efaardvark Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Getting back into KSP. Saw this one on the contracts board. At first I misread it as "Leeroy", and thought, "that figures". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousEnvy Posted May 8, 2023 Author Share Posted May 8, 2023 The side effects of my new medication have been making difficult to play games for longer than 5 minutes. Have played a bit of Coffee Talk throughout the week. I also got Dead Island 2 and Jedi Survivor that I'm hoping to start this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soramee_ Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 played a lot of idol showdown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 This week I finally had time to rescue "Leeory" Jenk.. I mean Kerman from orbit. Also Barhat, Bartbro, and Ferdo. Must have been rocket failure week on Kerbin. Unfortunately all rescuees were scientists and engineers when all I needed is another pilot. Oh well. Rescuing Kerbals avoids having to pay a sign-on bonus and at a current rate of 239k kerbal bucks per hire that's a savings of about $1M right there. I can probably find a use for them. I do have a contract for a science station around Minmus that requires a science module staffed by 2 scientists, and I always put an engineer aboard for the inevitable broken antennas or solar panels. They had to wait a bit for their rescue however. I have a ship design that can rescue a single kerbal from anywhere in the kerbin/Mun/Minmus system but it costs about $50k per launch. Two rescue contracts came up at once and I grabbed them both so rather than fly two identical missions I bought some tech and designed a ship that can rescue up to 6 Kerbals at a time. Reentry is a little sketchy (it needs a good pilot) and it costs about double what the single-seat version costs so Leeory et. al. had to wait a couple weeks while I gathered funds to build and lunch it. Good thing because while I was doing that the other two rescue contracts came up. Grabbed them as well and sent up Stauki Kerman as pilot .. got 'em all in one go. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 This is the new science station, soon to be in orbit around Minmus. Currently operational as far as having Kerbals onboard and generating science but for now still orbiting Kerbin while I finish outfitting it. To save weight it was launched empty and with engines that maximized thrust at the expense of efficiency. I need to finish swapping out the engines, deliver & store supplies, finish constructing the auxiliaries, and get it refueled. Then it'll be sent to Minmus orbit to satisfy the contract. (The auxiliaries are small craft designed to gather science. Fuel is a consumable and the little craft can go and collect the science just as well without having to spend huge amounts of fuel to move the whole station around .) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 Had a couple minutes after work today to put the finishing touches on my Minmus science station. Launched and docked the supply ship containing the supplies and fuel. Got the supplies stored away, the fuel tanks filled, and the new engines attached. Ready to go to Minmus! (But not tonight.) I managed to do a really good job of piloting the refueling tanker to orbit and docking too. Good enough that it has a over a tank and a half of fuel left over after topping off the science station's tanks. I'm sure I'll be able to think of something to do with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 I successfully moved my science station to Minmus orbit. !Finally! cleared that contract. Now I get to do a bit of Minmus science collection and since Minmus orbit gives the science lab on the station a 4x bonus I'll be able to buy a steady stream of tech upgrades once that gets going. Not much left in the bank account after this project however. May have to grind a bit for cash now while I wait for the science from the lab to start coming in. Not only for the tech either.. I have an Eve flyby and science return contract that's going to require I upgrade my tracking station due to the distance and that's going to take a lot of $$$ too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousEnvy Posted May 21, 2023 Author Share Posted May 21, 2023 Zelda Breath of the Wild Finally finished the last 2 divine Beasts and went up against Calamity Ganon... he was definitely a challenge for me. Took me 2 hours to succeed in taking him down. Zeld Tears of the Kingdom Got it when it came out but didnt download it until yesterday. Was able to play through the prologue before having to save and quit due to a busy weekend. Hoping to get back into it later today sometime. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Discovered an asteroid that had passed through the Kerbin system in KSP. Guess it's time to make a push for the NERVA nuclear engine, just in case the game throws an asteroid deflection contract my way. Those can be a pain but usually the money is worth it. Also took a couple tourists to Minmus orbit and back. (Don't knock it, the pay is good.) Things got a little (more) heated on reentry than I like but ultimately everyone made it back down safely. I think it was because I still had a bunch of fuel on board. That made the vehicle heavier so it didn't slow down much before it got to the thicker atmosphere and compressed the overall heating pulse into a shorter timespan so the peak heat (and deceleration forces) were shorter but higher. I like to keep the vehicle away from those red bars. If they fill the gauge things start exploding. You can't really tell from the pic but the parts closest to exploding were the solar panels and the batteries. At this point in the mission those have pretty much served their purpose and can be lost without much impact beyond loss of a bit of profit. The panels are stowed for reentry anyway so they're not doing anything useful. If all electrical power is lost then the reaction wheel keeping the vehicle oriented lose power and the vehicle would start tumbling, with likely disastrous consequences. On this vehicle the crew capsule also has a built-in battery that's sufficient to power the reaction wheel at least through reentry so that's not really of concern here. The thing is that most of the batteries are external and while losing the stored power per se isn't a problem, if they get too hot and explode sometimes the shock of something exploding can momentarily throw off the alignment enough that the reaction wheels can't recover in time to keep most of the vehicle "behind" the engine in terms of heating before something else gets too hot and explodes. If that something else is maybe a parachute, or a crew compartment, or if it leads to a chain reaction of explosions ... well, that would be "bad". Also, changing the external surface alters the air flow and can result in off-axis aerodynamic forces that the reaction wheel can't compensate for. Again, something else might get exposed for long enough to overheat and explode. Fortunately nothing exploded and the piloting was good thanks to the pilot Stauki (only 2 of 5 stars but one of the best I have at the moment) who managed to keep most of the vehicle behind the engine, which took the brunt of the heating. Engines can take it. So everyone landed safely and the contracted payment was received. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, right? Collecting a paycheck is also right up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animechat Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 I completed SuperTux game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 Oh sure. Find, capture, and return an asteroid to Kerbin. No problem. Spoiler I'm barely even halfway through the tech tree too. What do they expect me to capture it with? A net? No fancy nuclear engines or mining/refining tech either. I need another few million $$ just to upgrade my R&D lab before I can even start researching that stuff. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Landed 4 tourists on the Mün. Still working on getting them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soramee_ Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 playing little buster again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousEnvy Posted June 1, 2023 Author Share Posted June 1, 2023 Disney Dreamlight Valley Binge playing this again. Missed out on most of last updates stuff but gonna try focusing on this one. Also been decorating the map more as well. Final Fantasy XV On my 2nd playthrough to prepare for Final Fantasy XVI. I remember when this game seemed to be really long and now that it's been out for awhile it seems short compared to today's games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 Cured a zombie villager.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 Took some more tourists to the Mün in KSP1. I had a bit of trouble when I went to land however. Somebody put a crater in exactly the wrong place and I had to use too much fuel to divert to a flatter landing zone. Landed ok in spite of that but on the ascent ran out of fuel before reaching orbit. Suborbital trajectories are "bad". They tend to intersect with the ground at high velocities. Not good for tourism. All I had left was some RCS (reaction control system) thrusters. RCS is only meant for precision control on the approach when docking with another spacecraft but you work with what you got. So I turned the lander around (RCS is in the front/top of the vehicle) and fired the RCS thrusters until they ran dry. Just barely managed to miss the ground on the way down but now everyone is stranded in orbit with no fuel and no way to even dock with another spacecraft to refuel. Not that there's anything anywhere close by to dock with. Gonna have to mount some sort of rescue operation. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 (edited) That zombie villager I cured turned out to be a weaponsmith. After giving him a grindstone and leveling him up he's offering Efficiency II / Silk Touch diamond axes and Unbreaking II diamond swords for 1 emerald apiece. Nice. Spoiler Built a new Tourist Lander in KSP1 to rescue the previous batch stranded in Mün orbit. This one has a significant increase in dV so not so likely to wind up in the same situation even if it encounters awkwardly-placed craters.. It also has a build option for an extra stage that's mostly fuel tank if that's not enough. With the extra stage it has a dV of over 5000m/s. Even without it the vehicle has a dV of over 3300m/s, compared to the stranded ship that only had around 2700. (This time out the new one isn't going to land but it has the fuel tank so it can dock with and refuel the one that ran out. It adds considerably to the cost however so for normal, non-rescue tourist missions the extra stage will be left off.) Edited June 4, 2023 by efaardvark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousEnvy Posted June 5, 2023 Author Share Posted June 5, 2023 Diablo 4 Been binge playing as a necromancer since early release on Thursday. Honestly, had no interest in the game earlier so I didn't get it until last minute. Now I'm obsessed with it. I can see why people were hyped about it. I'm currently level 17 and have been playing mostly the side missions as well as upgrading my armor and weapons as well as exploring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 (edited) The stranded tourists have been rescued. The new lander not only has plenty of fuel but due to tech upgrades since I built the first one it is a lot easier to pilot as well. That means more precise maneuvers and less wasted fuel. Only thing I don't like is that it is heavier so it tends to use more RCS fuel than the old one. That's a minor issue however. Overall it worked well. Sent it to the Mun to dock with the out-of-fuel ship and transfer over enough fuel to get it (and the tourists) back to low Kerbin orbit. Tourists are now back safely in orbit on the tourist station that I set up as a staging/refueling base for these sorts of contracts. All that remains is to send up the shuttle to bring them back down. Spoiler In other news I somehow misplaced my dV map for KSP & had to go find a replacement. The dV (delta-velocity) map is a required planning tool for pretty much any mission in KSP. Never did understand why one isn't included in the base game docs. Spoiler Edited June 5, 2023 by efaardvark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 (edited) Minecraft's "Trails and Tales" 1.20 update is here. This one might be the most interesting update since the Nether update. Gonna have to find some time to play with it. Spoiler Edited June 8, 2023 by efaardvark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Found another iron ore vein while caving in minecraft. I never even fully mined out the first one I found, and I must have pulled out enough iron ore from that one for dozens of stacks of iron blocks! Who needs an iron farm? (I do have a Fortune pickaxe tho, which helps as well.) Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 (edited) Found a deep dark biome in my brother’s Minecraft server. No city yet though, just some skulk so far. Gotta say those shriekers are pretty intimidating, especially after the second one goes off. I just grabbed a couple of each skulk block type for experimentation purposes and left. Edited June 12, 2023 by efaardvark That typoo you never see until you send Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Found out something new in minecraft. I did not know zombies could climb vines! I'm going to have to rethink some of my decorations. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Pushed my luck a bit too far while exploring a deep dark biome for an ancient city. Accidentally set off a skulk sensor hidden behind a wall and summoned a warden. Fortunately I had an escape route planned and got out of range before it finished spawning. He seemed upset that he could not find me. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 So first the good news.. I found an ancient city! Now the bad news.. there's a zombie generator somewhere inside it. Word to the wise: you DO NOT want baby zombies coming after you while you're sneaking around in an ancient city! Spoiler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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