Vanamonde

This belongs in gameplay questions. And now, it is there.

Everybody is so cranky lately! Once again I must say, please comment on the subject of the thread and avoid criticizing each other's personalities.

Are all the engines firing?

As I always say, test on the ground before you get to space. Avoids all kinds of heartache.

The center of lift is even with the center of mass in the vertical plane. That has no inherent stability and the vehicle is as likely roll as not. Try making the wings shoulder-mounted so that the weight is hanging from the wings, and the plane will have a slight but helpful tendency to stay upright. I don't see an obvious cause for unwanted yaw, though. Perhaps make the tail boom longer so that the control surfaces are working over a longer lever?

I use Thread Relocator. It makes sure threads end up in the right sub-forum.

Hey Victus. I moved your post to its own thread. Welcome to the forum. By the way, you should be able to start new threads by clocking on the "+ post new thread" button on the upper left (below the header) of the sub-forum pages.

Some players have found that rigid structures made out of struts work better than landing legs on Eve.

Docking ports are stronger than a lot of people will tell you they are, but any mass that is only secured at one end has the potential to start swinging like a pendulum. And the more massive it is, the bigger a problem that will be. This is a ship I built a while back that is similar in size to yours, and also assembled with medium docking rings: The core and side tank mounts are all one piece, and the tanks themselves are smaller. It experienced a bit of oscillation, but nothing bad enough to damage the ship or make steering difficult. The trick is to keep the size of the swinging masses to a minimum, and cross-brace them wherever you can. Incidentally, that design evolved into this one, which launches as one piece and is very stable structurally. The struts between the engine stacks keep the ship rigid.

Does this happen consistently? It's rare, but I have seen it happen randomly on a ship which had no design problems, and which had flown properly before and after the problem flight.

Okay, how about another trick? Aim him where you want him, hold down the W key, and without letting up on W, alt-tab out of the game. He should continue to walk in that direction indefinitely, covering the distance while you do other things, even if you alt-tab back. The downside is that there's a trick to making him stop as well. He won't unless you hold S to bring him to a halt, then return to the space center without letting up on S. When you resume-flight him again, he will respond normally. Kind of a pain, it's true, but less tedious than holding W for several hours.

Interesting choice of planes to recreate.

This is the second warning to discuss the subject and not other members. If you feel someone is being rude, that's not an excuse to be rude back. Hit the "report post" button and let the moderators deal with it. If this does keep up, we'll start handing out infractions, and if necessary, lock the thread.

I disagree with many of your points, Sauron. I don't know where this idea came from, but the tech tree does not recapitulate the game's part development history. Control surfaces are useful in aircraft at all times, launch-to-orbit for larger rockets, and during flights at Eve, Duna, and Laythe. RCS can be used to make fine course corrections even for large ships if you burn early, and can provide the main and only propulsion for small probes. For example, from a mothership in Jool orbit, I have landed RCS probes on several of the moons. Because people keep saying this, I decided to test the idea. I played a campaign almost entirely with probes and cleared the tech tree despite the fact that all probes I sent farther than Kerbin's moons transmitted their data and were not recovered. The problem is not in the way that the game is designed, but in the erroneous preconception many players have that collecting anything less than 100% of the available science at a destination is a waste of time. There is more than enough potential science in the game to clear the tech tree, and you don't need to collect every bit of it to do so. If you are going to send a mission, though, it makes sense to carry as much useful payload as possible. This is, after all, what real space agencies do. No launch wastefully carries only one experiment. This is a matter of efficiency rather than game design. Goddard and the others spent decades launching rockets before anybody got close to achieving orbit. In KSP, the main science to be had from these flights is from soil samples because, unlike real-world rocket history, there isn't any radiation or other sorts of research to be done. It could just as easily be simulated by some other means, but soil samples is the one the Squad guys went with. It works as well as any other simulated area of research. How are the Kerbals going to know that until they perform the experiments? There's not a lot of point in continually making fine adjustments to something that is going to receive major adjustments later, and much of the game is still in a preliminary state.

There is a trick to covering long distances on light-grav worlds. Jump, turn on the RCS pack, build up some speed, and then let your guy slide and bounce as far as he can. Repeat as needed. Faster than walking and doesn't use up all your RCS at once. Do remember to save your progress periodically, though, as a bad bounce can make him go poof. Anyway, welcome to the forum.

Is Moho experiencing a Sr docking ring shortage?

pschalbart, that challenge is very old (two years), and hasn't been updated. You'll need to come up a similar challenge of your own, as the parts used in the pictured ships are not even in the game anymore.

Ladies and gentleman, please keep in mind that while we encourage discussion and differences of opinion, the forum will work better for us all if we confine our comments to the subject of the discussion and refrain from insulting each other.

How about rewarding them for their help with pictures?

Yes, Kerbals in external seats can cause phantom forces which can even be strong enough to destroy space stations.

Don't let the discussion get personal, guys.

Congratulations, and nice scenic landing spot.

Hello rd-md. Those are some nice ship designs.

You shouldn't be the only one! (However, it should be done in Games, which this thread now occupies.)