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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: now hiring more optimistic astronauts

« on: July 15, 2011, 10:12:16 am »

Quote from: inteuniso on July 15, 2011, 10:02:18 am

... 17 HOURS?

You should probably post that on the KSP forums. they'll go crazy.

It wasn't the best orbit. It actually got increasingly eccentric as time went on, I suspect it might have dipped into the atmosphere if left for another day.

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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: now hiring more optimistic astronauts

« on: July 15, 2011, 09:47:24 am »

Finally got a stable orbit! Apogee is at 69,792M with a speed of 2274.5, Perigee 51,559M with a speed of 2344 m/s. Left it for 17 hours, it was stable except the Apogee shifted up. Ground distance at 146381000

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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: now hiring more optimistic astronauts

« on: July 13, 2011, 03:07:06 pm »

I just got a max G of 63 during an attempted orbit. 0.o How does one even manage that?

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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: now hiring more optimistic astronauts

« on: July 13, 2011, 12:16:49 am »

I'm sure a chunk of people know this, but if you stack solid fuel rockets on top of each other without couplers and activate them at the same time, you can get tons of cheep thrust. Like, launch GIANT liquid fuel rockets cheap.

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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: now hiring more optimistic astronauts

« on: July 12, 2011, 11:17:27 am »

Quote from: Taz on July 12, 2011, 11:10:07 am

Quote from: Akura on July 12, 2011, 09:41:11 am
The difference between Orbiter and this is basically the difference between making to-scale miniatures for architectural design and playing with LEGOs. Only the LEGOs have rocket fuel.

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Downloading ASAP.

Also, this game is more Dwarfy. Failure is FUN. (IF it is significant enough. I've laughed when my Kerbals got slingshot into space while trying to orbit, etc.)

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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: now hiring more optimistic astronauts

« on: July 11, 2011, 10:19:20 pm »

Quote from: Skeeblix on July 11, 2011, 09:56:33 pm

Would it be too offtopic for me to ask why all you guys know orbital physics so well?

Most of us /don't/. It's just stuff like orbits are kinda simple, once you figure out what height you need to be at and how fast you need to be traveling in what is essentially down. Other then that, I don't think much physics has come up.

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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: now hiring more optimistic astronauts

« on: July 11, 2011, 09:43:40 pm »

Nice pictures Jay, I especially like the second one (None of my flights have been more then 20 minutes.). I've finally got two craft that get into space and orbit pretty well, one is a fair bit faster at low altitudes, but kinda rickity, second looks like a bit like a Soyuz, much smoother ride. Trying to get a stable orbit following Sluissa's instructions, we'll see how that goes.

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Other Games / Re: HOCKEY?

« on: July 06, 2011, 08:59:16 pm »

This looks good, but I can't connect to servers and play people.

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Other Games / Re: YAB12G - Frozen Synapse

« on: July 05, 2011, 09:47:25 pm »

Sign me up please.

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Other Games / Re: Imperium Nova (space opera browser game)

« on: July 02, 2011, 09:24:50 pm »

I really want to play and do mysticism or covert ops as a main and then have a side business, but obviously those two aren't real direct money makers (Unless you get a ton of followers/get important people to use your services) and a lot of real money makers are hampered by not being the main thing. Any ones that aren't too limited by being a secondary and do well for dough? Preferably not limited at all, but I don't expect that to really happen.

(I've been reading the wiki a bunch, but some of the mechanics and stuff aren't obvious at all to me)

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