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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
 Posted - 10/03/2013 : 06:56:47
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So i'm here to reccomend the app SimpleRockets, a 2d homage to the truly fantastic Kerbal Space Program rocketry simulator.
This little app packs a lot of punch for a few bucks. Build your rocket and try to acheive orbit, Land on the Moon and return or visit any of the planets. Lots of little things make this a great buy including air braking, variable atmospheres and rovers.
Solid physics based engine and a good programmer who actually updates his product. When I got it a month ago a trip to Neptune took about 6 hours at 50,000x speed, since then he added 1Mx and 2.5Mx speed making it about a minute trip. Of course actually landing on Neptune is a different story as you will need to time your burns and carefully modify your orbit while conserving fuel to reach Neptunes sphere of influence. Then the hard part!
Only issue so far is that my crappy little smartphone can't handle my ludicrisly large and unstable rockets, slowed it down to about 1/20th speed while burning 100 engines at once:)
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Edited by - BigPapaSmurf on 10/03/2013 09:55:20
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2013 : 10:10:42 [Permalink]
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Other fun notes,
Put wheels on the side of a rocket and watch it fall over and then try to race it around the planet!
Land "safely" on Venus without even a parachute, the air is so thick...(no pressure crush to worry about thankfully)
Jupiter and Saturn have fake surfaces so you can try to take off from or land there...
Minor Gripes:
Too difficult to gravity boost on anything besides Jupiter and the Moon, then again I don't actually want to perform any Calculus so it's no big deal.
What It needs still: more moons, It's impossible to acheive orbit around Jupiter as the air thickness and 300+m/s/s gravity prevent you from reaching the 10k+m/s you'll need. It would be nice if there were some low orbit moons which might be reached from the surface. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2013 : 11:05:25 [Permalink]
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Sounds cool. I played around with KSP for a bit on my desktop machine.
I don't own a smartphone, so I'm outta luck with SimpleRockets. |
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