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[Rose]

I love those missions. In my last playthrough, they were all I would take, once I had planes.

They're impossible with rockets, I agree.

[puke]

I dislike the ones that require doing a certain speed at a certain altitude. Though when I stop using solid rocket boosters I should have more luck with them.

Haha, no.

Those missions are often just borderline impossible to do.

Only when you try to stack two or three of them at once.  I can usually hit any given speed or altitude on my second or third try by tweaking the fuel level or thrust percentage of the SRBs.

Oh, did you mean borderline impossible on the first try without reverting?  That sounds like a hard way to play.

[Rose]

I'm still confused that people try to do those with rockets.

[puke]

faster with rockets.  Even if it takes a revert or two.

I don't have the patience for long plane flights, and often don't unlock the various aerodynamic parts and air-breathing engines until I am pretty far in the other science branches.

[Skyrunner]

I dislike the ones that require doing a certain speed at a certain altitude. Though when I stop using solid rocket boosters I should have more luck with them.

Haha, no.

Those missions are often just borderline impossible to do.

Only when you try to stack two or three of them at once.  I can usually hit any given speed or altitude on my second or third try by tweaking the fuel level or thrust percentage of the SRBs.

Oh, did you mean borderline impossible on the first try without reverting?  That sounds like a hard way to play.

I play hardmode, and they're still quite easy.
I just put a small rocket booster on the bottom plus a half tank with LV-30 or LV-45 engines and it works pretty well.

I usually had missions that had only the objective of testing a part or two, with ONLY liquid rockets. But now I only spam orbital satellite missions.

[MarcAFK]

I dislike the ones that require doing a certain speed at a certain altitude. Though when I stop using solid rocket boosters I should have more luck with them.

Haha, no.

Those missions are often just borderline impossible to do.

Only when you try to stack two or three of them at once.  I can usually hit any given speed or altitude on my second or third try by tweaking the fuel level or thrust percentage of the SRBs.

Oh, did you mean borderline impossible on the first try without reverting?  That sounds like a hard way to play.

I play hardmode, and they're still quite easy.
I just put a small rocket booster on the bottom plus a half tank with LV-30 or LV-45 engines and it works pretty well.

I usually had missions that had only the objective of testing a part or two, with ONLY liquid rockets. But now I only spam orbital satellite missions.

Well I just started and don't have plane parts, It makes sense I would want to test my parachutes and whatever :/

[BFEL]

Is it even POSSIBLE to reach orbit with unupgraded Launchpad? That weight limit is brutal...

[Aseaheru]

From what little I remember of actually playing the game, I think I managed to orbit on my second real launch, with three real fuel tanks and a single engine...

[Aseaheru]

Working on a aircraft designed to go around the world, refueling as it goes via atmos scoop and drill, keep a kerbal alive indefinitely even with the thunder life support thing (downloaded because of  OKS), and even land on water. Nearly done with it when crash. weee...

[MarcAFK]

From what little I remember of actually playing the game, I think I managed to orbit on my second real launch, with three real fuel tanks and a single engine...

You should be able to reach orbit with a lv-45 and as many fuel tanks as you can fit while still allowing it to lift off. You may require splitting it down to 2 stages. Efficient gravity turning is essemntial however.

[Putnam]

essemntial

sorry I couldn't help but google this typo

I mean it's not an unreasonable typo at all (those letters are right nexst to each othjer! Typos expt in that sentence and this for iromic purposes), but the vast majority of the instances of that typo on the internet are some "healing fragrance" hooey, which I find hilarious

[Girlinhat]

othjer

[MarcAFK]

essemntial

sorry I couldn't help but google this typo

I mean it's not an unreasonable typo at all (those letters are right nexst to each othjer! Typos expt in that sentence and this for iromic purposes), but the vast majority of the instances of that typo on the internet are some "healing fragrance" hooey, which I find hilarious

No it's a legitimate typo, I already fixed 2 others in that sentence, and it had like, more than one letter wrong so I just thought I would roll with it.

[MarcAFK]

othjer

\He was being iromorc.

[BFEL]

From what little I remember of actually playing the game, I think I managed to orbit on my second real launch, with three real fuel tanks and a single engine...

You should be able to reach orbit with a lv-45 and as many fuel tanks as you can fit while still allowing it to lift off. You may require splitting it down to 2 stages. Efficient gravity turning is essemntial however.

I do not have the essemntial efficiemcy then.
Usually I just use the super SRBs from the NASA update to get lighter stuff to orbit, and the OTHER stuff from the NASA pack to get anything heavier there...
NASA is Magic.