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  1. 9 hours ago, Starman4308 said:

    It is still angry, red, and I can't see any planets/moons despite fiddling with the Distant Object Enhancement settings to try to get some flare going. There probably are such bodies, but I'll have to try things like turning up the contrast.

    That's weird. You should have spotted something, especially if you are looking 20 odd planetary radii out.

  2. Would it be possible to over-ride the luminosity check within a certain SOI, multiplying or dividing it by a certain value?

    Basically, if everything always assumes you are around the primary star when you are around "any" star, could you add in code to check which SOI you are in, and if it is another star you correct the solar flux values wherever they appear? Since there will never be that many stars in one pack (realistically), it shouldn't be that big of a list. 

  3. KJR has the effect of ensuring that my planes stay in one piece while doing their mandatory 360 backfilp - they then proceed to bail the landing and lose wings, fins or other relatively important flight components. 

    In other news, Maxtech Aerospace has modified a "Hyperblast" SCRamjet engine recently purchased from Insanity Aerospace. By introducing a new hypersonic combustion chamber design, maximum thrust can now be maintained up to Mach 25.2. The prototype design reached level flight at 45 km, throttled up to fill, and reached 8600 m/s before disintegrating in a fireball. Further design work is obviously needed. 

  4. "In a stunning turn of events, an unprecedented space-time anomaly in the Niven system has returned our intrepid explorers to Gael 16 months ahead of schedule!

    After successfully landing the Niven Lithobraker in the equatorial midlands, Jebediah, Bill and Bob Kerman planted a new-model non-explosive Flexible Laminated Announcement of Gael (FLAG) before taking various scientific readings, aimlessly wandering around for a few minutes and then settling in to wait for the NIPPER rendezvous launch window. Conditions on Niven were too warm for extended EVAs, with temperatures soaring above 373 degrees Kerbal, the boiling point of all water-based snacks. Anomalies first presented themselves upon re-attaining low Niven orbit. On approach to the NIPPER, time itself seemed to discretize at larger and larger values. The crew reports that they appeared to instantaneously teleport several meters at a time with no memory of the intervening motion, in addition to a significant delay in spacecraft control action despite a direct, zero-latency electrical connection to the onboard reaction wheels. After docking with NIPPER, these conditions became substantially worse, threatening the success of Gael's first crewed interplanetary mission. Suddenly, time seemed to stop completely for several subjective seconds - the crew reports being frozen in place. Then, they spent about 3 hours incoherently rambling about "Krakens" and something called "Alt-F12" before regaining sanity in a perfect 250km orbit of Gael. Not willing to push their luck, the crew deorbited NIPPER, (mentioning something about consigning the Krakens to hellfire) while struggling through continuted time discretization into the return capsule. The space-time anomaly appeared to be localized to NIPPER - after reaching a distance of 2.2 km everything seemed to return to normal. Theoretical physicists hypothesize that an unforeseen interaction between the nuclear reactor, ion engines, and the tendency of Maxtech Aerospace engineers to have at least 250 separate pieces on everything meant to operate in vacuum lead to a tear in the fabric of reality. Further investigation will be conducted once we get testing facilities somewhere outside the apoapsis of Grannus - anything closer to Gael is considered an existential threat. 

    Until this is settled, no vessels of larger than 50 components are permitted to leave Gael's atmosphere. The CEO (Chief Explosions Officer) of Maxtech Aerospace has protested on deaf ears - Kerbalkind simply can NOT risk playing with reality in this manner."

    2 minutes ago, Galileo said:

    Good. I need you to try this and report on ram usage please

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjqjnukzni04qh2/GPP_Settings.zip?dl=0

    I am not home at the moment - I will try it later tonight and report back. Thanks!

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