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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 11, 2014, 09:36:45 am

Conquer 112.

That's cute, but it's summer. Conquering is in the second half of the year. What would you really like to do?

My bad. Got it mixed up.

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Hiatus

I don't seem to recall saying that MechJeb was broken.
And you recommended this version, if I recall...

I assume you bought it through steam. steam>steamapps>common.  Something like that. I'm not sitting at my computer now.

Alright, that helps. Also helpful: Checking the C drive instead of just all the little miscellaneous folders.

Don't use mechjeb in career. Just see how it flies your most stable craft in sandbox. Your ksp save folder has craft files in the sph and vab folders if you want to copy between career and sandbox. Any parts on a craft in sandbox that are not unlocked in career will make the craft file show up when opening them in vab but they will be unusable until you unlock all the parts.

Proof that while kerbals have a sense of right and wrong, they lack a sense of sane and crazy.

Projected Δv looks good!

I like how MechJeb sometimes measures speed and such in nanometers per second when you're not moving much. Millimeters per second is slightly less amusing, but much more common.
Jet engine ascent is slower than I'm used to. A minute and five seconds just to reach 5,000 meters...although the next kilometer takes about ten seconds, so it seems to be speeding up.
Playing around and looking at MechJeb stuff helps pass the time. I wonder what the Translatron's "Panic!!!" button does...
Nine thousand meters and I've barely spent any fuel. I might as well see what kind of horizontal velocity I can build up with these jets before the air gets too thin.
My vertical velocity begins to drop too much, so I straighten up.
I start to lose control. Suspecting engine flameouts (I'm above 18 kilometers), I eject the nearly-full jet boosters and activate the mainsail. Much more powerful, that is. Hell of a fuel hog, though. Not too much later, I'm at 28 kilometers, have an apoapsis past 75, and one-third of the Mainsail's fuel is gone.
Of course, the apoapsis drops five kilometers before we get there.
8*G acceleration several seconds before apoapsis, not quite out of the atmosphere even. The estimated burn time was high, it seems. Then the Mainsail runs out of fuel and it's up to that final launcher stage to do stuff. The ant-class engines are small and efficient, but fairly weak; I had hoped I wouldn't have to use them until I was well in orbit.
The orbit is getting annoyingly elliptical, apoapsis (at this point) 711.5 kilometers, periapsis not even 56 kilometers. Remind me to fix that stuff next time I play KSP.

If you have the shortcut, it doesn't matter - right click on it, then attributes. In that, there's something like "File this shortcut is linking to". That's the path you're looking for. I cannot tell you the exact names since I am not on a windows computer currently, but that should work.

I tried that early on.

Not helpful.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 10, 2014, 08:35:27 am

Quote from: Unholy_Pariah on March 09, 2014, 07:35:17 pm

Its a 1 in 18 chance of affecting everyone yes, but other severity rolls may still hit bunkers or single out individual teammates.

1. It has NEVER affected EVERYONE.
2. That goes directly against what piecewise said. He said it took a 1 followed by a 1 or a 2 to get any friendly fire. Don't just make stuff up because it suits your point.
I hate when people do that.

1. Fine let me rephrase that, everyone in the target area/affected bunker. Quit being a pedantic twat.
2. Ill admit that i may have been wrong on the singling out teammates part, but rolling a 1-3 would probably still hit the bunker with a glancing blow.

1. Alright, now I can complain about your tautology.
2. ...Even though piecewise said friendly fire only happened on 1-1 and 1-2?

And for the record no im not making shit up, if anything im merely misinterpreting posts i cannot find or remember the exact wording of. Something i might add that you do with my posts constantly despite the fact that you are always directly quoting them, which is fucking annoying.

Well, I'm sorry that you have a bad memory and that I don't have telepathy.

i was so close to being able to attempt to disable the lifelocks on the melee battlesuit but irony unfortunately forgot to re-include the "if Auron succeeds" failsafe clause and vaporised the pilot before i had a chance to try.

Such is life.
Look on the bright side: If you had succeeded, the battlesuit probably wouldn't have fit and would have definitely smelled of sod sweat.

Also, congratulations on nearly hitting colliding with landing at near the mountains.

FTFY.

Quote from: 3_14159 on March 10, 2014, 03:22:34 pm

Like in real life, SRBs give you thrust to lift off, get to about 100-200m/s, then the liquid fuel engines take over with a TWR of slightly above one and get you up up and away.

The space shuttle's SRB's provide enough force to get the shuttle to 46 kilometers before seperating, I find that in KSP my solid boosters only manage about a kilometer before seperation and crash landing back into the VAB.

Maybe you need to use bigger boosters. I've been using the big Rockomax ones.

Where would the gamedata folder be? No matter where I look, I can't find anything relating to KSP! Even searching my computer for it only finds the shortcut.

-snip-

That was...detailed.

I believe you try reaching orbit with SRBs only.

I've been trying to get to orbit with one stage of solid boosters followed by a stage of liquid fuel.

I kept manually switching the stage grouping because they kept trying to change back to the right way.

In other news, I have developed a large variety of ways to successfully launch Kerbals into inanimate objects at extreme velocities. The devices used also successfully augment combustability dramatically.

I don't feel as bad now. Thanks!

I'll update shortly.