When is it OK to use Hyperedit?

[NASAFanboy]

Just a poll survey of players.

Is it ever OK to use hyperedit?

[panfish5]

I use hyper edit to copy the characteristics from other planets to kerbin so I can test ships.

[Brotoro]

Because opening an old (version 0.21) save file in version 0.24 results in the updated landing legs appearing in folded state (rather than bothering to check the existing state of the legs), several of my bases and landers will crash to the ground and fall over when I update to 0.23. To prevent this, I'll have to use various tricks…and one of them will involve using HyperEdit to temporarily hold one or more of the ships in orbit during the update, then put them back in place on the surface.

[Aladran]

Create your own scenario, like put a stranded ship some where, and create a rescue mission.

[Kilmeister]

I witnessed my first Joolrise from KSC last night.

[regex]

Hyperedit is a tool for dirty, stinky cheaters. If you use it you and your family should feel ashamed.

[42undead2]

Always. It's your game on your computer, and you decide what you do.

[Guest]

Use it whenever your heart desires. But not to get out of traffic fines or awkward dinner dates. That would be cheating.

[NovaSilisko]

I use it frequently for testing both mods (quite essential for alternis really) and landing systems. Call it the simulation run...

[goldenpeach]

I use hyperedit to "test" my designs' modules(in example, to see if my Duna lander can land and orbit around Duna) without having to bring them at the test site.

I also use it when I feel kerbal and place ridiculous contraptions(in example, a cockpit with a lot of mainsails radially attached to make it spin very fast) when I know I couldn't send it in orbit with regulars rocket, even if I wanted to.

[SkyRender]

I briefly toyed with it ages ago just for kicks (it's fun to watch Kerbin huge in the sky from Gilly orbiting at a mere 150KM above), but I've never used it for any save I kept.

[KITTYONFYRE]

What hyperedit?

[ZingidyZongxxx]

Where is the no option? I'm not not saying Hyperedit is bad or anything, I don't really care what you do with your save, I just haven't used it. I can see where it would be useful, but I would be too tempted to cheat.

[-RanZ-]

I use it for testing things occasionally but I do it in a separate save because I have heard of hyperedit blowing up saves in the past.

[Kasuha]

I never used Hyperedit myself but I think it is fine to fix bugs such as when your landed ship explodes after you have returned to it. And I also think it is fine for testing, because transporting the module all the way to Jool just to find out you have some basic design flaw is waste.

[PwnedDuck]

For testing purposes with new designs, and when a station in orbit around Gillyflowers mysteriously vanishes.

[Highlad]

I have never used hyper edit, but I can see the usefulness for it when you need to test landers. Maths is one thing, actually doing it is another...

[Spartwo]

For messing around.

[Sgt. Cookie]

Personally, I only use Hyper edit when I'm sending many payloads of similar type to a planetary body, such as transporting several fuel tanks to the Mun for a kethane base. I do have to make the first trip manually, though, to prove that I can do it. The Hyper Edit-ing from then on is simply a time-saving measure on my side, so I can get on with more important things.

I also use Hyper Edit to transport things that could realistically be built on other bodies, such as a Rover parking lot, provided they had the materials on hand. Obviously, the materials are sent there first, then they're destroyed and the "newly built" structure is HE'd into place.

[jdmgto]

It's a single player sandbox game. If you want to use it, use it. If you don't, don't.

[StarVision]

Hyperedit is really useful for testing mods, and also taking "Publicity Shots" of the mods as well. I sometimes use it in sandbox when I'm just mucking around, especially when I'm altering RSS config files for planets.

[Camacha]

I sometimes use HyperEdit to test very specific functions or procedures of my craft before launching them. In the real world you can run simulations, do wind tunnel or vacuum chamber tests and eliminate other variables. These things are not available in KSP - there is not even a rocky test track for rovers - so I feel it is only fair to substitute those in some way. They are always subsystem tests though, as elaborate dry runs are less trivial to emulate. When the real mission starts there is no going back or cheating or conveniently changing the environment though. If things go awry then, they go awry.

In 0.23 I will probably run two installs next to each other. One is simulated space where pretty much anything goes (even though I make a point of not doing things that could not be reasonably done somehow in the real world), the other is the 'real' world. In the first nothing counts as real, in the second nothing gets reloaded or reverted. Any damage or death is permanent in the real install.

[astropapi1]

Hyperedit is a tool for dirty, stinky cheaters. If you use it you and your family should feel ashamed.

It can also be a lot of fun if you're bored and want to nuke your save file.

[The Destroyer]

I use it to mess around.

[Vrana]

Never used it. I would assume its very useful as a testing tool for mod devs. Other uses... Well its a single player game but you know... Cheating and all that.