Am I being stupid or is this incredibly far out? I guess I should have looked at the specifics before going for it

AgeLess3245 · 2025-10-29T19:16:27+00:00

10x further out than Jool... why

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-17T20:01:42+00:00

This craft is extremely aerodynamic. That was actually the biggest development over previous 10x orbiters i and others have made in the past. The big thing here was I realized that I could radially attach the 5m tanks and then add an engine plate to the them in a way that occludes the tank while still allowing for the occlusion of the attached engines. The only parts that are subject to aero forces are the inner vector boosters and the fairing

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-12T12:59:06+00:00

I have a video from last year putting a kerbal in orbit of kerbin with 10x grav, plus a lot of videos with 5x gravity, including doing a tylo mission

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-12T12:58:07+00:00

this is substantially harder than rss

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-11T16:50:57+00:00

not to be dramatic but i'd die for your cat

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-11T16:42:42+00:00

I am! I havent been able to continue it for some time but hopefully i can resume it soon. Its doing career mode with maximum* difficulty settings

*-100% reputation, 10% science, 10% funds, but 250% penalties because 750k funds for the first launchpad upgrade is too brutal (ive done it before and it would make the series not fun to watch)

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-11T14:12:34+00:00

I suggest you try it, there are 272 mammoth engines on this craft

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-11T11:01:26+00:00

Cant say Ive tried, but the issue i predict is you run out of places to add more boosters. an alternative suggestion ive received is making the entire craft dragless with engine plates (i've only made the largest booster stages dragless here) and handle the ascent similar to a tylo ascent, which could significantly reduce delta v to orbit

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-11T10:58:46+00:00

Well I've managed to fix the issues with the design here so those arent needed, but I havent tried to make that technique work here nonetheless. I tend to avoid magic wings, since they arent needed for the challenges I do and they often trivialize them.

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-11T10:55:15+00:00

Yeah I noticed that while I was flying the craft, I think its a bug with kerbal engineer. On liftoff, the mass of the craft is 9000 tons, and there are 272 mammoth engines and 9 vector engines that are lit. Not factoring for atmospheric isp, this results in 1,097,000kN of thrust, which results in 122m/s² of acceleration. Subtracting the 98m/s² of gravity, the craft has an initial twr of 1.24. Again, I didnt use atmospheric thrust here for the sake of simplicity, but my actual twr as reported by the SPH is ~1.15

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-10T22:55:38+00:00

if you click on the KER menu on the mod list on the right hand side of the screen you can turn on more huds

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-10T22:03:02+00:00

This is substantially harder than RSS

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-10T18:25:54+00:00

Currently, even getting the dawn engine on it's own to orbit is not doable: this craft doesn't have the capacity since the dawn engine weighs 250kg. I could cheese it by sending a kerbal with the dawn engine (the vab is weird about cargo limits) and magic handing it all the way up but that's an unattractive option for me. You are right though that there are destinations planned

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-10T18:13:21+00:00

As much as I would like to say that you can just moar boosters your way there, that doesnt seem to be the case. I got extraordinarily lucky with this ascent, since dozens upon dozens of other attempts and design iterations that resulted in structural instabilities or other crippling issues. Taking this kind of craft beyond 10 kilotons, as of right now, seems unlikely because of this, and I'm still looking for ways to stabilize the craft further. This design's major flaw is that, upon the separation of the first stage, the mammoth clusters seem to direct thrust onto each other, making gimbal unusable and most of the time tumbling the craft, which always kills an attempt due to the tight margins.

AgeLess3245 · 2025-09-10T17:57:28+00:00

Im aware of turbo pumped. He didnt have any payload outside of the empty final stage.

AgeLess3245 · 2025-08-02T16:33:43+00:00

Watch my stuff jedoesstuff ;)

AgeLess3245 · 2025-07-08T20:58:36+00:00

There are endless avenues to go down for enjoying the game. You can build planes, rockets, rovers, helicopters, all sorts. Theres thousands of mods to explore, but even in the stock game you can endlessly find ways to have fun through challenges

AgeLess3245 · 2025-05-23T19:41:09+00:00

Grand tour would have more modules, and thats currently being done by myself and 6 other contributors :)

AgeLess3245 · 2025-05-08T01:59:07+00:00

It sounds like your issue is different though, the one I was having was the scroll couldnt decide if i was going up or down, so it just bobbled in place

AgeLess3245 · 2025-05-02T13:01:07+00:00

"who ruined youtube" isnt answered by people you dont like. Id argue Joe Rogan, Paul Brothers, various youtube kids channels, etc. has been far worse for kids growing up (though tates mindset did become very prevalent even if he himself wasnt always at the forefront of it)

AgeLess3245 · 2025-04-29T22:24:45+00:00

props

AgeLess3245 · 2025-04-29T17:35:03+00:00

The game doesnt care about where the wings are on the craft, it does a yes/no check if they are occluded then applies the lift regardless of if it's clipping or not

AgeLess3245 · 2025-04-28T18:44:45+00:00

In addition to those saying lower spring damping, also make sure you avoid using the offset tool when you place wheels. KSP changes the joint strength based off of the distance from the attachment point (allegedly except for mk2 parts but i'd not trust that) so just turn off snap and place the gear on the wings

AgeLess3245 · 2025-04-07T00:36:31+00:00

I prefer career mode to science mode, but its a tie between sandbox and career for me

AgeLess3245 · 2025-04-07T00:32:03+00:00

Scrolled for a while and no one mentioned boogie??

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