The Fog

Communications status AOK from Minmus 13: "Civic Duty: Check."

The pilot view in the lower right corner shows the current mood of the Kerbals. Sometimes if they feel safe and comfortable (I guess?) they'll "dance" by waving their arms, and sometimes they'll adjust their helmets. It makes me feel like they really know what they're doing. I think it's just natural for them to do that when they're EVAing, say, on the surface of the Mun feeling safe. Wouldn't it be nice?

Confirmed this is happening. I'm still on Lion. It used to work in 0.21 and before, and that's why I got used to shift-scroll to zoom in VAB. But after upgrading to 0.22 it ceased to work. Right now I have to use middle-mouse-button and move my mouse to zoom, which is not as convenient as shift-scrolling. I did some searching on Google and KSP Forums, but it seems there's no solution to this yet.

Rings?! For sure?! That'll be super cool! I can't wait to crash something into it take samples from it.

Same here. I think it'll make more sense if there's a separate part to store surface samples, since it's a physical thing that couldn't be digitized. And it'd be super cool if the surface samples weight actually goes up the more you store.

That would be exclusive for Jeb.

The science tech tree was awesome. It really makes me think about the early days of space exploration. I mean, pre-0.22 with all those parts I used to fly to Jool for fun, but now, hey there's no NERVA! Even 909 requires some research to get. And... where is my solar panels?! There were so many parts that we took for granted. But now without them I feel really crippled. Simple things like reaching LKO are not that simple anymore. And with electricity (finally) being a resource so hard to come by, I know now how it feels like for the human engineers back then when they launched stuff in to space IRL. I have a thousand words and things that I wish to share, but please forgive me that for now I need to find a way to Mun for MOAR science. So, in short, thank you for your fantastic work Squad, please please keep it up. In the meantime I'll keep my eyes peeled looking around the Kerbal Observable Universe until I spot something with a gold disc.

Great! Welcome back. I wanted to continue my Yakitori adventure though, but .21 wiped out everything, including my favorite kerbonaut Calald Kerman

Well... I was way too bored the day before. Saw the video which reminded me of Black and White, so I bought it. And after 2 days playing it. The answer is no. At least not now. I won't waste your time by telling you how bad it is, so I'll make it short: There's nothing attractive. I'd recommend waiting a bit until the game has at least something enjoyable to offer.

Right now we have prograde / retrograde / node markers which is of course essential for any type of maneuvers. However, especially when making minor adjustment burn to close in on a planet, I've found that most of such burns are normal / radial. Currently the navball does not indicate those directions, and it is not trivial to find those directions manually in interplanetary-space. I have to drop a maneuver node whenever I want to make such adjustments, which is very much of a hassle, especially when I've already oriented my map-view focusing on the encounter. My current workaround is to use MechJeb's Smart ASS to point me in the direction I need, but I think a stock implementation on the navball would be more appropriate. In short, I think adding normal, anti-normal, radial-in, radial-out marks on the navball in orbit-mode would be very helpful.

Ah yes yes, "Museum" was the thing that was in my mind, but somehow this word slipped right past. I'm thinking (hoping) that it will be a full featured scenery like the inside of VPH / VAB, plus navigation via an EVAed Kerbal, like what boomerdog2000 has suggested: Also, presenting a mininature replica of the spacecraft alongside with the collected item would be super cool. I, personally, had a plan to study the Kraken which involves a large amount of batter and hot oil. Actually my idea had no relationship with the "Oh you got to Duna" type of trophy but actually collecting stuff on the planets. And yes, that's a cool idea that if we got enough stuff back from Eve we might eventually confirm that its really made from grape jelly.

I did a quick search on the forum and it seems it was not suggested before... I think it'll be nice if Kerbals could collect "something" from the planets and return them to KSC for "studying". I'm not talking about easter eggs. There're just too few of them and not enough variety. There should be multiple stuff that are worthwhile to be returned to Kerbin: e.g. Polar ice cubes from Duna, "Soup" and dirt from Eve (Why? Why is it purple?), a jar of green gas scooped up from Jool... etc. To take this further, let's have a "trophy hall" in KSC that let us show off for bragging rights. The collection action would be strictly limited to Kerbals so we have a bigger incentive to send Kerbals instead of probes. Plus, a bigger incentive to rescue them instead of leaving them stranded.

+1 Please Squad please? P.S.: If we could do something with that crashed saucer.....

You are correct about the radiation belt and that ozone had nothing to do with it. It's probably time for me to pick up that old physics textbook again, but alas, crashing something into Duna is more enjoyable. I'm sorry for my bad writing in my original post that mixed up the two completely irrelevant stuff. As for radioactive particles in Laythe's atmosphere, a bit of re-thinking and some research showed it should be minimal. That reminded me about induced radioactivity, which I clearly forgot in my original post. Oxygen and common atmospheric gas elements are resistant to neutron activation, combined with the fact that there shouldn't be much neutron / alpha radiation out there, the effect should be minimal. Solar wind (Or Kerbolar Wind?) shouldn't have enough energy to cause photodisintegration. Therefore, radioactive particles inside Laythe's atmosphere should be indeed minimal. Sorry, my bad for giving wrong information in the original post. However, before declaring Laythe being safe, we'd probably need to think how Laythe's atmosphere plays within Jool's magnetic field (if there is one). The above only addresses for radiation from space alone. The upper Laythe atmosphere could get ionized and swept up by Jool's magnetic field and completely change the composition of the radiation around Laythe. So... I'm still puzzled.

Great! Thanks for the tip! However, in 0.21 I've found that Tebasaki didn't fly as good as it had been. Mk I was only able to achieve roughly 85x85km orbit (used to be around 100km). Will need some more test with Mk IV before I could confirm if the previous posts are still valid under 0.21