Landing in the dark without lights is TOUGH! It was late and I forgot to save.Įven my ships have to make several tries before I get a good landing. I forgot the 66% thrust comment.Īfter a few attempts I managed to get to Mun but the legs broke on touchdown. I'm thinking is HS punking me? The whole think collapsed on itself not long after. When I released the boosters thinking the ones on the bottom would go first I just about $#!* I'll stay close to your design but those top mounted booster rockets, the ones that release first, have to go! Had a tendency to collapse under it's own weight. Still, it wasn't very sound, structurally. Had to shrink them down to make them - Even the biggest ship I built, I only had to put up with the lag for a couple of minutes, once you drop the first couple of stages, it gets down to a manageable number of parts pretty quickly. Those pics are all cropped out of larger screenshots. I'm running the game at 2560x1440 resolution, but on a single monitor. I think I screwed up on the approach, though, so if I did it again it would be easier to match orbits. I quicksaved as soon as I got the two tankers into proximity and took waay too many attempts at docking them before I got frustrated and gave up. That actually was four separate explosions, though. Sometimes I'm like 'That looks so cool! I have to grab a screenshot.' and then while I'm off saving the shot, I miss the staging for my ascent or the maneuver burn at apoapsis and have to take another orbit. I can go a little overboard with the screenshots. That one delayed explosion always brings a chuckle. When all is said and done there's usually nothing left to take pictures of except a few pieces of structure, a docking port and a ring or 2.Īfter a few seconds of silence, you think it's all finished, and KABOOM! from somewhere off screen. I'm usually too buzy panicing to remember to take screenies while my stuff is blowing up around me. Landge wrote:That is simply amazing! Hope you saved beforehand. And they don't send your computer into a fritz? Must admit, I've never pushed the part count past ~350, though in theory my computer should be alright (i7). Hence the successful Duna mission!Īn, Just_Ice_au. I've already included some tweaks (mainly to the lander) based on what you and Solly have said.

If I see room for improvement would it be ok to make modifications to your ship?įill your boots if you see anything that'd improve it. I'd cringe as the tanks would drop as my main booster eased by, enevitably knocking my rockets off the ship and just drift helplessly in a decaying orbit. The thought of dropping tanks without separatrons brings back some horrible memories of some of my early builds. Now trying the same style on a smaller booster. I'm trying to come up with a design that uses 4 additional docking clamps to keep wobble down. My one problem with mine is once you re-dock it's all wobbly. Before dropping the last radial boosters is when I usually remember. Landge wrote:Oh yes I always forget to disengage crossfeed! You'll need to do that with my ship too before you launch.

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