This contest is to see who can design and fly the best SSTO to the Mun and return it to Kerbin. The scoring takes into account the ratio of fuel remaining compared to the amount present at takeoff. Note it scores you on the ratio, not the total amount of fuel. I would like this to just be rockets and jets. No ion engines please. You will be penalized for xenon fuel being present.
Scoring:
((Liquid Fuel at mission end + Oxidizer at mission end)/(Liquid Fuel at mission start + Oxidizer at mission start ))x1000 (rounded to the nearest whole number)
- Land at KSC runway + 500 points
- Take no damage during the mission +250 points (This is to keep people from purposely breaking off parts such as empty tanks or jets in order to save weight)
- Minus 5 points for every unit of Xenon present at takeoff
Rules:
1. No Mechjeb! This is a contest about flying skill, not just building a SSTO that can complete the challenge. Mechjeb defeats the purpose of a skill challenge.
2. Ships must be 100% vanilla stock parts. No mod parts. No edited config files etc.
3. No use of the debug menu
4. No intake spam. This means no stacking intakes. You may use as many intakes as you wish but they may only be mounted on tanks, tri/bi couplers, fuselages etc. This means no mounting intakes in strange places using small cube struts. You may use tri and bi couplers to increase intake area.
5. No refueling. You may not dock with another craft and refuel
6. Ships must take off horizontally from the runway
7. Three screenshot images must be uploaded or linked. The resources tab must be open in these screenshots.
a. Your ship at takeoff with resource tab open
b. Your ship landed on the Mun with resource tab open
c. Your ship landed with the flight results box open so we can see you did indeed go to the Mun, resource tab open
8. Must be manned (as in some form of command pod with at least 1 Kerbal inside).