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Kerbal Space Program? Anyone?
bryntheskits:
So kinda gave up troubleshooting, slapped the things I think it needed on and shot it to the Mun. After a successful landing (and after realising I forgot to add boosters to last stage, RCS saved me) I deplyed the rovers and all seems well, it even docks (thanks low gravity). Placement of some of the solar panels etc on the base is iffy but then again I only got the thing to Mun to test out the rovers. Also imgur went wonky when I cropped it so its small but you get the jist.
cesium133:
Looks awesome! And it's neat that you can redock them. I never really considered that on mine since I don't have a way to get them back from Eve.
bryntheskits:
Yeah, docking isn't really needed in practice (right now), but I thought it would be an awesome little feature and felt the need to do it. Though in my current design I have RCS tanks on the lander so the rovers can refuel, which makes docking necessary, I'm also thinking of other things I could add to the lander to make the rovers more portable.
EDIT: Suddenly got bored of complex rovers and space missions, so decided to build some really simple planes instead. Got a single engine plane to 1708m/s, with a nice arc covering quite a distance.
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Made a larger one but it's 7am so I should stop and sleep maybe.
cesium133:
I landed the rovers' deployment ship on Gilly. It was a bit tricky to find a flat enough spot that the ship wouldn't fall over.
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I've also designed a spaceplane-based launcher for my rover, for potential use on Laythe. It's still got some bugs to work out, though, and trying to work out its bugs revealed why I can only land one of my four rovers on Eve: if you have more than one ship in atmosphere (but not landed), and they're more than 2.5 km apart, the game will forget about any non-active vessels. I accidentally killed one of my pilots that way while testing my spaceplane-based launcher. So, to keep the plane from getting more than 2.5 km away from the rover, I added a parachute to kill its speed... and the parachute kills the plane instead.
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bryntheskits:
Gonna have to chuck a couple 'shoots on it, parts break easily under heavy acceleration change.
Just finished my last assignment due this week, going to try getting my rovers to other planets, as well as a couple satellites to relay information home.
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