/vg/ - Video Game Generals

Ok niggers, how to grind science?

I am stuck on kerbin and can only get 30~ from two more biomes, whereas with 2.5 fame = 1 science (60%) I can get 15 for every two 'tourism to suborbital' + 'science from kerbin space'

It actually takes longer to decline contracts until I get the 3 ones I want than to actually do the mission

>>9548

go to minmus, bring back like 3000 science

>>9802

Asspained newfags

>>9802

I'm going to tell you its a conspiracy where leddit and/or Squad are trying to make /kspg/ pro-Squad

>>9805

They're probably /b/ or /v/tards

>>9806

oh right /v/irgins makes sense, /v/ has been stuffed with even worse shit after the GGnore crowd was exiled

>>9816

P L O P P

L L

O O

P L O P L O P

L L

O O

P P L O P

>permabanned from 4chan

>can evade but too much effort just to shitpost

>end up not posting

So this is how bans truly work.

>>11875

You could shitpost here on this dead website though!

I'm here

Who else is here?

>>14567

I am.

>>14572

So the current headcount is two

Let's hope this number doesn't stay the same when the janitor really, truly, loses it's mind

nah

>>6701

Too long

no 1k Solar panels

you don't need this many connections

>>14671

Just look up "deltaV"

it's how much velocity your rocket can change… you need 3200 dV to get out of kerbin atmosphere. You need 4950 total to land on the mun and about 400 to return from the mun back to kerbin

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Basic_Rocket_Design

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Intermediate_Rocket_Design

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Cheat_sheet

Learn this shit nigga

>>14671

also get Kerbal Engineer or Mechjeb, mechjeb is kind of cheating though.

>>6701

Overengineered/10

>>15913

>playing ksp

4chan ded

Who else is here?

>>15913

List of steps (Check as you go), Learn how to:

[ ] build something that flies.

[ ] build something that flies fast.

[ ] build something that flies fast and stable.

[ ] build something that can go straight up.

[ ] build something that can go straight up into space, turn it around and land it with fuel left (use parachutes).

[ ] balance your rocket using symmetry mirror mode.

[ ] use RCS in space (or use the debug toolbar (ALT-F12) to disable gravity and play with it).

[ ] Effectively use SAS to stabilize and turn around a ship in zero gravity.

Ok, that was the basics, ready for the next part? Yes, you can google each of these things and find excellent tutorials, especially on JewTube.

Learn how to:

[ ] Get into an elliptical orbit.

[ ] Get into the atmosphere from an orbit with minimum fuel use (With enough RCS, you can deorbit a pod)

[ ] Get into a polar orbit (A North-South orbit) and then adjust the orbit into a diagonal NE-SW orbit. (Burning Normal and Anti-normal)

[ ] Make your orbit lower or higher (Burning Prograde and Retrograde).

[ ] Use Orbital maneuver nodes (Left click on the orbit line, add maneuver).

[ ] Understand how to move your orbit left and right by using the Radial and Anti-radial (This is the hula hoop manouver)

[ ] Use orbital maneuver nodes and get below 0.1 m/s to your target (by using RCS instead of the powerful rockets, or by thrust limiting)

Ok, at this point you know how to get to orbit, and move in and out of orbit. The trick of rendezvousing with planets and objects with gravity is to use the gravity to your advantage and not fight it. In space, we go into a set orbit, then we burn until the orbit becomes a long ellipse that intersects our objects (The orbit line will change to an orange color when you change to a new influence of gravity like the moon). As soon as you enter into the new field of gravity for your target, you're going to have to make yourself an orbit.

When you want to move yourself in space, the actions and maneuvers you do at one point in the orbit, affects the orbit in all places except for where you are. If you are on a crash course towards an object, you can't burn away from it to avoid a collision, you have to burn up, down, left or right to change your orbit as to avoid the object unless you want to waste a lot of fuel fighting gravity. So if you get into the Moon's gravity and you are heading for a collition course, burn in a direction that will move the Apoapsis or Periapsis away from the object, then burn prograde to make the orbit around the object when you get to the orbital node.

Continued:

>>16791

When you're ready to land on the moon, you burn prograde to change the orbit into a falling path down towards your landing site (Land on the bright side). Then use the rocket from time to time to slow down your descent speed and when you're under 100 meter height you should be slow enough to bring the ship to a complete hover at any time. Unfold the landing gear and land.

Now, you said in your post (>>15913) how to get off the rock, which requires a little bit of skill of your part. You can go for the most difficult move and do the Apollo 13 landing with a lander module and a control ship in orbit, but that's very hard for your level. Instead, pack the lander with enough fuel to bring you down on the moon and up again, half an orange should be enough with the least powerful big rocket. Now here's where most people make a big mistake: they burn straight up first, then try to burn into an orbit. This is waste of energy, instead: burn sideways and go straight into an orbit, wait to get to the other side and burn prograde to make the rest of the orbit. The most economic burns are done at the Apoapsis of the orbit and not inbetween the Apoapsis and Periapsis like you are in a movie.

As you plan for your return trip to Kerbin, make sure your orbit on the Periapsis goes below 70km (enter the atmosphere) and you won't have to waste fuel slowing down as atmosphere will do it for you. And if you are on you way out of the atmosphere again, just burn a little to make sure you stay in.

Now, ready for the intermediate part?

Learn how to:

[ ] Put a satellite in a 250k orbit (with a docking port).

[ ] Build a space shuttle or a space plane.

[ ] Learn how to get a space plane into orbit without boosters or upwards facing rockets.

[ ] Learn how to rendezvous (This is the hardest part)

Understand that rendezvous is easy once you understand orbital mechanics, but hard until you do. You're going to have to read or watch tutorials online to understand all the aspects of rendezvous as well as what an orbit is. An orbit is a freefall that has enough speed sideways to miss the planet. There's a tiny invisible rubber band that holds you in place as you fall around the sphere, and any maneuver you do will affect the other side of the orbit but the rubberband will always pull you back to where you are right now after doing a complete lap. By burning in each direction, you change in what direction you fall around the sphere, and in order to match up with another orbiting object, you'll have to predict where the object is when you adjust your orbit for the place you are going to be when you get there.

The orbital nodes will show you previews of where will be and your target and also the distance between you at that point.

Learn how to:

[ ] Get within 1km of your target.

[ ] Burn prograde to match the speed of the target and get into an orbit that will stay within 1-2 km of the target.

[ ] Use RCS to steer towards the target and put the prograde marker on the target and make sure you're heading towards your target and not away from it.

[ ] Slow down when you approach your target.

[ ] Dock with your target.

[ ] Undock and deorbit.

It took me almost a year until I started caring about docking, I was just flying around and making space planes until then. After learning how to rendezvous, I could easily do transfers to other planets, satellites and space rocks without breaking a sweat. Now the issue I have is that I sometimes face the wrong direction when I attempt to burn for something because the Map screen doesn't show the ships direction when pointing.

Contined:

>>16792

Do not be afraid of mods, especially mods that will help you count or do stuff. You don't need Mechjeb in the beginning unless you already work at NASA.

Here's a list of recommended mods that will help you a lot:

Enhanced Nav Ball (Makes the nav ball bigger)

Nav Hud (Renders the navball around the ship to allow for easier accuracy)

Trajectories (Calculates your deorbit entries and shows you projected trajectories instead of fake ones based on your current orbit)

Kerbal Engineer (Gives you tons of info about your craft, orbits, statistics while building in the SPH but also as HUDs while flying, all customizable)

Kerbal Joint Reinforcement (Stiffens the rockets without struts, this mod will actually make the game feel rigid)

And one last thing, learn about:

[ ] deltaV

[ ] Altitude for atmospheric entry

[ ] Less is more, more is less

[ ] Optimal speed to reach space (Going full burn mach 7 is not fuel efficient)

[ ] Orbital inclination (NASA doesn't go straight up and then burn sideways, they start going sideways before leaving the atmosphere)

[ ] Space planes, space planes, space planes (Building, balancing, not crashing, not breaking (One of the hardest parts in the game))

[ ] RCS balancing

[ ] Mineral scanning and mining

Good luck out there fellow Jeb.

>>16792

>>16791

>>16793

>replying to 5 month old posts

>>16794

Replying to 2 month old posts

>Remember shitchan had a /vg/ board too

>Check /kspg/

>Dead than ever

I got banned because some faggot reported my triple ship image. And I guess they've banned yuri-anon too. What about catfucker though?

Also the nerd who reported me missed an image of Iowa chocking a hot dog with her funbags.

>>20378

>What about catfucker though?

They usually ban me on sight

In the past, they've gone as far as rangebanning my phone

Nothing has managed to stop me

>>20379

In these cases I wish I had a phone. And I'm not sure if my IP is dynamic.

>>20382

Just unplug your router for 5 minutes

If you're still banned when you plug it back in, it's static

If that's the case, use this

http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx

It'll take you a while before you find an IP that isn't banned, but you'll find one

Only if you're a more rampant shitposter than me would you use up all of the working non-banned ones before the list refreshes a few hours later

>>20383

Okay, I'm going to try that.

>>20384

I should probably clarify, you should click on the "vpn gate" button with the flasks and stuff on it

Well, shit. Every server is banned.

>>20398

Not all of them

Delete the 4chan_pass cookie

>>20399

In my browser?

>>20400

Yes

>>20401

I think I'll just wait until tomorrow to post more Iowa, catfucker. Thanks though.

Why do you keep browsing this site though?

>>20402

Keeping a tab open isn't all that difficult of a task

>>20403

B-but this general is dead!

>>20404

Someone could decide to make a post, even if it's 4 months after the last one was made

>>20405

Well, were you bothered of constant Iowa posting?

>>20406

A bit, yes

>>20407

Sorry then, it wasn't my intention.

>>20408

At least you're not yurigrill

>>20409

I have to say that was kind of a suprise.

>>20410

It does make sense in retrospect, though

Her calling me a "creep" pretty much confirms it, that's pretty much a woman-only term

>>20411

I didn't mind, I thought it was some underage or gay boy like the one who posted his shimapan.