Interstellar: automation

[Lohan2008]

Has anyone used the AI for a mission ? What difference to game play does it make ??

Edited December 13, 2014 by Lohan2008

[Taki117]

Has anyone used the AI for a mission ? What difference to game play does it make ??

It doesn't, it's basicaly a 3.75m probe core.

[Smorfty]

"the AI"

whaaa?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[-ELF-]

If I understnad you corectly, you are asking about differences between Manned and Unmanned flights?

Sandbox mode:

Unmanned flight will not put your kerbals to the edge of horrible instant death in fiery hell of explosion allow you to gather soil samples, plant flags, or gather EVA reports.

If you feel pity about poor buggers you placed on Eve without any option to return just forget about it, laugh at them and send some to the crash course to the Sun you can send unmanned flight to wherever you want and feel proud of yourself about saved lives.

Career mode:

Extremely useful feature to avoid Kerbals death and a correlated drop of reputation.

P.S. Make sure that you added enough antennae to control the probe if you are using RemoteComm.

[Kesa]

Is there any reason apart from style/rp to have bigger (and heavier and often consuming more) probe core? May it be stock differences or mod introduced.

[CalculusWarrior]

For those confused, OP is talking about the large probe core in the KSP Interstellar mod. Unupgraded, it acts as a normal probe core which draws MegaJoules and contains a decent amount of torque.

However, when you upgrade it to an Artificial Intelligence with science, the core gains the ability to do research, like a kerballed science lab. It also gets a name!

The upgraded core acts as a Command unit, meaning that it is capable of performing the IR telescope Direct Planetary Observation function, which normally requires kerbals to be onboard the spacecraft. Since the IR telescope must be placed in a very high Kerbol orbit, this is useful if you don't want to send your kerbals.

Mind the pod bay doors though...