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How does one use the new L-ALT Mapping Camera? I can't figure out how to get that laser altimeter science from this, the tooltip also says "Collectable Data: X".

I think i found an exploit while playing around with beamed power. With the patch from warpplugin active (don't know if this really works this way) the nuclear reactors from Near Future Electric produce a constant amount of MW power that is required by pretty much everything from Interstellar Extended. Scale them up or down, they always produce the same MW. Now for the exploit: Scale them down to 0.1 m and place multiple of them underneath an infrared laser, apply apropriate cooling. It's free energy, costs 1/100 the money that it would take with a pebble bed reactor and will run for 5 years. For a career playthrough this is game breaking.

Sounds like i can just replace Field Research with this then, that's good to hear!

There's a number of problems with the old Field Resarch pack that caused me so much frustration that i solved them on my own. Just as advice. Rover arm science: In Field Research you'd get jobs to scan surface features in xyz biome, but that would never finish because rover arm science does not depend on biome. I turned that whole category of experiments off with a patch. Station Parts Redux: That mod has a few parts that include science experiments, namely the confusingly named "visual observation" experiment that is done from station command parts and the "observe local space" experiment that's done with the shrouded telescope found in science parts. My problem with those is that you get jobs to do them landed. They work there, but command modules + huge telescope make for a horrible lander, roleplayingwise i find them highly unfitting, i solved that by limiting those experiments to orbit, you could just turn them off completely.

May be an option, though i was thinking more about just changing some value in a cfg file somewhere to bring its drag in line with that of a normal fairing. The two huge shells it has as protection do quite literally nothing in that regard.

Hi, I'm trying out the beamed power parts of this, and the giantic "Solar Concentrating Mirror" caught my attention. Maintanance free hard x-rays from a low sun orbit and all that. But how on earth does one launch this monstrosity? It has so much drag the rocket is seemingly crawling upwards even with high twr - the aerodynamic overlay is showing what looks like an infinitely long drag line, and the shroud/s has about 99 % chance of blowing up the payload and craft transporting it when jettisoning once you actually reach an acceptable height. Is this WAD to make it harder to get that free energy or am i doing something very wrong?

Thank you for your answer, it was part of contract config field research tied to this or the other DMagic science mod, the op of the other thread already answered it, there's an error that generates contracts that can not be fulfilled (sigint in biomes etc) and i deleted the mod, so no mission to show.

Is there a part in this pack that lets me take a science experiment in high orbit over an anomaly? I have a contract on Minmus, to generate and return a science report high over an anomaly over the highlands and the only part that can make that (that i know of) is the "Anomalous Signal Sensor BTDT" but that needs to be in 200 m range of the anomaly to work, not 30 km. Thanks you.

Thanks for answering! I made a probe with all science that could be it, hovered over an anomaly i already found at all heights etc, nothing would do. Your contract packs are great but i sadly have to turn it off... the rest of the contract had weird things as well, but hauling a 6 ton plant growth lab and a huge radio astronomy telescope is nothing compared to this problem with the anomaly scan.

Hi I have a problem with one mission from this pack. Minmus Highlands High in space Anomaly scan The only thing that can do an anomaly scan i have is "Anomalous Signal Sensor - BTDT" by DMagic, and for that to work i need to be wihin 200 meters, not above 30 kilometers. Is there anyhting i can do? Should i ask in the DMagic thread? Thanks.