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[BigD145]

Woot. Finished the other three tasks and successfully rendezvoused with a kerbal in space. You're going home, Milfry.

[puke]

some jackwagon wants me to test a BACC for barely  the cost of parts.  The kicker?  They want it done while on an escape trajectory out of Kerbin.  It's going to cost more to heft this thing into space than I'm going to earn.

But I'm compelled to do it anyway, because doing these stupid missions (and finding ways to fund them) is more fun than I've had with KSP since ever.

[BigD145]

You need to mission with other missions. That's all there is to it. Or eat the costs for science.

[puke]

Yeah, I try to do three at once on average.  sometimes I run a single mission flight, but usually I try to nail 2-4ish.

For this one, there are two other balistic trajectory tests that have nice synergies.  Unfortunately they all pay for garbage and I should barely break even.

[LoSboccacc]

You need to mission with other missions. That's all there is to it. Or eat the costs for science.

or bring everything back

[puke]

you cant land discarded stages, it requires parts to be flyable themselves, or within the 2km physics range.

even so, making every stage individually pilotable -- and switching to it to pilot it while the main craft is still trying to lift to orbit -- seems impractical even if you COULD stick a landing exactly back on the pad each time to get 100% funds.

A case for space planes, i guess.  But i suck at them, and it takes some advanced tech to make them viable even if youre good at them.

bottom line, going to have to spend some moneys.

[Anvilfolk]

Yeah, yesterday I tried adding probe controls and parachutes to all of my discarded stages. It didn't work since they simply disappear as soon as I look at the map, I'm not sure why. But it saddens me, because I'm losing a lot of money in discarded staging...

[puke]

I wish there were satellite deployment missions and space station construction jobs.  Have not seen anything like that yet, and my reputation is  well in the blue.

[Aseaheru]

Yah, those arent in.

I hope that someday they will have you take cargo from kerbin orbit to, say, duna orbit.
Give a real reason to setup Hohmann transfer orbits and cyclers.

[Sheb]

cyclers?

[Aseaheru]

Allright, basicly you have two ships in more-or-less fixed orbits that both go between bodies. Each is either going "up" or "down", and normally their going "up" or "down" is the shortest part of their orbit.

Because I am shit at explaining, have a "official" definition, from Wikipedia.

[MagmaMcFry]

I feel like this is kinda unbalanced.

Also the missions are all uninteresting, but that was mentioned already.

[BigD145]

Needs more modded in missions.

[Aseaheru]

How do you have so much cash?

ANd yes, it needs alot more missions.

[MagmaMcFry]

How do you have so much cash?

I did lots of missions? 22 so far, and I didn't even need to do more than one mission per flight.