u/Independent-Banana35

Image 1 — My lunar transfer vehicle
Image 2 — My lunar transfer vehicle
Image 3 — My lunar transfer vehicle

My lunar transfer vehicle

This is my lunar transfer vehicle, I named it "Ioannina" after a Greek name, idk it looked cute to me. It is currently carrying a lander and a surface base module as payload, to begin with the colonization of the moon!

It's using the mod "Hopiter's nuclear engines" powered by two Thorium Engines (they're actually powered by Uranium but that's the name of the engines in game) and heat dissipation is managed by two radiator arrays.

With a TWR less than 1 it doesn't have apocalyptic thrust but it does have scrumptious amounts of efficiency, capable of at least two round trips carrying more than 200 tonnes of payload (as far as I have tested it) bound for Earth-Moon environment, ts is basically the peak of nuclear spacecraft for manned missions.

I like to keep my designs as grounded as possible and not over-design them, I hate seeing those builds of spacecraft with tons of unnecessary "decoration" which at the end just takes away all the ∆v, my focus is always usefulness, but I also focus on doing a nice design.

u/Independent-Banana35 — 18 hours ago

Extremely proud of my custom translation

I have sucessfully perfected my custom translation to its peak. It just includes like two or three jokes like this one, but the rest is just a professional-type of text, with nerdy definitions and stuff, also comically classy language.

Back to SFS 1.4

Sublime feeling, 1.4.06 was the last version to use electricity, gives me SO MUCH nostalgia. After resetting my phone and being unable to restore purchases on SFS 1.6 (full bundle) I got frustrated and decided to go back to 1.4 and started playing, now deciding it's going to be my standard version to play on mobile and I will let 1.6 gameplay be on my PC once I can buy SFS on Steam 😁, because I am unable to restore my purchases in SFS 1.6 cuz it'll just be stuck on the space background screen and nothing happens 😭, but I'm having so much fun in 1.4 rn

u/Independent-Banana35 — 6 days ago

To Saturn!

My crewed mission is en route to Saturn aboard the interplanetary exploration vessel "Midgard". It carries some habs, landers and rovers, primarly to explore it's moon Titan! I have enough fuel to explore more moons with the remaining landers

u/Independent-Banana35 — 11 days ago

HIIII THIS IS MY CUSTOM TRANSLATION FOR SFS, I made it for fun

Here's the link to it, it's mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/q1qw2tam5mpi6oa/Stylish.txt/file

This custom translation aims to make the game highly refined, encouraging and, as the name, stylish, also includes witts, sarcasm and satire, to make the game even more interesting.

I recommend playing on less than 90% interface scale, since there are some large texts c:

Key changes:

IMPORTANT: The credits (now called Attributions) have been completely changed, I mean, like EVERYTHING in this pack, but I STRONGLY RECOMMEND you read them, as it includes something important. Contains references to space movies/shows.

- All the menus, from main menu to building menu, have now changed display texts everywhere. The expansions (now called Marketplace) are changed, every single one, give them a read, I made sure to make them certainly something.

- Every engine and part has now unique descriptions (some repeated because the game can't let you make a custom translation for each individual part of the game) including general advices, with some sarcasm and witts.

- Challenges are completely changed, now called Milestones, they aren't just "mercury challenges" or stuff, now they include unique titles, mainly references to media, but they are now even more artistic, making them have real worth. This is up to Mars, the custom translation doesn't let you change every single challenge name from each celestial body, only from Mercury to Mars, I wish you could change each one though :(

- The locations of celestial bodies remain unchanged, except for the Shangri La Ocean in Titan which I changed to Kraken Mare Ocean, because that's the name of the real largest ocean in Titan, though the game has a fictional model of Titan. I initially thought on naming moon locations after their scientific names (e.g. Oceanus Procellarum for Ocean of Storms) but concluded that it wouldn't be that much needed.

- The entire flight UI has changed, it now includes technical and nerdy displays (such as altimeter for altitude) but the most important part is that they now include clear, concise and/or compact definitions (like "velocity relative to target), navigation is more refined, they can turn the game into more descriptive, and overall, they look science-y and nerdy to have.

- Tutorials and pop-up messages have been changed, I made sure that every single one followed the pack's stylish, classy and satiric way. (You may get insulted by a pop-up, like "No fuel source" or trying to open parachutes in a vacuum).

- And many more changes, go give this refined language pack a try.

This is my first custom translation, I probably will update it if the game updates and introduces new things :D

u/Independent-Banana35 — 17 days ago

Hi all, I'm making a custom translation I will release publicly, as you can see, it seems very classy and stylish and that's precisely what it is going to be, I'm planning to name it "Stylish" or something, and now of course it won't be all boring, I will add sarcasm and unfunny stuff, oh and also I will redesign the entire achievements catalog with titles of my own! (things I think about, or things of my likins such as games, music, shows, etc). Doing this for fun and partly inspired by Sprinty's vulgar translation pack which I enjoyed a lot hehe, I will upload it here once it's ready if anyone wants

u/Independent-Banana35 — 18 days ago

Hard mode, from our aerospace corporation, Alynx Corporation (forget the "our" because it's just me lol, just for dramatic effect) here is the Grey Forest RSP (Reconnaissance Probe), mission Midgard 1, in preparation for upcoming mission Midgard 3 that will send the Midgard IEV (Interplanetary Exploration Vessel) to Saturn, the one in the last image, to build the foundations for future permanent presence in the Saturnian system, particularly on Titan.

The Grey Forest probe is powered by a nuclear engine of Helium 3 extracted from the moon, it carries necessary communication equipment for earth-saturn network, a telescope, cameras and atmospheric, spectro and radiometer instruments. The probe will be useful for identifying landing spots on moons for the Midgard IEV, study atmospheres and map potential hazards, everything to support the upcoming crewed arrival.

Currently, the next scheduled mission is Midgard 2, which will send crew to the Midgard IEV in LEO so the preparations can begin for Midgard 3 to Saturn, they will be transported in a multi-purpose SSTO, called Resistance MSC (Multi-purpose Spacecraft), it has around 5 km/s of ∆v.

Probably multiple flights will be done to the Midgard IEV in LEO, because staff rotation is a bit complicated right now and we are dealing with pilot shortage, so some engineers and scientists will receive additional training in transit to Saturn so they can learn to pilot the landers, they are four, named Avanti Landers. The vessel is expected to carry at least 10 of our best astronauts: Pilots, scientists, engineers, specialists, etc.

u/Independent-Banana35 — 20 days ago

Hii everyone, I'm sharing some set of rules I have invented for my world in SFS, since I like roleplaying and creating my own realistic world with original everything, I have some set of rules to follow to acceptably allow the use of some "cheats" that are not really cheats with proper justification, and I find it surprising how much you can get out of this game with roleplay. This is just my way of playing, I just thought it would be cool to share it in case anyone is interested in ways to make their world feel more alive and worth it.

!!!!!THIS IS ALL JUST A WAY FOR ROLEPLAY!!!!!

u/Independent-Banana35 — 21 days ago

This is the Midgard IEV, it carries 4 landers, 4 habitat modules and 4 rovers, it is designed to orbit around Saturn or (if possible) around Titan, the goal is to explore and land in every one of its moons, deploying the habitat modules and rovers in some ones (primarly thought about Titan). It has around 9 km/s of ∆v in total (Counting 5.1 km/s from fully fueled to half fuel, then 3.9 km/s from half fueled, cargo detached and only landers docked to empty).

I had to use blueprint editing to make larger ion engines with more thrust because if I used the stock ones it would have taken me an estimated of 1.5 hours IN REAL TIME to accelerate JUST 1 KM/S done calculations. I mean, it would be the equivalent to do a long haul flight in a flight simulator but I would have to manually fly a spiraling orbit to Saturn and the capture burn would have taken longer, all of this for hours, and my phone is my only device 😭

Would really love to have special engines in vanilla like nuclear engines, and I refuse to use mods because you can't use them while being offline and I love when games are just fully playable online, I refuse to just being able to play modded with wifi, since I am not always connected to it.

Oh, of course, and this will be assembled in orbit with the rocket in the second image, named Cassiopeiae LV, then refueling flights to LEO. All of this was built in vanilla.

u/Independent-Banana35 — 26 days ago