SpaceMouse

Glanced at the dev thread real quick but i must have missed it. I'm Ok with that, can't make interstellar travel TOO easy... Still wondering about exotic matter storage requirements though.

This is amazing. I love all your mods. I have one or two questions though and a suggestion - Are the Xenon drives really necessary? They look cool and all, but there are no shortage of options for thrusters, so i'm a bit confused why there necessary? This kinda ties into the first one, wouldn't it be impossible to change direction in a warp bubble? I'm aware reality gets some modifications in KSP but, i do like to be MOSTLY accurate. . Also, on the storage on exotic matter, perhaps this is just from KSP-I but, aside from the huge amount of energy it would undoubtedly take to gain, wouldn't it also require a rather large amount to store it too? Instead of none when i shut it off? Shouldn't i loose it? I've had the thought before that a centrifuge-ring for the passengers integrated into the inside of the alcumbere ring would be a excellent use of space. Perhaps for a bigger one - meant to do more than hop around the solar system quite quickly.

Hooray! a Space Engineers fan! Its like KSP with even MORE exadurated thrusters!

That's what my laptop uses, mines only a 15" and really not that bulky. Battery life is actually also very good too, or it was until it decided it didn't want to work cuz it was more than a year and a half old. I took good care of that battery too....

'gaming' capable laptops are indeed expensive. Desktops are always the better deal. I can however confirm it will run in a technically playable state at (very) low settings on a HD3000 around 10-15fps... So i suppose it depends how you define 'playable'. My desktop is also built and fairly recent, although it recycled several parts and was mostly intended for X-plane 10. I haz 3 monitors.

I run KSP on a desktop like everything else but, stock KSP never looked too hardware intensive to me. I can test it on the integrated card in my laptop if you like to see how it runs on a Intel HD4000 ( i think).... That they put in pretty much everything that isn't expensive. I bought my laptop (Lenovo Y570) about 3 years ago for about $800 that converts to about 500 pounds, i can't imagine that would have any issue running KSP. It will run X-Plane-10 pretty well...

Someone needs to write fanfic of a Kerbal with superpowers.

I had a microwave that would say hell. It also beeped aggressively.

Sorry, not getting the refrence. Relatively new here. Havent even left creative mode yet in the game.

Hmmm. I supose im just concerned of my kerbals gaining superpowers. XD On the subject of soil as a radiation shield, there has been concern about radiation mars, (err, I mean Duna) mission, wouldn't the easiest solution be to just dig underground?

I was talking about radiation concerns in a interplanetary stage, well out of the atmosphere. I would of thought radiation would still be a concern. Also, aware lead is a bad example, it was just the first shielding material that came to mind.

Most of these thoughts originated from playing with Near future and thinking, Since i've brought up all these solar panels to drive electric thrusters, and nuclear also for the heavy lifting, why not use that electricity to augment a standard rocket? Before this thread dies, i must ask one final question that im sure has been asked a dozen other times. There's a big push for nuclear thrusters now, and i must ask, isn't this a rather bad idea? I know without a atmosphere the radiation dissipates considerably faster, but isn't even a professional orbit transfer going to release a more than lethal dose for the several burns you'd have to make, or are we just going to ship up with these rockets a special lead-lined can to put our astronauts in while firing? isn't this still a bad idea? Or is the information i've looked up a few decades out of date?

OOOOOO! Opposed piston! I'd love to see more differentiation in piston engine designs. do a Wankel! Tumbling triangles!

Hmmm. I was aware some of the number in KSP were.... altered, to help there fun value, i was hoping the mods were a little more accurate at least. I've been following that 'holy grail' microwave thruster and was aware the energy requirements for that are pretty insane.

Good news everyone! I have joined your forum! I absolutely love the variety of thrusters available for KSP but, i have to wonder, why has no-one combined the high-ISP advantages of electric thrusters with the high thrust advantages of rockets? By my reasoning, you could use both to boost your efficiency greatly but, then, the nitty-gritty-fiziks have never been my thing. And hello again!