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Kerbal Space Program : like model rocket building but better and [no longer] free
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DeathIsTheEnd
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Rapstah said:I'm cancelling the trip right now, they'll reach 400 000 KM now and that's far enough. I can't remember if this took three or four days but imagine a couple of 24-hour periods added to the clock.
Beat that G-force record. I scrolled down to the bottom of both stat fields because the most interesting stuff happened there. I believe my second stage hit the ground around fourteen hours in which is very cool.
That was one hell of a trip! Have you got any pictures of the ship?
Edit* Shit that rhymes!
I have become a bit addicted to trying to reach the highest possible speed when exiting Kearth's gravitational pull, or the ships final velocity once it has completely stopped decelerating.
So far my best is 3140.9 m/s. Its becoming very difficult to break, because I keep reaching a wall of 'oh god my ship explodes' when trying to add additional rockets and stages.
So far my best is 3140.9 m/s. Its becoming very difficult to break, because I keep reaching a wall of 'oh god my ship explodes' when trying to add additional rockets and stages.
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r1chard said:Damn this game is fun. I'm looking forward to all the things the dev and community could add to it.
I so hope the dev adds time compression though. Sitting watching my computer for 4 days while the ship transits to the moon doesn't sound like fun
Time compression is a definite must have. I can't wait for the first space station or moon
Jim E. Rossler
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Tried for a stable orbit, with NO input/corrections after I started taking pics
Ended up falling 2500m and gaining 8 meters/sec in ~12 minutes, I'll spend more time trying to perfect orbit before taking pics again
I think it was an elliptical orbit, I want a circular one.
Ended up falling 2500m and gaining 8 meters/sec in ~12 minutes, I'll spend more time trying to perfect orbit before taking pics again
I think it was an elliptical orbit, I want a circular one.
Alchemy said:
The key is to escape the atmosphere (at around 43,000 m) with as much fuel as possible. Of course, more fuel weighs more...well rocket science.
To get a decent escape velocity, I like to use 5 liquid rockets for the first stage (4 liquid rockets on radial decouplers with 2 tanks, and a middle liquid rocket with 4-5 tanks).
For the second stage above the outer 4 liquid rockets, I use some SRBs, just to give me a little extra boost to get to outer edge of the atmosphere. By the time you jettison those, you should be above or near that 43km mark and rapidly accelerating.
Also, if pure speed is your goal, consider adding one last srb right below your crew capsule. It's a bit added extra weight, but it'll pay dividends in extra speed at the end.
There's better and different ways to do that, experimenting is half the fun.
DeathCubeK said:
Exactly this but with one extra liquid fuel engine, making it four.
EDIT: Uh, I see four on this picture so it might actually be exactly this design. Maybe five fuel tanks then?
Nah, I just felt like cropping it so it fit in any aspect ratio of viewing the forum and there wasn't too much information in that fourth.Interesting crop of the image. Did you lose your crew?
PjotrStroganov
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How do you succesfully use the side decouplers without everything going wobbly?
Diablohead
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I am guessing you had the top engine ignite first so stuff below it will explode, lol.Alien Bob said:
Jim E. Rossler
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You can press t to toggle on SAS permanently on and offOrayn said:
It feels like i'm better at building short range ballistic missiles than space rockets. Managed to fly up to 180,000 meters though. Then i got bored, landing was going to take foreever.
The vanilla game has very few parts though, and some, like the winglets, seem to be completly useless. But maybe this will get better. Certainly following it's development.
The vanilla game has very few parts though, and some, like the winglets, seem to be completly useless. But maybe this will get better. Certainly following it's development.
Ah. I don't think about it too much because favored rocket design loses its SAMs relatively early. Because I don't have a flight stick and the game doesn't seem to like my Xbox 360 controller, I actually wind up adjusting everything with an 8-way arcade stick and Xpadder. It actually works pretty darn well with instant mode rather than precision, just because it's so easy to trip each switch and adjust my vectors ever so slightly.slopeslider said:
PjotrStroganov
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Orayn said:
Thx
Also found out a different solution to get the thing stable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqIPC59Im-k
Dakota47 said:Same, although I crashed right after. I caught the sunset though so it was all good.
You crashed because you weren't going fast enough. You needed about 150 m/s on your velocity.
Assuming you're in a perfect circular orbit, 2176 m/s is the ideal velocity at 145km. Escape velocity there is 3078 m/s.
Source:
https://gist.github.com/1075144
Dakota47 said:
Yea, that's way to easy to do. I'm trying to replicate my orbit, but I failed. For me, I'm fighting my rocket design, and it's too unstable at the time I need to maneuver it. My rocket doesn't become stable until I'm at my last stage, and upward momentum carries me to 100km and beyond.
One of the trickiest things you to learn is just how quickly you need to tip in order to strip off all the vertical momentum. Add to that the required minimum speed at your apogee, and the precise speed that's required to maintain a stable orbit... Yeah. There's a lot to keep track of.Dakota47 said:
But yes, even if our orbits fail, we get breathtaking views of Kearth and hopefully bring the Kerman boys back down safely.
Here is the list of planned features
PjotrStroganov
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DrM said:
Though, keeping it simple, parts wise, it does make more of a challenge to achieve certain goals. I've installed quite some modded parts and it is still more fun to use the old parts.
ThoseDeafMutes
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slopeslider said:
1.11 is out - including the much-anticipated time compression and orbital view!
There's a bunch of other bits 'n pieces like an atmosphere gauge, RCS modules, a beefed-up SAS module and other things.
The landscape still pops at times, but way less than it used to.
I've still not managed to build anything remotely flyable with the control surfaces ;-)
There's a bunch of other bits 'n pieces like an atmosphere gauge, RCS modules, a beefed-up SAS module and other things.
The landscape still pops at times, but way less than it used to.
I've still not managed to build anything remotely flyable with the control surfaces ;-)
Orbital view rocks! Combined with acceleration it really makes getting into, modifying and out of orbit a cinch.
Haven't played with the RCS very much - people are posting youtube videos of "docking" with previous stages now that they have that control in orbit.
Also, and I realise they came in a previous release, but YAY for struts
Haven't played with the RCS very much - people are posting youtube videos of "docking" with previous stages now that they have that control in orbit.
Also, and I realise they came in a previous release, but YAY for struts
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