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[LoSboccacc]

I prefer the kas attachable strut, quantum strut just link magically, kas strut you have to grab them in eva and do the attachment

Spoiler: like this, demonstrated by jeb (click to show/hide)

the strut between the yellow attachment is created by kas during eva - jeb is holding the second one, to be attached to another empty point


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any mod that fix the wheel friction on low gravity bodies?

[tahujdt]

My most successful KSP save so far met its end in save corruption. I was sending a Kethane refinery to Duna, realized that it had no source of power, and sent a KAS care package after it with some solar panels. And then, after quickloading, my ship went dark and to an altitude of a lot of sixes.

[BigFatStupidHead]

My most successful KSP save so far met its end in save corruption. I was sending a Kethane refinery to Duna, realized that it had no source of power, and sent a KAS care package after it with some solar panels. And then, after quickloading, my ship went dark and to an altitude of a lot of sixes.

That darn hell kraken. It's pretty rare for it to strike outside the deepest depths of Jool, so there you go.

[Greiger]

I actually got it a couple times on kerbin, but never during load.  I was able to restart the game and load a quicksave and it was back to normal.

I ended up identifying the culprit as my plane crashing while a kerbal was loose in the cargo bay of a kethane cargo plane.  It seems having kerbals loose anywhere on a moving object is very good at causing issues. 

Wonder if anyone has made any kind of autobackup mod that backs up and compresses a few copies of a save.

[LoSboccacc]

I wanted to swich to my second lander, instead I focused this piece of debris

because it's moving, I can't swap out of it, and I can't exit without reverting to pre launch

Spoiler: I am trapped into a rounded contraption until it stops (click to show/hide)

[miauw62]

Hey, at least you didn't switch to an RCS port that started falling through the surface the moment you switch to it. That happened to me once and it literally just kept on going forever.

How can that thing roll for so long? Isn't friction supposed to stop it or make it fall over or w/e?

[LoSboccacc]

Hey, at least you didn't switch to an RCS port that started falling through the surface the moment you switch to it. That happened to me once and it literally just kept on going forever.

How can that thing roll for so long? Isn't friction supposed to stop it or make it fall over or w/e?

It was on the second highest point on minmus, I kid you not.

[Aseaheru]

I do like that particular mod.

[Greiger]

I decided to make a jetcar.  After a couple iterations I made one that only flips out the majority of the time at high speed.

Unfortunately it has another issue.



I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or very very wrong.

[Sheb]

Reminds me of one of the spaceplane design in HOCGaming's Hypertesting. It was basically a liquid fuel tank, a cabin and an engine. It was surprisingly stable.

[Twi]

I decided to make a jetcar.  After a couple iterations I made one that only flips out the majority of the time at high speed.

Unfortunately it has another issue.



I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or very very wrong.

Kerbal Horseshoe Theory.

There is no distinction.

[alway]

I decided to make a jetcar.  After a couple iterations I made one that only flips out the majority of the time at high speed.

Unfortunately it has another issue.



I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or very very wrong.

This is why very fast cars are shaped to push them down against the ground. Because if you don't, they will get lifted off the ground, flip over, and explode. Which doesn't actually work in KSP, since the ground is full of physics bugs, and pressing down against it will likely just push your wheel into the ground or introduce some fatal instability.

[Greiger]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to land the thing.  While it has no control surfaces whatsoever outside of the reaction wheel in the cockpit, it's incredibly stable at full thrust like Sheb said.  A little overstable though since it pitches and rolls very sluggishly.  Yaw is only a little better thanks to the vectoring jets, but tends to force a roll with the yaw if I'm not careful with it.

I actually made an attempt to keep it on the ground though, an old design would lift off and do a backflip at about 200mph.  I added an attempt at a spoiler to the back of it which is basically just a very thin downward angled wing above the engines.   It did a very good job of keeping the thing on the ground up to about 500 mph where the ground dipped and it got airborne.

Unfortunately I think that is what is making it hard to land, because when the engines are not near full power it wants to lose altitude rapidly and flip out.   So I guess the spoiler works, just not with the full power of the engines fighting it.

[Sheb]

To be honest, 500 mph is a let of a lot of speed for a ground vehicle. IIRC, the only vehicle that beat that on Earth only rolled on salt flats for a reason.

[Greiger]

I was hoping to break the mach barrier   And it took off from the grounds around the KSC which as far as I know is the closest thing we have to the salt flats.  The dip was where the KSC starts to dip into the ocean.  So I suppose flight was the best thing that could have happened, since I haven't figured out how to make the breaks not be an "Explode the car" button at even highway speeds.