Can someone hop in a call with me and just help me with some basics soon?

[dark kestrel]

I've got 6 hours in the game but some stuff i just cant wrap my head around because i just learn better by doing.

[hallow otter]

What kind of basics you thinking?

[dull minnow]

i would assume simple construction and orbit

[hallow otter]

Can‘t call, but I can help via text!

Is that okay, Kaiden?

[dark kestrel]

yeah if you can please

Thank you

[hallow otter]

Alright, what‘s up? What do ya need?

[dark kestrel]

So its kind of hard to explain but im trying to launch a new ship

but it keeps on burning out and running out of oxigen im pretty sure. ill take a screenshot real quick

[hallow otter]

Just oxygen, or also liquid fuel?

[cosmic roost]

ah, that's the wrong fuel tank

it's a liquid fuel only fuel tank

you need a liquid fuel/oxidizer fuel tank

[dark kestrel]

damn i might be a bit dense

[hallow otter]

Try looking for tanks with „FL-T“ in the name

[hallow otter]

Np I fall for it as well

[dark kestrel]

OHHHH

okay i think i got that now

took a minute but i realised

thank you all

[cosmic roost]

by the way, that looks like not much fuel for having that many engines, you can definitely add more fuel if you want to

[hallow otter]

Yep! More fuel, more adventure!

[dark kestrel]

yeah this was just for a lil flight to observe something, im dont have enough researched for orbit yet haha

[cosmic roost]

You probably can get to orbit with the parts you currently have, but if you want it to be easy get the LV-909 Terrier engine (and get heat shields too if you don't have them already)

[hallow otter]

Plus, use decouplers and staging, for more efficiency.

[dark kestrel]

will do

this is the early redesign with the new fuel tanks

[hallow otter]

Nice! Try adding fins to the bottom, because the rocket might flip a lot.

I’ts a really common problem, and fins cure it.

[dark kestrel]

oops

[hallow otter]

Didn’t you make it to orbit? That’s great!

[dark kestrel]

yeah but i didnt prepare to get back 💀

i am cooked

[hallow otter]

Like Just_aRandomUser said, use a heat shield on the bottom of the command pod.

[cosmic roost]

eh it will probably be fine

[hallow otter]

[dark kestrel]

i will on the next model

[hallow otter]

Gl

[cosmic roost]

also when you are turning to get an orbit go east

[dark kestrel]

oh my god i might actually make it back

[hallow otter]

Yeah, Kerbin rotates, so it gives you an extra boost.

[hallow otter]

Lesgooo

[dark kestrel]

LESGOOOOO

[cosmic roost]

(heading of 90°)

[dark kestrel]

jebidiah kerman will make it home

[dark kestrel]

so this is the best for orbit?

[cosmic roost]

yup, as kerbin's rotation gives you a boost in speed

[hallow otter]

Ye, a heading of 90.

[dark kestrel]

okay thank you very much guys

[hallow otter]

Ur welcome, good luck on your journey!!!

“Once you make it to or it, you’re always halfway there!” Gene Kerman

[dark kestrel]

Coming back to this thread, im trying to earn science but im only getting 1 or 2 per experiment

[hallow otter]

I don’t know how that’s happening. Can you send a few details? When, where, and how you performed the experiment, among anything else you could think of?

[dark kestrel]

so im trying to research temp and goo, but even for new research im only getting 1 or 2 points

im trying to do it in space near kerbin

[hallow otter]

That’s not supposed to happen. Which difficulty are you on? Are you transmitting instead of recovering?

[dark kestrel]

i am recovering, im on easy

[hallow otter]

This is very strange! I don’t know. Maybe give KSP a restart?

[dark kestrel]

the thing is, this has persisted

[hallow otter]

I dunno. I have never seen something like this.

[dark kestrel]

damn

[hallow otter]

Sry

[dark kestrel]

youre all good bro dw

[hallow otter]

Thanks. I hope someone else can help.

[cosmic roost]

that means you have already done that experiment in that situation

the more you do the exact same experiment, the less science you get from it

sometimes it completely stops giving science after the first time

just go farther to get more

or land on another biome

Some experiments are "biome specific" (like an eva report while in "low space"), meaning you can do them in different biomes and they will give you science in all of them.
Some aren't, and they don't care about the biome, only the situation (landed, low atmosphere, low space, etc)

biomes meaning Kerbin's waters, Grasslands, Deserts, Lowlands, Highlands, etc (there are more obviously)

[dark kestrel]

the issue i have though is that i have only just got to orbit for the first time and did my first space goo experiment which still gave me none

[cosmic roost]

did you go suborbital before?

because science doesn't care if you are on orbit or not, only if you were in space

[dark kestrel]

the highest i went before was still not space, the text for it was that the goo was still jiggly and cold i believe, but i have only just did the one in space that says the goo is hard

[cosmic roost]

after you are done with the mission you were doing go to the research center and click on "archives" or something like that (a folder icon in the top left corner)

This is so you can check which experiments you've done before

[cosmic roost]

after that click on kerbin and then on the "in space low" situation