Kerbal Space Program, or: "How many rockets can I slap onto this thing?" - Games

Well that's that then, Gagarin X has reached 10000km and is still going. [IMG]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595817638497394223/C37D4FE5FAB172E1634E5B70F5419A9529C05706/[/IMG] Here's a picture of it taking off [IMG]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595817638496602219/ADCB6875573711AC627768E95D3C7B098533771F/[/IMG]

[QUOTE=MadCatMkII;31253479]because gravity[/QUOTE] I feel stupid as fuck for not thinking about that now. Oh well.

Here is the download: [url]http://www.speedyshare.com/files/29523773/Parts.zip[/url] It has quite a few new parts in addition to the last one.

its times like this i wish i still had a thruster or two [img]http://i54.tinypic.com/rjm903.jpg[/img]

Indeed [IMG]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595817638498166688/15D7DE72CF53EC0073D740370FEA85017365FC5C/[/IMG] Gagarin X is still going on.

For the people tired of geting out to space: try to orbit.

[QUOTE=gta-man12345;31255274]For the people tired of geting out to space: try to orbit.[/QUOTE] I tried to orbit with Gagarin X earlier today, and let me tell you, that shit was not designed to go anywhere else except up or down.

Is it even possible to make it past 200,000 metres with the vanilla game? I've spent hours, and with my best rocket I've made it about 1.2k top speed and 196k height.

[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;31256063]Is it even possible to make it past 200,000 metres with the vanilla game? I've spent hours, and with my best rocket I've made it about 1.2k top speed and 196k height.[/QUOTE] You're doing something wrong Watch some tutorial videos

[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;31256063]Is it even possible to make it past 200,000 metres with the vanilla game? I've spent hours, and with my best rocket I've made it about 1.2k top speed and 196k height.[/QUOTE] One thing to keep in mind in this game, is to keep it simple. Over complicating and trying to get the next biggest stage just leads to a huge thrust-weight battle. Try to use tri-couplers, use solid rockets to get you off the ground initially, then use liquid fuel engines.

[QUOTE=lifehole;31256391]One thing to keep in mind in this game, is to keep it simple. Over complicating and trying to get the next biggest stage just leads to a huge thrust-weight battle. Try to use tri-couplers, use solid rockets to get you off the ground initially, then use liquid fuel engines.[/QUOTE] Yeah I know, I made a relatively simple rocket to get that high. Maybe it's because I only use the stack decouplers since the regular side decouplers don't work at all. Isn't the whole solid first bit backwards though? I was under the assumption that liquid rockets don't work in space.

Is this any good? [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3655383/image.PNG[/img]

[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;31256548]Yeah I know, I made a relatively simple rocket to get that high. Maybe it's because I only use the stack decouplers since the regular side decouplers don't work at all. Isn't the whole solid first bit backwards though? I was under the assumption that liquid rockets don't work in space.[/QUOTE] Liquid rockets dont work as well in the atmosphere, due to having less thrust. And the side decouplers (Radial Decouplers) Work fine, but the only thing attachable to them is solid rocket boosters. So yeah, SRB's have a large amount of thrust for a small amount of time and liquid fuel has low-medium amount for a long amount of time. [editline]21st July 2011[/editline] Also, there is a lot of height achievements in this thread, but it's kindof pointless because once you get past the 1 million meter mark its a bit redundant because you just kind-of drift.

I've been orbiting for 2 hours and 36 minutes

[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;31256063]Is it even possible to make it past 200,000 metres with the vanilla game? I've spent hours, and with my best rocket I've made it about 1.2k top speed and 196k height.[/QUOTE] It's easy. I've gotten to 4.5k/s and I probably could get to 100,000k if I left it on long enough. Probably more considering at 20,000k the speed dropped by .1 m/s every 10 seconds or so.

I got into orbit again with a slightly adjusted version of my first orbital rocket, the aptly named "Orbiter." Orbiter II flew for about 1.25 orbits before making a successful parachute landing on the first continent after the space center. I got pictures this time! [IMG]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/Gumpinspace/orbit3.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/Gumpinspace/orbit1.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/Gumpinspace/orbit2.png[/IMG]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNYKEMOQFeg[/media] I think it was a pretty successful flight

[IMG]http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2148/ksp2011072119453525.png[/IMG] Going on 4 hours 20 minutes and the orbit still looks the same as it did 4 hours ago.

[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;31256063]Is it even possible to make it past 200,000 metres with the vanilla game? I've spent hours, and with my best rocket I've made it about 1.2k top speed and 196k height.[/QUOTE] The key is power to weight ratio. If you have a rocket with a power to weight ratio of 2:1, it will accelerate at rate "x." If you double engines with the same characteristics without changing the configuration of the rocket, the power to weight ratio will stay the same, as weight and thrust were doubled equally, and acceleration will remain at x. The idea is to use staging to your advantage. If your 1st stage is a liquid cooled engine with two fuel tanks you will accelerate at x for duration y. Then stage 2 has 1 fuel tank, so it will accelerate at least 2.5 times x for half of duration y. By using this technique of stepping down weight while conserving thrust, you will eventually be accelerating faster than orbital velocity.

I thought I was going into orbit, but I just got slingshotted around Kearth.

Any news on when we get working joystick support? You can map the controls but they don't respond in game and it would make things so much easier.

[QUOTE=kmathis;31260357]I thought I was going into orbit, but I just got slingshotted around Kearth.[/QUOTE] Try going around 2300 m/s at 1,000,000 meters. That's what worked for me. Just make sure you aren't going 2300 m/s up, but instead around the planet.

An aircraft making game like this with multiplayer would be awesome. Dogfights in 30 winged jets :v:

The OP's bombs and wings link is wrong, it just sends you to the ion thrusters post with the download. Can you fix that please?

[QUOTE=jeimizu;31261062]An aircraft making game like this with multiplayer would be awesome. Dogfights in 30 winged jets :v:[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/philips_multiplane1904.jpg[/IMG] ?

[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;31261793][IMG]http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/philips_multiplane1904.jpg[/IMG] ?[/QUOTE] I love how we thought that would work way back when.

[QUOTE=MightyMax;31261841]I love how we thought that would work way back when.[/QUOTE] I love how, not 30 years before that, all things, including the earliest aircraft, ran on steam. And even before that, there were bat-like aircraft with a giant revolver for propulsion. And long before that, there were the Kerbals.

[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;31261793][IMG]http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/philips_multiplane1904.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] That's not a plane, it's a giant set of window blinds attached to a bicycle.

[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;31262008]That's not a plane, it's a giant set of window blinds attached to a bicycle.[/QUOTE] No, you're thinking of his other design: [img]http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/philips_multiplane1893.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Mikaru-Yanagida;31261772]The OP's bombs and wings link is wrong, it just sends you to the ion thrusters post with the download. Can you fix that please?[/QUOTE] [URL]http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.0[/URL] Here's the correct link. [editline]21st July 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Pilotguy97;31261793][IMG]http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/philips_multiplane1904.jpg[/IMG] ?[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/CaproniCa.60.jpg[/IMG] I would build something like this, but with jets :v: