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

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/EgVox.jpg[/IMG] The Eagle has landed, say again: The Eagle has landed. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QS3JSRGk3o[/media]

[QUOTE=Dacheet;33112872][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/EgVox.jpg[/IMG] The Eagle has landed, say again: The Eagle has landed. [/QUOTE] Get back now. That was pretty easy for me, I had already made an ascent stage. [editline]November 3rd 2011[/editline] Oh wait, your using the UFO cheat parts.

I hate this. The Mün rocket I spent weeks on perfecting is tipping like crazy and I can't keep it stable.

Ok KSP I give up. If anyone has an account on their forums please let them know they have some sort of a bug where it freezes beyond 2x warp. [quote]I liked the part where you were zipping across surface at 400 m/s before the crash, the music made it even better. [/quote] Yeah I had barely any vertical speed too :(

[QUOTE=Pelf;33112901]I hate this. The Mün rocket I spent weeks on perfecting is tipping like crazy and I can't keep it stable.[/QUOTE] Needs more boosters.

You know the coolest thing about attempting to orbit or land on the mün is that we're doing it the same way they do in real life. [img]http://weblogsurf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/chandrayaan-1.jpg[/img] Except with less calculations of course :v:

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36759995/FP/kerpollo.JPG[/img] Fate has ordained that the Kerbals who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave Kerbals Bill Kerman, Jebediah Kerman and Bob Kerman know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for kerkind in their sacrifice. These three kerbal are laying down their lives in kerkind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding. They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the kerple of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send three of her sons into the unknown. In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of kerbals. In ancient days, kerbals looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood. Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Kerkind’s search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts. For every kerbal being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever kerkind. Kerpollo 2's mission: Recover the bodies of Kerpollo One.

-broken merge-

Fuck this is hard, I'm using these "super boosters" that blow up half way to it then send me towards the sun HOLY FUCK ITS BRIGHT, on the edge of the red zone

[QUOTE=Swebonny;33113045]You know the coolest thing about attempting to orbit or land on the mün is that we're doing it the same way they do in real life. [img]http://weblogsurf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/chandrayaan-1.jpg[/img] Except with less calculations of course :v:[/QUOTE] Fuck that, direct ascent.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/1e6n7.png[/img] Aw yeah. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_80PQ543rM[/media] I also recorded the landing.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;33113045] Except with less calculations of course :v:[/QUOTE] Who needs calculations when you have an endless amount of sentient life!

[QUOTE=MC3craze;33112898]Get back now. That was pretty easy for me, I had already made an ascent stage. [editline]November 3rd 2011[/editline] Oh wait, your using the UFO cheat parts.[/QUOTE] I just thought the photo with the Kerbin rise pretty cool. [editline]3rd November 2011[/editline] Thread audio: [media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVySHDCqOA[/url][/media]

[QUOTE=Dacheet;33113133] Thread audio: [media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVySHDCqOA[/url][/media][/QUOTE] Alternative audio: [video=youtube;BtCpttsZiys]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCpttsZiys[/video]

I really need a tutorial on how to get to the Mun

Wow, I updated a few days ago after a while of not playing and I had no idea there was a moon or anything. I finally made it to infinite distance (well, theoretically), and then I tried orbiting. I don't understand RCS at all, so I kept nearly making it, albeit at an ultra-elliptical orbit, and then crashing on my way back round.

Well I managed to get my Mün rocket into orbit. I landed on the Mün and am now returning. I took lots of screenshots. [editline]edit[/editline] Successfully landed back on Kerbin within sight of the space center. Not a single problem all through the mission.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Bfq17.png[/IMG] Not quite. For some reason the middle stage seperated without the rocket starting, and got crushed by the stage below it

And i completely lack the piloting skills to get to the mun, damn it. Needs autopilot options as I'm more interested in designing a rocket that is able to get there, rather than my own piloting effots to get there.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNX7044vOI[/media]

[QUOTE=RayvenQ;33114339]And i completely lack the piloting skills to get to the mun, damn it. Needs autopilot options as I'm more interested in designing a rocket that is able to get there, rather than my own piloting effots to get there.[/QUOTE] As you launch, head straight up until you get to 15 to 20km. Then, tilt eastward (toward the moon) until your heading falls on the 90 degree line on the navball, dead center with the vertical line that represents east, and set your ASAS to lock there. Then open up the map view and watch as your orbit line grows ever larger, eventually intersecting the orbit of the moon. When it extends just a little beyond the orbit of the moon, exit the map view and kill your thrust. Hopefully, if your rocket accelerates at a similar speed to mine, you'll be able to warp straight to the point where you enter the moon's sphere of influence. Then you just burn retrograde until you like your lunar orbit. I've reliably gotten to the moon many times like this, but if you're accelerating faster or slower than me, your trajectory could be a little different, so experiment with different degree lines to see which one consistently takes you on a trajectory to intersect the moon. Before I found this out I thought getting to the moon was hard, and I then experimented with all the different ways of traveling there, but that's the quick and easy way. It's almost automatic, with the ASAS and the map basically doing all the work for you.

Is the green circle on the nav ball the moon. What does the X that's sometimes in the center mean?

[QUOTE=jeimizu;33114495]Is the green circle on the nav ball the moon. What does the X that's sometimes in the center mean?[/QUOTE] The yellow is your prograde. That's where you're actually heading. The orange thing in the center is your nose and your horizon line, it's dead ahead, relative to your command pod. The green/yellow thing with the x in it is retrograde, it's opposite the direction you're heading.

I sent an email to RPS. Since they wrote about KSP a few months ago, maybe this update will get an article too.

So I think a bug has just doomed my kerbals. Basically the Prograde and retrograde symbols were switched, so what was supposed to be the retrograde burn for the return trip just boosted them into deepspace. Don't trust the symbols!

[img]http://i.imgur.com/24bMd.png[/img] fuck this was supposed to be my "get off the mun" stage not my "dear god why am I not to the mun yet" stage

Why do I always sleep when this shit happens :(

because america I know how it is :v: [editline]4th November 2011[/editline] worst is that I got school in less than a hour. Time to put this on an USB stick

Me and Winston are going to stream through the engines assigning appropriate gimbal angles, then i'll go tweak the landers ascent stage fuel/power for Mun. Gunna be good.

Yeah, I've tried a couple more Mun orbits and the result is always the same: on entering an orbit (or slingshot) around the Mun the prograde and retrograde indicators are switched. Could be related to time-warping. I'm usually going 50x or 100x when the transition occurs.