Kerbal Space Program, or: "How many rockets can I slap onto this thing?"
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[QUOTE=Wavenarra;31048643]Hnng, really need more than six stages.[/QUOTE]
What are you talking about? I've been able to make rockets with like 12 stages.
[QUOTE=Desaster56;31048739]What are you talking about? I've been able to make rockets with like 12 stages.[/QUOTE]
What? The official stage thing only goes up to six. Then any more rockets and decouplers always get added to the sixth stage. Although I guess it's possible to have the rockets ignite instantly on stage seperation, only most of the times I do this it ends up blowing up the ejected stages which then fly forwards and destroy my craft. >.>
[QUOTE=Wavenarra;31048773]What? The official stage thing only goes up to six. Then any more rockets and decouplers always get added to the sixth stage. Although I guess it's possible to have the rockets ignite instantly on stage seperation, only most of the times I do this it ends up blowing up the ejected stages which then fly forwards and destroy my craft. >.>[/QUOTE]
a wonder why N.A.S.A hasn't already hired you and thrown money at your feet for you to build more spacecraft
[QUOTE=Wavenarra;31048773]What? The official stage thing only goes up to six. Then any more rockets and decouplers always get added to the sixth stage. Although I guess it's possible to have the rockets ignite instantly on stage seperation, only most of the times I do this it ends up blowing up the ejected stages which then fly forwards and destroy my craft. >.>[/QUOTE]
No, it definitely goes past 6, I have an official 10 stage thing:
[img]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8826/gemon410stage.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=MAC21500;31049056]No, it definitely goes past 6, I have an official 10 stage thing:
[IMG]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8826/gemon410stage.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Woah, how? Anything I add after the sixth stage just adds onto the sixth stage itself and seperates with it. O_O
[QUOTE=Wavenarra;31049146]Woah, how? Anything I add after the sixth stage just adds onto the sixth stage itself and seperates with it. O_O[/QUOTE]
Try experimenting with side decouplers.
I just woke up for the day and checked on my rocket. It's currently at 65,000K :v:
Am I record holder yet?
Is that a rendition of the early chinese space program?
I made it 55 fucking thousand meters (and still counting) on TWO stages. Aw yeah.
And the first (liftoff) stage was 3 liquid fuel, second was a single solid.
Let's have a contest. Who can get the highest with Only Solid Fuel Thrusters :v:
Here's my entry: (first try)
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[QUOTE=Saza;31049622]I made it 55 fucking thousand feet (and still counting) on TWO stages. Aw yeah.
And the first (liftoff) stage was 3 liquid fuel, second was a single solid.[/QUOTE]
You seriously actually converted from meters into feet just so everyone has to convert feet back into meters?
(For anyone else, it's 16,7km)
[QUOTE=nikomo;31049651]You seriously actually converted from meters into feet just so everyone has to convert feet back into meters?
(For anyone else, it's 16,7km)[/QUOTE]
Whoops, not feet, meters. My bad :v:
[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;31048853][video=youtube;7p2eBA-7OZE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2eBA-7OZE&feature=related[/video]
Thread/Game music?[/QUOTE]
Jesus, when I read 'The Right Stuff' it made me sad for some reason and made me think of kind grandparents having something bad happen.
Then I remembered a thread from years ago where a package, a birthday present, got delivered to the wrong house (Some Facepuncher obviously) who proceeded to open it and use all the stuff inside, including a DVD of The Right Stuff. And it was somebody's grandma sending their grandson some things she thought would be nice for his birthday and he never got it because somebody else stole his present :smith:
Great, now Kerbal Space Program will make me think of the kid who never got his present.
Oh, found it. It was from their mother, not their grandma: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/858906-I-recieved-an-odd-package-in-the-mail[/url]...
How in the name of Homer Simpson did this happen..
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[QUOTE=Wickerman123;31050067]How in the name of Homer Simpson did this happen..
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Useless rocket award 2011.
I'd really like it if we could have custom stages that are bound to keys, and these custom stages can activate objects that are already assigned to sequenced stages. During an emergency I'd be great to have the ability to jettison the command module without mashing space. You could even blow 5-6 parachutes at the same time.
Also, parachutes should be attachable to any surface, like wings.
And cameras. Cameras would be cool. A tiny weightless module you attach to the surface of a craft like a wing, specify a rotation, and cycle through their views with C. Would certainly make piloting aerospace craft alot easier.
[QUOTE=HellBring;31050141]I'd really like it if we could have custom stages that are bound to keys, and these custom stages can activate objects that are already assigned to sequenced stages. During an emergency I'd be great to have the ability to jettison the command module without mashing space. You could even blow 5-6 parachutes at the same time.
Also, parachutes should be attachable to any surface, like wings.
And cameras. Cameras would be cool. A tiny weightless module you attach to the surface of a craft like a wing, specify a rotation, and cycle through their views with C. Would certainly make piloting aerospace craft alot easier.[/QUOTE]
Yes, that would be awesome.
Also, the ability to cycle through the views of other parts - so you could watch an srb from it's separation all the way to the ground
I know this has been said countless times, but I could see this going the minecraft/desktop dungeon route of the tech demo (V0.8) being free forever, and then a slowing increasing preorder price, which put you in the beta.
And myself and many others would be ok with that.
I believe that is their strategy.
18 minutes into my 4 stage flight, still travelling at 1500m/s 2000k away from earth. Only now do i realise ive forgotten to add a parachute. Also ive lost sight of the earth :O
[QUOTE=HellBring;31050141]I'd really like it if we could have custom stages that are bound to keys, and these custom stages can activate objects that are already assigned to sequenced stages. During an emergency I'd be great to have the ability to jettison the command module without mashing space. You could even blow 5-6 parachutes at the same time.
Also, parachutes should be attachable to any surface, like wings.
And cameras. Cameras would be cool. A tiny weightless module you attach to the surface of a craft like a wing, specify a rotation, and cycle through their views with C. Would certainly make piloting aerospace craft alot easier.[/QUOTE]
I've thought about this. It'll probably be a feature somewhere in the future. The staging mechanic is quite limited as of now... you can only move to the next stage by pressing space.
My plan is to tie the F keys to stages, so you can go F1, F2, F3 and so on... or just activate some random stage.
There will also be an Abort Sequence, which will activate all Abort-related parts, and decouple all decouplers.
Abou the cameras, yeah, that would be cool. It had in fact occurred to me that it would be a nice feature. Good to see people are having the same ideas!
About the parachutes, right now they won't deploy unless they're activated as a part of the staging sequence, but I also plan to change that, and let it deploy automatically (maybe a different parachute for that), or by hitting some key. You could also use this key to force it to deploy, even above the preset opening altitude, or even cut it away (and suffer the obvious consequences)
Cheers
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attempt at surfing, not too bad I think. I have another vid which I want to upload, but it would take forever to do it, so i'm not bothering.[/QUOTE]
How do you fly it like that ?
[QUOTE=AnoPem;31050884]How do you fly it like that ?[/QUOTE]
..Looks like you go to full power and angle the rocket slightly upwards.
[QUOTE=Wavenarra;31050942]..Looks like you go to full power and angle the rocket slightly upwards.[/QUOTE]
How he does it that smooth, is he using a controller or something ?
[QUOTE=AnoPem;31050995]How he does it that smooth, is he using a controller or something ?[/QUOTE]
Probably a joystick.
Looking forward to 0.8.1.
Symmetry is really gonna help with making better launch boosters.
[QUOTE=Nr Dick;31051146]Looking forward to 0.8.1.
Symmetry is really gonna help with making better launch boosters.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was out already?
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