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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"


Well, after realising the Tentative Name was much too short on fuel for its original mission brief I managed to rearrange enough fuel and modules to send Jeb and Luden on a one-way trip to Vall and Tylo and send everyone else packing. I hope they can amuse themselves while I think about sending a rescue mission.
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What is this, some sort of super secret offworld Kerbal mind transference device!?  What are you doing to those poor guys!
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
The lights are there because during field testing on Kerbin the little buggers kept sliding up the ladders and falling off, so I had to keep them in place somehow. They can't really illuminate much, the rover needs loads of sunlight to operate.
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Gotta live KSP physics. :P
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
I believe this has already been posted in this thread, but still damn cool.

 

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Heh units and general feel of the vid reminds me of Total Annihilation.
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I believe this has already been posted in this thread, but still damn cool.
The post count in this thread is too damn high...
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
I believe this has already been posted in this thread, but still damn cool.
The post count in this thread is too damn high...

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
I believe this has already been posted in this thread, but still damn cool.

I like the responses: Kerbal Starfighter.
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Screenies of a couple of shuttles at varying degrees of development at varying degrees of graphical quality:
















And:

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My asparagus super-heavy super lifter.

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The asparagus super heavy super lifter(tm) gets a ship to escape velocity before even having to use the main nuclear engines.

Here is it after starting an aerobrake maneuver for rover deployment on Eve.

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I need to do asparagus staging on a lifter I've made.  So far it's just all-engines-balls-to-the-wall-but-use-your-own-tank.  It also tends to blow up spectacularly.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
I've recently tried building spaceplanes. Do you have any advice on how not to make them yaw and fall off the runway before takeoff? I've been having that problem since making planes became possible.

 
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move rudder for great straightness
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
I've recently tried building spaceplanes. Do you have any advice on how not to make them yaw and fall off the runway before takeoff? I've been having that problem since making planes became possible.
4 wheels help with that and twitch adjustments also help.

also, your takeoff speed should be between 65-110 m/s
if you arent taking off in that bracket, something is off, either not enough lift, you being too conservative with take-offs or an iffy design.

also, i'd like to point out that romfarer's lazor system is a beautiful complement for plane control. you can have autopilot of sorts, but i prefer using just its "dampen input" option sometimes as well. basically, just uncheck the boxes near roll, pitch, yaw, leave dampen input on and enjoy the smoothness of the flight.

also, if you think its cheating, well, you know where you can stuff that sentiment and we shall not discuss it any further.


also, as a side-note, i'm talking about just general kerbin-bound spaceplanes, havent managed to get one to orbit yet, due to lack of interest, to make it a proper SPACEplane :p
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also, if you think its cheating, well, you know where you can stuff that sentiment and we shall not discuss it any further.
Regardless of what I think of the lazors, I can't really use them. I'm using FAR and I don't think those two are really compatible. Fortunately, FAR has it's own input dampening functions.