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Modding Mondays: NASA MAVEN Mars Probe Exact Replica


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<p>Today’s MAVEN launch was a great success and now you can recreate it with a <em>KSP</em>-built Maven of your very own. Take this <a href="http://bit.ly/18j7SC2">MAVEN replica</a>, built by iPirmin Cowbell, out for a spin around Duna today.</p>

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Pro Aerospace Inc. replica of NASA’s MAVEN mars orbiter and it is fully vanilla flavoured stock.

It strikes me that this is in no way, shape or form a mod.

[EDIT] Here are some cool new mods, if that's what you came for:

  • Bargain Rocket Parts - Released just yesterday, these cardboard, tape and plywood parts are a great way to cut costs and spice up your space program.
  • RealChute Parachute Systems is "a complete rework of the stock parachute module" that should keep your chutes on your spacecraft and your Kerbals alive.
  • Surface Mounted Stock-Alike Lights are bright, compact lights for beautiful self-illuminated crafts and space stations.

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Man, you lot sure are grumpy! It's called Modding Monday because it aliterates, not because it's some kind of unbreakable promise that it will only ever be used for pure mods. The MAVEN launch yesterday was really interesting and cool and I think it's a great idea to showcase a stock replica of it. If there was a more realistic version that had been made as an actual mod, I'm sure they would have included that as well. But even then, I'd still want to see the stock version mentioned, because some of us like to play stock as much as possible. Don't blame Squad or the craft maker for it being ugly - MAVEN is a pretty ugly ship. It's a gold box with gull-wing panels. But it's a real spaceship that will do real science and, personally, I'm quite satisfied with that.

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Might have downloaded if the craft was a mod, hell even if the rocket itself was anything like the Atlas V it would have been something worthy of a showcase.

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Sorry, Squad, but this is just embarrassing.

With all due respect to the author of the craft... How is this a mod or even a .craft file worthy of such high exposure?

Did anybody even look at what was being posted?

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Aside from the fact that this Modding Monday is again a letdown. Two sentences? Unreflected use of the original screenshot that has been bad in the first place? Come on.

Modding Monday next week:

Check out the mods in Add-ons suboforum!

Just joking :P But I thought Daily Kerbal means qunatity AND quality. I think I preferred the good ol'weekly edition.

BTW why not give the community the right to choose the mod/fanwork/whatever for the spotlight? Let's say Squad proposes 10 mods, we vote and choose 5 best of them and then from these 5 Squad chooses 3 and does a big, awesome daily/weekly.

I mean I don't even know what's the criteria for choosing mod X over mod Y. And whether they are any.

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Might have downloaded if the craft was a mod, hell even if the rocket itself was anything like the Atlas V it would have been something worthy of a showcase.
This is a further point against it. Other than some very basic appearance (it's cubic with solar panels on the sides) this isn't anywhere near MAVEN. LV-Ns for the final stage? Not even the slightest attempt at mimicking the Atlas5? Not even a fairing cobbled together from landing gear and structural plates.
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This one's on me, folks. Direct your displeasure this-a-way.

I thought it'd be cool to highlight given the timeliness of yesterday's MAVEN launch, but if it's strict mods you want, it's strict mods you'll get. Keep an eye on this section.

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This one's on me, folks. Direct your displeasure this-a-way.

I thought it'd be cool to highlight given the timeliness of yesterday's MAVEN launch, but if it's strict mods you want, it's strict mods you'll get. Keep an eye on this section.

Rowd, it is cool to have a .craft, but only if it is an exelent craft. And also a mod, this seems to always showcase that "Hey, I never knew it was that cool!" mods.

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