Some of my builds and progress

[Altaïr]

Another ring, I wanna see if I can make one big enough to go around Phobos or Deimos.
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Someone managed to do it once ago: Is it possible to build a station that surrounds the entire earth and stops rockets leaving?
I wish you good luck though, according to him it's been painful.

 

[Orion belt inc]

I’d stick with one around Phobos or dominos

 

[Sportgus]

I got some interesting patterns while making fuel balls.

Someone managed to do it once ago: Is it possible to build a station that surrounds the entire earth and stops rockets leaving?
I wish you good luck though, according to him it's been painful.

I think it could be easily done around a smaller planet than earth by making the fuel tanks long enough with just 1 degree of curve and on the steam version with bp editing and cheats, without too. It would be way harder and probably too laggy to be done on mobile.

I’d stick with one around Phobos or dominos

Yeah that's what I might try to do.

 

[Marmilo]

Don't those balls lag your game out?
Edit: oh wait, that's pc version

 

[Sportgus]

Don't those balls lag your game out?
Edit: oh wait, that's pc version

You and me n mobile they are fine, it's only around 20 parts per ball.

 

[Sportgus]

You and me n mobile they are fine, it's only around 20 parts per ball.

Even in*

 

[Sportgus]

Half of one made from 15x30 fuel tanks.

And it has over 200 kilotons of mass.

Now the full one.

I got it in lunar orbit and...

 

[The epic chicken]

Half of one made from 15x30 fuel tanks.
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And it has over 200 kilotons of mass.
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Now the full one.
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I got it in lunar orbit and... View attachment 81944
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Does PC not have to 5km physics range?

 

[Sportgus]

Does PC not have to 5km physics range?

Idk much about physics range but the ring is only around a km wide.

 

[The epic chicken]

Idk much about physics range but the ring is only around a km wide.

Oh

 

[Sportgus]

I did it! A ring around Deimos, in one launch. Now to do it without cheats...

It was a bit too big and can probably fit three in there, also the camera changing is really weird. The UI is gone and I can control the ring while still being able to switch to it in the map screen.

 

[Orion belt inc]

Yay you did something I’ve always wanted to do but my iPad whould probably blow up on its potato hard drive with lemon juice battery and pizza box frame

 

[The epic chicken]

Yay you did something I’ve always wanted to do but my iPad whould probably blow up on its potato hard drive with lemon juice battery and pizza box frame

uhh, an ipad doesn't have a hard drive, it has nand flash

 

[Sportgus]

I need to stop relying on clipping and bp editing. To start here is a before 1.4 style shuttle that doesn't have a booster yet because balancing is hard. It has 160 tons of payload in right now and I think I might try to start reusing shuttles instead of recovering them.

 

[Sportgus]

Version with.a working payload bay.

 

[Orion belt inc]

I don’t get what’s with the fairing payload door if you time warp after deployment it floats away

 

[Marmilo]

I don’t get what’s with the fairing payload door if you time warp after deployment it floats away

You see, the big time warps aren't physics time warps. They use a "on rails" system, where everything just circles on the orbit that was last determined by the physics engine. So, the orbits of the door and ship are on slightly different orbits, so after some time they drift away if there's no collision due to the physics not applying during high timewarps.

 

[Orion belt inc]

You see, the big time warps aren't physics time warps. They use a "on rails" system, where everything just circles on the orbit that was last determined by the physics engine. So, the orbits of the door and ship are on slightly different orbits, so after some time they drift away if there's no collision due to the physics not applying during high timewarps.

Yea I know that I don’t get why people use them because of that I get where you thought I did not know about the fact that bigger time warps are not physics applyed but no I don’t get why people use them

 

[Marmilo]

Yea I know that I don’t get why people use them because of that I get where you thought I did not know about the fact that bigger time warps are not physics applyed but no I don’t get why people use them

Ummm, because physics timewarp is up to 3x, and railed timewarp is like up to millions of times faster? If you were to fly to jupiter in 3x speed, it would take ages...
There was a challenge for a no-timewarp moon return, you can find that and read how long it took. Now jupiter missions are muuuuuch longer.

 

[Orion belt inc]

I don’t think your understanding me also the update is not out on iOS I don’t think because my game has no update for me

 

[Sportgus]

I don’t think your understanding me also the update is not out on iOS I don’t think because my game has no update for me

You mean why we use fairings? I think its because the actually space shuttle had an opening payload bay system and maybe drag.

 

[Marmilo]

Ooh, you're talking about why people use payload fairings?

 

[Sportgus]

So I may need some help, I put heat shields on the shuttle so it can land on earth and now when I reenter it keeps tipping to the left and the engine section gets burned. I don't know what is causing the drag or if I should remake certain parts of the shuttle, here is some screenshots.
Entire shuttle:

Nose cone part that I tried to make it look kind of good:

 

[TtTOtW]

I've been looking at the tutorial and it is very helpful. I tried bending my trajectory early like you did in the video and I'm having trouble trying to bend early but not burn up.

The way I do it in the video is extreme, I was close from burning up myself. Usually I start bending my trajectory when I'm hitting 100 m/s, and I do it gradually.

Personally I first of all do not use a TWR of more than 1.35. If I hit 70m/s at the 1km mark, I consider that spot-on. A bit more or less is fine. At 1km I gently start leaning. My milestones after that are:

2 to 3km - 20°
6km - 30°
10 km - 45°
15km - 60°
20km - 75°

I flatten out as soon as apo is above Karman unless I have a very low TWR in my last stage. These milestones are not my genius. It was coined by Carl. Anyone remember Carl? I wonder if he ever recovered his Tetris high score from Venus...

 

[Sportgus]

The shuttle is now complete, no name for it because I can't think of a.good one. Also no reusable one yet.
Here it is

I had to redesign the nose because it didn't look good with the heat shield but now I think it looks a lot better.
Here's it going to orbit
On pad

Very late booster seperation

Seperation is a little annoying because the shuttle engines destroy the booster on start.
Orbit

Even thought it has a a lot of fuel I am impatient and used almost all of it
Payload deployment

Time to land now

Reentry is so beautiful but so annoying.
Parachutes get deployed and the shuttle lands.

Smaller versions coming soon.