A First Attempt at Realistic Mode

[Louisnidas]

It's been far too long since I've played SFS properly, so I've decided to try out Realistic Mode!

I'm not expecting this to go particularly smoothly, so feel free to come by to laugh and/or give advice ^-^

 

[QMSP]

I’ll watch this to see where it goes

 

[Louisnidas]

Task 1: Get a satellite into LEO
I've made this to use, it weighs 14.6T, has 11 parts and I'm genuinely quite surprised at how good it looks (I'm a little artistically challenged)

Yes, I'm using both the clipping and 0.25m offset (surely this wont break the docking ports at allll) glitches, but I don't plan to clip fuel tanks into fuel tanks (doesn't affect DV but can be abused to get a more optimal CoM/aerodynamics), or wheels/RCS together

I've found (through another thread) a real world DV map at Delta V Map and just wanted to check if SFS is realistic enough for this to be a good model to work from when I'm calculating my rocket's DV

Edit for the purpose of compressed messages:

QOL MODS!!!
Other than ANAIS I don't think any of these do anything other than giving information so I'm not concerned about game balance (do lmk if I'm wrong though, I don't want anything that actually properly changes gameplay)

Also, felt I should add the fact that I currently have 16.5 ish hours on Steam SFS - with an hour and a bit of that being today
We shall see how this grows through the world >:3

 

[Altaïr]

Ah, a new player joins the realistic mode...
You'll see, this is far more punishing, just performing a Moon landing and return mission is far from being obvious.
I recommend the use of ΔV calculator mod too, this is very useful to know if you have enough fuel for your maneuvers. Especially in realistic where every single drop of fuel counts

 

[Perseverancerover]

Good luck

 

[Louisnidas]

I recommend the use of ΔV calculator mod too

Oh that's so useful, thank you so much! I messed about a little with making a launch vehicle for the Sat, and was just using a python script I wrote, having an integrated and constantly updating version is incredible

 

[Astro826]

Nice, I also recently got into realistic mode since I just bought the game on steam. Of course I almost immediately went into making low mass missions .
I look forward to seeing what you create!

 

[FPE Fan]

I recommend IONs

 

[QMSP]

I recommend IONs

Those make it too easy, defeats the whole point of playing RM

 

[Louisnidas]

I recommend IONs

Ions are disabled on challenge mode, thats part of the point of me having challenge on

 

[QMSP]

Ions are disabled on challenge mode

How did I not know this?

 

[TheMacTester]

How did I not know this?

i was so confused why ions were not in my game when i bought it

 

[QMSP]

Other than ANAIS I don't think any of these do anything other than giving information so I'm not concerned about game balance (do lmk if I'm wrong though, I don't want anything that actually properly changes gameplay)

I’m pretty sure that the Smart SAS mod does more than just give you info, so maybe uninstall that

 

[Louisnidas]

I’m pretty sure that the Smart SAS mod does more than just give you info, so maybe uninstall that

Oh thats the one I meant, not ANAIS
It was 1am when I wrote that, and Im out now - Ill check info when I get home to make sure Im not getting things wrong
Smart SAS is automatic direction/RCS control I believe
Im fine with using that personally

 

[QMSP]

Smart SAS is automatic direction/RCS control I believe

Correct

 

[Asier_Diamond]

Good luck fella! Ive landed on the moon! And im a noobie in realistic mode too!
that lander never came back to earth

 

[Asier_Diamond]

Also a tip for realistic mode: don't

Its just NOT sane...

 

[QMSP]

Good luck fella! Ive landed on the moon! And im a noobie in realistic mode too!
that lander never came back to earth

Were you playing in mobile or PC at that time?

 

[Asier_Diamond]

Were you playing in mobile or PC at that time?

PC

 

[Altaïr]

Nice, I also recently got into realistic mode since I just bought the game on steam. Of course I almost immediately went into making low mass missions .
I look forward to seeing what you create!

You too?! That will be very interesting to see what you come up with!

 

[QMSP]

PC

Ok, I was asking because it has waaaaaaay higher delta-v requirements on mobile

 

[FPE Fan]

I tried realistic mode. Didn't get further than Low Earth Orbit.

 

[TheMacTester]

Ok, I was asking because it has waaaaaaay higher delta-v requirements on mobile

Mobile has a realistic mode?

 

[FPE Fan]

Mobile has a realistic mode?

No, but you can resize the planets and atmospheres to remake Realistic Mode.

 

[Marmilo]

No, but you can resize the planets and atmospheres to remake Realistic Mode.

We call that RSS to make the distinction. The closest thing in terms of difficulty to RM we have on mobile is Altaïr's IRIS