KSP Thread

Cool, I just made a 2-Kerbal SSTO on my first try, pics incoming. It's in 0.21 because my wireless is crappy and cuts off the download most of the time.

I love the feel of actually doing the basics again.
I am currently working on constructing a probe capable of landing on (and transmitting data/returning from) the Mun.
I need dat science!

I've been busy. Haven't gotten around to playing 0.22 yet.

As for everyone else, good job!

Just bought KSP, Last time I played was .13 when like .14 or .15 just came out. Anyone wanna tell me what to expect while the 17min launcher downloads?  

_Shadowcat_ wrote:

Just bought KSP, Last time I played was .13 when like .14 or .15 just came out. Anyone wanna tell me what to expect while the 17min launcher downloads?  

You'll be playing a whole new game. Act like it.

Tau wrote:

_Shadowcat_ wrote:

Just bought KSP, Last time I played was .13 when like .14 or .15 just came out. Anyone wanna tell me what to expect while the 17min launcher downloads?  

You'll be playing a whole new game. Act like it.

I guessed so from what I've seen it looks like C7 flight pack became standard? Also planets, Everyone bitched about wanting planets back in the day. Boy I remember when you had to settle for the moon son.

_Shadowcat_ wrote:

Tau wrote:

_Shadowcat_ wrote:

Just bought KSP, Last time I played was .13 when like .14 or .15 just came out. Anyone wanna tell me what to expect while the 17min launcher downloads?  

You'll be playing a whole new game. Act like it.

I guessed so from what I've seen it looks like C7 flight pack became standard? Also planets, Everyone bitched about wanting planets back in the day. Boy I remember when you had to settle for the moon son.

C7 pack is standard. Bac9 (KSP modder known for making B9 Aerospace) joined the team a while back, made a whole new Space Center that actually looks decent. New terrain. 6 new planets, a new moon for Kerbin, and 7 other new moons around other planets. Reaction wheels (used to be the SAS units) take power to run now. Unmanned vehicles. A runway. Science. Actual landing legs. Subassemblies for the VAB and SPH.

Pretty awesome shit, especially after upgrading from 13.3.

Jeb died... In his honor five space cadets were violently killed in a shuttle crash also worldwide rioting has started and civil war has broken out, the economy is failing and famine and disease is spreading as a result of the loss of Jeb.

Don't worry they return eventually.
I must've killed Jeb at least 5 times.

Well, after 6 hours of the new updates carrier mode, I've managed to get some crappy command pod satellites into orbit :/ well, a wonky one anyway I think I might need to practice ksp a bit :/

Carrier mode? Did this become future crafts avatars child? :O

XD career mode, I spelt it wrong on iPad and it autocorrected

MrTargareyan wrote:

iPad

I didn't know Apple supported KSP

I've been playing

I love mystery goo (TM). It's so... mysterious

Robotnik wrote:

I've been playing

I love mystery goo (TM). It's so... mysterious

I've ran out of things to do with mystery goo, Gona farm the Jr. Science Lab till I can make a stable orbit then get to the mun.

Also I love how I can take Jeb out to get an EVA report for science, and a test sample for Science, And a crew report for science. Got damnit I love science.

I've got seven different landing sites on the Mun alone, and I've still got a couple more to go, and need to revisit old ones since unlocking new science technologies to unlock even more science.
A single trip to the Mun with Mystery goo and materials lab yields over 400 science points.

I've landed twice, each yielded about 800 science with 2 science labs, 4 goo canisters. 1 Man ship.

Now have enough parts unlocked to create my normal lander, but...

The springs on the landing legs. I love them and hate them at the same time. They cushion your descent, but their tension isn't strong enough to prevent my engines from being squashed. They sit at the most compressed level for my normal 3 man lander, which makes the design useless.

Any tips? Do I need less weight or something? It's very annoying.

I'm jealousy, I haven't even updated yet.
EDIT: Updated, currently have 3 rockets, 1 subassembly, 13 research in the bank, performed 3 flights, lost 0 Kerbals, and my tech tree looks like what's below.

My first kerbin exploration plane thingy, max speed of 700 m/s, and a ceiling of 17,000 metres/feet or whatever its measured in. It can't be flown below 11,000 metres safely due to some fairly major stability issues (Whenever you try to turn/alter pitch a 10,000 metre spiral of death ensues) Its also ugly, and useless... I should probably try and turn it into an SSTO.

FYI, it´s metres.
Everyone who does science uses metres.
Makes it easier to calculate stuff since the measurements for force, power, work, etc. are based on metric units, so you can find out easily if your ship can lift off.
Formula:

max.thrust / (mass * 9810) = x

If x > 1 your rocket can lift off.
Make sure you use the wet mass though.

Yes, I´m using the KSP-thread to post physical equations now.

Robotnik wrote:

I've landed twice, each yielded about 800 science with 2 science labs, 4 goo canisters. 1 Man ship.

Now have enough parts unlocked to create my normal lander, but...

The springs on the landing legs. I love them and hate them at the same time. They cushion your descent, but their tension isn't strong enough to prevent my engines from being squashed. They sit at the most compressed level for my normal 3 man lander, which makes the design useless.

Any tips? Do I need less weight or something? It's very annoying.

In the config file there's an option to change how springy they are.

Code:

suspensionUpperLimit = ###

I think it's that one.

I'm not too sure how I got this into orbit but hopefully it'll go to Duna and return with thousands of science points.
Two nuclear engines, three materials bays, two avionics noseheads, four mystery goo containers, one of all of the small science thingies. This should work swell, assuming it can re-enter the atmosphere without tearing in half and dropping all the science experiments like its predecessor.

HA, it landed perfectly into the ocean ( aside from the nuclear engines tearing off when I deployed the chutes ) and turned into a rocket-powered-boat.

The best kind of boat in my opinion.

I am trying to do as much as I can with the tier 1 stuff, and the problem I have is the rockets I make are too tall and too heavy for the parachute and I hit the ground hard, but my pod is still fine, until it falls over and blows up...