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KSP definitely is different from all of those games, even the feared T2 'takeover' hasn't affected that. We've gotten a burn time indicator, Dv readouts, and new UI elements, for free. I'm happy to spend another 15 dollars to keep development going. And I'm pretty certain SQUAD won't let me walk a Kerbal to some crystals lying around and then would ask me to buy science equipment We indeed have a bit of a different perspective Because I would actually feel I would be getting less than otherwise, and not being given the full game If I would be walking up to some scatter laying around and being confronted with an ad to 'buy more' to get the full Kerbal experience. My guess is we'll just see an ad when we boot KSP like with the introduction of MH which would suffice. I'm perfectly fine to pay for DLC, especially when it comes to KSP due to it still being developed and adding the scatter to the base game sounds good to me to, I'd would just feel a bit like monetization to me if I would be confronted to spend real money during actual gameplay, it just doesn't sound like a Kerbal thing to do.

You are right, it is becomming common business. I don't play a lot of games, but games that use these types of tactics to try and 'tease me' in to microtransactions or paid DLC raise my neck hairs. I consider it an insult of my intelligence and would even stop me from playing the game entirely. To me those tactics are a great way to allienate your otherwise faithfull playerbase. Anyway, my money is already burning in my pocket, I'm on the hypetrain!

I can't blame SQUAD one bit for making the MH expansion contain some parts that could be considered 'stock'. freeloading doesn't pay any bills, and there is only a certain amount of travel that a 'one time investment' can carry.

Porkalike has been abandoned. A pretty big sign on the wall was when @SQUAD released the unfinished Porkjet parts to the community in december 2016 to play with. The sentence was added that they 'may' continue its development. In the mean time half a dozen modders did an excellent job in creating a vast number of porkalike parts for everybody to enjoy, and they are even being enjoyed by many today. Other design changes have been made by @SQUAD which basically show that the porkjet design legacy isn't going to being continued by @SQUAD, which shouldn't be a problem because if you want to, the legacy has been covered completely by modders to everybody's liking, except for some who can't accept changes, keep reminiscing the past and souring the weeklies. Maybe @SQUAD should indeed make a statement about not continuing Porkjet style, nobody will be bothered because the alternatives are better then SQUAD would provide, we can have one final topic for the ones who want to keep ranting and then maybe they can get over it and get on with their lives.

Ow wow Jim, what a surprise. I can't think of anyone that could be more suited when it comes to love for and dedication towards KSP. This is great news, for @SQUAD, the community and above all, yourself! @SQUADand the team may consider themselves lucky to have you on board and I wish you happy endeavors in your new working environment.

This one, and Reddit/KerbalSpaceProgram

KSP as a lighthearted space game that does do somewhat serious orbital mechanics will always be a niche game, and although it might be not that hot selling as peak moment, I do think that there will always be a demand for it and keeps attracting new players. Of course you have Orbiter as a full on simulator, but that is pretty hard core. KSP keeps getting attention and attraction if you look at replies in lighthearted space related articles, and KSP does get referred to a lot. It got my attention and I am pretty certain that people who are, or get interested in anything space related are kept being drawn to KSP. I do think Take2 did recognize this and are in it for the long term, like they have with the full GTA series. Either by nurturing KSP or like some others have said, taking it to a new engine with a KSP2. If SQUAD would be involved in a KSP2 would be the big question mark, but it could very well be that another developer could get a change at a go for it. If looking long term, I'm certain a KSP2 will sell, and would keep selling. What I do think is a big certainty, is that Take2 is going to do something with the Kerbal intellectual property, I'm not going to give numbers here, but if you look at what Take2 actually paid for the IP, and what they've put on their balance as 'developed games property'*, they just have to, or even need to do something with it besides what we know now as Kerbal Space Program. Like others have said, I can see a long time future in a newly, from the ground built up KSP2 with a new, more future proof updated engine. I'd buy it, wouldn't you? I either think it will happen one day, or we'll see a Kerbal flight simulator, sail/boat/submarine simulator or car simulator. But there is deep pockets and time I guess, KSP does not feel that old yet, and one off its main selling points is that any computer out today, how low-spec it is even without a graphics card, enables you to play KSP. So if one does get interested in to space and orbital mechanics, everybody with a potato can join the club without needing an initial investment in a 'game playing specification' PC or laptop. *numbers are public information, and can be found in Take2's annual financial reports if you do a little search for it. PS: @Take2 and @SQUAD, what is the hold up on Kerbal franchise merchandise? I want pluchies, figurines, posters, car bumper stickers, T-shirts, baby clothes and mugs!

Look at the first post, @sarbian posted what is sent to Redshell. Take2 or SQUAD determined the dataset of what is collected. The Unique User ID which was used to send off to Redshell is Unity's device ID.

As a temporary workaround you can just change your resolution from 4K to FullHD (1920x1080) when you play KSP, its just a few clicks to do that. (Probably can make a profile for it and use the NVIDIA or ATI icon in the taskbar for it) They have been working on 4K support and eliviated somewhat on it the Weekly; Don't know if they finished work on it for 1.4.4 though.

No big secret, If you want to see the full list of the people that are credited for, and have been working on KSP? Just take a look at readme.txt in your KSP install directory

Awesome, another upfront heads up on an upcoming patch release! Thank you! I'm however sincerely hoping that the release of 1.4.4 is also used to stop further controversy overshadowing KSP at the moment, and we'll see both a farewell from RedShell trackware and see the explicit opt-in for Unity Analytics back in the game. If not, I fear the recent outrage will not only continue, but get worse… And that won't do KSP any good...

You are right, all we can do is speculate and/or make assumptions. Considering the amount Take2 bought the IP for, they probably will do something with it, but that would be another assumption. Why couldn't future purchases stick a fork in an earlier version? On Steam I can roll back to 1.05 if I wanted to? Is that not possible when you purchase on the official Kerbal Space Program site?

None of us know the details in the agreements that Take2 made with SQUAD concerning the end terms of the development contract. Of course there is a factor of uncertainty, but it really doesn't make sense to me for Take2 to create a new label (Private Division) in december 2017 for publishing and encouraging Indie type development and then all of a sudden after that pull the plug on KSP's development by SQUAD, 1.4.x and MH is the first published KSP versions under the flag of Take2. I don't think your concerns are justified, at least not yet. And even when a scenario like that would happen a year, or a year of 2 from now, you can always stick a fork in a bugfree version that suits you best along the way. I'm pretty happy at how KSP is looking right now, and with a few more bugfixes it can only get better. So everything that comes extra in development is just icing on the cake to me, and I do love icing, so I'd like them to keep up their good work.

I have a bit mixed feelings about the viable use of both Steam cloud and mission/craft sharing through the Steam workshop. Definately it sounds good, but if I look to myself, I tend to copy KSP out of the Steam directory because I play modded and I don't want Steam to auto-update and wreck my installs. I presume that I'm not the only one copying KSP out of the Steam directory because of this reason. For Vanilla Steam players the options of adding Steam Workshop and cloud saving it should work great, but I'd rather have an impemetation that doesn't involve Steam so you reach a broader playerbase. But I can understand that would not be easily implemented or maintainable . I actually do add the 'out of Steam copied' KSP back into Steam as an 'non-steam' game so I can use Steam's in-house streaming function to stream KSP to my laptop, but to my understanding that sadly wouldn't allow me to use either Steam Cloudsave or the Workshop. TL;DR, I think this implemetation doesn't really work if you like to mod your KSP install, and therefore even a fair share of Steam bought KSP players won't be able to use these functions.

That makes perfect sense! And it's even easier as long as you can calculate the right starting orbit, way more efficient. The deployment vehicle needs a whole lot lets DV and it saves half of de burntime for relay's as well.

@GKSPGood on you for finding a good method I figured it out myself as well, only I use a little different method, might interesting as well. It may not be the most efficient, but gets the job done with little effort. It does need KER though. *circularize your deployment vehicle at the desired orbit and watch the orbital period, its handy to take an orbital period you can easily divide by 3. *Calculate 2/3 of that orbital period, and 4/3 of that orbital period. (eg: OP of 6 hours, makes 4 and 8 hours) *Release first relay and burn prograde till you have an orbital period of 8 hours *Turn deployment vehicle retrogade, launch 2nd relay and burn retrograde till you have an orbital period of 4 hours *Launch 3rd relay, move deployment vehicle out of the way and correct speed of the 3rd relay to the orbital period of 6 hours *4 Hours later, circularize the 2nd relay at Ap to the orbital period of 6 hours *Again 4 hours later, circularize the 1st relay at Pe to the orbital period of 6 hours

I'm way to rational

I don't think its under a NDA, I think pretty much everybody gets mentioned in the Readme.txt file in the KSP folder.

Well, unfortunately, no misunderstanding. Before the GDPR there were already stingent rules about publishing photo's and video's (at least here in the Netherlands), but they were mainly effecting professional photo and video-graphers, but now if you publish on YouTube and the likes as an 'amateur', you are liable, if you keep in the confines of private use, there is no problem. Enforcement is a huge issue though, but if someone would like to take the routes, they now can more easily then previously.

Rectification previous post I have to rectify my above post, It's been pointed out to me that the EULA and privacy policy has not been changed, except for some wording which had little to nothing to do with the privacy concerns, the above text was already within the EULA, and the 'we may collect all your personal information' (which is continuously pulled out of context, and therefore leading to 'spyware' accusations) is still in the same place its always been, which is in the privacy policy. I feel like an idiot for not reading properly and therefore spreading FAKE NEWS. I'm sorry... You can read the full context of the 'we may collect your personal information' down below; "WHAT PERSONAL AND OTHER INFORMATION DOES THE COMPANY COLLECT? Personal information is information that identifies you and that may be used to contact you online or offline. The Company collects personal information from you on a voluntary basis. When you submit personal information to the Company, it will usually take the form of: Registration for Online Services, websites, jobs, products, contests, and special events; Subscribing to newsletters or alerts; Posting in or commenting on our message boards, forums, news blogs, chat rooms, or other Online Services; Purchasing a product or services through our online stores; Purchasing downloadable content, virtual items, or virtual currency for use with our software and/or Online Services; Using "tell a friend," "email this page," or other E-Card features; Requesting technical support; Downloading demos, programs, or other software; Participating in polls, surveys, and questionnaires; or Otherwise through use of our software, including console products, mobile products, and personal computer products, and through the use of our online products or Online Services where personal information is required for use and/or participation. The types of information collected in connection with the activities listed above will vary depending on the activity. The information we collect may include personal information such as your first and/or last name, e-mail address, phone number, photo, mailing address, geolocation, or payment information. In addition, we may collect your age, gender, date of birth, zip code, hardware configuration, console ID, software products played, survey data, purchases, IP address and the systems you have played on. We may combine the information with your personal information and across other computers or devices that you may use. Prize winners may be required to provide additional information for prize fulfillment. If you use, purchase, or register for an Online Service through a third-party service such as a gaming console's network service, an internet based gaming service, or a social network website, or request that we associate a Company account with a third-party service account, then limited user account personal information may be transferred to the Company as part of the registration process and we may be able to collect information about your use of the Online Services. For example, if you purchase virtual currency through a gaming console service, that gaming console service will provide us with information to effectuate the transaction, including the amount of virtual currency purchased and a means to identify your Online Service account. When you use an application on a Social Networking Site ("SNS"), you allow us to access certain information from your profile from that SNS. The information you allow us to access is affected by the privacy settings you establish at the SNS. For example, our Facebook applications may access and store some or all of the following information, as allowed by you, the SNS and your preferences: your "basic information" you have shared with everyone on the SNS; your profile picture or its URL; your friends list, your user ID number, which is linked to publicly available information such as name and profile photo; or other information indicated as part of the "Request for Permission" prompt from the SNS. Your agreement to share this information takes place when you "accept" (or similar terms) one of our applications on an SNS. Once your information is received from an SNS, that information is stored and used by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The Company is not responsible for the terms, policies, disclosures or actions of any SNS. When you use Facebook Connect, OpenID or another multisite ID to log in to an Online Service, those ID services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us to pre-populate our sign up form. Depending on your account settings, multisite IDs may also provide other information to us. Please check the terms of those services before using them to log into an Online Service. When you play certain software products published by the Company, information about your gameplay may be collected and transmitted to the Company through network services or any other internet connection method used by the hardware on which you play such games (collectively and individually your "Internet Connection"). See "What Gameplay Information Does the Company Collect?" below for further details."

Insane... I can't advise you in any way, but if it was me? I'd say [bad word] the GDPR.

As a joke, I mailed this to all of my friends on the 25th, (its automatically translated, but you get the idea) Best addressee, as per today is the General data protection regulation entered into force, in connection with this regulation part I need to inform you what personally identifiable information of you may possibly be in my possession: Full first and last names, nicknames, dates of birth, disposition, picture and sound material, conversation history, medical data, physical characteristics. Of the following, ' previous ' ' current ' and ' future ' personal data could possibly be in my possession; Home address, location information, contact information, employers, personal and business ventures and relations, vehicles, hobbies, holidays and flight dates, pets, life partners, clothing preference, religion, values and standards, subscriptions, Bank and credit card details, income and expenses. These types of data are not limited to yourself but also concern for family members, life partners, friends, acquaintances and enemies. This list aims does not aim to be comprehensive. You hereby acknowledge that all these data has been shared voluntarily by you, have been abandoned and there is no further rights can be derived from this by you. You have the right to see or change this data (come have a beer, fun!). Removal however will in most cases prove difficult (but can't) You give me the irrevocable right to, whether or not anonymized, share this data to my own understanding or to distribute to third parties or to earn money here. If you object to the collection of new personal data, you have the possibility to no longer share data as of today. Information you share in public however, or that still manage to find their way to me through third parties, can and will be added to this collection. Should you have any questions, comments or need some clarification, you can reach me via the contact details known to you. Best regards, XXX XXXXXXX * * some data in this post have anonymized, made possible by the entry into force of the General data protection regulation. There were some good laughs, except for one buddy of mine who works at a real small real estate agency. Understandable, because getting in compliance, and people already exercising their rights to be forgotten, requesting their info, requesting changes, and even finding all the info is an undoable taks. The burden has been proven so high that It would even be best to shut down the office and start a new one next business day… The ridiculousness doesn't just stop with business entities, I like to make drone stills and video's, and even people taking holiday pictures are in subdued to follow GDPR guidelines, because the moment you take a picture with somebody on it in the background, and you publish it on a photo website or YouTube, you have to have asked the consent of those people, which they can also revoke again as well.

Steam user Jim posted this a few days ago which I found interesting to read; "The term most of you are looking for regarding a EULA is "shrink-wrapped licensing" and in reality it has no real legal authority. It is mainly a protection to limit liability of the producer of the content versus future litigation. "Shrink-wrapped licensing's actual legality has always been debatable and only about 3 cases have ever went to court. The results of of these cases still left the legal liabilities of shrink-wrapped licensing in limbo. It is in limbo because it is a VOLUNTARY contract between two parties. Generally you do have a legal right to a refund within 30 days of the licenensing terms being applied (by purchasing, opening, and perhaps even installing the product); however, no one ever pushes the issue into court so whether or not you get a refund goes only as far as you are willing to push it in court." And a little further; "It is sad and those cases involved software that caused millions in damages (see: M.A. Mortensen Co. v Timberline Software Corp. and you can see that changes in the EULA after the software is purchased (layered contract) is mentioned in the case." source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/220200/discussions/0/1696048245848512777/#c1696048426809512180 The first hit on Google brought me here (not going to copy paste it all, best read there); http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case206.cfm

Understandable I think its all just funny that an IP address somehow now is supposed to be personal information, I've heard it so much in relation to GDPR, that I just took note it is, I don't care really. How about this as a source? "(30) Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them." http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=en