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    explorables and improved planets

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

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    On 11/26/2018 at 10:20 AM, jevry said:

    other nice things to add could be more texts describing locations and what the kerbal thinks of the sightings , and collectibles when you surface sample at interesting locations which you can view in a rock trophy room. because people like to look at rocks right?

    a bit of a side story of the findings as i just described could be interesting.

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    From the wiki page about Duna (The spoiler section)

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    One anomalous feature on Duna is a small, pyramid-like hill emitting an SSTV signal. When decrypted, it shows a diagram-like image of three figures standing next to the hill itself, which was originally part of the developer's story but later scrapped.

     

    and from the easter egg wiki page:

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    In a forum post from late 2013,[1] Squad member Jeff C.(NovaSilisko) described an idea he had for connecting many easter eggs into a story concerning a civilization which predated the Kerbals. Experiments with interstellar travel resulted in the homeworld of this "precursor civilization" being flung out into an extremely distant orbit. Before they froze to death, they launched monoliths and other messages onto many planets and moons in hopes of seeding intelligent life. Instead, they created Kerbals, not-so-intelligent life.

    The planet would not show up in any map and would be too distant to be observed with a telescope, making locating it by chance nearly impossible. However, players would be able to find transmitters beaming out SSTV signals on various bodies, each one of which would provide part of the orbital parameters necessary to locate it. The planet would be a bit smaller than Kerbin, covered in ruined cities and frozen oceans, and perpetually in twilight due to being so far from Kerbol.

    The only element of this narrative which made it into the game is the SSTV transmitter on Duna, which transmits an image originally intended to depict 4 members of the precursor civilization standing on their homeworld, with the logo of their government. Had the narrative story been completed, it would also have contained part of the orbital parameters. Because the story was never implemented into the game, this explanation for the SSTV signal's imagery is arguably non-canon.[2]

     

    In other words, there was going to be a huge backstory created to add more interesting stuff, but it was scrapped. I'm not saying that it's a bad idea to add interesting terrain features and stuff, I'm just saying it was in the works but was scrapped.

    The above stuff aside, I think this is a great idea.

    Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical questions

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    Relating to an earlier question about magnetic shielding, would it be possible to have a shield where a projectile approaching the shield is broken up into dust then passed around the outside of the shield bubble, having its energy reduced as it goes, so that it leaves the shield bubble at the other side of the shield, but in the form of dust travelling at a low velocity?(>1 m/s) In order to not violate the law of conservation of energy, the energy that the projectile loses can just be stored and used to break up the next projectile or something. For those who have read Speaker for the Dead, I'm effectively talking about the lightspeed engines used therein, except the exhaust trail would have its velocity reduced so it does not damage anything behind it.

    General thoughts on a multiplayer mode for ksp without timewarp

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

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    19 hours ago, Cassel said:

    Bases on land would be easier to find, but that's not a problem if the game limits the funds of each player as it is in a career where you have to make contracts to make money.
    But to hit the base in orbit is a miracle, you would not only have to spot it without using the UI, but still adjust your orbit and speed.

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    I understand that, and will admit that finding any orbital bases, other than maybe massive stations (because of the lag of getting fairly close to them in an active vessel, but that would still be highly unreliable), and only an advanced astrophysicist would be able to figure out the orbit based on observing a station visually, but land bases are still pretty common.

    19 hours ago, Cassel said:

    If every player starts the same amount of money then it would be hard for you. Also for destroying  bases of other players, he will not get anything, you can do it once, because you will not be able to afford it anymore.
    The second thing is reputation, everyone in the solar system will find out who you are, and if multiplayer will be tied up with steam accounts, each copy of the game = one account, so good luck :-)

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    Couldn't a griefer start out the same way, and just earn money the same way as other players to start out, and just wait until they have enough money and parts unlocked to just launch two missions, one for griefing someone, and the other to complete a mission to get funds to continue the game?

    Reputation is mainly affected by contracts and successes/failures, and not everyone in the solar system would be looking at your reputation, so the main method of people finding out would be whoever was griefed telling them. However, if there were no UI tags, as you mentioned earlier, then they would not be able to find out who did it from the debris and vehicles used, except for maybe by identifying the flags, but those can be turned off. and would have to be online to witness it at all. also, you do understand that not everyone has KSP through Steam, right.

    General thoughts on a multiplayer mode for ksp without timewarp

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

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    On 10/18/2018 at 10:14 AM, Cassel said:

    If there was no UI tag, finding a ship or base of another player would be difficult in solar system. The tag could only appear for players on the "friend list".

    It would not be hard to drive a rover around and find it, or even better, on planets and moons with atmospheres, fly a self-refueling plane or something around at low-medium altitude, and simply see the base, in just a day or two. This would be especially effective in finding large bases, which are typically more expensive, contain more crew, and have other important functions such as science, a mining station, or a planetary operations center (a base for smaller stuff to operate through, for example, a relay for small rovers with limited antenna strength). Using a probe, whether plane or rover, would also be very effective for finding bases on planets where white (the color that a large portion of parts are) is very distinctive against the surface color, such as Eve (purple), Kerbin (green and blue, except for the polar icecaps), or Duna (red, except for the polar icecaps).

    On 10/18/2018 at 10:14 AM, Cassel said:

    BDArmory is a good addon. In multiplayer, there should be space-weapons to defend against evil people.
    There would always be the possibility of arming your space station/base/ship, and if someone outside your friends list approaches, Kerbals would automatically open fire.

    Wouldn't the "evil people", a.k.a. griefers also then have access to those weapons? Couldn't they then build some kind of orbital bombardment system or bomber or something equipped with large payloads of said weapons, to use against others? In addition, if I was a griefer trying to destroy say, a mun base, assuming I have already found the base using the method above, I would launch a base of my own, carrying a bunch of small, cheap, expendable probes, and a one large, armored, and weapon-bearing probe, land the base within navigation range of the base I am trying to destroy, but outside of the automatic engagement range for that base, and send the probes, the cheap, expendable ones first, towards the base, one by one, and just keep doing it until the base runs out of ammo for its weapons. Then, the base would be effectively unarmed, since it cannot fire on me due to lack of ammo, and I could send a single vehicle to destroy it at close range. at this point, when sending the larger vehicle used to destroy the base, even if I, as the griefer, did not have access to BDArmory, I could still destroy the base after depleting its ammo by flying something into it, using stock missiles, building and deploying some kind of battering ram, using a stock bomber to drop something on it, a ballistic missile launched from either ground or orbit, or some combination thereof, all of which are easily accomplished without any mods.

    Sky ramp

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    On 8/10/2018 at 6:13 PM, wumpus said:

    The US Navy is trying to replace steam driven catapults with a system called EMALS for electric acceleration.  It will get to 150mph, but is so far unreliable (10% failure rate) and is priced at US carrier volumes but is unlikely to hurt anyone who can meet military pilot health checks (might be a problem with the general public but not astronaut crews for some time).

    I'm not saying that they can't go faster, I'm just saying that the amusement park isn't big enough to fit enough track to not render everyone on the ride unconscious by accelerating them to those speeds too quickly. in theory, you could have an amusement park ride that travels that fast, it would just need a much longer distance to get to those speeds. In effect, this would dictate the need to have a rather large (~10km) track, that the rocket would go around a few times, after which it would be diverted to a straight track that gradually becomes sloped to avoid high accelerations and speed decreases from changing the direction of movement to quickly, then once at a sufficient angle, the rocket would leave the track at high velocity, but not having experienced too many Gs of force.

    Sky ramp

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    On 7/26/2018 at 8:02 AM, wumpus said:

    There are amusement park rides that do this to ~100kmh and presumably can't be much more expensive than a few years of Falcon 9 fuel.  Scaling it up to 1600kmh is a bigger question. 

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    Those amusement park rides sometimes can't go faster due to the acceleration loads it would place on the people riding the thing.

    There is a Zombie apocalypse. You only have your profile picture to protect you. How do you fare?

    in Forum Games!

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    My profile photo is a mining spacecraft form a videogame called eve online. I think I would fare pretty well considering that:

    • Eve online is set in another galaxy so I'm pretty far away from said zombies
    • Spacecraft in eve online can travel at several AU per second(please don't attack me for bad science)
    • Eve online has more to explain the respawn mechanic, making me effectively immortal(once again please don't attack me for bad science)

    Suspiciously Affirm Your Status As A Human

    in Forum Games!

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    5/10, was rather convincing but used correct grammar.

    I can learn how to play new videogames without being programmed to. Also can have humanl̶i̶k̶e̶ biology if needed, including four limbs, a total of twenty digits in various places bipedal walking, and a sensor intake and communications cluster that everyone else on the i̶n̶v̶a̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶a̶r̶g̶e̶t̶ i mean y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶h̶o̶m̶e̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ i mean our planet seems to call a "face"!

    You know you played KSP too long when...

    in Forum Games!

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    When you design a 1400 ton rocket in ksp that does not reach orbit.(It is designed to send large payloads on interplanetary trajectories, and thus does not waste fuel circularising at kerbin orbit. In addition, said rocket was made using Making History, because of the Saturn V parts.)  That or you are one of the people who post in this thread.(Or anywhere else in the forum for that matter.)

    Tucker Carlson-UFOs- Propulsion Systems

    in The Lounge

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    5 hours ago, p1t1o said:

    This is possible, in fact it is done, but perhaps not quite in the way that you imagine. It is limited in effect however, reducing probability or range of detection rather than hiding the craft entirely. The intricacies of thermodynamics make it so you can reduce your signature quite easily, but its extremely difficult to approach zero emissions. About the only way to be *almost* invisible to IR is to have a large tank of liquid helium and actively cooling your vehicle and venting the heated coolant through an expansion nozzle, though this is only really relevant to spacecraft.

    Have a search through the forums for discussions on stealth in space (its quite a hot topic sometimes) and have a read here: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect.php

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    I think you have the right idea of what I am saying. If we take a radiator and simply put it on the other side of the ufo from the pilot and the IR tracking system, then neither would be able to see the heat.

    Tucker Carlson-UFOs- Propulsion Systems

    in The Lounge

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    39 minutes ago, qzgy said:

    The earths magnetic field is incredibly weak (25-65 microtesla). For comparison, ITER uses approximately 12 tesla magnetic fields for containment. Not very helpful but still a point of reference.

    Add to that the fact that its strength decreases with a square (if I remember physics correctly) and you're much higher up than the surface, where that strength is recorded. Also add even further to that, your magnetic field can only repel or attract along field lines so on the earth's surface, only the Z (upwards) component actually does anything, making the already weak repulsion force weaker. And most of the field lines are not in the Z-direction since its relatively close to the equator, so its pretty weak. Especially when compared to gravity.

    So I really really doubt that that could work. To the point of saying its basically impossible.

     

    I suppose, oh well.

    On 3/26/2018 at 5:06 PM, Nuke said:

    mega drives. aka mach effect thrusters. they are "reactionless" drives (though you could say they use the entire universe as reaction mass). the idea is the mass of something really doesnt mean anything unless there are other objects to compare it to. but since gravity is not instantaneous, the mass of objects are in a state of flux. if you can determine the fluctuation and oscilate a mass in tune to it, you get free thrust. it does everything em drives do except there is theory out there to explain why it works. they are currently in a mad quest for more thrust but they are running into materials problems.

    Wouldn't 'free thrust' violate the second law of thermodynamics, because the energy to move the spacecraft would have to come from somewhere? (if I understand the second law of thermodynamics correctly)

     

    Also, not relating to the quotes above, but as I said earlier, what if the engine does give off heat, just the heat comes out of a radiator on the non-observed side of the ufo, and the ufo is simply moving fast enough that the air it passes does not gain significant heat per a  given amount volume, but there is a large overall volume of air that the radiator comes into contact with due to the high velocity of the ufo? This would give an infrared signature, but the signature would be difficult to detect because the heat would be spread over a large area.

    Tucker Carlson-UFOs- Propulsion Systems

    in The Lounge

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    What if the object uses solar arrays for power, then has some kind of electromagnet that moves it around, sort of like a maglev train? Or it could just have radiators that it hides from observers, and moves fast enough that the air on that side of it cannot absorb significant heat, but still slow enough that it does not experience atmospheric heating?

    Mun North Pole needs fixing.

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

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    18 hours ago, klesh said:

    Making History missions have a spawnable function when building them.  The mission creator can spawn a launchpad anywhere on the surface of anything but Jool or the Sun, even underwater.  You can spawn individual Kerbals too.  This makes for lots of interesting possibilities for unique gameplay, but we need the planets fixed so interesting polar scenarios are viable without large terrain glitches visible.

     

    Oh ok then, I thought you meant that there was some way to build a launchpad in the standard game.

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