MidwestB

Hello! Reading these updates the last few weeks has been great. Really appreciating the insights. The changing orbits and shifting trajectories on SOI changes are the things keeping me from purchasing the game currently. I don't mind if science is way later, I just want to go see places like Dres' rings or Vall's ice canyons. Been playing KSP1 since 0.16, when there was just Kerbin, the Mun and not much else! Last week it was mentioned that the orbit changes are due to an aggregation of wobbles. Do the devs have a tool to see the forces, or acceleration of a craft in orbit? Can they see these values for a craft while it's orbiting? It seems like analyzing these values would help get to the cause for orbits changing/how the wobbliness is causing it. What direction is a force acting to cause the orbit to change? Is it a drag, normal, or anti-normal force? Is it random or oscillating? Is it stronger in one direction, and if so why? Is there a way to help figure it out better? I'm tempted to get the game to try helping look into it more/experiment with it. It seems like a really interesting problem to solve and I hope there is a write up about it once it's cracked!

The wheel stress part seems interesting, but seems like it needs work. Matoroignika streamed the latest build today and the wheels on a plane that worked yesterday exploded after moving all of 5 feet on the runway due to too much stress. Hopefully a happy balance can be reached, otherwise this seems like a feature that could be really annoying.

Every new version I plan on landing and returning from every body. Started it once with Moho and made it, then got to Eve and got stuck, so now I start with Eve. I've never made it and stop playing shortly after each release and wait for the next.

So the old chase cam is still in? That is great news. I'm at least three hours out from opening the game myself and can't wait!

I use the current chase cam for all of my docking. It really helps keep the orientation of my RCS aligned with my controls. If it's now aligned to my velocity vector, will it flip around the ship if I thrust backwards to align better with a station? That's the first 1.0 update I've heard that's bumming me out, but I'm willing to give it a chance when it's released

I have been looking forward to stock resources for a long time since I don't care to use mods. I love building interplanetary ships in orbit, but fueling them around Kerbin is a pain. I'm thinking building around the Mun, sending a large ship out that'll be mostly empty by the time it gets there, refuel on the Mun and then go up and fuel the construction will be awesome. I'll just have to find a way to make it cost effective...

99% certain it'll be be female kerbals with "Project V" being named for Valentina Tereshkova

Having turbine engines drain evenly from all fuel tanks in a stage sounds really useful, along with the new timewarp function. I'm excited to try them! Most forgotten parts for me are either goo canisters or solar panels

I just did a few cotracts for stations in orbit around Kerbin and ran into a problem. Searching the board, I found this thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/105623-Ideas-for-making-the-station-outpost-contracts-better But I don't think it matches with what I would like to suggest. The contracts only seem to require that batteries, antennae and docking ports be launched new, which could be done with a small shuttle, as long as the complete station has something else stipulated in the contract, such as a science lab or cupola, which doesn't need to be launched new. The problem is when you dock the newly launched equipment with a preexisting station, the parts are marked as old. Here's an example of what I did to figure this out: I did a contract, got a station up and then took another contract that was for the same station, plus a science lab. The first module had space for 5 kerbals and all the equipment (it didn't need a science lab and didn't have one) while the second module had the same equipment and a science lab, but only had space for 2 kerbals instead of five. Launching the second module, the objectives for the newly launched power, antenna and docking port along with a science lab were completed. When the module docked with the first, the room for 5 kerbals objective also became completed, but the one for launching the new equipment became unchecked. I had to do another launch to dock a 3 man pod onto the second module and undock from the first module to get the contract completed. If there's a way to tell that a module docked to a station was launched after a contract was accepted, I think it would make it possible to keep using a same station to dock to and maybe result in contracts requiring more components on a station since you could already have some in orbit.

Hmm, adding all the biomes and the fact that destructible buildings in .25 are supposed to be ground work for something that may be in .26 as well? Sounds like a lot of fun

Everyone's talking about this surprise feature, but I'm really excited for this update. I'm interested to see how the strategies work out (my science returns take a hit as I concentrate on contracts), improved navball so I don't have to do the occasional flail through space to find the proper node, reworked Mk. 1 parts and new SP+ parts! (I don't use mods, but SP+ is very pretty). On top of all this cool stuff, we get an optional bonus of destructible buildings (My funds fear for the safety of the launchpad, I feel it will need to be repaired quite a bit) Even though the official release date is SOONâ„¢, it kinda sounds like .25 will be out next week and I'm stoked!

I love building ships in orbit, even developed a portable asparagus platform that fuel tanks could be docked to so the entire thing didn't have to be sent in one piece. Got to Moho and back first try a few versions ago, but fuel was scarce on the return trip...

I saw this too. It doesn't look as over the top as people are making it out to be. There's the delta-V map for the Kerbol system on the board, with biome names and what I'm guessing are ships at the top right and bottom left of that board. Then there's a picture of a completed tech tree on the tablet that's probably from the wiki. The most obsessed thing I see is the binder with tabs for maps and planet stats for each body which I think is a pretty good idea, actually. Overall neat, but not really anything to freak out over.

Starting out, I must have been making rockets that were more expensive than what I was earning and my funds got too low to build what I wanted for some missions. Had to do some simpler things to earn back enough. Got up to 500k Roots by the time I stopped playing 5 hours after starting though.

Awesome, thanks!