Cool New mission

[DanSteph]

One ship is around Moon, due to an explosion aboard
many circuit are down and all the fuel is gone.
The problem is that this ship is spinning and turning
without control so as soon as they will get out of the airlock
the crew member will be ejected while turning and spinning
themself. This will make their rescue even more difficult.

Feel free to translate and put your "hand" to this story

Wanted to share this new because I just made the code
to eject them if the ship have an rotational speed. (pitch/yaw only)
This is logic.


Don't know what happen in this galaxy but it seem many ship broke
those last time

Dan

[canadave]

Dan, what's the object in this scenario?  Dock to the other ship and provide fuel?  Or retrieve the
crew?

Dave

[Felisian]

Ok, how about this one:


"---- Red Alert! -----

You knew there was something fishy with the new engineer at Moonbase Three; but then again, no-one had
ever said anything bad about him... come to think of it, no-one had ever sad anything good about him either.
Either way, Commander Erikson decided to fly his passangers to OB-1 as normal; ignoring your warnings
that the engineer who had taken it upon himself to 'optimize' the engines of the DeltaGlider, had arrived
just a few days ago. Erikson should have listened to you.
While he was 'climbing' the lunar gravity field, an explosion onboard crippled his Glider, destroying its
engines and life support systems. Luckily, he and his passengers managed to ejected themselves from the
Glider into space just after the explotion. Good news is that they got spacesuits, so they'll survive,
bad news: their air supply will be out in less then an hour.
So you will need to jump into your own Glider, take off, rendezvous and rescue the poor people in lunar
orbit. Better hurry up: death isn't good for buisness."





Post Edited (02-17-04 17:32)

[DanSteph]

mhhh that's fine felisian but if they eject
before the rescue ship is near them you will have an hell
mission.

The goal is too reach this ship in high ecc orbit around
the moon, to place your rescue ship near it. and then
only to eject the crew, as the ship is turning and spinning
instead of staying in front of the airlock each crewmen
will be ejected (by centrifuge force) and also turning and
spinning himself making his rescue difficult (you must fly each crewmen
of course).

Also take care to make a bit shorter and to go straight to the goal,
the windows that show those text is small and hardly readable.
(it's the small scenario window in orbiter, not really pleasant)

Thanks anyway

Dan

[Felisian]

Yup, sorry about that, I got a bit carried away.

My second attempt:

"A DeltaGlider has been stranded in lunar orbit after a critical failure that crippled the ship: leaving
it with no engines and barely any life support. You will need to rendezvous with it and save the crew
before its too late. Take care that the ship is spinning out of control, which could complify the rescue
attempt"   

It's still a bit long though, but I hope its better then my other one...



Post Edited (02-17-04 22:19)

[Arkalius]

"complify the rescue attempt"

I've never heard the word complify... did you mean complicate? hehe

[DanSteph]

can you just add that the crew must perform an eva from the broken
ship to the rescue one ?

I'm affraid I'll broke your text if I do that myself

Thanks anyway

Dan

[Felisian]

Ok, I'll try:

"A DeltaGlider has been stranded in lunar orbit after a critical failure that crippled the ship: leaving
it spinning out of control with no engines and barely any life support. You will need to rendezvous with
it and save the crew before its too late. Due to the sorry state of their Glider, they will have to
perform an inter-ship EVA - an operation which could get complicated due to the fast rotation of their
wrecked ship. Good luck!"



Post Edited (02-17-04 23:39)

[DanSteph]

Perfect

I take it like that...

Thank you Sir

Dan

[canadave]

If I may edit:

"An onboard O2 tank explosion has left a DeltaGlider III spinning out of control in lunar orbit.  Its
engines are inoperative and the ship has minimal life support. You will need to rendezvous with
the ship and rescue the crew.   Because their ship's nose docking clamps were damaged in the
explosion, each member of the crew will have to perform an EVA, then ingress through your ship's
airlock.  Remember, the crippled ship is spinning, which will complicate retrieving the EVA crew.
Good luck!"

--Dave

[canadave]

whoa...my last post appeared hours after I posted it!  Must be that Einsteinian time dilation.

Dave

[DanSteph]

strange things appear with my site, my counter explode I must restore it from older
version and sometime my site is unavailable, not really serious, I mailed already
but no response for now.

Dan

[Arkalius]

Well I just completed this mission. It wasn't too tough. I learned that you shouldn't park the
rescue ship too close to the damaged one. About 500m away is good. Then the trick is ejecting
the crew members so that they go flying in the general direction of the rescue ship. With 500m
you have enough time to slow down before you pass up or slam into the rescue ship.

Then of course it's just a matter of landing back on the moon which is much easier than an earth
landing hehe. I have a screenshot of all the crew safe and sound at brighton beach but I don't
have anywhere on the web to put it so oh well...

[Zamzara]

Just completed the new mission. Had a very near miss when the spinning DG nearly whacked one of the
spacewalkers round the head when he wandered too close, but I got away with it.

Landed at the new Moonbase Alpha after the rescue; that new auto descent rate hover mode is awsome! It
dropped me from about 15000m down to 2000 at 80 m/s before slowing down: absolutely terrified me but it
sure knows what it's doing. It started to slow the descent at 2000m and brought me down to a smooth
touchdown at just 1 m/s!

[DanSteph]

Seeeeend it to me I'll post it here around

CONGRAT !!!!

This guy -------------------> ARKALIUS 1ST


Your the first one to have rescued this crew...


I tried this mission it seemed fun but I was lazy taking of
from moon ... (bhoooo)  well, I have much work also


Dan

[DanSteph]

Posting too fast here the new contest classment:


CONGRAT !!!!

This guy -------------------> ARKALIUS 1ST  
This guy -------------------> ZAMZARA  2ND

Both have a and


After release it would be fun to organise some mini contest
with new mission and a list of the winner ?

Dan

[Yeffers]

If I could get any messages out to the crew, it would be to hold hands while they go EVA. Would
greatly simplify rescuing them if they were not all floating off in different directions.

[DanSteph]

You can make them floating in the same direction, just wait that the ship point
always the same location before ejecting a member.
(F1 external view F2 F2 "global frame" mode  search the rescue ship, once both in view
you just need to wait that the ship point near the rescue ship and quick "F1" and eject
one member. (then F1 again, wait ... etc etc)

Dan

[EndeavourCmdr]

Just completed the mission. First try. Not so hard really especially if you pay attention to the crew
members helmet huds. One other trick I used was to stop all relative velocity between the crew
member and the rescue ship, and then move the RESCUE SHIP, to the CREW MEMBER.
Saves both alot of time , O2, and fuel.
Fun mission. Everyone is safely back at Brighton Beach as I write this.

[AndrewG]

Orbited,
made rendezvous
transferred two crew members
CTD when I ordered the transworld captain to EVA
apart from that...only thing is make the transponders different in the scenario file - theres three
ships there beeping 108 out.
Fun scenario in any case...loved the between ship EVAs  

[Arkalius]

Using external view to "throw" the EVA guy in the right direction will work, but if you're going for
realism, you have to stay in the cockpit (and not slow down time) to do it... It would be useful if
there was an EVA key so that way we could stay in the middle cockpit view to watch where the
ship is facing while we eject the crew member. As it is I have to remember the pitch and heading
and watch the backup attitude displays in the lower panel to do it right. It works but it's tough.

[DanSteph]

I can put a key for that (E?) but you still have to select the guy
before pressing the key.

Dan

[Arkalius]

That would be fine