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[Rangerscott]

Well I can get myself WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY the fuck out there on my own orbit but no moon aiming. Dry cell boosters suck donkey balls. Can't figure out how to syncronise fuel cells. I can make a vid showing the problem.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

Well I can get myself WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY the fuck out there on my own orbit but no moon aiming. Dry cell boosters suck donkey balls. Can't figure out how to syncronise fuel cells. I can make a vid showing the problem.

you got to adjust your stages to synch em right, put the engines and fuel on the same stages as the previous stage decoupler. So as soon as you decouple the previous stage, the current stage engines fire. Dry fuel boosters are good at low altitude (below 15km), you need to put them on the side decouplers, so you can toss them as soon as they run out.

[Rangerscott]

Originally Posted by Trip

you got to adjust your stages to synch em right, put the engines and fuel on the same stages as the previous stage decoupler. So as soon as you decouple the previous stage, the current stage engines fire. Dry fuel boosters are good at low altitude (below 15km), you need to put them on the side decouplers, so you can toss them as soon as they run out.

Got it that way. For some reason this one stage burns the barrels at different rates. Four of them will burn in sync but the others drain at different rates. I just decoup before the four that are synced before they fully drain.

[pauldun170]

Running through some older titles I picked up on steam sales.
Dead Space 2 on downstairs PC (aka no kids looking over my shoulder asking me to play)
Dirt 2 and Rayman Origins on the living room HTPC

[Trip]

I have had that happen on several ships, it seems when you go tricouple on a very large rocket, it fucks everything up. I have started avoiding the stupid tricouple and had much better luck. I finally got a good ship that can make it to the Mun regularly. It looks fucking retarded though, so I call it the flying dumbass.

[Dave]

So tell me how an android scummvm save works with a PC installation but it wont work the other way around? What a pain, really gonna slow down my pre-date conversation prep.

[Rangerscott]

God dammit this game is pissing me off. Every fucking time I restart my ship is different. Either the firing order changes, it's not sitting flat on the pad, some of the boosters don't fire. FUCK! I have to go into assembly every time and rearrange shit.

Just started up the game and the first lift off was good but I timed my decoupling wrong so I blew up. Start over and some fucking how, a tiny has engine some how magically appeared on one of the 9 on the bottom and replaced a big one.

[Trip]

Even when you save and reload the order changes?

Mine only changes when I change parts around. Anytime you delete or add a part it redoes the firing order. Don't set your order til you are completely done building the ship. Then save as soon as you reorder after finishing building it. If you modify the ship in anyway, it goes back to default order.

Landed on the moon tonight successfully with enough fuel to make it back. Screwed my return angle up and floated away to a gloomy death.

[Trip]

Use this tutorial to build your moon landing section, the top section. It works great. Never had good luck with the orbit and travel rocket, I will post mine up after this post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGd_BFu9e10

[Trip]

Here is my rocket, it has morphed from the flying dumbass to the Barrel Roll Mk 4.

The top is that tutorial moon landing sectin.

The inner section is five large liquid fuels and the smaller engine.

The middle six sections are five large liquid fuels with the larger engines attached at the top with the side decouplers and attached to the center and each other with the braces.

The outer solid fuel boosters are in four stages.

Bottom stage is 12 side decouplers with 2 attached to each of the six middle section fuel stacks. There are 12 more solid fuel boosters attached to the inner 12. You have to brace the crap out of these to each other. This bottom ring has to be slightly lower than the middle six engines. This is the ring you want on the pad.

The next 3 stages are just 12 decouplers attached 2 each to the six middle. No braces needed.

The firing order is this.

Bottom 24 solid rockets and 6 middle large rockets

drop bottom 24 solid and start 12 next level solid

drop 12 and start next 12

drop 12 and start last 12

drop last 12

middle 6 will keep going and you can make your 90 or 270 degree turn for the moon at 50km.

drop middle 6 and fire inner small rocket.

inner small rocket will get orbit to moon and get you to the moon and you will drop it with fuel hopefully right before you touch down

drop inner to land and start final engine

drop wings

drop fuel tank/sas/engine

parachute