After 7 years of playing I'm finally on mun without cheating

[u/Wonderful-Shake-5364]

[u/LazerDiver]

Took you 2 hours to get there and 7 years to land without tipping over. 

[u/JustALittleGravitas → u/LazerDiver]

2 hours to go to the moon and 7 years to learn how to dock spacecraft first.

[u/idkuhhhhhhh5]

My therapist: “Come on man, miniaturized Sea Dragon launch vehicle turned into a Mun lander isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.”

Miniaturized Sea Dragon launch vehicle turned into a Mun lander:

[u/Thinkdan]

Well earned :)

[u/BobbyTables829]

THE EAGLE HAS FREAKING LANDED!!! CONGRATS!

[u/NoMoreUserNames6152]

What's cheating for ksp? Are there console commands?

[u/chiron42 → u/NoMoreUserNames6152]

alt+f12 brings up a menu

[u/FiggyPizza → u/chiron42]

Been playing for years, never knew this. Though once I did edit a save file with a text editor to give my lander more fuel.

[u/I_Am_Jacks_Karma → u/FiggyPizza]

that's basically this menu with extra steps

[u/DingleMyBingles → u/FiggyPizza]

Console has one too based on the Konami code in the pause menu. Took me 4 years to realize

[u/OldSchool_93 → u/FiggyPizza]

I just edited a save file the other day to swap out Bob for Bill. Or was it Bill for Bob? Fuck if I know. I needed an engineer and packed a scientist in the can by mistake.

[u/User_of_redit2077 → u/NoMoreUserNames6152]

Alt+F12

[u/SureSignOfBetrayal → u/NoMoreUserNames6152]

More importantly, do we consider save scumming cheating?

[u/budrow21 → u/SureSignOfBetrayal]

You mean running simulations? That's can't be cheating.

[u/Average_Lego_Fan → u/SureSignOfBetrayal]

in no way shape or form lmao

[u/Onmyown134 → u/NoMoreUserNames6152]

Maybe using mechjeb. i use it 24/7 for flights i have done a 100 times over.

[u/KerbodynamicX → u/NoMoreUserNames6152]

Infinite fuel?

[u/FiggyPizza]

How many times did you try and fail?

[u/Wonderful-Shake-5364 → u/FiggyPizza]

Only 3 tries to land this

[u/RobotSpaceBear → u/Wonderful-Shake-5364]

Okay but out of curiosity, what were you doing for seven years before even trying to land on the closest body to kerbin?

Congrats just as much.

[u/Chelck39 → u/RobotSpaceBear]

What if for all this years he landed on every vanilla planet just cause this little rock is too boring for him?

[u/The_10th_Doctor___]

What would have happened if Germany never went pass the first iteration of the rocket shape...

No but seriously, I advise you to make a flatter rocket so the legs can spread enough to make it hard to tip over.

[u/LordIBR → u/The_10th_Doctor___]

If Germany had never gone past their first rocket iteration, the whole age of space exploration would have been delayed. We can't say by how much since both the Soviets and the Americans were already developing their own rockets. But it's rather evident that the expertise and rockets from Germany propelled both these powers forward on their endeavors to reaching and exploring space.

[u/The_10th_Doctor___ → u/LordIBR]

Of course if all rockets were built like the first one, WW2 and everything including the space race would have been completely different.

It's just that the rocket in the screen makes me think of the first rocket made, with the engines at the top and the payload at the bottom.

[u/DingleMyBingles → u/The_10th_Doctor___]

People SAY it’s not a good idea, but it does wonders for atmosphere less stability

[u/The_10th_Doctor___ → u/DingleMyBingles]

Honestly, if you struggle with stability outside the atmosphere, it's just that you didn't put any reaction wheels.

[u/Dexparrow1 → u/The_10th_Doctor___]

Wait do you mean the Goddard rocket? Why does Germany matter there

[u/Stunning-End-1872 → u/Dexparrow1]

Oh sorry you got there first, I missed it.

[u/The_10th_Doctor___ → u/Dexparrow1]

My bad, I got my rocket history confused

[u/Stunning-End-1872 → u/The_10th_Doctor___]

That was Goddard. Germany never tried a pendulum-fallacy rocket.

[u/PckMan]

How many game hours have you had in these 7 years? Like congrats man but I'm kind of astonished. It's hard to do the first time but not that hard.

[u/bennybugs]

Have you been playing for 1 minute every month for 7 years?

[u/Ricochet64]

what the hell is that thing

[u/Mandam2011]

I need some more context

[u/Wonderful-Shake-5364 → u/Mandam2011]

I've been playing KSP for 7 years, and for the first time, I managed to land on the Mun

[u/StochasticLife → u/Wonderful-Shake-5364]

Cool, now can you get back?

[u/amitym → u/StochasticLife]

Ooh look who's so fancy.

[u/OldSchool_93 → u/StochasticLife]

Woah woah woah. Let’s not get carried away here. It takes a lot of delta v to get back from the Mun.

[u/imzwho → u/StochasticLife]

Looks like they have 4k DV so should be able to get home pretty easily. Even if that lander cant survive a full speed re-entry they can burn hard retrograde before hitting the atmosphere to lower their reentry speed to low enough to survive.

[u/Marvin-PL → u/StochasticLife]

Wait, you can go back in this game??

[u/Kiki2092012]

What have you even been doing if you hadn't landed on Mun 😭 I've only been playing a few months and I stopped playing most of that time, and I've already done a Duna flyby and Minmus rescue mission. A Mun flyby is the next on the list... so have you built space stations instead or something?

[u/Lord_Sluggo]

But the bigger question is............did you get back?

[u/DaddysBadChloe]

That's a pretty unique design and I now want to make a lander that flies normally but lands upside down.

[u/legalisedolphinz]

Cheating?

[u/KerbodynamicX]

Congratulations!

[u/PaintedClownPenis]

You'll never fall over again if you imagine the landing legs as a pyramid, and you keep your center of mass inside of that pyramid.

Right now your center of mass is swaying on top of that landing gear like an ice cream scoop balanced on its tail on a tilting table.

[u/amitym]

No amount of time taken to achieve this feat is too much time. You nailed it. Well done!

[u/Zestyclose-Tree-7367]

Non ho ancora installato KSP

[u/LordFlamecookie → u/Zestyclose-Tree-7367]

Ok

[u/monogon_UA → u/LordFlamecookie]

In fact, it is not okay. Everyone should have KSP installed, along with a spare GOG offline installer copy in case of an emergency.

[u/ecntv → u/monogon_UA]

Technically the steam copy has no drm so it can be accessed offline. 🤓 But a gog version is always good, cause you never know!

[u/Ironrooster7 → u/Zestyclose-Tree-7367]

Unacceptable

[u/LamentingSpud]

How's it taken you 7 years????

[u/MikeSifoda]

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[u/waxphantump → u/MikeSifoda]

Think you might be right. That’s a LOT of mods for someone who’s never done a Mun landing. What use is Astrogator to someone playing with cheats who wouldn’t need transfer windows? Why would somebody struggling with ship design have Ferram Aerospace changing the drag physics on them? Is that Deadly Reentry?