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Kerbal Space Program
Sordid:
--- Quote from: On Fire For Christ on Jul 12, 2011, 04:15:59 PM ---is there any way to tell if you've achieved orbit? other than just waiting
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Not really. You can make an educated guess based on your speed and direction of travel, but that's about it. Future versions should have more instrumentation to help with orbital maneuvers. For the moment you're just going to have to eyeball it.
On Fire For Christ:
ok last question. How do you know what your ground speed is? I was at 100k meters going about 2250m/s, but I dunno how you work out how much of that is a vertical component. Basically I was going the right speed, but most of that speed was heading downwards.
Edit: just got an orbit going, got down to 48k and altitude started climbing again. Not sure how stable this orbit will be though.
It's made 3 orbits now, seems to be very stable, perigee of about 45000m and 2500m/s, apogee is about 375000m and 1700m/s, orbiting for 1 hour 45 minutes. I think i have this game pretty much beat.
Sordid:
--- Quote from: On Fire For Christ on Jul 12, 2011, 05:37:20 PM ---ok last question. How do you know what your ground speed is? I was at 100k meters going about 2250m/s, but I dunno how you work out how much of that is a vertical component. Basically I was going the right speed, but most of that speed was heading downwards.
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You have a variometer at the top of the screen, that can give you an idea of how much of your total speed is the vertical component.
On Fire For Christ:
there's a new version out. I haven't read the changelog, but some of the rocket design problems I was complaining about have been addressed.
PANTS!:
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