https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXe1ZDM8sM

This literally took me ALL DAY yesterday to edit (in no small part due to frequent Adobe Premiere crashes). But here it is.

Tonight we (mostly) leave off the Mun miner, because it's time for our Eve flyby (including satellite launch)!

https://twitch.tv/redneckgaijin

OK, so you may have noticed that in Chapter 10, the most recently released brick o' text, George Cowley proposed a Mission Twelve which could test a powered landing on Equus, on the premise that the skill was absolutely necessary for the future moon landing. The proposal was killed with extreme vehemence by Cherry Berry and Chrysalis because it was too dangerous, even on paper, to consider.

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Today I flew what has to be my most kerbal flight in Kerbal Space Program. (And, by the way, it had nothing to do with the CSP story- this is a separate game session.)

So, in this game session I managed to get three different missions at once that all required a Mun landing. I also had four tourists who needed an orbital flight above Kerbin, but not a ride all the way out to the Mun.

"Okay," I thought, "I'll unlock the three-man capsule and go from there."

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MONDAY: KSP Hard Mode
(I flew a bunch of boring tourist missions since last Wednesday, so now we can begin with the long-awaited Mun flyby... which SHOULD be easy, buuuuuut.... Anyway, the money from that should be enough to unlock EVAs, which means both science mining AND Kerbal rescues/recruiting!

WEDNESDAY: KSP Hard Mode
Depends on what contracts we pick up Monday, but we'll be looking for Mun/Minmus landing contracts.

FRIDAY: SPECIAL! XCOM Long War

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Tonight, beginning at 7 PM Central, I've decided to wrap up Kerbal Space Program Hard Mode- at least this playthrough. Just going to bring the Duna mission home so I can put together a video of the odyssey.

There are two reasons for this. The first one is the August Patreon vote got ONE vote- and it was for FTL. So for August I'll be working my way up through unlocking all the FTL Advanced Ed stuff on a new machine, beginning with Easy mode and then advancing.

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Nothing like throwing out a day and a half of hard work because it's unusable.

Grr. Well, at least I have the stills and suchlike I can recycle.

Basically, I was putting together a mildly edited and trimmed video to YouTube- records of a recent livestream, you see... but realized that the editing software hadn't been set properly, so the video was a little keyhole surrounded by a ton of black.

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Here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/38tpyyu3xsmrb4z/AAAaQh9Iz_olrWGT9b4mVa0xa?dl=0

Includes both the ship as designed in the spaceplane hangar and the Shuttle-type launch stack.

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Those of you who watch my game livestreams know I recently put a rover on the mun. (And then wrecked it. Twice. But that's not important right now.)

I've also been watching a lot of racing videos on YouTube (yes, including marble racing, but mostly stuff like FailRace or Achievement Hunter's GTA videos).

So I thought: wouldn't it be cool to try to combine the two?

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OK, based on Patreon votes, the schedule for my April game streaming is as follows:

TONIGHT - KSP: Rescue From Eeloo (Remember that one-shot flight to Eeloo? Tonight I'm gonna go back to that gamesave and see if Jeb, Bill and Bob can get home on less than 1200 m/s of delta-V, or if a rescue ship can reach them.

AFTER TONIGHT:

MONDAY - KSP: VIEWER BUILD CHALLENGES
April 6 - KSC ROVER RALLY (details to come in separate blog post)

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I'm not dead, and neither is CSP.

I've posted the first section of Changeling Space Program Chapter 9 to Patreon. It involves Elytron, chief of Chrysalis's guards and the bug running things in the hive while she's being an astronaut, dealing with a couple of obnoxious, uninvited visitors with a business proposition.

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Or at least an idea for anyone who feels like writing it...

See, I saw this:

( http://silfoe.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Luna-and-the-CMC-495480810 )

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Well, I haven't had time and energy this weekend to edit the next ongoing series I intend to start (3 chapters mostly drafted, but serious edit and rewrite needed to punch them up). That will happen in the next two or three days.

As for my game streaming... time's almost up for Patreon supporters to vote on what my next game is.

The thing is, I've had a :write more, stream less" option on the poll. My plan was, if that ever got a clear majority of all votes, I'd quit game streaming...

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OK, based on the votes:

MONDAYS and WEDNESDAYS - Kerbal Space Program Career Hard Mode
SATURDAYS - XCOM Chimera Squad
All times 7 PM Central.

EXCEPT

SATURDAY, MAY 9 - KSP: CHANGELING SPACE PROGRAM MISSION TWENTY-THREE (plus Q&A)
That one will begin at 3 PM Central

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I shouldn't have wasted time today on it with so much to do, but I just went into Kerbal Space Program and flew the missions and grabbed the screen-caps for the next chapter of Changeling Space Program.

I'll try to work on the thing tonight, but tomorrow is loading the van for my next dealer's booth at a convention, so the odds are good the chapter won't be posted until next week at least.

So, here are a few hints for what you can expect.

Rainbow Dash is 20% more astronauty.

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... well, technically not me.

Someone actually plumped for the top tier of my Patreon, partly to get a particular cameo in CSP, but mostly to get CSP moving again.

So, Haycartes' Pluperfect Method will skip at least one day per week. Tuesdays, at least for the time being, will be set aside for work on CSP. Those of you who are Patreon supporters will see a post tomorrow with a link to Tuesday livewriting on Google Docs.

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