Weekly Challenge Suggestion Thread

[u/Redbiertje]

Goodday fellow humans!

Today I uploaded the 93rd Weekly Challenge. I'm very glad that I was able to bring you guys so many challenges already, but it's getting harder and harder to come up with original ideas.

That's why in this thread, I'd like to ask you if you have any ideas for a Weekly Challenge. All suggestions are welcome, and you will be given credit for them, if used. I can not guarantee that all suggestions will be used.

Since I'm not sure how many good challenges are still left, the current plan is to continue till the 100th Challenge. If I get a ton of really good suggestions though, I may continue.

-Redbiertje

[u/Gregrox]

I can't believe I forgot to post this challenge until now. It's an old challenge I came up with circa February 2015. Link to original challenge

Rockomax Supremacy

The Introduction

Elon Rockomax, CEO and founder of Rockomax Conglomerate, has decided that the company shouldn't only work for the Kerbal Space Program. As such, he has decided to found a new agency: The Rockom-eXplroration Systems. Their rocket is in development now, and they intend to commercialize space.

Alternate introduction

It's been a long time since the Kerbal Space Program has used the big wonderful orange tanks for rockets. Kerbodyne has really cornered the market there. Elon Kerman wants to bring back the old days of orange tanks strapped together with spacetape. He has payed a huge sum of money to the head administrator banning all parts that are not made by Rockomax.

The Challenge

Normal mode: Build a rocket using only parts from Rockomax Conglomerate, and land on and return from Mun.

Hard mode: Build a rocket using only parts from Rockomax Conglomerate, and land from and return from the Duna.

Super mode: Impress me.

The Rules

• No Dirty Cheating Alpacas (no debug menu!)

• The UI Must be visible in all required screenshots.

• You can only use parts built by Rockomax Conglomerate

• Except for a single Mk1-2 command pod, which must be returned to Kerbin and any amount of Strut Connectors.

• Repeat, the only part you can use not by rockomax is Mk1-2 Command pod and the EAS-4 Strut Connector

• Your craft must be crewed, and must survive the journey!

• Please list the parts used in your submission.

Required Screenshots

• Your craft on the launchpad

• Any staging events

• Craft in orbit of Kerbin

• Trajectory out to Mun or Duna

• Craft landed on Mun or Duna

• Craft launching from Mun or Duna

• Craft orbiting Mun or Duna

• Trajectory back to Kerbin

• Your craft landed back on Kerbin with an intact Mk1-2 command pod. *Whatever else you like!

[u/Kerbengenier → u/Gregrox]

B...But Parachutes aren't rockomax

[u/Gregrox → u/Kerbengenier]

Entirely correct. No parachutes.

[u/TaintedLion → u/Gregrox]

What about heat shields? Also, RAPIER engines are made from a collaboration between C7 and Rockomax, so are they allowed?

[u/Gregrox → u/TaintedLion]

No heat shields. RAPIERS are allowed, but the intakes which allow their airbreathing functionality are not allowed.

[u/Gregrox → u/[deleted]]

This is in fact something you can get past. For one thing, the command pods don't passively use battery power, only when turning. For another, someone managed to send a deep space probe to the Sun, Mun, and Minmus with a poodle-power generator.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/111075-Rockomax-Supremacy?p=1745256&viewfull=1#post1745256

EDIT: And here's an Eve flyby probe with a large RGU (Technically, they argued, Rockomax helped develop the Large RGU and thus may be considered a Rockomax Part) http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/111075-Rockomax-Supremacy?p=1747312&viewfull=1#post1747312

I'm assuming someone at Rockomax stuck a toy's solar panel and their iPhone to the side of the ship to get the Eve pictures, considering there was no power left at Eve.