Kerbal Space Program!

My Spotify Account · by **Ragnarum** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 12:28 pm

I may as well put up my own multi-role fighter jet for download if anyone wishes to analyse it.

Here is the bomb equipped version.
And the missile equipped one.
B9 and Lazors required. - They are the only mods I use.
It has a rocket assisted take off and landing system, be sure to use them as it looks cool and might not land properly otherwise. You don't need to bother about trying to slow down when landing so long as the engine is off. Try to set the landing rockets off at a sensible point.

Its a .craft file. I'll presume you know which file to put it in and such.

I might put my heavier jet bomber up for download.

My Spotify Account · by **Ragnarum** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:15 am

Well this is fruitful...

by **Planeia** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:48 pm

I seriously want to play it, but I don't have money available online to buy it. After watching Markiplier play it, I seriously wanted to try it out, and to be honest I don't want to settle for the demo, I get the feeling I'll have a lot more resources available for making it to the Mun in the full game.

I will be making several tries to get to the Mun, or the Kerbals will be faking the landing in order to get the upper hand on the Kermin Union.

by **SquareDisc City** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:49 pm

The demo's good fun. I think I spent 15-20 hours on it. After I'd accomplished a Munar orbit mission I decided to get the full game.

by **SquareDisc City** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:43 pm

Updated save http://1drv.ms/Wbn3uy

State of the Station

I've added a tug to help assemble the space station, so you don't have to put RCS on everything. It's designed to counterbalance the weight of the module by transferring fuel between its tanks, and can retain perfect RCS balance with stuff up to 32 tons or so (depending on bulk as well as mass of course). There's a Standard-Sr docking port adapter too.

by **Horizont** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:45 pm

SquareDisc City wrote:Updated save http://1drv.ms/Wbn3uy

State of the Station
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I've added a tug to help assemble the space station, so you don't have to put RCS on everything. It's designed to counterbalance the weight of the module by transferring fuel between its tanks, and can retain perfect RCS balance with stuff up to 32 tons or so (depending on bulk as well as mass of course). There's a Standard-Sr docking port adapter too.

That looks nice. Is that SRB from a mod?

by **SquareDisc City** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:12 pm

Nope, it's the stock Shuttle SRB that was introduced in .23.5. They're the longest single part, so I like using them for structural elements (emptied of fuel!).

by **OMGeverynameistaken** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:08 pm

In honor of .24's immenent release (well...it was briefly released today ._.) I present some of my epic pieces of Kerbal engineering:

FUDS: The Fundamentally Unsafe Reentry System (also the sound which occurs if anything goes slightly wrong.)

http://imgur.com/a/UOcm4

KODPIECE: Kerbin Orbital Domination Platform for Interception, Extermination, Coercion and Education

http://imgur.com/a/jLyBU

Kerblab I:
http://imgur.com/gallery/t7M2uYV

Kerblab II:
http://imgur.com/a/9q3vu

by **Planeia** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:34 pm

So I went ahead and got the game anyway. I FRUCKING LOVE IT! I'm having trouble building a space station though. Well, building it is fine... it's just getting it up there. I have the core already up, and currently trying to send another piece, but it keeps wiggling after launch, and struts aren't much help. This isn't how it's done IRL, they usually protect satellites and other things to be put in orbit by like shells or something that fall off in stages. You know how the decouplers in the game cover boosters? That's what I want, but for satellites and space stations. Does anyone know of a mod that does this?

by **SquareDisc City** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:45 pm

Procedural Fairings does, well, procedural fairings - ones you can freely change the size of in the VAB. I believe their fairings can also work to "strut" the top and bottom endpoints together.

If you prefer more working within constraints KW Rocketry includes some fairings.

by **The United Motherland** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:48 pm

When my compurer comes back, I'm most likely going to add some kind of refuel bay to make non-permanent docking easier for all of ud >->

by **Planeia** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:08 pm

SquareDisc City wrote:Procedural Fairings does, well, procedural fairings - ones you can freely change the size of in the VAB. I believe their fairings can also work to "strut" the top and bottom endpoints together.

If you prefer more working within constraints KW Rocketry includes some fairings.

Thank you so much!

by **SquareDisc City** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:10 pm

PS: Planeia, you've picked a good time, since the new version .24 is out, with a really comprehensive career mode. Make sure you've got it.

by **The BranRiech** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:56 pm

SquareDisc City wrote:PS: Planeia, you've picked a good time, since the new version .24 is out, with a really comprehensive career mode. Make sure you've got it.

Might be some of the mods I have, but Career doesn't like to work. It doesn't let me gain research points during the flight via crew and surface reports, the option isn't there.

by **Reploid Productions** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:20 pm

by **OMGeverynameistaken** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:28 pm

Always remember to strut absolutely everything to absolutely everything else.

by **SquareDisc City** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:35 pm

LOL. Reploid, you on the shared save or is this your own?

This was my most memorable strutting failure:

Seriously by cantab314, on Flickr

What's really remarkable is that it was stable on the pad like that. Nothing broke, nothing fell over. Made me think that really Squad overdid the joint strengthening in .23.5.

by **Reploid Productions** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:38 pm

SquareDisc City wrote:LOL. Reploid, you on the shared save or is this your own?

This was my most memorable strutting failure:
([url=https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7410/14008022977_e138776644_c.jpg]Image)[/url]Seriously by cantab314, on Flickr

What's really remarkable is that it was stable on the pad like that. Nothing broke, nothing fell over. Made me think that really Squad overdid the joint strengthening in .23.5.

It's on my personal goofing-off save, though I am considering getting on board the communal one.

Anybody else watch the Youtube ISS series of videos? That thing turned out pretty sweet!

by **Helthon** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:39 pm

Made it off the home world, but got stuck on making a munshot. managed to so the whole orbit and reentry tutorial well enough, and all before it, just never could make a munshot.

by **Reploid Productions** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:45 pm

Helthon wrote:Made it off the home world, but got stuck on making a munshot. managed to so the whole orbit and reentry tutorial well enough, and all before it, just never could make a munshot.

Minmus is further out, but in some ways it's actually easier than the Mun because the gravity is so much lower- you don't need as much fuel to make the landing or to return to Kerbin.

My best suggestion is to really play around with the maneuver nodes once you're in orbit around Kerbin- you can plot out potential course changes without committing to anything, and see what'll get you that munar encounter. If memory serves, Scott Manley's got some really good tutorials for it. Plus setting up an encounter with something as large as the Mun is sorta like the first baby steps toward learning to intercept spacecraft for docking in orbit.

by **Horizont** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 3:19 am

Added to the communal save file.

I've added a new module to the station. Something of a scientific module, featuring the mobile science lab; I know it's on sandbox mode, but it looks nice. Also features a cupola module on the side, which means this was awful to fly and dock because of the offset center of gravity.

Picture.

by **Planeia** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:22 pm

Oh the dreaded rendezvous. I have yet to dock with my space station, hell I have yet to get anywhere near it... there has to be a mod that makes this crap easier.

by **The BranRiech** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:23 pm

Planeia wrote:Oh the dreaded rendezvous. I have yet to dock with my space station, hell I have yet to get anywhere near it... there has to be a mod that makes this crap easier.

Mechjeb!

by **Planeia** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:28 pm

The BranRiech wrote:
Planeia wrote:Oh the dreaded rendezvous. I have yet to dock with my space station, hell I have yet to get anywhere near it... there has to be a mod that makes this crap easier.

Mechjeb!

Mods always come to the rescue :clap:

by **SquareDisc City** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:58 pm

I use NavballDockingAlignmentIndicator (or something like that) to help my docking. Really simple, just puts a red marker on the navball showing the direction your target port is facing. When your orientation, the pink target marker, and the red marker are all lined up you're facing the docking port "straight on" and can come in for the dock.

To rendezvous, I find that easy enough in stock. There's a trick where you can add extra manoeuvre nodes to get the closest encounter markers for a few orbits from now instead of just the next orbit, helps you save fuel.

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