Rogue Autopilot Challenge! FUN!

[quasarrgames]

THE GOAL:

the goal of this challenge is to land successfully on an atmosphereless planet of your choice with the autopilot set to point prograde. This means you will have to constantly fight the autopilot to be pointed in the right direction.

RULES:

-your lander must have an autopilot capable of pointing itself prograde. whether that's a level 2 kerbal or a good probe core doesn't matter.

-your craft must have torque, either as an SAS module or as RCS ports, that is functional at all times.

-no controlling the lander upside down. This means no controlling from flipped probe cores or cockpits or docking ports, to prevent cheating.

-your lander cannot have any engines that point backwards (otherwise it wouldn't be much of a challenge, would it?)

-as always, no cheats or hacks or debug menu or anything cheaty like that.

ADDITIONALLY:

Bonus points for putting lots of torque on your lander.

Tf you want a REAL challenge, i'd recommend going to tylo. VERY HARD! BUT VERY FUN!

GOOD LUCK!

MY ATTEMPT:

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Edited January 20, 2015 by quasarrgames

[RelentlessChallenger]

This is impossible.Reply

[Kamuchi]

According to the rules, you mught be the first

[foamyesque]

What precisely do you mean by "must have control at all times"?

[quasarrgames]

What precisely do you mean by "must have control at all times"?

i mean that it must be able to rotate your ship in any direction at all times. that way you couldn't exploit it by cutting the power to your lander and using thrust vectoring to land the ship instead (although that seems highly unlikely and challenging in itself). I'll change that pert so it makes more sense.

[foamyesque]

i mean that it must be able to rotate your ship in any direction at all times. that way you couldn't exploit it by cutting the power to your lander and using thrust vectoring to land the ship instead (although that seems highly unlikely and challenging in itself). I'll change that pert so it makes more sense.

So I can still manually override it, then?

Next question: What counts as "upside down engines"?

[quasarrgames]

So I can still manually override it, then?

Next question: What counts as "upside down engines"?

oh come now XD

it means any engine with a direction of thrust that is more than 90 degrees different from the prograde direction that the autopilot percieves.

[Slam_Jones]

It's generally encouraged for the poster of the challenge to show his own submission, if only to prove that it's possible.

[foamyesque]

oh come now XD

it means any engine with a direction of thrust that is more than 90 degrees different from the prograde direction that the autopilot percieves.

Well there goes plan A: "flip the probe core" :v

[quasarrgames]

It's generally encouraged for the poster of the challenge to show his own submission, if only to prove that it's possible.

Thy hath been done!

[MarvinKitFox]

Add docking port at bottom

"control from here"

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