LunarMetis

Thanks for the heads up. I'm really really hoping to see new content soon, definitely need a new itch to play KSP2 again. And welcome back, Mike! Glad to see you back!

The eclipse here is gonna peak right around my solar system astronomy class, as if it couldn't be more of a perfect time to have one. We'll be spending class time looking at the eclipse. Just hope the weather will be nice by then!

I'd prefer if they kept the Kerbolar system as it is now, and keep the outer planets as mods. The outer planets all have the same challenges as getting to Jool does, only the distances are much bigger. I would love to see OPM get revamped for KSP2 one day, though. It's one of my go-to planet packs from KSP1.

I think it has to do with huge Discord servers in general not being a great environment to have nuanced conversations. It's not impossible to have them, but they're extremely fast-paced to the point where it's just a constant stream of people talking, and conversations can change directions at any whim. The forums can be like that too, but it's at least pretty organized streams for the most part, and there's much more room to have in-depth conversations.

Yeah, it would make sense for them to announce it the week before it comes out. If no date is given this week, then we'll know for sure it's not gonna be the first week of December.

I doubt they'd release an update on a Sunday. I think a December 12 - 14 (Tuesday - Thursday) release window is much more likely.

To me, it kinda makes sense why aquatic sciences would be high up in the tech tree. We know much more about the surface of Mars than the bottoms of Earth's oceans in real life. Maybe at some point in building their advanced interplanetary space program, the Kerbals just realized "hey, what the hell could be lying underneath Kerbin's oceans? Or Eve's? Or especially Laythe's?" and decided to start research on it fairly late.

I forgot to write a post about this yesterday (lol), but I made a successful Duna landing. Safe to say, I ended up making the smoothest landing. It didn't topple over or anything, not a single part broken. I would've also posted a cute line-up of all the Kerbals I brought on this lander if I remembered to add a ladder, but c'est la vie.

I'll withhold my judgment until the update actually comes, but I'm happy to see you guys still making tons of progress even after all the mountains of backlash! Much love!

After looking at the Tracking Station info box for celestial bodies, I thought about how cool it would be to display something like relative units with respect to bodies like Kerbin, Jool, and Kerbol. I think it's especially fitting considering exoplanets will be added to KSP2, and their physical parameters in the real universe are often represented in units like Earth masses or Jupiter masses. They obviously shouldn't replace the values expressed in metric units, so I'd love them as a secondary value underneath in the CB info. Here are some possible secondary units to display underneath the main values: Kerbin mass (Mki): 5.2913E+22 kg Kerbin radius (Rki): 600,000 m Jool mass (Mj): 4.2331E+24 kg (80 Mki) Jool radius (Rj): 6,000,000 m (10 Rki) Kerbol mass (Mko): 1.7565E+28 kg (~332,000 Mki; ~4,000 Mj) Kerbol radius (Rko): 261,600,000 m (436 Rki, 43.6 Rj) Kerbal Astronomical Unit (KAU): 13,599,840,256 m I don't know if they'll be useful in a practical sense, but it at least makes for some great flavor text and it keep things feeling Kerbal. It might also be nice to have them to be able to compare other celestial bodies more easily.

1. How will the sizes of different stars be scaled with respect to Kerbol? Will they be scaled at 1/3 their real-life analogs like Kerbol and the Sun? 2. How do you plan to implement proper motion of other star systems, and how do you expect that to add to the challenges of interstellar travel?

Right, that's what I'm wondering, because if Kerbin is going to be this infinite sink of resources that the player will pull from, it'll remove constraint from rocket-building because since you'll have infinite resources anyway, you can build a mega-rocket right from the get-go and not worry about a single thing. It would completely ruin any sense of progression. That's why I think funds should probably stay in the game as a primary early-game constraint, along with unlocked tech from science points. Again, nothing is known about how exactly this is gonna play out. Maybe the devs will come up with a better solution to tackle this problem. I hope that's not the direction they'll take. I think scouting for resources should be one reason to explore other worlds, but I'd rather not do it as part of an active effort to follow a storyline.

I think a resource system would be a great addition to KSP2, since I'd feel like it would make planetary exploration more interesting, and gives the player something more to look for. I don't think the game should explicitly say exactly which celestial bodies are rich in what resource, but if the game is like "Hey, if you want to build this really advanced tech, try getting ahold of this resource, and go figure out where it is," that would make it a fun mid-/end-game mechanic in my opinion. However, I'm not too sure how it would work for early-game, since you won't have any colonies or production facilities established yet on any celestial body. I'm not sure how I'd feel about having production plants in the KSC, and if resources would even need to be sought out on Kerbin. If there ought to be some balanced gameplay with a resource system, then keeping funds as the constraint for rocket-building for early game would be fine. At a certain point where you have unlocked the technology to get to most places in the Kerbolar System, funds should then swap over to resources as the primary constraint on rocket-building, and then colony-building / deep-space exploration becomes necessary to unlock more advanced technology after that point. I don't think funds should be gone entirely, but reworked to accommodate the resource system. As is tradition with IG, most details on how the resource system will work / how it would be balanced are fuzzy at best. Hopefully they might do something like this by the time resource management is added into the game, but I think most things revolving around development should be taken by licking a giant salt lamp or something. I'm also spit-balling ideas here, so let me know what you think.

Around launch, some dataminers discovered the names of two other star systems in Kerbol's interstellar neighborhood called Tuun and Qeg. Not much is really known about what these stars are like. If I had to guess, Tuun could be an A-type main sequence star like Sirius, and Qeg could be a white dwarf. We won't know for sure until they've been officially revealed.

Holy Kraken, more than 160 upvotes as of this writing. Take notes, Nate.