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Am I jumping to conclusions here or is this Wal from OPM? It has the distinctive pinched shape, looks like it's orbiting a parent body, and has a moon of its own. Very cool!

Is there a setting to disable the in-game notification for stage alerts? It doesn't pop up, but it does spam up the notification log pretty severely. The toolbar button already has all the stage recovery information for the flight, which is enough for me personally.

I take it there's still no way to make loops happen in construction? I have the one tiny KerboPower nuclear reactor on a Duna base and am contemplating installing this alongside FFT, but I worry that reactor will lose its ability to get cooled. e: Looks like the loop select GUI lets you assign items to loops on the fly in any vessel. This is pretty swell.

Gotta love that you can transfer crew through a claw but not fuel...

Lmao, this happened to me too. I will install rescue pod validator going forward, and I suppose I'll have to cope with cheating to resolve this minor inconvenience...

I had to delete the part config and model references as with some other less broken parts. Looks like the light module isn't properly defined for 'em.

Try what I did here; removing only the .mu files probably wouldn't work. As for the particular part name in configs, the wiki is actually pretty good for that: https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Parts/FuelTank/fuelTankJumbo-64/fuelTankJumbo-64.cfg

Before you go blowing your mind, know that it technically doesn't support 1.3 so if you have any issues you're out of luck. But yeah, I haven't noticed any problems.

When I saw a Poodmund post in this thread in my notifications, I jumped for joy. Fantastic! And yeah, as Astronomer's Visual Pack is gaining momentum, maybe that would be a good standard to work towards.

The biggest memory hogs are Outer planets (completely irrelevant) and the visual mods, which could all be omitted for better performance. Thank you anyways!

What I did in my brief stunt to update this mod was just blindly follow Galileo's SVE config layout, but I ended up somehow overwriting Laythe's atmosphere config with that of Tekto, leaving Tekto as a blank black sphere. Every other atmosphere actually worked fine and looked as intended (Thatmo in particular is beautiful). It was pretty gnarly. Someone with actual knowledge of the code could hopefully update this real easily...

You can install the mod without breaking things, but it won't function at all. There's some updated syntax that at first glance is incredibly easy to bring to par but I haven't figured it out myself.

Excuse the "necro-quote", but do you still have this on hand? I'm interested in making some sort of ion-space plane as well. Namely with Argon since I don't have the magnetoplasmadynamic engines yet. Edit: Adding modular tanks certainly enables easy Xenon usage but Argon or Lithium would require modification.

It's a miracle that this is the only major bug I have with this setup. @Pthigrivi If you make the LV-Ns use liquid fuel, the existing ones should continue to function just fine with no losses. The boiloff is only a thing with the new Hydrogen fuel, which by default only exists in the wire frame cryo tanks.

I caught what's happening with the nuclear engines on video. This one very reliably ceases to function at 80 m/s for no discernible reason. The strangest thing is that it maintains that speed (fluctuating based on rotation?) until the rocket spontaneously dissociates from stress and the game engine realizes "oh right, that's not supposed to be happening" and puts gravity back into place.

I'm still losing my mind over the dang thrustless nuclear engines. I reinstalled all my mods so it wasn't just a plain anomaly, but I have no idea where to begin in terms of stripping down mods. Edit: Well, they are working on a new save file after the reinstall. It might just be this rocket that's cursed at this point; I've terminated it in the hopes that a future one will follow in the functional footsteps of this sandbox one!

I suppose I'll have to look deeper into this; my biggest concern is how they worked fine for the first few minutes and then ceased to function. What exactly do you mean by "advanced integrations"?

This doesn't modify any stock planets, but keep in mind that of course you also won't get any of the visual effects from those mods on the outer planes; their standard stock look is quite janky and low-fi in comparison. There is a mod, Pood's OPM-VO, which adds SVE-style scatterer etc. enhancements to the outer planets, but it's only for 1.2.

Yup I've got a somewhat smaller base on the mün that I've been scared to heck of this happening to but so far I've been lucky. Will be a nice relief when this bug gets removed.

Pretty sure that's a stock bug that messes up structures as they're loaded, spawning them high in the air. One that is scheduled to be squashed in the 1.3.1 update

I'm getting a real strange problem with any nuclear engine, apparently (happened with the good ol' original nuclear engines as well but I thought little of it, maybe a one-time bug). Apparently the engines will just straight up stop providing thrust after existing for a while after their initialization. Even restarting the game hasn't fixed it. As you can see, the engines are receiving full fuel and burning it appropriately, but no thrust is exerted. I had originally managed to raise my orbit to that elliptical height with these same engines, but now I can't budge at all.

Alright, I have found a suggestion for a balance change... why the heck do the inanimate skids weigh 500 kilograms each!? I'm trying to make an ice plane as light as possible, see. Something one tenth of that or less seems more reasonable (I've gone and changed it myself for the time being).

This is a bit old but still relevant; with mods (namely RealChute) it can be especially useful to instead opt in to assigning a custom action group for "arming" the parachute for automatic deployment rather than having the default staging always stick around.

That has fixed it, and I can't really discern any changes to my ocean rendering if any, so thanks!