Sereneti

high speed, high altitude Bomber. Orbital-laser. Anti-Satelite-weapons. Kessler-"Bombs" (a lot of small steel/keramik balls) a War in space, will took out the whole humankind possibiliti to go into space. Kessler - Syndrome....

Some people want to make new things. Its like to build a new house, from the scratch. you see the growing. and if its done, its done. yes, there are always things to improve. but thats not new. (cynic people say: "flee bevore they find the bugs" ) and KSP has become a status of a good working game. Its already sold over steam, so EA and Microsoft dont want to buy this game. (ore are there EA/Microsoft games on steam ? )

abandoned vehicles: yes. i send probes to near every planet. Without a "comeback" ticked. Abandoned Kerbals: no. - but mostly because i avoid to send kerbals. (expect minmus)

Depends ; Parachute, Skykrane, or cargo-bays...

To close the intakes, it was usefull (*a little bit) a long time ago The engines dosnt flame out by seed/high, they flame out by "to less air". If you closed the intakes, you saved some air for the engines, - a little more dv.

Rockets(vtol): +shorter Desing-thime, +less complicaded aerodynamics (fins at the end, finish) -Gravity turn by hand is ... heavy. - Expensive engines are wasted. Spaceplane(SPH): +Reuseable engines. +dont need a gravity turn -Longer Desing-time. -More complicaded aerodynamics both are good. For "manual only" i prefer spaceplanes, they are realy easy to flight. For Computer assisted thakeof (mechjeb) i prefer rockets.

The Skill system sucks. you had to fly to another planet, that the kerbals are usefull. A pilot are more useless: you can use a drone -core and had all the things that a level 5 pilot can do. with less money.

mechjeb ore something simmilar.

Sandstorm on Duna: decrease solar-pannel effizienz

There are the Goliath engine. a good engine, have a lot of thrust but on the other hand have low speed. a good engine to carry a lot of payload. like a "jumbo airplane". atm in a normal carrer game , useles. my suggestion is: Make contracts that fit onto this engine. Like: "build a station on the north/southpole dessert ... " ... "bring tourists to this koordinates." "bring this rover to this koordinates" "we want to build a new center. we need recources on this koordinates (ore)" and so on.

Maybe... Yes, it is more realistic. No: Dronecores are already overpowered. hm... Maybe a switch in the "game-start" menü: if someone dissable LS they dont have acces to the LS parts. (and dont need it)

a plane dont need the gravitional-turn... That make the whole thing more simple.... rockets like to flip-over, some spaceplanes on the other hand fly like a brick....

(space)planes are a little harder to build, but i think they are more easy to flight... a plane with the center of lift behind the center of mass, fly poorli. A plane with the center of mass behind the center of lift fly once.... if you need more dv, add droptanks. - why to waste a good desing, if you only have to attach one droptank on the center of mass?

Yes,"sail" out of the atmosphere and then use a better ISP engine... ticker Atmosphere means that there is a higer Coffin-corner with less speed. (afaik: drag area increase the drag linear , speed increase the drag exponential) moar wing area -> higher coffin-corner with the same speed.

Not alway. its more expensiv to go to the inner planets from Lko then from a higher Sun orbit....

The question was "is an SSTO possible" my answer is Yes. But it isnt worth it. (and i mean an Kerbin -> eve -> Kerbin SSTO) 1) no payload only a smal probe. 2) expensive Xeon for the interplanetary flight. (eve-orbit has "better sun" than Kerbin) 3) a big wing to weight ratio, because you can then use a small trust on eve.-> less fuel to go out of the atmosphere 4) aerospike engines dosnt care (much) about the atmosphere densitiy. .... hm... i think i make a proof-off concept next week

"dense atmosphere"... yes the dense atmosphere are bad; Aerospike help a little . Theretical it should help to hav a large wing area to get out of the thick atmosphere with low speed. its an Eve SSTO possible: yes. its an Eve SSTO praktikal: no.

2: ) i use drones - so i arnt hearthless - and a return is ... optional 1) sstos ... are somethimes more simpel than a normal rocket ...

i prefer, for manual flight. spaceplanes...

1) dont kill kerbals 2) dont strand kerbals* (they had everytime the option to go to kerbin) 3)dont delete space-junk (delete space-junk is imho cheating and should have to be enabled by the debug-menu ... ) 4) avoid to make space-junk 5) avoid to destroy the KSC...

i can give you one (round about 30t payload, parachute landing ...)

"hate" - none.... there are some easy-going planets, and some challenging-planets. but hate- i hate non of them. you can build/use a rocket-SSTO...

hei es wird aber

the juno is a good engine. if you have to go to a place of kerbin, and make some experiments, you dont need an kerbal for that. a small drone, with the needed EQ do the same job. better. a small probe dont need a lot of fuel, and can be reused for another contract at the same place...

how much mass can you bring to your target? the question is: how much dv do you need?