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disposeableh3r0
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Aparently paying this game is the best way to increase your understanding of orbital mechanics..
As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?
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It is. It really is.
It's also fun.
Trials of Blood and Fire
Moving On Parts 1-3 - Part 4
In Cold Blood
When I actually played it, I started in career mode. My first rocket deployed its parachute on launch and spun wildly for 11 seconds before nosediving back into the launch pad, killing the pilot (who, absurdly, I had almost saved by having him do an EVA during this and jump off. He survived the fall, but not the rocket hitting him in the head).
My second launch was a successful suborbital hop, complete with a poorly timed EVA that incinerated the pilot on reentry. It was enough to get me to the tier 1 tech, though.
With that, I achieved orbit (not a good orbit, but it was an orbit), got a ton of science done, and then attempted a Mun encounter. After a couple tries (and a couple Kerbals flung out into deep space never to return) I figured out the transfer angle. But not the speed. I ended up slamming this Kerbal into Mun at 6 km/s.
I didn't stop there, though. It wasn't until I had nine dead pilots and six more on unrecoverable heliocentric orbits that I decided to just watch other people play the game instead.
There are Mods that can make Kerbal easier for you. One mod makes the flight automatic. You just have to enter a few values to tell the computer where to go. Another mod can have you teleported to other worlds so you can easily avoid the majority of the trip.
Also, found this sitting on my desktop: this was the result of a freak parachute malfunction that I never quite figured out. This was a command capsule with no propulsion. Parachute deployed normally, but somehow when it unfurled the craft was suddenly ejected from the solar system at about 2500 times the speed of light.
http://i59.tinypic.com/28i563t.jpg
Or figure out space planes. Or landing pods. Or cargo bays. Or, well you get the picture.
You need to figure out how this happened ASAP and try to apply it to the real world. This just might be the solution to achieving FTL travel.
Isn't it obvious? A child could do it! All you have to do is change the gravitational constant of the universe! :P
Trials of Blood and Fire
Moving On Parts 1-3 - Part 4
In Cold Blood
I think it's a variation on the glitch the game used to have where if you manage to pass through the center of a planet, the physics engine can't figure it out and you get ejected from the solar system.
I just have no idea how a parachute failure caused it.
A good rule of thumb is that any object in a nearly-circular orbit has exactly half the kinetic energy that it needs to escape from the body that it is orbiting. Since k = 1/2 * m * v^2, that means that an escape trajectory requires about the square root of two times the current orbital velocity (about 1.4 times).
Played 86 hours on it, 50 of those in the last month.
I hope STO get's better ...
My hobby in game was getting the most ridiculous cobbled together mess I could put together to actually make orbit. Was good times.
It is. It's pretty cool. Heck of a lot better then STO although it's growing. I looked forward to Space Engineers which eventually will have factions etc. I willing to bet eventually they can add ground. game player with no transition screen.
Seriously, that game is the best $22 I've ever spent.
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Which is about what I paid for it, a couple of years ago - just after they added a Mun to go to, I think. It's been great fun and grown so much ever since, and promises to continue to do both.