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[Descan]

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Okay, that's... Why. Whyyyy

That's too much over-kill. Like seriously. :I WHY SO MANY ROCKETS? The game can't handle that much, that's why it's going wrong, the physics are going "Fuck this." and things are clipping in to each other. You don't need THAT MANY ROCKETS to even get to fucking Jool, or... you know, the entire system.

[MaximumZero]

Given how large it is, I won't be surprised if the physics engine is just having an aneurysm and dying, causing it to collapse.

Anyways, that really, REALLY needs more struts. It needs to look like a Faraday cage.

Can do. I was worried that the struts would affect the aerodynamic profile, but the game doesn't seem to care too much, as far as I can tell.

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Okay, that's... Why. Whyyyy

That's too much over-kill. Like seriously. :I WHY SO MANY ROCKETS? The game can't handle that much, that's why it's going wrong, the physics are going "Fuck this." and things are clipping in to each other. You don't need THAT MANY ROCKETS to even get to fucking Jool, or... you know, the entire system.

There is no such thing as overkill. There is only open fire and reload. Also, I got something very similar, but much smaller, to outside the Mun's orbit and back. So, I decided to go bigger.

[Putnam]

Okay, there's a trick to all this. SRBs are kinda junk for going large distances, especially staged like that. You want liquid fuels staged with fuel connectors flowing inward ("asparagus staging"), like so:

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    O
    V
    O
    V
O>O>O<O<O
    ^
    O
    ^
    O

And that's for a particularly heavy-duty lifter, using mainsails.

[MaximumZero]

Okay. So, what you're telling me is: Do it again, but be more fuel efficient.

Anyway, I knocked off the outermost rockets on the first stage, and it flew! Without breaking apart! The solid rockets alone got my apoapsis to about 700km.

[Putnam]

Okay. So, what you're telling me is: Do it again, but be more fuel efficient.

It's also way, way, way more TWR efficient, which means way more delta V efficient.

[TherosPherae]

Also, from personal experience, trying to land something with a center of mass that high (presuming that the landing legs are the bottom of your lander) is likely to result in your lander tipping over and exploding if you have even the slightest horizontal velocity, and your Kerbals may or may not survive to be stranded on the Mun for all eternity.

That said, I'm going to see if I can finally get a Mun landing in storymode and bring the poor kerbalnaut back this time. Then, I plan to establish an autonomous mothership... thing that'll drop a retrieval probe from orbit so the other poor bastard down there can come home.

Then, Minmus. Oh boy.

[kaian-a-coel]

Also, from personal experience, trying to land something with a center of mass that high (presuming that the landing legs are the bottom of your lander) is likely to result in your lander tipping over and exploding if you have even the slightest horizontal velocity, and your Kerbals may or may not survive to be stranded on the Mun for all eternity.

That said, I'm going to see if I can finally get a Mun landing in storymode and bring the poor kerbalnaut back this time. Then, I plan to establish an autonomous mothership... thing that'll drop a retrieval probe from orbit so the other poor bastard down there can come home.

Then, Minmus. Oh boy.

Minmus is actually far easier to land onto and come back from.

[TherosPherae]

Spoiler: I regret nothing. (click to show/hide)

The funniest part is that the weight actually resulted in me losing velocity in several spots, so this behemoth only barely got me to orbiting height before I abandoned the remainder of it (3 stages or so, originally meant for altering a present orbit to get to the Mun, land, and take back off) in favor of something more reasonable.

[PTTG??]

Launched my Kerbal Konstruction Station. Uses Extra-Planetary Launchpads (with Kethane), can't wait to start using it.

[LoSboccacc]

fuel connectors flowing inward ("asparagus staging"), like so:

asparagus is with fuel connector spiraling inward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTKIWMWhAo&feature=youtu.be

(there's a plugin for that! cool!)

[Siquo]

fuel connectors flowing inward ("asparagus staging"), like so:

asparagus is with fuel connector spiraling inward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTKIWMWhAo&feature=youtu.be

(there's a plugin for that! cool!)

Oh that is handy.... Asparagus staging takes so much time to do by hand, matching the decouplers with the right stage, and I often use decoupling SRBs that need to be split up as well...

[MarcAFK]

I found sometimes with insanely overdone rocket stacks that the weight just causes some stacks to unglue and fall off, the solution is of course more struts, also more launch clamps can help.

[miauw62]

fuel connectors flowing inward ("asparagus staging"), like so:

asparagus is with fuel connector spiraling inward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTKIWMWhAo&feature=youtu.be

(there's a plugin for that! cool!)

Oh that is handy.... Asparagus staging takes so much time to do by hand, matching the decouplers with the right stage, and I often use decoupling SRBs that need to be split up as well...

I agreement with this sentiment. Adjusting seperatrons is annoying.

[Siquo]

I can also recommend KW rocketry mod, they have medium and heavy struts that are heavier but can hold more weight. Some say cheat, I say less work.

[jocan2003]

fuel connectors flowing inward ("asparagus staging"), like so:

asparagus is with fuel connector spiraling inward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTKIWMWhAo&feature=youtu.be

(there's a plugin for that! cool!)

Why did i fragging read there's an app for that too! ....