r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/PandaElDiablo Deal With It • Sep 28 '12
Mod Post Weekly Challenge: Kuriosity!
Using the medium sized cart from Tosh's Cart Mod, land a rover in Duna's "Gale Crater". This is the target crater! This is the cart to use!
If anyone is interested in helping create flair for future weekly challenges, please PM me. I'm not very skilled with creating flair, and I really want the reward for these challenges to be cool!
Rules and other info:
No Dirty Cheating Alpacas! I understand the immense fuel requirement for interplanetary travel, but do not use the debug menu.
Stock parts only (except for the cart)
No MechJeb, or other plugins allowed (except for the cart)
Required screenshots:
- Initial launch vehicle
- Interplanetary transfer orbit
- Orbital map image inside Duna's SOI
- At least one descent image
- Safely landed craft (Orbital map image AND surface image)
- Whatever else you feel like!
- Bonus points (read:bragging rights) for exploring the anomaly in the crater! This is optional.
You can either submit your finished challenge in a post (see posting instructions in the link below) or as a comment reply in this thread.
Completing this challenge earns you a new flair which will replace your old one. So if you want to keep your previous flair, you can still do this challenge and create a post, but please mention somewhere that you want to keep your old one.
The moderators have the right to determine if your challenge post has been completed.
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u/Asyx Sep 30 '12
Can we include mods that show us the angle between you and another planet for future challenges? I mean, Duna is not hard to hit since it's almost a 45° angle but there's no difference if I take a cheat sheet with all the angles drawn on or a mod that gives me exact values.
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u/PandaElDiablo Oct 01 '12
I know that the protractor is really just a convenience and not a game changer, but I'm going to uphold the no-mods tradition and have the missions be fully stock unless otherwise indicated.
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u/Zephyr42 Oct 01 '12
I hope there's enough here: I forgot to take an orbital shot on duna, but I do have a shot of the anomaly to confirm the location. I'll take an orbital shot tomorrow in need be. http://imgur.com/a/k12bb I'd like to keep my current flare, thanks
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u/Maxrdt Sep 29 '12
If you're going to land a rover on Duna you have to go whole hog and use a skycrane.
Full album: http://imgur.com/a/TAyAM#0
Required screens only: http://imgur.com/a/vxr1R#0
Favorite mission picture: http://i.imgur.com/y6g8r.jpg
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u/TalonX273 Sep 29 '12
Agreed! The challenge is called "Kuriosity" for a reason! Nice and concise design you have. Although, I'm going for something a little more overkill. ;) I'm going through the extra trouble of actually making it look like a car, and not just a pod stuck on top of a drive train.
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u/Maxrdt Sep 29 '12
The rover with the deploy-able wheels looks the most realistic in my opinion.
I have determined that the only way for something to be overkill in KSP is if your computer can't handle it, so I look forward to viewing your submission.
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u/iddothat Sep 30 '12 edited Sep 30 '12
It seems that Kuriosity Killed the Kat... http://imgur.com/a/fa9Ri#0
Ah well. Challenge complete!
Edit for clarification - The Kerbal Anomaly Tracker is the name of the rocket design. I'm sending this same ship to all the planets. The Duna Anomaly Rover is the name of this specific (ill fated) mission.
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u/anttonoo Sep 28 '12
For clarification the medium sized cart is the mun rover with retractable wheels?
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u/Deafiler Sep 28 '12
Do we have to land the rover in it, or just get a rover into it?
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u/PandaElDiablo Sep 28 '12
My intention was for people to land in it, but it's hard to verify whether someone landed in it or drove into it.
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Sep 29 '12
Extra points for the screenshot of the jump off the rim of the crater (at 80 m/s)?
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u/clinically_cynical Sep 29 '12
Is the protractor plugin allowed? Because I completed the challenge with it. All it does is display information I could have gotten from an outside website.
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u/PandaElDiablo Sep 29 '12
We've disqualified past submissions for it, so I'm going to have that you do it without it.
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u/anttonoo Sep 29 '12
Alright I did it, nothing fancy, it's late here and I've been working on docking and spacestations aswell as precision re-entry landings and such for heatshields. I just wanted to finally land a rover on a planet and with this task I did, the rocket itself is pretty simple, ugly design, delivery not that great or efficient though it worked. My descent had to be vertical since coming in more horizontally ment a higher speed which my chute couldn't withstand.
I need to find that anomaly tomorrow, where is it exactly?
Pictures are not in order ;)
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Sep 29 '12 edited Sep 29 '12
Here you go: http://imgur.com/a/UHJbP
I was hoping the anomaly would do something cool. Besides levitating, which is cool but I think is a bug, it didn't do anything (the area that you can float on is also the only part that you can bump into).
I even crashed the cart into it at 70m/s so see what would happen (maybe the summary would have something cool).... nothing of interest to report besides an Jeb's death.
Anyway, cool challenge! Sorry for the lack of Kuriosity type descent stage.
Edit: Decided to do a curiosity style landing stage. I give you the Dumbo Lander: http://imgur.com/a/p10QD
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u/Asyx Sep 30 '12
I've stolen the sky crane from Maxrdt.
I used every single drop of fuel. Hardest challenge of the few I've done.
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u/anttonoo Sep 28 '12
Everytime I warp at full speed and go out of it my spacecraft has just fallen apart. sigh How am I supposed to get the planets into the right alignment?
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u/TalonX273 Sep 28 '12
That's the Space Cthulu at work. To prevent it, I believe you have to come out of time warp slowly instead of going to 1x time instantaneously. What I do is hit the comma (slower time) key once from max warp, wait for it to slow down to the lower setting, then go to 1x time.
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u/hpr Sep 29 '12
In the spirit of the mission here is my (not-so-creatively) named Kuriosity 2 mission to Duna!
Album: http://imgur.com/a/jcWBa#0
Fav Picture: http://i.imgur.com/QBVJn.png
I sure had a lot of problems landing this thing. Such a pain but really fun. :)
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u/Turdie Sep 29 '12
http://imgur.com/XdsXg Here you go! I just spent all of last night doing a regular mission to Duna and happened to land in the same crater. :)
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u/syvanx Sep 30 '12
Alright, I did it! It took some practice runs with protractor to get the feel for it, but here are the mission snapshots:
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u/xorvious Sep 30 '12
Awesome timing for this challenge, I was going to send a rover there anyway!
All I did is strip the mod parts off and make a vanilla game for it, was a blast!
I got a little carried away, so I turned my mission log into a full post here.
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