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[TheBronzePickle]

I always start my constructions with one as the first item after the radial decoupler I start with on my rocket. It has never failed to keep my crew safe unless the rest of the rocket is inherently unstable. Even then, though, it's kept my command module the half-inch away from the exploding rocket to increase survival odds by at least 10%. Unlike most people, I try to keep my boys alive. Sometimes.

[Rakonas]

That feel when you have an orbit with a periapsis of 36km and no fuel.

[TheBronzePickle]

That's nothing compared to having no orbit, no fuel, and realizing you forgot to add a parachute. : ( Happened my first real attempt at orbiting.

[Reasonableman]

Aww durn. Bay 12 is always ahead of the curve. I was so excited to be bringing this new, fun game to you guys.

Jeez are you ever better at it than I am.

[Deadmeat1471]

Aww durn. Bay 12 is always ahead of the curve. I was so excited to be bringing this new, fun game to you guys.

Jeez are you ever better at it than I am.

When I saw this on bay12, I nearly died. Rockets

[Xinvoker]

0.8.4 has been released, it's just bugfixes though (as was 0.8.3 in case you missed it.). Their site seems down for me so I'm posting the mediafire link
http://www.mediafire.com/?9dz3sdjwd288w23

[rutsber]

I think there is a bug in 0.8.3 where once you get past 10000km you don't slow down. That might have been intended. Someone might want to check but there might be a problem with balance too. Right now I'm at nearly 20000 km traveling at 18341.6 m/s. I was at 36000 something km before but I changed to one screen to watch a movie and it froze. 

[alway]

Testing with escape rockets shows kerbals can survive forces in excess of 100g. They may yet be capable of interstellar space travel. 

[Rakonas]

I think there is a bug in 0.8.3 where once you get past 10000km you don't slow down. That might have been intended. Someone might want to check but there might be a problem with balance too. Right now I'm at nearly 20000 km traveling at 18341.6 m/s. I was at 36000 something km before but I changed to one screen to watch a movie and it froze. 

That sounds intentional to me. There has to be some point at which you escape the kearth's gravity.

[Sensei]

I dunno. Considering that there's need to orbit above that altitude...

But anyway, are you sure you weren't just being confused by being out of air resistance? Last I checked, while gravity has little effect at that altitude, it's still there.

[DrPoo]

I figured out artificial gravity, pretty useful on thoose very high orbits/escapes. Put your ship in a vertical(relative to the ship) roation as in - / | \ - / | no as in - - - -, use SAS's to drecrease the G force to something comfortable within the green marking.

[RF]

I think there is a bug in 0.8.3 where once you get past 10000km you don't slow down. That might have been intended. Someone might want to check but there might be a problem with balance too. Right now I'm at nearly 20000 km traveling at 18341.6 m/s. I was at 36000 something km before but I changed to one screen to watch a movie and it froze. 

That sounds intentional to me. There has to be some point at which you escape the kearth's gravity.

There's no such thing as escaping gravity (at least not in a system with only one bodily object). Gravity's pretty much the only force with no upper limit on it's distance.

[Rakonas]

I think there is a bug in 0.8.3 where once you get past 10000km you don't slow down. That might have been intended. Someone might want to check but there might be a problem with balance too. Right now I'm at nearly 20000 km traveling at 18341.6 m/s. I was at 36000 something km before but I changed to one screen to watch a movie and it froze. 

That sounds intentional to me. There has to be some point at which you escape the kearth's gravity.

There's no such thing as escaping gravity (at least not in a system with only one bodily object). Gravity's pretty much the only force with no upper limit on it's distance.

Yeah, but that's only because there's only one celestial body currently coded into the game. Seems like an abstraction to me.

I figured out artificial gravity, pretty useful on thoose very high orbits/escapes. Put your ship in a vertical(relative to the ship) roation as in - / | \ - / | no as in - - - -, use SAS's to drecrease the G force to something comfortable within the green marking.

Personally I find that the way to create the most gforce is to stabilize the rocket, and then spin horizontally with SAS off. Managed to get some 70 g's before it became apparent that kerbals are immune to gforce.

[Dsarker]

You're forgetting magnetism, RF. Gravity is pretty much the weakest force in existence.

[RF]

You're forgetting magnetism, RF. Gravity is pretty much the weakest force in existence.

Weakest, sure, but doesn't magnetism have a limitting distance on how far it can act? Gravity does not.