For the transfer window, there is a clock icone at the left of the screen while fyling if you click on that you wil get a transfer window planner. Just a tip for a next time
@@Bretaxy maybe to you chad! Get over urself… your the last one who should tell others stuff is over used… have you seen your fb account?? I’ll share it if you want 😂
When you added the nose cones to the top of the fuel tanks it actually does nothing other than adding weight. For some reason, nose cones in ksp only work if attached to a node
@@xenowreborn yeah, it’s because ksp doesnt model the fluid dynamics of the air, only does a simple drag calculation based on the aerodynamics of the pieces.
@@xenowreborn yeah drag is calculated by how many open attachment nodes are exposed to the air stream. Of course parts have a set drag and lift amount, but exposed nodes are definitely the highest source of drag. That and struts.
when coming to a re entry you should set your craft to point at the _surface_ retrograde instead of orbital retrograde => that makes it so the craft is at a perfect angle, and only the bottom part (heatshield) will heat up
@@gamedog9542 My guess is that he does a lot of trial and error without knowing why something works the way it does. Some more basic knowledge of the game options and how the game functions would cut out a huge chunk. You can see it with a lot of the suggestions from the other comments.
speaking of ion engines and not enough electricity, they can survive with all the way down to 10% of energy requirements, but give less and less efficiency as you go down, all the way to 55% thrust of what it should give, so starving your engines is a viable strategy if you are itching to save weight on your electronics, tho i dont think this is practical either way, but there is a rhyme and reason to ions working when starved.
This is only true if the ascending/descending node coincides with your apoapsis. The best way to do it is to just pick whichever of your ascending/descending nodes is *closer* to apoapsis, and perform your burn there.
I think it's sometimes a net saving of dV to use a little bit of dV on pushing either one of the AN or DN onto your apoapsis from wherever it is, before changing plane. It's definitely sometimes a net saving to get a really high, really slow apoapsis before trying to execute very large changes in orbital plane.
"How much funding do we have for a new rocket?" *site director digs into his pockets and pulls out 2 coupons, a wad of chewed gum, 16 cents and a paperclip* _"we can make it work."_
now, if you wanna be technical, small parts does not mean small rocket, and cramming 500 Oscar-B fuel tanks and 300 ant engines onto a seat **is** within that range
Put things together in a rocket shape. a. Nothing happens b. Everything blows up. Watch several tutorial videos, and repeat. The first time you succeed in bringing your Kerbals back home alive, you will be filled with an overwhelming sense of elation and will be desperate to share your achievement with someone. They will not understand, but you will know that nothing you have done up to this point in your life has made you feel so alive. You will add 'Rocket Scientist ' to your CV and will draft a letter to NASA, offering them your services.
Can someone explain to me why you'd even get into orbit around kerbin and wait there for the launch window? I just burn straight up when the launchpad is pointing me in the right direction for losing/gaining speed around the sun. Isn't this more fuel efficient?
I can't burn away fast enough to directly escape with the ion engine so I'd either need to add more boosters or set up and perform multiple orbits to escape
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 I do it the same way, getting to orbit around Kerbin requires a very stable rocket also theres aero drag and physics involved, so to avoid that I strap the most powerful solid boosters for the ongoing mission Mun/Duna/Ike... and efficient boosters like puddle engine or that small one or both (nuclear engine sometimes too!) These solid boosters shoot me beyond Minimum orbit or any space in the Kerbin system location when I go straight up from launchpad and the rest is on my super efficient 5k Delta v 60t spaceship that can refuel itself on another celestial body. This is the story of how I went interplanetary without ever docking or having a "proper" start with Kerbin orbit launch. To this day I'm using the model of this rocket to send the best rovers, mining missions, tourist, satellite and science ships all over the Kerbol solar system.
@@ReidCaptain "I can't burn away fast enough to directly escape with the ion engine" I wasn't talking about escaping with the ion engines. Would be an interesting test to see how far the amount of fuel you used to get into orbit would take you when burning straight up.
Challenge idea: See how many planets/moons you can land on consecutively. As in, you launch from Kerban, then see how many planets/moons you can visit before returning.
I imagine gilly would be a great place for a small self-sufficient launchpad-colony, its elliptical orbit gives a ridiculous boost for any rockets from the colony to go interplanetary, and the low gravety makes it even easier. Pluss you get tons of solar power, being so close to the sun. Could be some major flaw I'm not thinking about though, would love to discuss.
I think a lot of it is his narration style- explaining a long complex process in lots of simple and often very similar steps, while talking quickly. Their actual voices are similar, but still distinctly different, and the trial-and-error process might also be part of why they feel similar.
A note on solar panels: You can place all of them in an action group during vehicle assembly. Lets you use one key to activate them rather than activating individually
I noticed they don't like using any kind of action group - not even to deploy the landing legs. I'm surprised they use the spacebar to change stages instead of manually separating and activating rockets lmao
I'm surprised that this guy hasn't figured out some of the more advanced mechanics after playing KSP for a long time, like switching from local to absolute to adjust the rotation of the engine because it was placed on a radial atachment point and was not straight at the beginning, But it still entertaining to watch.
Its fun for me to cringe sometimes at a lot of rookie youtubers rockets. But yours are by far the most kerbal and also some of the best made. But Also that heat shield immediately made me go "that is going to flip on reentry, right?"
Good general tip! In his case he was using twice as many engines as tanks (you can see this if you freeze frame at 2:46). It looks like he used alt for half and when the tank nodes were exhausted he eyeballed the rest.
You could have used far less solar panels and skipped the landing gear. Its gilly You could even use the most delicate hardware as landing gear there. Also you dont need a chemical return stage. As soon as in LKO just use xenon.
Might be a bit hard to do, but can you do a " To the Mun and back without ever turning down throttle" Meaning you have to have your engine going the entire time to get to the Mun. Land, and then return. If the challenge is too hard, then you could throttle down a bit for the landing. But preferably also make it back to Kerbin. Would be interesting, you could get to the Mun fast if you spec your craft for it. But havign to slow down, and then touch down on the Mun while killing your speed might be tough. Might be more of a scenario of patience vs time. Since a normal flight would take about 10 or so hours in real time, but I would want to get that extra speed to finish it sooner.
Fun fact.. you can use a kerbals parachute with the command seat part to actually affect your craft. also neat concept, to bad it uses parts clipping so heavily.
Original: sfs films For the transfer window, there is a clock icone at the left of the screen while fyling if you click on that you wil get a transfer window planner. Just a tip for a next time
After the lower and mid lower atmosphere, your fins are basically dead weight. If your boosters get you that high, you can just put the fins on the boosters and eject them with them
If you don’t already know but if you hold shift in the vab or sph you can get smaller movement with the different tools and no limit on the move tool distance.
I don't know if this has been done before, but a challenge would be to use the absolute LEAST amount of parts possible for a space mission, I don't really know Kerbal so sorry if its actually not really exciting
If you click the funky arrow to the left of the filters, you get another level of categories. The default is to group by type, but there's also groups for each radial size. :)
What else do you want to see? I have a few more KSP challenges lined up!
Make a magazine fed gun, Becuase yes and Becuase if u don’t rember, engines apply a lot of force to things in their plume,
For the transfer window, there is a clock icone at the left of the screen while fyling if you click on that you wil get a transfer window planner. Just a tip for a next time
I would like to see you get to eeloo in under 20m in height. Be difficult, but I bet you could do it
Make a reloading fireball cannon in Besiege
Try overengineering in KSP
1:48 - "there's no standalone reaction wheels that're the right size"
Small Inline Reaction Wheel: "Am I a joke to you?"
Overused meme
@@Mister_Clean Overused opinion
@@WEENUS157 Still not as overused as your mom
@@WEENUS157 Doesn't exclude that the meme is overused and therefore unfunny
@@Bretaxy maybe to you chad! Get over urself… your the last one who should tell others stuff is over used… have you seen your fb account?? I’ll share it if you want 😂
When you added the nose cones to the top of the fuel tanks it actually does nothing other than adding weight. For some reason, nose cones in ksp only work if attached to a node
Really? in all my 2K+ Hours of KSP I didn't know that
@@xenowreborn yeah, it’s because ksp doesnt model the fluid dynamics of the air, only does a simple drag calculation based on the aerodynamics of the pieces.
@@xenowreborn yeah drag is calculated by how many open attachment nodes are exposed to the air stream. Of course parts have a set drag and lift amount, but exposed nodes are definitely the highest source of drag. That and struts.
@@camera1946 The direction they're facing does matter right? Otherwise I'd be able to make a super spiky rocket that's super aerodynamic lol..
@@Cirelion Direction matters more for some parts than others. The worst are fairings and Mk2 parts.
"This is the only normal fuel tank of this size." Oscar-B fuel tank: Am I a joke to you?
I was looking for the tall cylindrical look more than anything but yeah it would have worked well
@@ReidCaptain could've just stacked a bunch of them
the baguettes are just so much better tho.
@@RAFMnBgaming lighter
Ya but it be much more weight tho
when coming to a re entry you should set your craft to point at the _surface_ retrograde instead of orbital retrograde
=> that makes it so the craft is at a perfect angle, and only the bottom part (heatshield) will heat up
Good tip, I totally forgot that was something you can do
The way you built this makes me scream.
Why
@@gamedog9542 My guess is that he does a lot of trial and error without knowing why something works the way it does. Some more basic knowledge of the game options and how the game functions would cut out a huge chunk. You can see it with a lot of the suggestions from the other comments.
speaking of ion engines and not enough electricity, they can survive with all the way down to 10% of energy requirements, but give less and less efficiency as you go down, all the way to 55% thrust of what it should give, so starving your engines is a viable strategy if you are itching to save weight on your electronics, tho i dont think this is practical either way, but there is a rhyme and reason to ions working when starved.
Could you in theory just decrease the thrust limiter or does that also decrease effiency.
@@logicbuilder1204 no.
I hate ultra efficient slow ships. I mean: Save a few pounds of weaght and take another 5 years. and burn hours at a time
@@Wyatt125 No as in it doesn't decrease efficacy or no you can't do that.
Just so u know, I believe its more efficient to perform the burn that corrects your plain at the apoapsis of your orbit
correct, the further away you are, the less expensive inclination changes are
This is only true if the ascending/descending node coincides with your apoapsis. The best way to do it is to just pick whichever of your ascending/descending nodes is *closer* to apoapsis, and perform your burn there.
@@davygibbons4098 I'm talking about the burn around eve, before he had a trajectory for gilly, but otherwise, yes you are correct.
I think it's sometimes a net saving of dV to use a little bit of dV on pushing either one of the AN or DN onto your apoapsis from wherever it is, before changing plane.
It's definitely sometimes a net saving to get a really high, really slow apoapsis before trying to execute very large changes in orbital plane.
@@richardbarrell4043 yeah you might be right
Somehow watched the whole video at normal speed and finished a minute after it was released
The time in the notifications menu does not update in real time, nor the videos to the right of the screen (or down if on phone/TV)
@@thegamingidiots7012 ah. Thanks for clearing that up for me
I didn’t appreciate just how small it was until you got out. That was the size of a carnival stand
All this KSP content is a delight, this game is so very Reid
2:54 Bro placed so many baguettes that the rocket became french instead of American
"How much funding do we have for a new rocket?"
*site director digs into his pockets and pulls out 2 coupons, a wad of chewed gum, 16 cents and a paperclip*
_"we can make it work."_
the fact that it's so small that it is considered a rover is hilarious
15:52 What an explosive comeback! In Kerbal style!
“ hey guys today I have decided to completely humiliate you”
me: builds a regular rocket and uses tweakscale
1:30 bro just made an actual Bacteriophage... (the virus)
This is the definition of "More Boosters!".
"Only tiny parts"
*Uses +20 parts, making size irrelevant*
Also doesn’t use all available tiny parts
now, if you wanna be technical, small parts does not mean small rocket, and cramming 500 Oscar-B fuel tanks and 300 ant engines onto a seat **is** within that range
0:05- 0:15 he really sounded like the 🤓
Me a couple years ago: ah yes delta V my favourite fuel type
you sound like a more enthusiastic version of Nile Red
Meanwhile there's me who has a rocket capable of visiting cool just to get to the moon (and fail at doing so):
"Its unstable"
RCS: ...
This is gonna get a million views I promise you guys
you didn't need the parachute because you could just use the kerbal's chute
True, but he can reclaim some of that money from recovering the vessel
How do people even begin to understand such complex games? I feel like I need a bachelor just to play such games. My head's fried just watching lol
Put things together in a rocket shape.
a. Nothing happens
b. Everything blows up.
Watch several tutorial videos, and repeat.
The first time you succeed in bringing your Kerbals back home alive, you will be filled with an overwhelming sense of elation and will be desperate to share your achievement with someone.
They will not understand, but you will know that nothing you have done up to this point in your life has made you feel so alive.
You will add 'Rocket Scientist ' to your CV and will draft a letter to NASA, offering them your services.
Can someone explain to me why you'd even get into orbit around kerbin and wait there for the launch window?
I just burn straight up when the launchpad is pointing me in the right direction for losing/gaining speed around the sun. Isn't this more fuel efficient?
I can't burn away fast enough to directly escape with the ion engine so I'd either need to add more boosters or set up and perform multiple orbits to escape
it's much less efficient and much more difficult
@@magica3526 Can you explain why it's less efficient? And what about it is more difficult?
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 I do it the same way, getting to orbit around Kerbin requires a very stable rocket also theres aero drag and physics involved, so to avoid that I strap the most powerful solid boosters for the ongoing mission Mun/Duna/Ike... and efficient boosters like puddle engine or that small one or both (nuclear engine sometimes too!) These solid boosters shoot me beyond Minimum orbit or any space in the Kerbin system location when I go straight up from launchpad and the rest is on my super efficient 5k Delta v 60t spaceship that can refuel itself on another celestial body. This is the story of how I went interplanetary without ever docking or having a "proper" start with Kerbin orbit launch. To this day I'm using the model of this rocket to send the best rovers, mining missions, tourist, satellite and science ships all over the Kerbol solar system.
@@ReidCaptain "I can't burn away fast enough to directly escape with the ion engine" I wasn't talking about escaping with the ion engines. Would be an interesting test to see how far the amount of fuel you used to get into orbit would take you when burning straight up.
Fun fact: if you jump on gilly without a jetpack then you literally die to falling
More kerbal space. The game where it destroys your pc.
To you should do small ✈️ next
Goofy ahh rocket go BRRRRRRR
now use only the biggest parts
Is this the ecorocket heavy?
Me when I refresh comments and no new appear
Go to the sun
why waste mass on a parachute when your kerbal has one?
make it to eve with the biggest parts
Aaaa yes, total insanity
This is incredible.
Such a cheap run!
Man I wish that Kerbal Space Program was free
You can always do *fishy* things to get it...😉
Challenge idea: See how many planets/moons you can land on consecutively. As in, you launch from Kerban, then see how many planets/moons you can visit before returning.
FYI if you enable advanced mode in the part selector you can filter by size profile
This,,,a challenge from going jumbo size to tiny,
It is isnt tiny😡ITS AVERAGE!!!!!!
I imagine gilly would be a great place for a small self-sufficient launchpad-colony, its elliptical orbit gives a ridiculous boost for any rockets from the colony to go interplanetary, and the low gravety makes it even easier. Pluss you get tons of solar power, being so close to the sun. Could be some major flaw I'm not thinking about though, would love to discuss.
bros from the future
harry potter
Also eves year is less then kerbin, combine this with the low gravity of Gilly and getting a transfer window should be easier
It would be difficult to keep kernels on gilly. One Olympic jump might send them into orbit.
@@TurkeyTrayjust dont get kerbals out?
why do you sound like nilered?
NileReid
I think a lot of it is his narration style- explaining a long complex process in lots of simple and often very similar steps, while talking quickly. Their actual voices are similar, but still distinctly different, and the trial-and-error process might also be part of why they feel similar.
He does, they should do a collab
A note on solar panels: You can place all of them in an action group during vehicle assembly. Lets you use one key to activate them rather than activating individually
I noticed they don't like using any kind of action group - not even to deploy the landing legs. I'm surprised they use the spacebar to change stages instead of manually separating and activating rockets lmao
@@the10thdimension And everyone uses G to deploy landing legs, didn't stop him from not doing it
THERE ARE TINY REACTION WHEELS AAAAAAAAAAAAA
I'm surprised that this guy hasn't figured out some of the more advanced mechanics after playing KSP for a long time, like switching from local to absolute to adjust the rotation of the engine because it was placed on a radial atachment point and was not straight at the beginning, But it still entertaining to watch.
damn im here so early my dad aint even back with the milk yet
By the way, the radioisotope thermoelectric generators are a system that always produces power indefinitely
Is Reid Captain the same person as Nile Red by any chance? just got two videos back to back and noticed the similar voice and speech pattern
aldsey is the real legend, rode through space for weeks on a folding chair strapped to a couple solar panels
Its fun for me to cringe sometimes at a lot of rookie youtubers rockets. But yours are by far the most kerbal and also some of the best made. But Also that heat shield immediately made me go "that is going to flip on reentry, right?"
get to minmus and back using only plea rocket engines
How did I get here so fast
You can hold Alt in order to snap only to nodes so you don't get the engine crooked
Good general tip! In his case he was using twice as many engines as tanks (you can see this if you freeze frame at 2:46). It looks like he used alt for half and when the tank nodes were exhausted he eyeballed the rest.
Main assembly 6 in 1
Car + plane + helicopter + boat + hovercraft + submarine
Love the content and your personality man you are very entertaning
These types of KSP videos reignited my love for KSP. Glad I found your channel.
Looks pretty average if you ask me🤷♂️
Small but efficient
I wish lol
@@ReidCaptain hahah
What do you mean that there was no stand-alone reaction wheel?
he meant that there were no parts that were just reaction wheels that were the right size
bruh there literally is a small reaction wheel
I could be misunderstanding but the wiki says that one doesn't connect to SAS, which would make it tricky to control
@@ReidCaptain
It Does Connect To SAS.
You could have used far less solar panels and skipped the landing gear.
Its gilly
You could even use the most delicate hardware as landing gear there.
Also you dont need a chemical return stage. As soon as in LKO just use xenon.
Might be a bit hard to do, but can you do a " To the Mun and back without ever turning down throttle" Meaning you have to have your engine going the entire time to get to the Mun. Land, and then return.
If the challenge is too hard, then you could throttle down a bit for the landing. But preferably also make it back to Kerbin. Would be interesting, you could get to the Mun fast if you spec your craft for it. But havign to slow down, and then touch down on the Mun while killing your speed might be tough. Might be more of a scenario of patience vs time. Since a normal flight would take about 10 or so hours in real time, but I would want to get that extra speed to finish it sooner.
Now getto orbit only using monopropelant
go on the begining 0s and spam back 5s
I like your videos but some quick criticism, I don’t really see this as a very difficult KSP challenge. If this was a mission to Tylo then I’d say ok
Fun fact.. you can use a kerbals parachute with the command seat part to actually affect your craft. also neat concept, to bad it uses parts clipping so heavily.
Nice video, but when are we gonna see Eve rescue pt 2?
Sometime soonish, I've been trying to wait a little while so I can go back into it fresh
@@ReidCaptain Makes sense. Excited to see more videos!
Just speak normal. Stop flexing your voice so much. It is hard on the ears after a few minutes 😅. Just some helpful thoughts.
Original: sfs films
For the transfer window, there is a clock icone at the left of the screen while fyling if you click on that you wil get a transfer window planner. Just a tip for a next time
After the lower and mid lower atmosphere, your fins are basically dead weight. If your boosters get you that high, you can just put the fins on the boosters and eject them with them
Dude, I *love* your ideas, but your rocket/vehicle building is so, *so* cursed....
Only the biggest things or worst
Way to many solar panels. It's not weight efficient, better to just use two of the large folding ones.
Oh god the pain of watching you try to get a reaction wheel, there is a small reaction wheel in the controll tab. Good video though!
oscar-b tanks exist…?
If you don’t already know but if you hold shift in the vab or sph you can get smaller movement with the different tools and no limit on the move tool distance.
What about going to Laythe with only the Rapier engine?
How come u land back at Kerbin with the ship that doesn’t have the flappy solar Panals
I don't know if this has been done before, but a challenge would be to use the absolute LEAST amount of parts possible for a space mission, I don't really know Kerbal so sorry if its actually not really exciting
There have actually been people doing THREE part missions in this game! It's pretty incredible what people can do.
@@randomaster138Stratzenblitz75 used only 3 parts to get to Ike, Duna, and Minmus, as well as getting back to Kerbin!
Not the absolute throbber of a rocket at 4:17 😭 Things just twitching waiting to blow
This reminds me of the SNL Californians episodes.
here's a tip: if you have it set to snap, using the move or rotate tool will align parts perfectly.
Try to visit every planet in the Körbel system with using only ion engines
Modded capacitors make ion engine burns way less painful
Eve pro players forgot struts, I'll go easy and enable autostruts
I have absolutely no idea what he’s saying
Try setting playback speed at 0.75 lol
Start building a dyson sphere. in future it could be used to recharge batteries.
Get to every planet, with only using the smallest part in the game in the smallest fuel tank in the game
@Reid Captain I still think you should play space engineers
can you beat baseige without deleting a block from your machine
I watched this video and acted like i understood what you were talking about
you could have made it easier for yourself by sorting the parts lists by size. just above the parts list is a filter system
If you click the funky arrow to the left of the filters, you get another level of categories. The default is to group by type, but there's also groups for each radial size. :)
You sound like NileRed in a good way
is it just me or does this guy sound like nile red