A nice little game that is: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/


My record flight in the Deep Space Penetrator, climaxing at 719 kilometers above the Kerbal home planet.

I like it, but it's so unfinished :P
It was fun playing with for maybe half an hour.

How the hell do you get new bits? I can't find a research option. I hate being a noob.

You can't research anything.. You can mod it tho :P
I can't even keep the ship stable once I go above a few solid rockets

Quote from ColeusRattus :

A nice little game that is: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/


My record flight in the Deep Space Penetrator, climaxing at 719 kilometers above the Kerbal home planet.

Really?

this is epic.

There's still atmosphere 400 km above the planet What the hell.

By the way, that height was achieved with this.

I am over 999000 meters

then it goes over to Km..

oh dear.

I could probably run it for 2000 seconds to make it go to 3000 km, but that takes a bit too long.

SPOILER: at 1485KM, the earth disappears after being deformed


also, no restaurant found yet

1500k and climbing on my latest attempt, I will post a picture of my rocket once I complete the flight, might be a while since I still have 1700m/s on the clock.

EDIT: Anyone else notice that Bill and Bob (left and right pilots) always seem unhappy?

EDIT EDIT: 2500k now, still at 1400m/s. Thought I would remind people to put SAS systems in key locations and hold F, otherwise it's near impossible to control larger rockets.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

1500k and climbing on my latest attempt, I will post a picture of my rocket once I complete the flight, might be a while since I still have 1700m/s on the clock.

EDIT: Anyone else notice that Bill and Bob (left and right pilots) always seem unhappy?

EDIT EDIT: 2500k now, still at 1400m/s. Thought I would remind people to put SAS systems in key locations and hold F, otherwise it's near impossible to control larger rockets.

press T once.

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

press T once.

Thanks, should make these flights a bit easier. I just have it running in the background at the moment, my current flight is now at 5700k and has been going for 1hr13mins.

Left my flight going for over 7 hours and it was still going strong. This is my rocket...

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Thanks, should make these flights a bit easier. I just have it running in the background at the moment, my current flight is now at 5700k and has been going for 1hr13mins.

Left my flight going for over 7 hours and it was still going strong. This is my rocket...

5500K at 43 minutes.

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

5500K at 43 minutes.

That's the challenge now, get there as fast as possible. I topped out at nearly 3000m/s and I think I was at something like 9000k when I eventually just ended the flight. I might tweak the design to see if I can get more rocket stages to activate when I'm clear of the atmosphere.

Tried it.. couldnt keep the rocket going in a straight line. Have to work on the rocket itself I think..

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

That's the challenge now, get there as fast as possible. I topped out at nearly 3000m/s and I think I was at something like 9000k when I eventually just ended the flight. I might tweak the design to see if I can get more rocket stages to activate when I'm clear of the atmosphere.

Who's at 1000K first?
That's an acceptable distance, I think.

Quote from Vinnylegends :

Tried it.. couldnt keep the rocket going in a straight line. Have to work on the rocket itself I think..

Slap on lots of S.A.S. modules and you'll be fine

Will try that!

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

Who's at 1000K first?
That's an acceptable distance, I think.

Yeh, I did it in about 8 minutes just now, but I want another crack at it. At the moment I'm seeing if I can orbit the planet.

8:38!

E: 8:14

What does your rocket look like? Might have to try a redesign on mine.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

What does your rocket look like? Might have to try a redesign on mine.

I started with
chute, pod, s.a.s, decoupler, 2x fuel tank, liquid engine, decoupler, tricoupler, then underneath each 2 fuel tanks and a liquid engine.

From that on I slapped on solid engines and extra s.a.s units, which made thing go slightly faster, but it's good to start with.

I'll give this a go.

I'm thinking though, surely simple rockets would be the best? Like.Blakje's seems okay to me but the way I drew it it'd need more control.

I got 9 minutes flat, but with a very unstable rocket.

This planet is insanely dense, we're talking almost star level density. It seems like it's 600 km in radius and it weighs 5.29 x 10^22 kg, so the density is 58 g/cm^3 compared to the Earth with about 5 g/cm^3.

Which is why it's so hard to escape the gravitational pull.. Actually escape velocity at 100 km is ~3 km/s. Well, on Earth it's 11 km/s

Nerdgasm! Will try this on weekend!

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

Who's at 1000K first?
That's an acceptable distance, I think.




Slap on lots of S.A.S. modules and you'll be fine

Thanks alot for the tip, it worked! Now I can build some stupidly insane rockets...