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Nerfing? It needs buffing because it's actually underpowered.

I think it will be more competitive when thrust scaling is introduced, it will have almost all of its thrust available at sea level.

Historical note: The aerospike has already been nerfed, it used to be 48-7S-level overpowered.

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My concern is this though. I see with the contract system that the rescue missions could take place on other planets. Will those contracts take into account whether or not I have landed on said body? For example, I get a contract to rescue Bilbo Kerman from Duna....but my space program at the time had not been to Duna. Well that doesn't make much sense.

I'm sure I'm overthinking it, but I don't think Kerbals can teleport, and it would take away the sense of accomplishment for reaching that planet or moon for the first time.

Overthinking is not a word in the Kerbal vocabulary!

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Nerfing? It needs buffing because it's actually underpowered.

Exactly.

So, that other invisible space program is now stranding Kerbals on Duna.

Ahaha i would love too to see others space agency to compete with

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...Ahaha i would love too to see others space agency to compete with

It could give some incentive to put up with the insane "test parts in X condition" contracts I see a lot of hate for here..."You don't want to do our BS parts tests? Okay, how about you other guys! You will? Great! You'll get first dibs on our lucrative 'explore [body] for [insert science/resource/stranded guy] contract!' This will be a wonderful partnership!"

...but that's a discussion for a whole 'nother thread.

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I think [the aerospike] will be more competitive when thrust scaling is introduced, it will have almost all of its thrust available at sea level.

Not sure of that. I think thrust scaling will make boosters even more popular / necessary to provide some initial TWR until the main thrusters can continue on their own. But as we know, that happens quite early: ISP-wise, the KR-2L / Poodle class overtakes the Mainsail/LV-T30 class engines somewhere around 5000m. The lower atmosphere doesn't last long even with the current soupmosphere; with the new atmo, I expect that the new best rockets will start out somewhere in the 1.2 range and will reach 5km just as quickly as a TWR2 model does now.

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It could give some incentive to put up with the insane "test parts in X condition" contracts I see a lot of hate for here...
Truly, forcing terrible gameplay on the player is the way forward for KSP.
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The old map looks worse than the raster lines IMO. I would prefer a Kethane style overlay, I always preferred the way you can only mine Kethane in certain places compared to where you can mine pretty much anywhere with Karbonite.

Info is a bit out of date RE Karbonite - it's biome based, which generally leads to tears of sadness when someone gets bad luck with the RNG on minmus and ends up with Karbonite only on the slopes :P

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Not sure of that. I think thrust scaling will make boosters even more popular / necessary to provide some initial TWR until the main thrusters can continue on their own. But as we know, that happens quite early: ISP-wise, the KR-2L / Poodle class overtakes the Mainsail/LV-T30 class engines somewhere around 5000m. The lower atmosphere doesn't last long even with the current soupmosphere; with the new atmo, I expect that the new best rockets will start out somewhere in the 1.2 range and will reach 5km just as quickly as a TWR2 model does now.

Large solid boosters are very cheap, if you cluster them two or more on a decopler they are even cheaper as the decopler and seperators cost funds too.

In 1.0 it might be smarter to mount the SRB flush with the core using the decoplers. this will put them in the drag shadow of the fairing, just tested it with seperatrons on the core and it worked well.

This was the standard 4 long SBR, 1.5 orange tanks with skipper and 18 ton payload, has enough dV to return to KCS. 6 around an 2.5 meter tank or 8 around 3.75 should also work well.

Main issue with SRB is the burn profile with increasing TWR in the soup atmosphere, With higher terminal speed higher TWR at launch will be more important.

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Not a fan of the lines on the map view. I don't see any advantages to this setup.

Don't know why Squad isn't going with the original resource mapping from 2013:

http://i.imgur.com/Qu8sUHm.png

First off, I like both. I also like how MapResourceOverlay does it. I'm pretty easy going though so long as the info is readily available. I see no reason to not expect modders to have half a dozen different map types available within a few days of 1.0 dropping.

Secondly, I'm intrigued by how these two globes, separated by years, developers, and design paradigms, are of almost exactly the same spot in space over Kerbin.

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I still think a set of plastic part (unassembled) produced by a model kit maker would be so much better. Really engaging for kids and adults of all ages. Buy the parts, build a rocket and paint it. Then build it in KSP and see if it works - oh sorry, better reverse that process ;-)

really - the 3D printing thing is cool, but way too over the top. Mass produced plastic parts would be magnitudes less expensive and there already exist a plethora of distributors and retail shops on-line and brick-mortor.

Ok granted there would be a bit of lead time if new parts were released, etc. but that just means Squad would need to be a bit more organised in coordinating update releases - AND modders would also need access to the mould fabrication and manufacturing chain.

And frankly, if you wanted to clip the parts during assembly then you would ACTUALLY clip them in real life.

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I still think a set of plastic part (unassembled) produced by a model kit maker would be so much better.

While that's cheaper in the long run, it's far more expensive to start and convincing a toy company to create all those molds for something they have no way of determining the demand for could be pretty hard.

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