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[Rose]

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[PTTG??]

I play roguelike KSP. No quicksaves.

It's made missions all the more hair-raising.

[Dutchling]

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f5 and f9

I play roguelike KSP. No quicksaves.

It's made missions all the more hair-raising.

It's the same for me, except with rovers. Those hellspawns are bugged out as fuck and I'm not going to start all over again just because some motorized imp decided to do a backflip.


Anyway, I connected a rocket to my miner/rover on Mun. Turns out that you cannot use the KAS link between vehicles to refine Kethane. I need a new miner with liquid fuel / monopropellant / etc tanks ;_;

[BigFatStupidHead]

You might find rovers more stable if you drive them in docking mode. When you're in staging mode, driving forward is also trying to tip your rover over.

  I need to get around to posting some of my own missions soon.

[forsaken1111]

After three tries, I finally got my rover / miner on Mun.

Turns out the drills don't reach the ground...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARFGH

Pad testing of all systems prior to mission launch is essential.

[ShoesandHats]

So, I have miners on Minmus now. It's just a matter of mass implementation to actually turn it into a refueling base.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Lightningfalcon]

What mod is it where you do all the mining?  I keep hearing about it.

[ShoesandHats]

What mod is it where you do all the mining?  I keep hearing about it.

Kethane. It's a pretty cool mod.

[Azated]

After completely failing to get the right order to dock my spare parts supply vessels, I've decided to create an Antarctic kethane research base.

Speaking of mods, would anyone happen to have a mod that allows supply routes of some kind? Something like automated launches of vessels from a planetary kethane refinery to a spacestation once it's full of fuel would be awesome.

EDIT:

What mod is it where you do all the mining?  I keep hearing about it.

Kethane. It's a pretty cool mod.

You might want to check out the Orbital Construction mod too.

[forsaken1111]

After completely failing to get the right order to dock my spare parts supply vessels, I've decided to create an Antarctic kethane research base.

Speaking of mods, would anyone happen to have a mod that allows supply routes of some kind? Something like automated launches of vessels from a planetary kethane refinery to a spacestation once it's full of fuel would be awesome.

There is currently no automation of any kind in KSP. I guess you could just make a cheat part that generates a resource from nothing to simulate incoming resources.

[Twi]

So I was totally going to post something that was actually productive, and I still might.

But I got distracted by doing Soviet Tank Drops, Kerbal-Style, which is also the name of my new classical dubstep rock band.

Unlike my classical dubstep rock band, however, extremely Kerbal Soviet tank drops were an actual thing, and a slightly more safe but still awesome variation was not, as far as I know, taken out of use due to a terrible disaster. Basically, take a Soviet C-130 equivalent and load it up with some tanks of your choice . Possibly optionally (I can't find the wikipedia page anymore >_<) strap some parachutes  and/or retrorockets to the tanks. Fly the plane (duh). Fly said plane really, really close to the ground. Drive the tanks off the back of the plane and onto the ground, letting them coast to a stop. While the plane is still technically flying.

Alas, this was, as you might expect, as dangerous as it was awesome, and they stopped doing it after an accident got some important people killed. There is, however, the other variation, which is more like a standard low altitude dropping-tanks maneuver, but in addition to parachutes, they strap retrorockets to the tanks to help with the landing.You heard me. Rockets.

Anyways, back to my extremely kerbal take. I would have done it the actual way, but I couldn't get the tanks into the Mk4 cargo bay.   I was also much too lazy to actually make separate tanks, and since I haven't installed Crew Manifest yet, the tanks are thus unmanned. BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT:




Open the spoiler for the thrilling conclusion!

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For the Motherland!

Tanks 1 and 2, AWAAAAAAAAAY!

Tanks 3 and 4, AWAAAAAAAAAAY!

now it's just a matter of not crashing- PLANE WHY ARE YOU BOUNCING OH GOD NOOOO

and thus three auxiliary infantrymen were hastily added to the order of battle




Well at least the tanks survived! Even if two of them were upside down.

[Sirus]

Thumbnails, please? That's a lot of really large images on my not-very-good network :/

[Twi]

Thumbnails, please? That's a lot of really large images on my not-very-good network :/

Sorry Dx I'll see what I can do. which may involve img.ur or something.

[Sirus]

Thumbnails, please? That's a lot of really large images on my not-very-good network :/

Sorry Dx I'll see what I can do. which may involve img.ur or something.

Eh, no point reuploading the ones you've already posted. Just, you know, for future reference

[Twi]

Thumbnails, please? That's a lot of really large images on my not-very-good network :/

Sorry Dx I'll see what I can do. which may involve img.ur or something.

Eh, no point reuploading the ones you've already posted. Just, you know, for future reference

Ah, alright then

That aside, KERBAL TANK DROPS WHOO.

* Twi spins in pointless victory.*