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[Eric Blank]

I have a question: I'm planning on doing a manned mission to Eve next, but I don't want to leave any kerbals on the gorund indefinitely. So, how can I get enough fuel to Eve on a lander to escape the atmosphere again? I've already developed a no-returns lander in sandbox that can make it there and land semi-successfully, but the lander has no feasible way to escape Eve again.

[LordSlowpoke]

I have a question: I'm planning on doing a manned mission to Eve next, but I don't want to leave any kerbals on the gorund indefinitely. So, how can I get enough fuel to Eve on a lander to escape the atmosphere again? I've already developed a no-returns lander in sandbox that can make it there and land semi-successfully, but the lander has no feasible way to escape Eve again.

you need to land on the plateau. atmosphere is significantly less dense there. bring some aerospikes if you manage

[Descan]

Has anyone made a Solar System mod? Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupitor and it's moons, Asteroid Belt, Mercury, Saturn/moons, Neptune, Pluto?

And/or anyone modded the other planets to have biomes?

[forsaken1111]

There is a mod in the works to make the kerbin system more realistic and match real world proportions. (aka 9000+ deltav to orbit)

[Putnam]

Has anyone made a Solar System mod? Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupitor and it's moons, Asteroid Belt, Mercury, Saturn/moons, Neptune, Pluto?

And/or anyone modded the other planets to have biomes?

From what I've heard, planet modding is a bitch.

[WillowLuman]

I've heard there are 2 ways, both ridiculously hard:

-Decompile/Recompile the game, difficult and illegal, but stable

-Some more esoteric way, even more difficult and unstable, but legal.

[Graknorke]

Can someone please confirm that the communotron 16 is the best antenna in terms of energy efficiency?
It seems a bit strange that anyone would use anything else given that.

[Putnam]

It is.

[Sensei]

Can someone please confirm that the communotron 16 is the best antenna in terms of energy efficiency?
It seems a bit strange that anyone would use anything else given that.

Technically it's not as fast, but it's definitely the most power efficient. Antennas seems to be balanced like they didn't realize that A) power would end up being the limiting factor on pretty much every craft and B) there's no reason to to spend a bunch of power trying to shave a couple seconds off of your transmit time.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yeah, Communotron 16 sends data most energy-efficiently.

However, it is fairly slow. The large dish antenna is over twice as fast. If you've electricity to spare and need to send 200+ Mits of data...

[Girlinhat]

Considering time warp and it only takes a few seconds anyways, there's not a big deal...  If they had skylabs, and sending data took hours and could be trickled in, or if data could be sent more completely and not waste bits, then yeah sure.

[Lightningfalcon]

Can someone please confirm that the communotron 16 is the best antenna in terms of energy efficiency?
It seems a bit strange that anyone would use anything else given that.

I always use that as my primary transmitter, but I always have a backup in the form of the second one that is unlocked.  You never know when a mission will go to hell and your controlled landing turns into a wild tumble that tears half your equipment off.  And the communotron protrudes out way too much to have a chance of surviving.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I've switched to using four to five C-16s, so I can transmit as much data as possible at once.

[Graknorke]

Yeah, Communotron 16 sends data most energy-efficiently.

However, it is fairly slow. The large dish antenna is over twice as fast. If you've electricity to spare and need to send 200+ Mits of data...

With the 88-88 that would be 2000 units of power spare. I don't think anyone ever has that much to spare. Especially since antenna are mostly used on probes, which have to be kept lightweight.

[Putnam]

I always have a couple of 1000s attached, since I'm usually sending very large probes out with large things. I just send multiple sciences.