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[My Name is Immaterial]

I can FINALLY buy the game.
Any essential mods to get?

Kethane.

Note that the forums are down right now, and the Kethane mod has no official mirror.

[LordSlowpoke]

if you need ten stages you clearly are not using enough boosters

i can get you to any planet in two stages given enough math and a good enough launch window, and maybe a cpu blessed by armok if you need me to fly into the sun with the double-cannon method (a little above a thousand srbs needed, plus struts and decouplers)

[miauw62]

Well, for aspargus you've generally got quite a few stages.

[Sean Mirrsen]

if you need ten stages you clearly are not using enough boosters

i can get you to any planet in two stages given enough math and a good enough launch window, and maybe a cpu blessed by armok if you need me to fly into the sun with the double-cannon method (a little above a thousand srbs needed, plus struts and decouplers)

I typically fly three to four-stage rockets, for the really long hauls. Two- or three-stage if I refuel in orbit.

I tend to frown at launch windows. In a term I dubbed "linux launching", I just do a reverse bi-elliptic transfer from a lower Sol periapsis to get where I need to go. Horribly inefficient, but eh. Saves time waiting.

[Krevsin]

I tend to use 2 stage rockets with a liquid booster stage (or some times solids, depending on what the payload is), only resorting to bigger launch craft (such as asparagoids and 3+ stage ones) for really heavy craft (like my Joollama from my previous save).

Oh, this reminds me. I need to put a fuel depot in orbit after I'm done with the mun landing. Any orbits I should be aware of?

[Girlinhat]

If you can manage a particularly eccentric orbit, you could dock at lower orbit, and let it carry your craft to a higher orbit to toss it off.  That takes quite a bit of fooling about to make it work, though...  Otherwise a standard orbit, nothing fancy.  I just dump everything at 100km.

[Krevsin]

Okay, I shall use my standard parking orbit at 200km. This should also provide me with an opportunity to train my docking skills. 

[Glloyd]

They said I was crazy, they said it couldn't be done...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Finally made it to the Mun.

[Aseaheru]

Sir, you are beating me. Please stop. I wish to do something without others beating me to it.

Has anyone built a station encircling a world yet?

[Girlinhat]

Sir, you are beating me. Please stop. I wish to do something without others beating me to it.

Has anyone built a station encircling a world yet?

Like a planetary ring?  Unfortunately it's beyond the scope of the physics engine.

[Aseaheru]

Bah. Even around a flying monolith?

[miauw62]

Space elevator?

[forsaken1111]

Bah. Even around a flying monolith?

By default things beyond a few kilometers stop being handled by the physics engine

[My Name is Immaterial]

Could someone send me a copy of the Kethane .zip? I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Anvilfolk]

Is there an ETA on the .22 patch? I don't want to get too into this again and then restart, but all this talk has gotten me itching to try it again