Lunar Sea

Does Outer Planets do that too? I know I am going to try out one of those mods in the future, just not quite done with the stock system just yet.

Excellent! This sounds like it's exactly what I need - more stuff to spend science on

Cool, thanks guys, I'll have to look into that Community Tech Tree, sounds interesting. Not real keen on starting another career from scratch, it took me months to just get this far! But next time I'll definitely dial down the science.

I play career mode and unlocked the whole tech tree by the time I reached Duna. I feel a bit bummed that there are massive science point bounties further out (esp Jool system) but nothing left to spend them on. It's just a simple gameplay mechanic, but I like having a goal for science points. So I know there are some mods that add more nodes to the tech tree, such as Interstellar, but that may be a bit much for me to start with. Can y'all recommend some others? And do you know if the nodes get more expensive (which is fine by me since I'm building up a lot now)?

Theoretically yes as distance would = 0, but I am talking about surface gravity here. The gravity would be stronger at lower elevations and weaker at higher elevations as per inverse square law. So when the science text says gravity is lower in the canyon floor it doesn't jibe.

When doing the gravity scan in space near Duna the flavor text says gravity is lowest at the bottom of the canyon - but we all know gravity is stronger the closer you get to the center of mass! So the surface gravity would be highest in the canyon floor. Nice to be able to feel sanctimonious about something today...

Thanks for posting this. I'm very curious about Interstellar now that I've filled out the tech tree and am thinking about combining it with OPM to take things to the next level

Particularly when that maneuver is landing Parts of my barebones lander are still on Ike.

This was my first one. Unmanned and fairly limited in capability. I made the mistake of landing it in a crater, and that's where it stayed This one is much more capable, and craters are no problem

How do you set them to SAS only?

it's closer to a ziggurat, but pyramid plateau does have a nicer ring to it.

How about Tylo? Seems that if you have the fuel it would do a good job of bleeding off speed very quickly

Side question, how do you get the engines attached for that particular arrangement? Doesn't the 3.75m tank only have the one attachment node on the bottom? I know it can be done just wondering how.

What a cool engine. Slim profile, insane thrust, mad gimbal range. Obviously this is a very special rocket and not going to be a general-use engine like the terrier. So what do you guys use it for? Eve ascent? Tylo landing? I'd like to know what you do with it.

For the life of me I can't get the Soundtrack Editor mod to work in 1.0.5. V2.1a is the last one I tried and unlike every other mod I've used that just copies additional files to the GameData folder it instructs you to copy files to the KSP_Data\Mono folder and I think that's where the rub is. The instructions say to overwrite the KSP_Data folder which is ridiculous as there is all kinds of other files there. Anyone out there got this to work yet? I'd really like to add some different music to KSP.

CRYOVOLCANOES

Figured it was something like that. Thank you for confirming!

Just some of the more common ones... HyperEdit, KER, Alarm Clock, Chatterer. Still at 1.0.5 here. Haven't actually tried the NBS on a separate ship yet just checking before I send a mining ship to Ike.

I've done orbital surveys of both Mun and Minmus, and can see the results from the ships with the survey scanner, but the tracking station won't show the data on the resource tab for those bodies and says I have to do an orbital survey first. What's up with that? Also with the narrow-band scanner, will that show the little GUI if used on another ship without the survey scanner or do both instruments have to be on the same ship for it to work?

I wound up having to compromise, starting with the rover body first, radially attaching a fuel tank, then building the rest of the ship from that. Also, what's with the Toroidal fuel tank? It seems half the time whenever I try to attach a fresh one to a perfectly appropriate node it stays ghosted

Cool, that is definitely encouraging. I'm hoping 5500 dv is sufficient, and since the lander weight is substantially lessened after Laythe hopefully that should help.

Planning my first foray to Jool and man it looks expensive. It's essentially a Jool-4 mission with a 10-ton lander that drops down to 4 ton for the smaller moons. My mothership should have about 5500 dv on arrival to the system and after checking tools like http://13375.de/KSPDeltaVMap/, it looks like it's going to come up short. Transfers between the moons average 1000dv, then there's orbit capture burns, then it's another 2500-3000 to transfer back to Kerbin. Am I reading this wrong?

I just installed HyperEdit the other day.. the only question now is how do you NOT cheat? I just started playing a few months ago and am in career mode, it's to the point where having to launch everything into Kerbin orbit first is a real chore, especially big ungainly interplanetary ships, so I am thinking about just warping ships straight to LKO first. Everything else I try to do by the book though. If I had known about the alt-f12 menu that one time when Valentina got stranded in Kerbin orbit coming back from the Mun I definitely would have used it. But she just hung out there for a few hundred days while I learned how to rendezvous.

I made this one just a few weeks ago and it works pretty well. Drove it from the Northwest Crater to the Polar Lowlands (yeah, that took a while). Once it gets up to 20m/s or so I switch on the reaction wheels (note the extra set behind the cockpit) and SAS. This keeps it level when clears a hill or small rise and leaves the ground Dukes of Hazzard-style. If you're quick on the rotation keys it's possible to recover from some mishaps and keep the wheels level if it flips. Downhill I've hit 40m/s which is pushing it but still controllable. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/140168-vtol-roadster/#comment-2595362

Thank you!