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[Chattox]

Have you tried taking ground samples and EVA reports of various locations near KSP. They're worth quite a bit.

I had not! Thankyou!

[ank]

Time for my first Duna return mission.
I tried a bunch of design, but like many times before i just went "screw this" and made it asparagus:

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Bye Kerbin!

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Hey Duna!

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I aero braked to a good orbit and left the transfer stage in orbit.

I landed with parachutes, but the stupid wobbly legs made it tip over, so I took off and tried again. It did cost me 3 whole droptanks worth of fuel.

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Greetings from Duna!

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What the! the big capsule can only bring one soil sample!?

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Blastoff!

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After docking with the transfer stage, our brave trio heads home

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Damn oceans kept getting in the way, so I aimed for the north pole:

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Success!

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!!SCIENCE!!

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I got about 400 extra science from transmitted crew reports, bringing the total tally to about 2k science!

[ank]

I am now in the incredibly stupid situation that Bob is stuck on Eve because he can't get up....Ok this is starting to sound like a porno...wow. Well, a very bad porno. Featuring erectile dysfunction.


But yeah, can't reach the crew hatch. Its literally smacking him in the head. He can't jump up and grab, nope. ALL MY SCIENCE IS RUINED.

Unless you have a really beefy ship, you are not taking off from Eve anyways.
Eve has almost the same gravity as Kerbin, but a HUGE atmosphere.

I am sticking to sending probes to Eve

[Skyrunner]

I have heard there was a recent, huge update to KSP...

[10ebbor10]

I have heard there was a recent, huge update to KSP...

Aside from 0.22 (Which added career mode), you mean?

[LordSlowpoke]

i still have a profound dislike for the fact that struts are apparently a high-tech good now

i mean for me they're as basic when the lore is involved as the first liquid engine

game balance and all that, not being able to put together insane rockets on the first day and all that...

* LordSlowpoke grumbles, diving into the game files with a typewriter in hand.

[Sean Mirrsen]

You can put together insane rockets on the first day, without struts.

You'd just have to be insane to fly them. ^_^

In other news, I momentarily reinstalled FAR to see if I can make a little SSTO plane.

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Apparently not. >_>

[Dutchling]

What is FAR?

[10ebbor10]

What is FAR?

Ferram Aerospace something. It updates the aerodynamics to be better.

[Dutchling]

That doesn't sound fun to me o.O

[forsaken1111]

I spy ponies on Sean's desktop. 

[Sean Mirrsen]

It's quite more difficult to make well-flying planes with, that's for sure. But if you want an added challenge it's good. Plus it makes rockets more efficient since the updated drag model actually accounts for parts being protected from the airstream.

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I spy ponies on Sean's desktop. 

Do you spy the link in my sig?

[LordSlowpoke]

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I spy ponies on Sean's desktop. 

Do you spy the link in my sig?

you want everyone to know you discontinue things

i for one sweep them under the rug and hope nobody cares to remember

[BigD145]

Anyone have a good relatively up to date mod for building ships with "parts/resources" in orbit or otherwise outside of Kerbin?

[Sean Mirrsen]

KAS works for small-scale building, though you still need to haul the weight up. Otherwise, I think there's Extraplanetary Launchpads. Similar to Kethane, except you scan and mine for ore.