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[Aseaheru]

plush little zombies.. me like.

[ank]

Do you guys ever get tired of perfectly reducing your lateral speeds on landing?
Well I once did, but no more!

Dorf and Dorfettes, i give you: The Roller!

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Featuring self-righting-mechanism: (or as Robot Wars likes to call it, a Srimer)

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[Drakale]

Good concept, remind me of the mars rovers landing airbags designed for the same purpose.

[forsaken1111]

Do you guys ever get tired of perfectly reducing your lateral speeds on landing?
Well I once did, but no more!

Dorf and Dorfettes, i give you: The Roller!

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Featuring self-righting-mechanism: (or as Robot Wars likes to call it, a Srimer)

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I'd love to see a video of this in action.

[ank]

I have never made a video before, so I'll have to learn to use Fraps.
Can't be that hard I guess.

In the meanwhile, Car mode!

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This would be a problem, but not with The Roller:

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Landing on the head like a BOSS:

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Joyride on the mun:

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What does this button do?

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[da_nang]

So I was just refueling at Minmus when all of a sudden, the Kethane hotspot vanishes into thin air. 40 000+ litres of kethane just gone. In mid-refueling, leaving me with two full tanks, two half tanks and one unwieldy, unbalanced interplanetary rocket stranded.

Cue end of flight.

The hotspot was within 10km of Minmus State Base, to boot!

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[Charmander]

Featuring self-righting-mechanism: (or as Robot Wars likes to call it, a Srimer)

Back in my day, we called that a Cassius flip.

[LoSboccacc]

this game could really use some programmable input like the one in the old mindrover or the robot arena games, where you could assign keys to components at your will

like, http://youtu.be/STpu__RyQNA?t=3m8s

[Roboboy33]

Beat my record of 800m/s with this new craft that can go up to 854 m/s

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Sorry for quality, accidently saved as .gif

[LoSboccacc]

I like the gif look, it is much very appropriate

[ank]

Looks like a picture from Kerbal Flight Simulator 2001

[Graknorke]

So, I was using my deep-space explorer vessel (capable of getting to any inner system planet), but had an accident during launch. I really messed up my heading and the orbital maneuvers took up too much fuel to really get anywhere (although this was just a test flight so not really too much ruined). I was going to just dump it in solar orbit, but then decided I could probably take it to the moon. After getting there with no problems, I figured that I might as well drop down to the surface.
From that, I learned quite a bit about what not to design into a lander. Namely, give it a wide base, and build it like an actual lander. NOT top heavy.
I must be getting better at this game though, because this is my first landing on the Mun that didn't just destroy everything.

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[RenoFox]

How do you hit the gravity of other planets? I have made a rocket that can easily reach Eves orbit, but even getting the ships orbit close enough to the orbit of the planet seems so difficult that I must be missing something vital. Is there a way to see where the two orbits would be closest to each other? Or how do you hit the planets orbits?

[LoSboccacc]

http://ksp.olex.biz

here. this will guide you to planet encounters.

[Peewee]

Protractor addon shows the closest approach to a planet. Unfortunately you can't target a ship yet, or this would be my go-to for all rendezvous.