Monthly Challenge: December 2015

[Kalesin]

Landing on Mars with Viking 1 (with Nasa) before 1965

Landing on Mars with Viking 1 (with Nasa agency) before 1965 (The historic landing of the Viking was made in 1975, ten years after the challenge I propose. It is that you can get it).

Won the best date.

Remember that you will be immortalized in the Hall of Fame[slitherine.com].

More info: Monthly Challenge: November 2015 [slitherine.com]

[Team Triss]

1963 Q3
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=568691344

EDIT:

Unless the mission has to complete all three seasons, in which case 1963 Q4
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=568692477

[Kalesin]

Amazing, this is fast.

Posted alredy your achievement in Slitherine forums.

[belisariu]

I have improved my first attempt:

1962.3

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/577948189094121924/04AD6A1B5C798FB075FBCC573633481C399F042A/

1962.4

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/577948189094122187/11A551C2D8737449881CFCAD24527B9F84CA9628/

[Kalesin]

Great!!! A new record!

[Team Triss]

I managed to scrape by belisariu:

1962 Q2-Q3
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=570217272
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=570217551

It involved a lot of prayers and panic. The booster is the problem for me.

[belisariu]

WOW, good game

The booster is so difficult to research, also I have a little video of me screaming with the seasons 2 and 3 of Viking 1 project from my second attempt. XD

https://youtu.be/oUgvTnVY1C8

[belisariu]

Another leader change:

1962 Q1

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=570368489

1962 Q2

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=570368929

It´s so hard to improve a quarter

[Team Triss]

Originally posted by belisariu:

Another leader change:

1962 Q1

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=570368489

1962 Q2

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=570368929

It´s so hard to improve a quarter

Impressive how you manage to get your reliability so high, my last record I had to launch between 60-70% reliability on the booster.

[belisariu]

I´ll tell you in January :p

Seriously, taking some big risks and opening it as early as possible (without going bankrupt). When I launched it the reliability was at 80% (and no money for tiger teams)

[Team Triss]

Pulled ahead by two quarters this time:

1961 Q3:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=573565479

1961 Q4:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=573566241

The Soviet Union has just put a man in space, and a few months later I'm landing stuff on Mars.

[Kalesin]

Great race to Mars!!!!

[belisariu]

I think we have a winner

[Kalesin]

And the winner is....

[LoR] Team Triss

Congratulations!!!

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Next Monthly Challenge coming soon...

[Team Triss]

Thanks! Looking forward to next month.

I got lucky was what it really boiled down to. I kept banging my head on my desk trying to beat belisariu, but I chanced opening the Titan III ealier and using it for more than the Viking mission instead of working up one of the smaller boosters and using the reliability transfer to boost the Titan III.

RNGesus smiled upon me.

Also, just an FYI it looks like there's some typos in the dates. You put down 1963 instead of 1961.

[Kalesin]

Fixed dates, thanks.