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

when is the moon getting added?

When it gets added, one, two or up to3 updates from now.

Thems new sexy RCS's are more or less done. Now we just gotta do the some new RCS tanks and other odds and ends. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38139871/Modding%20what%20is%20this/ARCEEESS.png[/img] They actually have the offset headers like they should for pitching and rolling, but the new RCS doesn't let you do offset vectors, so :(.

I finally achieved my very first orbit thanks to the new flight prediction thingie [t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/screenshot111.png[/t] [t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/screenshot39.png[/t] It was pretty awesome.

[QUOTE=Kickasskyle;32720313]Thems new sexy RCS's are more or less done. Now we just gotta do the some new RCS tanks and other odds and ends. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38139871/Modding%20what%20is%20this/ARCEEESS.png[/img] They actually have the offset headers like they should for pitching and rolling, but the new RCS doesn't let you do offset vectors, so :(.[/QUOTE] Make sure you let Harvester know what you would like, in the past he has been extremely receptive to the community, especially modders. If you compare what the game is now and becoming to what they planned for it to be originally, you really have to appreciate how far the devs are going to add what we ask for.

They said evrything was ready to add a moon to the next update. I got my vanilla lunar landers ready, both RCS edition and normal rocket edition.

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Nasa should consider hiring me. [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp1.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp2.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp3.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp4.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp5.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp6.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp7.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp8.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp9.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp10.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp11.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp12.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp13.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp14.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp15.png[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/905304/ksp16.png[/t] Used vanilla parts only.

[QUOTE=zenith777;32726954]Nasa should consider hiring me.[/QUOTE] With a lot of rockets duckttaped together? Doesn't seem really safe in my opinion.

[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;32727210]With a lot of rockets duckttaped together? Doesn't seem really safe in my opinion.[/QUOTE] You underestimate the power of duck/duct tape.

[QUOTE=Twistshock;32727352]You underestimate the power of duck/duct tape.[/QUOTE] Ducttape. It has saved humanity countless times. Ducttape was used to hold trenches together in the First World War*. Ducttape was used to seal holes in the Little-boy and Fat Man Atomic bombs*. Ducttape was used to secure Chuck Yeager's X-1 aircraft together**, the place that took man past the sound barrier. Ducttape has helped humanity since its inception. There's no reason it can't help Kerbalians too. *Subjects may or may not be fact. **The X-1 and X-2 series was actually held together by rubber O-rings. These O-rings reacted badly with the fuel, causing almost all examples of the X-1/2's to explode in mid-air.

[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;32727390]The X-1 and X-2 series was actually held together by rubber O-rings. These O-rings reacted badly with the fuel, causing almost all examples of the X-1/2's to explode in mid-air.[/QUOTE] Sounds like KSP to me! :v:

[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;32727516]Sounds like KSP to me! :v:[/QUOTE] A lot of experimental planes sound like they're from KSP. Especially the late Nazi ones. I mean, look at this thing! [img]http://www.luft46.com/misc/3bsanger.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.luft46.com/misc/sang2.jpg[/img] That is a real Nazi Space Bomber. You tell me you've never made that little shit in KSP.

Challenger exploded because the cold weather they launched in prevented one of the O-rings on the right SRB from doing it's job properly, leading to a leak of high temperature gas which impinged on the external tank, leading to the explosion.

[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;32727582] [img]http://www.luft46.com/misc/3bsanger.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] Amerika Bomber? Oddly specific name.

[QUOTE=10050;32727626]Amerika Bomber? Oddly specific name.[/QUOTE] Oddly specific role. One of about three different design submissions. Obviously the most audacious. Makes you wonder, if Kerbelians fought a world war before their rockets, what weapons would they use? Pan-continental Rube-Goldberg machines?

Well, Scandinavian languages, English and German are originally from the Germanic language. "Amerika" I guess means America which probably was the name of the country it was supposed to bomb.

The idea of the Sanger Silbervogel antipodal bomber is to launch that thing, called the Silver Bird, on a gigantic rocket rail powered by dozens of V-2 rocket engines, into a trajectory that isn't quite an orbit, but will put it above the atmosphere where it can then skim along the top of the atmosphere until it reaches America. It had a decent payload capability (8,800lbs), and its flight pattern, which looks like what happens when you skip a stone across water, would allow it to deliver that payload anywhere in the continental US. It would then continue its journey and land in Japan, for a total range capability of 15,000 miles. Nazi Germany had absolutely no capacity to assemble an actual fission weapon, but they did have a dirty conventional bomb that would have spread a massive amount of irradiated material over the target. It's a ghetto dirty bomb made from conventional explosives and irradiated sand. It probably involved duct-tape and bits of string. It's all very Kerbal-like.

[QUOTE=LarparNar;32727595]Challenger exploded because the cold weather they launched in prevented one of the O-rings on the right SRB from doing it's job properly, leading to a leak of high temperature gas which impinged on the external tank, leading to the explosion.[/QUOTE] Forgive me, isn't this incredibly old news?

[QUOTE=J Paul;32727953]It's all very Kerbal-like.[/QUOTE] Especially the fact that it blew up in mid-air.

[QUOTE=Winstonn;32728260]Forgive me, isn't this incredibly old news?[/QUOTE] It is, but we were talking about O-rings and I'm not sure if everyone knew.

[QUOTE=J Paul;32727953]The idea of the Sanger Silbervogel antipodal bomber is to launch that thing, called the Silver Bird, on a gigantic rocket rail powered by dozens of V-2 rocket engines, into a trajectory that isn't quite an orbit, but will put it above the atmosphere where it can then skim along the top of the atmosphere until it reaches America. It had a decent payload capability (8,800lbs), and its flight pattern, which looks like what happens when you skip a stone across water, would allow it to deliver that payload anywhere in the continental US. It would then continue its journey and land in Japan, for a total range capability of 15,000 miles. Nazi Germany had absolutely no capacity to assemble an actual fission weapon, but they did have a dirty conventional bomb that would have spread a massive amount of irradiated material over the target. It's a ghetto dirty bomb made from conventional explosives and irradiated sand. It probably involved duct-tape and bits of string. It's all very Kerbal-like.[/QUOTE] Yep, but it was a single stage rocket. It's very unlikely we could build something like it today, let alone back then.

[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;32727390]Ducttape. It has saved humanity countless times. Ducttape was used to hold trenches together in the First World War*. Ducttape was used to seal holes in the Little-boy and Fat Man Atomic bombs*. Ducttape was used to secure Chuck Yeager's X-1 aircraft together**, the place that took man past the sound barrier. Ducttape has helped humanity since its inception. There's no reason it can't help Kerbalians too. *Subjects may or may not be fact. **The X-1 and X-2 series was actually held together by rubber O-rings. These O-rings reacted badly with the fuel, causing almost all examples of the X-1/2's to explode in mid-air.[/QUOTE] Ducttape was used as tank armor for the germans during WWII.

[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;32727582]A lot of experimental planes sound like they're from KSP. Especially the late Nazi ones. I mean, look at this thing! [img]http://www.luft46.com/misc/3bsanger.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.luft46.com/misc/sang2.jpg[/img] That is a real Nazi Space Bomber. You tell me you've never made that little shit in KSP.[/QUOTE] Someone HAS TO make a parts pack that is specifically that. I mean the exact plane, not C7.

[QUOTE=kaine123;32730833]Someone HAS TO make a parts pack that is specifically that. I mean the exact plane, not C7.[/QUOTE] WHY make an entire parts pack for one plane you probably can't even fly properly. (Sorry if I came off as a dick.)

[QUOTE=scout1;32729242]Yep, but it was a single stage rocket. It's very unlikely we could build something like it today, let alone back then.[/QUOTE] The plane had a single stage, but the launch system itself was two stages. It launched from a rocket sled powered by dozens of V-2 engines and then carried itself on a suborbital trajectory with its own propulsion. It could have been built, but it wouldn't have worked. [QUOTE=DrasarSalman;32728412]Especially the fact that it blew up in mid-air.[/QUOTE] And this is the reason it wouldn't have worked. The calculations were simply wrong, and the heat tolerances for the design were nowhere near able to withstand the heatload from its crazy flight pattern. Now, if the Nazis had invested in the development of ceramic tiles like we developed for the STS, it would definitely work. [QUOTE=MC3craze;32730863]WHY make an entire parts pack for one plane you probably can't even fly properly. (Sorry if I came off as a dick.)[/QUOTE] It would fly very well, I'd imagine. It is a very heavy glider, just like the Space Shuttle, and they both could be equated to flying like a brick, but they do indeed fly. The issue is that in Kerbal, only winglets and control surfaces provide deflection lift, and most of the lift generated by a very heavy glider with a large fuselage is generated by the fuselage itself. Until Kerbal correctly models the deflection lift and drag from normal parts, it won't fly exactly how it would in real life.

x5 is out. [B]Bug Fixes on 0.11 X5:[/B] * Solved the overheating under warp problem introduced in x4. * Fixed the wobbling problems from x4. * Fixed a few bugs with Time Warp and Pause. * Fixed a bug with pressing Esc to close the pause menu while in the settings or mission log screen. * Fixed the vertical speed calculation, which was going batty with high time compression. (it's perfectly stable now) * Fixed a bug with unpausing the game while under time warp. It could very likely cause a lot of trouble. * Fixed the highest altitude reading on the flight results screen. It was overflowing on really large numbers.

[QUOTE=LarparNar;32732141]x5 is out. [B]Bug Fixes on 0.11 X5:[/B] * Solved the overheating under warp problem introduced in x4. * Fixed the wobbling problems from x4. * Fixed a few bugs with Time Warp and Pause. * Fixed a bug with pressing Esc to close the pause menu while in the settings or mission log screen. * Fixed the vertical speed calculation, which was going batty with high time compression. (it's perfectly stable now) * Fixed a bug with unpausing the game while under time warp. It could very likely cause a lot of trouble. * Fixed the highest altitude reading on the flight results screen. It was overflowing on really large numbers.[/QUOTE] Excellent, but I'd really like a more precise Vert. Speed gauge. Little arrow is misleading.

lol, got a pretty nice circular orbit going, only for me to clip one of my ejected stages on my 2nd orbit, which did nothing other than knock off my parachute. So now they're stuck up there.

[QUOTE=RayvenQ;32733392]lol, got a pretty nice circular orbit going, only for me to clip one of my ejected stages on my 2nd orbit, which did nothing other than knock off my parachute. So now they're stuck up there.[/QUOTE] You still got an engine?