[UNOFFICIAL/FANMADE] 0.17 Discussion Thread 2

[CarolRawley]

You know, this could be absolutely nothing, and Nova's just messing with us.

Knowing him, it's 70 it's real/30 it's like the Bin Laden WMDs.

[Luigibro606]

It's the Second Death Star in construction tilted 180 degrees.

@Nova I see whut u did thar

[mrxak]

I can't believe nobody's pointed out the obvious. It's the Space Kraken.

Style of the photo reminds me of another creature.

[Jon Tash]

I did say it was the memorial of the Space Kraken early in the 0.17 tread but Nova did not respond, someone said he won't say what it is till the release of the update 0.17.

[MedwedianPresident]

Maybe it's a Asteroid or a planet with Rings?

[sjwt]

The best lies are the truth..

Perhaps its not too doctored up..

Maybe its a radar or sounding image..

[AdmiralStewart]

It's obviously a Romulan warbird with a skull head and horns like an antelope.

[Omega500]

What i see in it is. The prince of darkness Rocking out on a double headed guitar, when i finish work i will draw a little pic

[Guest]

Maybe its the head of a rover?

[Shadownailshot]

As a question, would it be more feasible to get your apoapsis to 2.5 million kilometers and circularise? Would you then catch up with or have the planet catch up to you?

And the rest of the solar system (Juni, Mandrake, Rutherford, etc.) are coming in 0.18, no?

I don't know when they're coming, but this is about .17, and I'd not like to have the second discussion thread shut down so please stay on topic.

[Bekiekutmoar]

I hope Charr is extremely close to Kerbol, like 500 000 km or so. The sight of a intimidating large Kerbol (with maybe even sunspots visible) over the hellish landscape of Charr would be awesome. At that distance, Kerbol would appear twice as large as Kerbin appears from the Munar surface.

[Ted]

Moderator Comment: This really should be in the 0.17 discussion thread, it's very much on topic there and doesn't need a separate thread. Threads merged.

Edited August 15, 2012 by Ted

[stanNL_97]

I can't believe nobody's pointed out the obvious. It's the Space Kraken.

Style of the photo reminds me of another creature.

It's the Loch Ness Monster

[stanNL_97]

Will Char be something like this planet? It's 23 times closer to it's parent star then Mercury and is locked to it's star...

http://www.space.com/7782-strange-lava-world-shriveled-remains.html

[simplemunrockets]

Probably, except it won't be a super-Kerbin.

[befanz999]

I hope there will be an engine like the VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) as one of the parts in 0.17. Or something like an ion engine (along with solar panels ( I cheated and looked at Nova's youtube of which there was an animation of a solar panel (or it could be a test (I'm probably wrong ( I CAN HAVE DREAMS))))

*crosses fingers*

[Boex]

As a question, would it be more feasible to get your apoapsis to 2.5 million kilometers and circularise? Would you then catch up with or have the planet catch up to you?

My point is that it's near impossible to circularize your orbit at 2.5 billion meters as it requires so much Delta-V to slow down (My guess was 10km/s). If you could manage to circularize then sure, let the planet catch up to you (or visa-versa). It wouldn't really make much difference.

[Master]

An ion engine would be useless in game. You cant accelerate time when you are accelerating from an engine burn. (most of the time you cant even with SAS on). An ion engine would give you so little thrust you would have to leave it on for days on end to see any acceleration. So it would be useless in game.

[Spoot Knight]

Well, given that a possible part of this update is to add physical time compression up to 4x, an ion engine would then be four times less useless.

[Paprika]

An ion engine would be useless in game. You cant accelerate time when you are accelerating from an engine burn. (most of the time you cant even with SAS on). An ion engine would give you so little thrust you would have to leave it on for days on end to see any acceleration. So it would be useless in game.

0.1.7 is bringing some time acceleration modes that keep the physics going, I assume that would enable speeding up time while burning the engines.

Edit: Ninja'd by Spoot Knight

[ouion]

IN the 0.17 update there will be I.V.A you can explore around the Command Module.

[Ghery88]

IN the 0.17 update there will be I.V.A you can explore around the Command Module.

AFAIK, only internal view will be in, not the real IVA.

[Shadownailshot]

An ion engine would be useless in game. You cant accelerate time when you are accelerating from an engine burn. (most of the time you cant even with SAS on). An ion engine would give you so little thrust you would have to leave it on for days on end to see any acceleration. So it would be useless in game.

This is why you use VASIMR or and MPD rocket. A whole lot more thrust with about the same impulse.

[Shadownailshot]

I hope there will be an engine like the VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) as one of the parts in 0.17. Or something like an ion engine (along with solar panels ( I cheated and looked at Nova's youtube of which there was an animation of a solar panel (or it could be a test (I'm probably wrong ( I CAN HAVE DREAMS))))

*crosses fingers*

How do I find Nova's youtube? I searched Novasilisko, and I found a bunch that weren't him.

[dragonfree97]

How do I find Nova's youtube? I searched Novasilisko, and I found a bunch that weren't him.

http://www.youtube.com/user/novasilisko?feature=results_main

There you go.