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thetonestarr said:

Honestly, once you figure out how to land successfully on the Mun and return, everything else I've done isn't that much more advanced. I've reached a technical break, though, because I can't return from an Eve landing with the strategies I've been using, and I can't do anything beyond a flyby with Jool or its moons. I may be able to do flybys of Moho, Dres, and Eeloo yet, but nothing more than that.

I suspect the next thing I'll need to do is start working on learning orbital rendezvous. Then I'll just build something large that is capable of landing on Eve, likely with some solid fuel boosters, and work from there. Get it back off of Eve and into orbit, then have a second ship rendezvous and bring it back.

I've also built one Munar rover, but it's not very practical and I think I'll use it as a Minmus rover. I've recently unlocked the huge Mk3 rover wheels, so I might just build a titan rover and roll that thing around Mun. Will probably need my gigantic interplanetary rocket to get it out of the atmosphere though.

Beyond that, I also intend to start working soon on my first space station and a spaceplane. I've almost got everything unlocked that I'll need for either (one more unlock for each and I can get to work). I have the ion engine, the nuclear engine, the aerospike engine, the RAPIER, etc. I just need better wings for the planes. As for space stations, I'm missing a large variety of things for those still, but all the final essentials are in one unlock, so it won't be long. But to build that, I'll need to practice a lot of orbital rendezvous yet.

Eve is near impossible for a return run, the ship needs to be incredibly sophisticated. The Dres landing is easy, not all that different to Duna. I've heard Eeloo isn't too bad, but I haven't actually done it myself. I tried Moho and failed to get off the surface. It's brutal, every stage requires so much more fuel.

Orbital rendezvous is probably my most satisfying achievement in the game so far. I couldn't even imagine doing it at first, it seemed so hard. After spending a few hours getting used to the RCS controls and how to change orbital speeds, I finally managed to do it, and it has been pretty routine ever since.



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brendude13 said:

Eve is near impossible for a return run, the ship needs to be incredibly sophisticated. The Dres landing is easy, not all that different to Duna. I've heard Eeloo isn't too bad, but I haven't actually done it myself. I tried Moho and failed to get off the surface. It's brutal, every stage requires so much more fuel.

Orbital rendezvous is probably my most satisfying achievement in the game so far. I couldn't even imagine doing it at first, it seemed so hard. After spending a few hours getting used to the RCS controls and how to change orbital speeds, I finally managed to do it, and it has been pretty routine ever since.


Yeah, my main concern with Dres is just distance. It's a lot further out to work with, and since it's so small, it's tedious to aim for. I was actually aiming for it when I did the Jool flyby - I was tinkering with maneuver nodes, trying to find a trajectory that'd put me into its SOI, when I ended up finding one that put me in Jool's. I figured, hey, it's something new, let's do it.

There are a number of contract missions where you have to collect a Kerbal just floating in orbit around the planet, and the first one of them, I didn't realize you could switch between objects with the bracket keys (you CAN'T switch to him if you try doing it in the tracking station). So I was trying to do the mission with an Advanced Grabbing Unit to get him onboard and bring him back. And the ship I was doing it with didn't have RCS either. I was effectively trying to do orbital rendezvous - and pretty much succeeding! - without RCS. Now THAT is a pain in the ass!



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Ha, my game's bugging out right now. I'm actually moving in orbit of Kerbol at 9300 meters per second, but my HUD is telling me I'm at "surface" of something, moving at 211,000 meters per second. If only!



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I only have ONE more thing to unlock, and I'll be able to get the science to do so with one more trip to Minmus. ^_^



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