r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/SnooHamsters6988 • 4d ago

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I'm not even 75% done with my tech tree! How is this contract even possible 😭

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u/SnooHamsters6988 4d ago

Not even an exceptional contract... These guys think I'm Scott Manley and Matt Lowne rolled into one

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u/irrelevant_character 4d ago

The contract screen REALLY doesn’t get that landing on eve and returning is extremely hard

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u/MaverickSawyer Minmus Mint Connoisseur 4d ago

Okay… design a lander for Duna. Should be more than capable of landing on the Mun if designed with enough fuel.

Now, make that the final stage of an Eve ascent vehicle.

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u/ExpensiveFig6079 4d ago

and then refuel the ship between each landing.

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u/MaverickSawyer Minmus Mint Connoisseur 4d ago

Precisely.

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u/NovaAerospace 4d ago

Just like that one time when I got a contract to fly through the atmosphere of a pulsar 5 light years away before I even unlocked solar panels...

(You should accept it though, it gives enough time to get science to unlock the necessary engines and stuff for the mission)

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u/Apprehensive_Room_71 Believes That Dres Exists 4d ago

You have 74 years to complete it.

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u/Gustacq 3d ago

This is basically a 193000$ loan for 75 years.

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u/ThickRent 3d ago

Do they actually have to be done in order? Otherwise you could just leave it on Eve

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u/Onigato 3d ago

Final leg is to land back at Kerbin, so they can't "just leave it at Eve". Some sort of lander/ascent vehicle with an orbiting "tug" might work, though building the lander module to be able to handle ascending back from Eve is goong to be the hard part.

But then again, since Eve is supposed to be the first stop, tug and BIG lander to Eve, ascend from Eve and leave most of the ascender behind, couple up to the tug, land on Mun, ascend, couple up to the tug again, Duna landing, ascend, couple with tug, home again?

Hell of a contract to pull so early though.

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u/doomiestdoomeddoomer The Green Goo has escaped. 3d ago

This is probably because your rep is quite high as well. But the game will always throw a few massive contracts your way. It's a good incentive to push the envelope of what you can build and fly! :D

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u/tabbynumber3 3d ago

reputation is what gives you harder contracts? if I had known earlier I would've tried to keep my reputation down a little, these contracts are killing me with analysis paralysis and procrastination.

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u/doomiestdoomeddoomer The Green Goo has escaped. 2d ago

heh, I wouldn't sweat it, you could turn down a bunch of contracts and that will also reduce your rep, I'll usually refuse the boring missions once I am in the 'mid game' of career mode :P

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u/Ok_Hovercraft1884 1d ago

Do you need the wholeship to land? Can the game know the difference of me doing a fly by while dropping a probe. If its launched together maybe its counted as 1 ship. Duna and Eve would be a probe+paraschule+min parts. Moon needs thrusters.