Kerbal Space Program

dekez · 14 Jul 2011 at 15:59

Just been reading the website:

Planned Features:
Take on Missions to attract interest in your Space Program. Or use the Mission Planner to create your own missions.
Manage your Space Program. Hire astronauts, train them, research and improve parts.
Fly out to Moons and other Planets
Build Space Stations, and surface bases on other worlds.
And a whole lot more!

can't wait.

SPARC · 14 Jul 2011 at 16:05

Sweet! sounds like they are aiming for some sort of tycoon type game. I approve of this.

PermaBanned · 14 Jul 2011 at 17:00

Right, i challenge somebody to beat this using only one engine and not being able to move the camera.

Was still going but i got bored

I very nearly managed to complete an orbit and land safely with the same craft but just ran out of fuel at 600m, so i went 50m/s tail first into the ground, and adding a parachute and/or stage separator was just too much weight for it to lift.

PermaBanned · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:14

dekez said:
Just been reading the website:

Planned Features:
Take on Missions to attract interest in your Space Program. Or use the Mission Planner to create your own missions.
Manage your Space Program. Hire astronauts, train them, research and improve parts.
Fly out to Moons and other Planets
Build Space Stations, and surface bases on other worlds.
And a whole lot more!

can't wait.

Until then you might want to check out Orbiter, also free but much more fully featured... well, in a way. It doesn't have sound by default, but there's tons of add ons you can get for it

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

Strife212 · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:16

Surely once you are out of gravity you can go forever?

PermaBanned · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:50

Strife212 said:
Surely once you are out of gravity you can go forever?

I think there's a certain speed that if you reach you just keep going at that speed until something stops you - just off the top of my head something like 17,500kph/mph/m/s? But before that you still have inertia to contend with, and thus without propulsion you begin to slow down.

Marine Iguana · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:54

PermaBanned said:
Right, i challenge somebody to beat this using only one engine and not being able to move the camera.

PermaBanned · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:57

You used your Liquid Fuel Nuclear Engine didn't you?

Marine Iguana · 14 Jul 2011 at 19:58

Maybe

Dudderz123456 · 14 Jul 2011 at 22:18

PermaBanned said:
I think there's a certain speed that if you reach you just keep going at that speed until something stops you - just off the top of my head something like 17,500kph/mph/m/s? But before that you still have inertia to contend with, and thus without propulsion you begin to slow down.

how do you manage to get to that speed :S ?

Marine Iguana · 14 Jul 2011 at 22:54

You need these they are quick :eek:

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=160.0

xxalxx · 14 Jul 2011 at 22:59

Just make some new things yourself using the existing models.

A good start is make a new solid rocket booster

Marine Iguana · 14 Jul 2011 at 23:14

Just reached 35,000m/s using those engines quite a good set

Dudderz123456 · 14 Jul 2011 at 23:32

Those engines are amazing haha

Darg · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:00

Just made a rather awesome spacecraft, only trouble is I was trying to achieve a stable orbit around 50km up. I appear to have overshot rather, reached 2200km and was still going around 1200m/s so I decided to use my last tank of fuel to try and bring my kerples back to earth. My altitude is dropping but I've no idea if I will just slingshot past or actually grab the atmosphere enough to slow down. I think that if I were murderous enough I could have used the last of the fuel to achieve escape velocity easily enough.

This game definitely makes you think a lot about how orbits work

Dudderz123456 · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:05

I have never actually tried to achieve a stable orbit, I just try get them as far away from Earth as possible.

Darg · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:09

Dudderz123456 said:
I have never actually tried to achieve a stable orbit, I just try get them as far away from Earth as possible.

How could you

Jeb smiles all the time because he knows he has a sexy kerppette to come home to afterwards. Don't let him down man!

Greg0986 · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:10

Darg said:
How could you

Jeb smiles all the time because he knows he has a sexy kerppette to come home to afterwards. Don't let him down man!

Their facial expressions are amazing! Sometimes they look scared and sometimes they look stoned

Darg · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:38

Looks like it's a slingshot orbit, this is taken as I passed over the base:

My closest distance was around 350km, with an orbit time of around 1hr30m. Not sure if I want to wait another 45 minutes to see what my greatest distance is, I doubt I will get out as far as 2200km again but lets see

Six7th · 15 Jul 2011 at 00:40

Managed to get into a nice stable orbit for once! You have to be pretty exact with your altitude and horizontal speed.

Never thought I'd have to use Newton's Laws of gravity in a game before