Bay 12 Games Forum

Group of people from Bay 12 go into basically random minecraft servers in order to play the game and occasionally try to convince people to play Dwarf Fortress.

Sounds pointless, but whatever floats your goat.
Also whoo, this isn't actually dead!

Wait... I just realized... thunder is always lagging behind lightning.

Huh?

Science seed kerbin then.
(science seeding invilves taking all the science things, shoving it on a lander, strapping a few of them to a rocket, and deorbiting at semi-random points. Science seeding)

Wouldn't almost all of them end up in the ocean?

Near Future Propulsion has updated. Or rather reformatted, as Near Future Technologies - a modularized set of various parts. Plus some new parts - some solar panels, some fuel tanks, and of course the finalized IVA for the new command pod. And of course the Liquid Hydrogen overhaul, with an option to make the stock (and non-stock) NTRs like the NERVA use Liquid Hydrogen as fuel instead of the current kerosene/oxidizer mix.

Neat. Yet another reason to get a fresh install of KSP and replace the mods I'm actually going to use.

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You know, just once, I'd like to not have my mutedness come into effect in the middle of a big KSP post and be about something I've finished, put behind me, and more or less forgotten.

I'm building a space station, because why not? The central module is a big one.



At the bottom is a single KWR Griffon XX, which gives this unwieldy thing an initial TWR of 1.375. Attached are four big fuel tanks from the KSO pack, feeding fuel into the central 3.75-meter Jumbo² from KWR. They can be detached once they are emptied, which I hope doesn't happen during the gravity turn. On top is a procedural fairing hiding the station core.
Perhaps due to the high partcount of the station core (but I hope not), time runs at 30-40% normal speed. Twelve seconds in, the Titan began to overheat. By t+20 or so, though, it stabilized around maybe 40% heat. Half a minute in, we're two kilometers up. Shortly thereafter, between heat concerns and waste-due-to-air-resistance ones, I drop the throttle to 2/3. TWR still over 1.1. Around a minute and ten seconds in, I reach ten kilometers and start the gravity turn. I promptly discover that my rocket, while capable of turning, is a bit top-heavy. Are you familiar with xkcd's Up Goer V? I did not go to space today.

Redesign: Add two 3.75-meter radial reaction wheels. Well, two pairs of half-wheels, one at each end of the main orange tank.
I delayed my gravity turn ~5 km (10 to 16 km) because I expected the external tanks to run out faster. I turn, fall over, then...



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Maybe I should strut the station core. Or start smaller.

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Well then. That's twice now that I've been muted when I was in the middle of a KSP post. Anyways, in the meantime I've kept myself busy, but I've still had time to waste on KSP. Specifically, I got an idea for a thing which required me to fly to Eve. It was interesting. First, there was my attempts at launching the craft, then I had to figure out planetary intercepts, then I got captured and barely had fuel left (I couldn't get a maneuver node for aerocapture), then the game wouldn't let me leave after the first craft (intentionally) failed. And my project requires me to crash a bunch of stuff into Eve. Yeah...Hyperedit will be used.
More updating: I think I'm mostly done, but each step I'm discovering more things I need to do. Even with HyperEdit, it's tough. Things are not burning up in Eve's atmosphere as fast as expected. (And don't get me started on the EVA-ing kerbonaut that survived all the way to the surface somehow...)

On a related note, does anyone know a method of save file editing or somesuch that can get me to a different position on the surface?

I'm having trouble with FAR airplanes flipping over when I try to take off. Does anyone have more specific advice than "make sure it looks like a real airplane"?

Movie Night, impeded for me by what I'm guessing is subpar wifi or something.

((Quick question: Why are zombies Scouts?))

Medic, Crossbow, Medigun, Bonesaw

Lars walked over to Grate.  "Young Brother Grate, I am saddened that this is where we part ways.  I will miss getting to see you grow into a man of Steve.  I wish you the best of luck in your work here, building the tools to deliver unto us the implements of righteous fury.  May the light of Steve shine ever on you."

"May your sad devotion to that newfangled Stevian religion not help you die as you try to conjure up stolen data tapes, or gain enough clairvoyance to find the UWM's hidden fortress."
"I'll do my best. You do the same. Don't let what you believe get in the way of acting on what you see. Unless you're hallucinating, I guess..."

Dear everyone,
You're all going to be leaving soon, pretty much. I'm not. If anyone has something they'd like me to try and do, or some way to help me understand or better use the pill machine or golden thingy I got from Nyars, let me know so we can arrange something.
Sincerely,
Grate

((This applies to Milno's tech-gauntlet, obviously, but also to Xan making homunculli for testing, people asking for pills before they leave, or anything else you can think of.))

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 18, 2014, 08:49:22 am

Say, anyone have a suggestion for how Milno (?) and Grate could get into that artifact-analysing deal?

Grate could send those ship-wide wristpad messages like he already did before.

I don't think Grate even knows about Milno's gauntlet.