OFMM General Discussions Archive

[Urwumpe]

Everybody should have the chance to rise to his level of incompetence.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle"]Peter Principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

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Alright, I will be both pilot and ground crew. Best job I could manage is transferring vessels to orbit, and deorbiting them. Also placing where the cargos go. Also what will be after this OFMJ (Orbiter Forum Mission to Jupiter), if so I call command over it.

Don't call us, we'll call you. :thumbup:

 

[Voyager]

By the way, what meshes do we need. I have been practicing meshes.

 

[Urwumpe]

By the way, what meshes do we need. I have been practicing meshes.

There is a huge list of requested custom textures for standard cargo boxes in the Wiki, maybe you did see it.

 

[Voyager]

Okay, time to start cracking.

 

[Urwumpe]

Okay, time to start cracking.

We have not yet decided to use fossil fuels in the project.

 

[Voyager]

Urwumpe, I am this close to not making meshes for this project.:blahblah:

 

[Urwumpe]

Urwumpe, I am this close to not making meshes for this project.:blahblah:

Discuss this with the program manager. I am just the janitor here.

 

[Izack]

Whoo! I'm a demigod! :lol:

In all seriousness, I don't see any need for titles aside from BJ as project manager. What am I? Senior Director of Texture Failing? Pablo is Lord of the Biodome? Urwumpe is, well, Qualified Person who Keeps us All on Track?

Titles are moot. We're all just members contributing what we can to a project.

And for your LMO space station Voyager, that idea was already thrown around and discarded. You missed it.

 

[Voyager]

Permission to set up a small orbital station?

 

[Dambuster]

Permission to set up a small orbital station?

There's absolutely no point, the project hasn't even started yet.

EDIT: go ahead if you want to, but don't assume that it'll be used in the OFMM itself.

 

[Urwumpe]

Urwumpe is, well, Qualified Person who Keeps us All on Track?

Janitor. And don't forget to separate the waste.

Voyager: Look here, we are just on the first step of this classic waterfall model so far:

1. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Requirements_Specification"]Requirements specification[/ame]
2. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design"]Design[/ame]
3. Construction (AKA [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation"]implementation[/ame] or coding)
4. Integration
5. Testing and [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging"]debugging[/ame] (AKA Validation)
6. Installation
7. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance"]Maintenance[/ame]

What you currently do, is looking like that:

1. Unbounded enthusiasm
2. Total disillusionment
3. PANIC!!
4. Frantic search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Promotion of the uninvolved

(Yes, we have already some design decisions done, but we are too early in the project to have ONLY design decisions left)

 

[fireballs619]

I may have missed it, but did we reach a decision on 2010/2006 usage?

EDIT: According to the Altea Aerospace site, all XR vessels require Orbiter 2010. If we're going to use the XR-2/5, it looks like we will have to switch to 2010.

 

[Izack]

Yes, it looks like 2010 is the platform of choice. However, I thought we had opted out of using XRs or DGs.

 

[fireballs619]

Yes, it looks like 2010 is the platform of choice. However, I thought we had opted out of using XRs or DGs.

I must have missed something major then! What are we using as landers? To be 100% honest, I'm not sure what's going on anymore...

 

[Izack]

http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/OFMM
Section: Primary Vessels, right at the top. Read it. :facts:

 

[fireballs619]

Oh yeah, the, uh, Wiki. I, um, I check that all the time....:shifty:. Was there a reason for the decision? I remember discussion about the DGIV not being able to do something UMMUs, I can't remember though.

 

[Izack]

To put it shortly, realism. DGIVs and XR2s rely on too much fairy dust.

 

[Bloodworth]

Not griping, but when I proposed the mission, I suggested the use of the dg's or xr2's so that a) we would have a lander that most every pilot in the rotation knew how to fly, and b) so that we would not have to custom model EVERYTHING.

I have no problem with a custom lander, but the use of such is going to limit the number of pilots available in the flight rotation who can operate it.

 

[Shadow Addict]

Is the wiki article an accurate summary the topic so far? I'd like to get in on this but 34 pages is a little hard to read, especially if there's an alternative.

 

[Salun]

If someone can run some numbers for me. please. Lets say on approach to Mars. Say a few hours before the Insertion burn We eject the Landing Moduals from teh Stack. Thus when teh Stack does its burn It will have slightly less fuel it needs to burn to Orbit.

How much fuel could we save and more importantly how accuratly can we land the crew on Mars? By Orbiting Just the stack and fuel for the lander to get back?