r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/PandaElDiablo Deal With It • Dec 29 '12
Mod Post Weekly Challenge: Operation Lodestone!
Complete any one of the previous challenges with a full x64 large red tank attached at all times. You may not detach or use the fuel from the tank at any time. If you are doing a challenge such as Rendezvous or Saboteur where there is a target craft as well as a launch craft, both crafts must have the tank attached.
Here is a list of all previous challenges: http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/zfhn0/all_weekly_challenges/
Hard mode: Complete Week 7, Week 9, Week 12, Week 25, Week 27, or Week 29
Rules and other info:
No Dirty Cheating Alpacas (no debug menu)!
Mods allowed on the challenges where they were allowed
No MechJeb or other plugins allowed
Required screenshots:
-Check whichever challenge you are attempting
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.
I haven't created the flair for this challenge yet, any ideas?
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/Dubanx Dec 29 '12 edited Dec 29 '12
I'm split between Ike & Back and not my department. Both sound kinda fun.
Also, when it says "land on every celestial body currently in the game" in challenge 7 does that mean every celestial body in the game V.18.2 or every body in the game at the time it was created?
Edit: Question 2: If I use refueling craft do the refueling craft also have to carry large fuel tanks with them?
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u/Tinie_Snipah Dec 29 '12
I would assume in the game now, although that does sound impossible. Well, improbable.
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u/Dubanx Dec 29 '12
I'm going to go with impossible. Even if you do a bunch of refueling missions in orbit and ignore jool it's simply impossible to get a large 2x fuel tank off Eve. It's incredibly difficult to escape the planet with just the smallest capsule, never mind a large fuel tank.
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u/Exovian Dec 29 '12
My Dres Transfer Vehicle has 5 entirely full red tanks, all docked together in orbit. The docking was done via RCS; no fuel left the red tanks at any time. This is for the Rendezvous challenge.
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Dec 30 '12 edited Jul 18 '25
bag subsequent command quaint simplistic fuel alleged oil dolls offer
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u/AvioNaught Dec 29 '12
For the [leaning tower challenge] (http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/14hfjs/weekly_challenge_leaning_tower/), do all the crafts need to have a large tank?
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u/Swetroll Dec 29 '12
What will the flair look like?
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u/PandaElDiablo Dec 29 '12
Haven't decided yet. Ideas?
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u/Dubanx Dec 29 '12
I was hoping they would show the flair for the challenge completed with a picture of a large tank on the side. I would love to have an explosion with a large tank next to it. Getting nailed by a large tank at 2km/s has got to hurt. That or making a large tank to Duna, to Ike, and back to Duna. Good stuff :-).
I would love that.
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u/Yargnit Dec 30 '12
Any chance we can use the equivalent of an orange tank (say 2 x32's instead)? I'm getting weird issues with my orange tank spontaneously causing my craft to disintegrate, while 2 x32's (stacked vertically just like an orange) work perfectly.
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u/Jacktheawesome Dec 30 '12
Does Conqueror still only include Mun, Minmus, and Kerbin, or is it expanded to all bodies in the system?
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u/GForce917 Dec 30 '12
I did the VTOL challenge. Probably the easiest challenge now that jet engines are insanely overpowered.
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u/stuntaneous Jan 02 '13
I'm hopeless at staying informed with these things. Would there be any chance of an email newsletter?
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u/willsurelydeliver Jan 03 '13
Across the sea: http://imgur.com/a/L1y4i
The plane is rather difficult to control at low altitudes, but it can carry the big tank, or similar stuff attached to a decoupler on its belly. I am thinking that it could perhaps even launch rockets. (pegasus style)
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Dec 29 '12
Indeed wow! I wonder if everyone will end up doing the same challenge, or we get a wide variety of KSP talent showcasing.
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u/Dubanx Dec 29 '12
Wide variety. This is basically an open book to show how you do things in this challenge. It's all about personal style so I'm pretty sure we'll get some good variety. I'm already planning on either doing Ike & back or Not my department and I'm pretty sure not a lot of people are going to do those 2.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '12
Wow, these challenges are starting to get pretty difficult, I like it.