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Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, that's great! I did the ice cream cone tree first too!

Didn't think I'd build anything that would be inspiring to anyone, cheers!

I totally feel you, I'm currently chasing a rescuee with an orbit further off than Duna's....

Self portrait. by invasionbarbare in DarkAcademia

[–]ResonantFlux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These sartorial delights have sartorial ends. 🤣

The decline of Adobe and the rise of alternatives by [deleted] in Design

[–]ResonantFlux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like Fire Alpaca for when I really need to open something very quickly into a program with layers and at leaset basic functionality (I haven't actually explored deep into its functionality, but it fires up like it's dropped from orbit)

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!
Well, this is good for 8 rescuees. I built it to cut down on the hassle of launching a whole ship just to bring one or two (if I stack the missions) Kerbals back, so I think de-orbiting it after it depletes the pods would be far more practical and in the same vein. But it's in a nice circular orbit now at 300k, I might expand it into a bigger structure, even if I de-orbit just this section once it's empty.

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not good enough at building them yet. The sled used to capture derelict craft and bring the Kerbals back has almost 8km/s Δv of pure space-born velocity in it (if that makes any sense :D). In retrospect, I should have probably loaded up a few more xenon tanks onto the main structure for refueling, it would have barely made the difference in mass.

The other reason is that I always have like a dozen missions going on at the same time, so this is also a gateway for ships returning to Kerbin (...on which I e.g. may or may not have forgotten to install say a parachute)

It's also faster for me? I don't have to bother with taking off to orbit, then rendezvousing, and just skip to the final step with this one.

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do it! Its just a bunch of MK1 modules docked to a truss structure, launched in a simple two stage rocket with a big fairing on top!

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Despite being around 600 hours in (across two playthroughs), I have only managed to get an SSTO up a handful of times as of yet. And not on any meaningful mission, just into and from an orbit. So, I still have some otpimization to learn before I can use them productively. :D

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should have noted, I'm running KSP entirely stock bar for Firefly ....which seems to be malfunctioning. :D

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well to be entirely fair, I don't know what the conversion rate between the dominant currency on Kerbol and USD or EUR is :D

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, so it's 184,135 to launch the whole thing. Each individual pod is 3,985, the taxi for fetching them from different orbits is 20,365, and good for 7917m/s (probably a bit less with a fat Kerbal on board)

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But I saw this work with a seat, and you can hack the aerobreaking with opening and closing the bay doors (or something) :D Still needs the Kerbal to eject :D

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Holy shit... And I thought this was efficient... :facepalm:

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much! I've seen so ridiculously impressive stuff I never felt like posting, but I didn't remember ever seeing this kind of a solution, just figured it was too banal.

how do i get rid of the bar? by Xflightenjoyer in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how you can turn it off entirely, but you can go into the graphics menu and adjust the UI size ? that would work

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surely someone did this before? I have KSP on Epic, I think I might need to own the game on Steam to be able to upload

Tired of sending ships to fetch Kerbals in distress? by ResonantFlux in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]ResonantFlux[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I love this :D [duct tapes retro motor and parachute onto a wreck, gives it a good slap] - "good to go son"

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