[Google Picture War RELOADED]

[How much KSP do you play per day?]

Yeah, needs another option for "Not nearly as much as I'd like" and/or "Not quite as much as I'd like." #@^!@%# family....

[Rover Place - Share Your Rovers and Rover Journeys Here]

I present to you: Blue Rover Outpost on the surface of Laythe. The rover can park under the base, rise up on struts, and connect to a docking clamp on the underside to easily transfer drivers and clean out science equipment. In the background is a spaceplane capable of transporting up to six passengers between surface and orbit.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8BTxFtMLHQY/VLMXV1YS7LI/AAAAAAAABSk/FeBLyasAGEo/s800/BRO_base.png

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CdrkEg8Ry_Q/VLMXVsOZdvI/AAAAAAAABSg/9QvGT8xLST0/s800/BRO_rover.png

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bC9AaHsOKvc/VLMXUiSZsgI/AAAAAAAABSU/EiIdWKcqlcU/s800/BRO_roverStruts.png

Now that is a sweet and sporty-looking rover

[An amusing news in relation to KSP]

So they're using KAD. "Kerbal Aided Design"

[Pilot Controls or How one can watch their munar lander turn into a lawn dart.]

With the Lvl 3 pilots maybe setting to radial would be a good choice, once you've killed most of the horizontal velocity. You could still twitch it to the sides or use RCS to kill the rest of the horizontal velocity, and it should always stay or return to pointing straight up.

[Windows 8.1 - Sidebar keeps popping up]

Hey thx, that's better. Hardly miss a beat that way, and can't really tell that's it's fake fullscreen

edit: Changed to solved, but perhaps a 'bypassed' or 'worked around' tag would fit better

[Windows 8.1 - Sidebar keeps popping up]

I play KSP on my Envy dv6 laptop (core i7, 8GB RAM, GeForce GT630m,) using the touchpad, running Windows 8.1 64bit

Version build id = 00705

NOT steam.

Playing in fullscreen

I finally got around to posting about this:

Windows 8.1 has this feature where swiping in from the right side on the touchpad brings up the right-side sidebar full of what Windows calls 'charms': Search, settings, etc. Prior to 0.90, this has not been a problem. Since installing .90 (fresh download/unzip, not an update), if I accidentally swipe (wanting to move the cursor) too close to the right edge of my touchpad the sidebar comes up and minimizes KSP. Fortunately, this rarely happens during critical times like when about to land. The game is still running and I can bring it back up and continue playing, but it gets annoying when it starts happening often. Of course, this also happens in windowed mode and KSP doesn't minimize then, but I don't like windowed mode (can't see the edges of the window).

This happens in my usual lightly modded install. Prior to posting I downloaded and installed, er, unzipped a fresh unmodded version, but still had this problem.

Is there any way to stop this from happening? It didn't happen at all in previous versions. I searched and browsed this forum but didn't find any reference to this.

[Satellite contract issues; -179-8 deviation?]

If you focus view on the body you're wanting to orbit (right-clk, focus view instead of set/unset) as target it should show the target orbit then. If the orbit specs are in the region of 180deg or so, it's retrograde

[Rover Place - Share Your Rovers and Rover Journeys Here]

My Tylo Rescue Rover undergoing testing on Kerbin. It did a 100km drive on Tylo after dropping the tankage to rescue a stranded crewman. Several quickloads were required as it got skittish over 25m/s

[Progressive contracts]

It would be more realistic if new engines had to be ground-tested then space tested to flesh out the performance characteristics. Also if planets and moons had to at least have a flyby to determine their gravity and atmospheric properties, for mods like Trajectories to have something to work with

[Some things I think would make KSP better.]

Points 3-4: As well as being able to at least view what the custom action group assignments were, even if not able to change them.

[Rate The Spaceship Above You]

6/10 Fusion Pulse drive is awesome, but there's no building big enough to build it... yet

[Liquid Boosters vs Solid Boosters]

Large solids are difficult to produce with consistent properties, although ATK did a good job with the STS SRB's

Solids also have a lot more 'rumble' (vibration). Shuttle astronauts have reported that the ride gets a lot smoother when the SRB's separate.

[Riddles]

And I don't like to give extra hints, but Stranded I'll say that some of those inferences are wrong.

By inference, some are right.

The election of the first female leader of some country? A Google search found this article that lists 5 such candidates, elected since 2000

[Im making a big music playlist for ksp]

How about "Countdown" by Rush, for when you go to the launchpad?

[Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus - Is This Possible?]

If white was what was found, how can they possibly know what the front legs looked like, unless they also found imprints? Or are they extrapolating from other finds?

[Kerman Proximity]

A Google search found the city of Kerman, California... Also several folks with the last name Kerman in my province....

[[GAME] No, this is much better!]

No, it's much more entertaining to keep the thread going...

I want an 80inch 4k 3D Holographic Dolby 7.2 surround sound TV

[Rate The Spaceship Above You]

10/10 for a Space Corvette! Great movie too!

I'll see your Corvette and raise you a customized '33 Ford Coupe

[How do you make an action group to shut down all jet engines at once on a SSTO plane?]

When you're on the action groups tab, click a part on your rocket. The possible actions for your rocket will appear on the right. Choose the button on the left you want to use to trigger an action, then pick the action you want from the right. The actions assigned to that button will appear in the middle. You can assign multiple parts and actions to the same button. Parts placed using symmetry will all trigger, no need to click each one (you may need to reassign the actions if you move the part, however).

The tier 2 VAB/SPH only has basic action groups, but you can assign other functions to them, like activating solar panels under 'abort,' for instance. Tier 3 lets you assign the 0-9 buttons to actions as well.

[Really old KSP trailer still surprisingly relevant]

Wow, that looks really old. I want those X-wing wings!

[Riddles]

Lines 1-2: suggests the first occurence of something that will happen again

Line 3: suggests something unusual happened

Line 4-5: suggests "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings"

Line 6: suggests it was a good thing

Lines 7-8: Filler to tell us the answer is a certain day

Since 2000 suggests a specific day/event

And I still don't have a clue.

The day women were first allowed to vote in some country? Still not a great fit

[Beginner Contract fustrations]

Make sure the contract doesn't say 'Landed on the Mun' or 'Splashed down on Eve'....

[The Jaws of Defeat]

After a while, another rescue was attempted. I sent a ship with two capsules and a detachable rover. I landed softly as close as I could get (not very) and then very slowly and tediously drove the rover to the crash site, picked up the Kerbal, and drove him back. Rescue accomplished! (eventually)

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I can't recall saving a mission in trouble, aside from maybe flipping upside close to landing and still landing alive if not safely. But when it comes to rescues, I'll just build a lander with wheels and drive to the rescue site, then blow off the wheels after lift-off. Here's one such example, just after accidentally ramming the stricken lander (half hidden by the navball):

And here's my Tylo rescue rover (seen during testing), which drove over 100 km to the out-of-fuel lander. The ascent stage is just an FLT-200 and a 48-7s under the command chairs:

[the difficulty is real]

I haven't used FAR much myself so I don't know how much effect the landing gear will have on aerodynamics. If that core engine doesn't have TVC, make sure the fins have control surfaces