monoprop out of the pod, works for me

[Guest]

Rounding errors...

[Miro Beero]

You are 0.03 tons over XD

I actually didn't realize the message box said .03

I should RTFS

[Ikaneko]

You don't REALLY need that parachute, do you??

I've never heard any negative feedback from my kerbals when I didn't include it!!

[ZedNova]

Have your kerbal take a toilet break before launch. It should relieve enough weight to launch.

[Norpo]

I'm going to test this by making a part that's *exactly* 18 tons. Hooray for cfg editing!

UPDATE: I launched an 18 ton block successfully. You can launch things that are *exactly* 18 tons with no trouble.

Edited December 21, 2014 by Norpo

[Sirrobert]

Have your kerbal take a toilet break before launch. It should relieve enough weight to launch.

Your Kerbals take 30 kg dumps?

What do you feed them?

[Felsmak]

Your Kerbals take 30 kg dumps?

What do you feed them?

Very special astronaut food.

[dryer_lint]

Your Kerbals take 30 kg dumps?

What do you feed them?

I just let them drink the water in the admin pool, it's supposed to be nutritious.

Whatever the water is made of is not my department.

[Overfloater]

Your astronauts really should lay off the green goo.

You don't REALLY need that parachute, do you??

I've never heard any negative feedback from my kerbals when I didn't include it!!

True, neither have I ( 　ﾟ,_ã‚Âﾟ)

[Commissioner Tadpole]

If you can't remove the parachutes, and removing the monoprop from the pod isn't enough, try reducing the fuel ammount of the radial boosters. That might help.

[gtmattz]

Have your kerbal take a toilet break before launch. It should relieve enough weight to launch.

.03 metric ton is around 66lb... If Jeb loses that much weight using the toilet... Well lets just say I feel sorry for the guy.

Come to think of it... IIRC a kerbal in an EVA suit is around 95kg(?) and is around 2 and a half feet tall... So Jeb would have to poop out a mass roughly the size of himself to shed this weight. Even if he was pooping out a solid block of iridium (which is roughly 2x the density of lead) that would still be one massive turd.

Edited December 21, 2014 by gtmattz

[monophonic]

.03 metric ton is around 66lb... If Jeb loses that much weight using the toilet... Well lets just say I feel sorry for the guy.

Come to think of it... IIRC a kerbal in an EVA suit is around 95kg(?) and is around 2 and a half feet tall... So Jeb would have to poop out a mass roughly the size of himself to shed this weight. Even if he was pooping out a solid block of iridium (which is roughly 2x the density of lead) that would still be one massive turd.

Now this explains why the toilet seat in the astronaut complex survives complete destruction of the rest of the facility. Even if you drop a class E asteroid on it.

[astropapi1]

And we have successfully derailed a thread about launchpad mass limitation into the mass of a Kerbal's dump.

I'm not complaining.

[zarakon]

It would be nice if the info window showed more precision at low masses, like below 100t. Give us 3 significant digits

[ZedNova]

.03 metric ton is around 66lb... If Jeb loses that much weight using the toilet... Well lets just say I feel sorry for the guy.

Come to think of it... IIRC a kerbal in an EVA suit is around 95kg(?) and is around 2 and a half feet tall... So Jeb would have to poop out a mass roughly the size of himself to shed this weight. Even if he was pooping out a solid block of iridium (which is roughly 2x the density of lead) that would still be one massive turd.

Jesus you guys can't take a joke.

[Dunbaratu]

I think the take-away from this thread should be that SQUAD needs to show more significant digits in the tonnage display.

[Yemo]

Had 0.01 tons too much for an 18t challenge design. In desperation I replaced a stack decoupler with a radial decoupler, using the offset and rotate features creatively...

[Aragosnat]

Jesus you guys can't take a joke.

We can and that was a technical joke adding to your joke.. You could say he was playing the straight man.

[Superfluous J]

I had a ship that KER said was something between 17.9 tons and 18.0 tons. KSP wouldn't launch it.

I took a tiny bit of fuel out of the highest tank and was good, but it was annoying.

[Franklin]

Yeah the game really should allow for "spillage" if the mass beyond 18t still rounds to 18.0t. It's such a marginal discrepancy and saves on headaches.

[Jouni]

Yeah the game really should allow for "spillage" if the mass beyond 18t still rounds to 18.0t. It's such a marginal discrepancy and saves on headaches.

Then we would have exactly the same issue with 18.05-tonne rockets.