Kerbal Madness

[CrazyEyes]

 

 

It's.... it's beautiful  I have no words.  A single tear rolls down my cheek only to be cast into the wind by the shockwave rushing past.

[nasKo]

Liek dis if u cri evry tiem

[EnigmaGrey]

Liek dis if u cri evry tiem

Just keep practicing Martin, and one day you can be as crazy as myself.

[CrazyEyes]

This thread is making me want to pick up KSP again.  I never did get that probe in orbit around Jool....

[ArtosVI]

Here's the song that accompanied my first time into orbit and deep space!

[EnigmaGrey]

I don't think I'll be getting into orbit anytime soon, ArtosVI.



Stable ring flight.

[CrazyEyes]

It may not be the most practical design but I'm impressed you got that in the air.  If you added more intakes you could probably take that thing into the upper atmosphere.

[EnigmaGrey]

It may not be the most practical design but I'm impressed you got that in the air.  If you added more intakes you could probably take that thing into the upper atmosphere.

I'll give it a shot. And start figuring out a way to decrease its mass a bit -- really need the speed for those air intakes to be effective.

[Xydonus]

Well, here's mine. These were taken in a older version of Kerbal, as the new one broke most of the mods I was using so I've not updated yet.

 

 

Here's Thor's Hammer (voyager one was a placeholder name) - the payload is the Hubble space telescope

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here's a screenshot from the telescope itself of the Death St... I mean of the Moon -

 

Telescope without its makeshift coverings -

 

 

My heavy payload rocket, designed to carry my rover to the moon -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic rockets for testing -

 

 

[CrazyEyes]

That hubble telescope is pretty awesome.  I should get something like that to put on my next mission so I can have a camera pointed at the planet I'm orbiting.

 

Jool Sattelite Probe

The probe, shown here as a complicated mess of struts, support beams and parts against a backdrop of complicated support beams and struts. Also with a fairing base and nose cone!



The rocket that will launch that probe. It's simple compared to most of my rockets; all it has to do is fly to Jool and circularize.



We have liftoff.




Some cool shots of the rocket during ascent. See if you can tell which one isn't part of the same flight as the rest of these.



The solid boosters have detatched (finally, may have gone overboard with those) and the liquid engine is now throttled up. At this point my rocket started to spin wildly. I tried to correct for it but it was just eating my monopropellant. I eventually decided not to try to control it since there was nobody alive on board and I was still on course. Science!



Thankfully the spinning stopped after I decoupled the huge fuel tank and engine. the fairings come off in this stage too - we aren't re-entering an atmosphere so there's no reason to carry that extra weight all the way to Jool.



The engine in this stage is designed to be a scaled-up version of the atomic engine - highly fuel-efficient but a bad thrust-to-weight ratio. I'm not fighting gravity (much) in space so all I care about is fuel efficency. This engine is efficent enough to get me all the way to the outer solar system on the fuel I have left.



The rocket during an interplanetary burn. The sun makes for some cool silhouette shots.



Hello you great big emerald you.



Attempting to circularize around Jool. In this shot I'm actualy starting to be in danger of falling into the atmosphere (starts at 200km) and I don't have enough fuel left to circularize. I ended up using what fuel was left to get myself in an elliptical orbit around Jool. My periapsis is a bit low, but I can use the ion engine on the probe to correct that - slowly - and I'm no longer moving at escape velocity.

Due to the craziness of trying to save my probe I forgot to get a good screenshot of it seperating from the engine. Here are some that I took once I was a bit safer:

[Xydonus]

That's a pretty nifty looking probe; I like it.

 

I've not been to Jool yet, but its on my to-do list.

[EnigmaGrey]

So. Very. Green.

[Marrik]

i tried to build a ship based on the cover art of an Isaac Asimov book, and when i turned it on the whole thing ripped apart and exploded

 

[EnigmaGrey]

Two thousand parts of devastation:




The following are done with cheats (but not noclip) through the debug panel:



Instantaenous travel



Pod racer (perfectly viable without cheats!)



First attempt to meet the end of the universe:

(Time is now -67 years)

Random:




















 

[Xydonus]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16gqjb_ksp-countdown_videogames

[PK'EZ-54]

Flowers are red,

Connor Gill blew up,

Everything else blew up, 

Everything remaining is green.

[Walther]

Quick OT-Question ^sorry

 

Is it worth the money? it costs like 23€ here...

[EnigmaGrey]

Quick OT-Question ^sorry

 

Is it worth the money? it costs like 23€ here...

Science experiments have gone a long way to making it more of a game, rather than MineCraft Creative Mode.

So it really depends on what you value. If just beating the game's systems and doing something cool gets you, it's a good game for you. If you want more, I'd wait a little longer.

That's a lot of money to spend.

[Walther]

 

Quick OT-Question ^sorry

 

Is it worth the money? it costs like 23€ here...

Science experiments have gone a long way to making it more of a game, rather than MineCraft Creative Mode.

So it really depends on what you value. If just beating the game's systems and doing something cool gets you, it's a good game for you. If you want more, I'd wait a little longer.

That's a lot of money to spend.

 

 

hmm, I can see myself experimenting with it, but I dont know if it is worth the money for me

 

^{should have bought it when it was on sale last time damnit}

[TinnedEpic]

I feel like there needs to be a little bit of a PZ Kerbal challenge now :3.

[EnigmaGrey]

[Xydonus]

 

At least it still works..

[EnigmaGrey]

The game is a good deal more of a pain without cheating, eh?

Can get that to the moon with fuel to spare, but that's only with MechJeb. Manually? Forget about it. ;D

[Xydonus]

To boldly go, where no lander has gone before... down a big effin crater.

 

 

The red lines show where it landed, and subsequently tumbled down the crater for ages and ages and ages and ages...

[Pixel Bombs]

OMG how do I enjoy this game. I end up making a rocket, it launches, it blows up/goes into space, then I get bored and leave. The hell am I doing wrong?