Treveli

Wish I'd been there to see but my cell phone was good enough.

[quote name='Arsonide']The issue is RemoteTech. It has not been updated to handle triggered science data, which affects the lab and the orbital survey. I'm already attempting to get in touch with the authors.[/QUOTE] Yep, RTech was the problem. There's a patch of sorts available, WarShipMe. It's just a .dll to replace one that comes with Remote Tech. Surveyor wasn't working in either sandbox or career, after the 'patch', working now. [url=http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/83305-1-0-5-RemoteTech-v1-6-9-2015-11-10?p=2302292&viewfull=1#post2302292]Fancy Mouse's[/url] post has the zip with the file.

Ok, I dumped everything out of GameData except for the original Squad folder, then began adding mods (about 22 total) back in to see if one of them broke the scanner using a fresh sandbox save. The only issue I got after putting the mods back in was the resource overlay in the tracking center saying I needed to do a survey even though I had three ships (one probe, two kerballed) in orbit that had already run the survey. The scanners on all three ships gave the options for the overlay info and displayed correctly on Kerbin, just the 'need to do the survey' in the tracking center. Went back into the career save I was playing when I noticed the scanner not working, checked on my already orbiting scanners, still not working as before. Run the survey, shows data being transmitted (in upper left hand corner of screen), but when done, still no overlay or resource info, and still the only options on the scanner is 'deploy/retract scanner' and 'run orbital survey'. Launched a new scanner equipped satellite, but it also has the same problem. I then jumped back into my sandbox testing save, and the scanners in it [i]are[/i] working (but still with the tracking center issues). Gonna start a fresh career save and see if it's my original save that's busted.

I'm having the same issue with the scanner. 100% data transmission, survey complete, no resource data available in any screen it should be in. Right clicking on the scanner after the survey does not bring any options other than retract scanner and doing the survey. I have the same mods as WarShipMe listed (plus several others). But, before 1.0.5, the scanner was working correctly with the same mods (minus KIS). I was having issues transmitting science from ScanSat, but have since applied the patch they released for it and the ScanSat scanners are working fine now. Just the M700 is affected now.

Yep, that did it. Didn't have SciAlert installed since the 1.0.5 update, but I guess a part of it was still in there. Working now, thanks.

Got a bug or glitch or conflict with another mod. Since 1.0.5, using the latest SCAN Sat versions, the scanners don't want to transmit their science. SCAN Sat shows 100% on scanning Kerbin and Mun (only two I've used it on), I right click the scanners (radar, SAR, and multispectral), click analyze, the experiment window pops up, but hitting transmit does nothing. No science sent, no drain on the energy as if it were transmitting and not saying so. I am using Remote Tech (both it and Scan are the lastest versions) as well as several other mods, but I did not have this problem with the same mods installed before 1.0.5, They all worked fine together. This is also affecting the stock M700 survey scanner.

Looking forward even more to the next patch, then. Although, after posting I finally got around to forcing KSP to use openGL, and so far (knocks on many pieces of wood) I haven't been crashing (the game at least) as I was before.

Having the game crash to desktop (with no error report to show why) every ten to thirty minutes. I know it's probably because of all the mods I've got running (and keeping adding to).

Had just unlocked the Mainsail, was making my first launch with them and a heavier payload than previous launches (with the Skipper). Engines start, clamps released, throttle to full... Why ain't it moving? Jeb, check the parking brake! No? What the- Stared at my rocket just hovering there over the pad, engines full bore, for a moment, then realized what I had done. Reverted to ship assembly, replaced the Skipper with the Mainsail (and upgraded the LRBs from Swivels to Reliants), and launched again with much greater success. And on an earlier launch, my Mun flyby rocket started tumbling end for end after I started my gravity turn. Couldn't figure out why, wasn't bad symmetry or aerodynamics, it just liked to flip out. After a couple reverts, I just shrugged and let it flip, timed it to throttle up when it was pointed vaguely towards orbit, and made it there successfully.

A work around I found by accident during my first 1.0 reentry attempt (the sixth or seventh revert of the attempt) is to deploy a Mk16 chute during reentry. Keeps the nose pointed in the right direction, but looks frelling odd having it out with reentry flames around it.

First time I got anything close to another planet. Didn't orbit Moho with that one, had to do that with the Eve one, but still a close pass and a good screeny.

I forget the exact method (even though it was only back in January or February) but I remember it involved stumbling onto a Scott Manley YouTube vid (linked from a FrankieonPC or JackFrags vid I think). Watched a few more vids of his to get an idea of the game, eventually checked Steam to see if they had it. Installed the demo, started the tutorials, promptly failed the tutorials, went to sandbox and screwed around with that for a few weeks. Watched more Manley vids. Finally admitted I was obsessed and bought the full game. Still haven't completed the tutorials. 'Let's see what this does' for the win.

After having my computer in the shop for the last two weeks (would have been only one if my frigging answering machine hadn't #$@!ed up) I sent my Moho flybye probe off on it's mission. It, along with an Eve probe (and a Duna mission that's vanished for some reason), had been sitting in Kerbin orbit waiting for the right time for the transfer. I let MJ handle the initial transfer maneuver, then fiddled with nodes until a had an encounter. The final result was a 20km peri, going 5km/s, good enough to get high/low science transmissions, which, happily, was the original intent of the mission. And so, I made my first encounter and pass of another planet. Yay me! Only took 400+ hours of playing time.

I don't use spaceplanes. The SPH and plane tech parts may as well not exist for me. I just can't build ones that work, and even when I import a solid design from the sandbox/forum, I can't fly the dang things. Getting into orbit is kinda doable for me, but landing's a suicide ride. Even with all the parts available (from both stock and mods) I've used the same parts for the same lifter designs for months. I don't consider it a sin (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) except for all those parts not getting used that someone put the effort into creating. They just sit there in the VAB, their faces pleading with me to use them for something. Maybe when budgets are added I'll be forced to do so.

Kerbin- 1 Surveyor satellite in low polar orbit (done surveying, just being used as a cheap com relay); 1 KCN (Kerbin Communications Network) omni-relay satellite in a 500km orbit; 2 full feature com sats (one a 'standard', one a 'deep' one for transmitting across the system) at k-stationary, along with Kerbin Highport station; Minmus Discovery, a large science ship for science mining Minmus (hopefully improved from the one I built in a previous savegame), currently on escape trajectory. I used to have more com sats, but they have a tendency to explode due to Krakenitis. Mun- KCN Mun com sat in semi-synchronous orbit; Mun Surveyor sat in polar orbit (also done with it's job and acting as a com sat now); flags in all biomes after fully science mining. Minmus- Nothing, which sucks, cause I just realized that means Discovery won't have access to a scansat network for precise landings. Kerbol- 3 Kerbol Surveyor probes, one being dead stick as I launched it too early in the tech tree and lost contact with it when it left Kerbin SOI.

"daaaaaaance dance the nighhhht away!"

Not sure what their weights were, but either the orange fuel tank I boosted to serve as an orbital tanker, or the combined reactor/generator package I put up for an orbital beamed power station (and again later to add to a station). Think the reactor was hardest, as I barely got it into a 150-200 km orbit.

I use it for maneuvers that are so simple and routine to me they're boring, maneuvers that are very time/fuel sensitive, and maneuvers that are simply beyond my personal skill to execute myself. I don't consider it a crutch, since without it, some parts of the game would be so frustrating I wouldn't want to play it. And as MechJeb does it's thing, I watch it and learn, and over time begin to figure out the more complex actions and can do them myself. Ultimately, I remember that KSP is not just a flight sim. I planned the mission, built the ship, decided where to go and what to do there, not a mod I installed. If I relied purely on my own piloting skills, it would all fail and be a huge waste of time.

Happened over the past several days, but I completed my Minmus Discovery mission. Brought back a total of 6k+ science from all nine biomes, and learned a lot about building and managing larger ships and missions than anything I'd previously done. Seems like I had to restart the game after every lander launch and landing due to glitches, and MechJeb tried several times to plot an orbital rendezvous that flew through Minmus instead of around it, but overall I had fun. Discovery after leaving Kerbin orbit. After my first attempt took 2+ hours of burn time and didn't even reach Minmus, I had to redesign the engine module, going from three to four atomic rockets. Think the problem was I didn't fire the engines before plotting the burn, so the calculations were seriously off. The second attempt only took 10-20 minutes of burn. After landing and recovering most of it's landers. I didn't think ahead enough with the lander designs, and it wasn't until the third one I realized it was a good idea to put a decoupler below the lander can and leave the dead weight of used experiments and propulsion systems behind, instead of dragging them back home. Finally home and docked at Skyplex 1. Most of the crew had to wait awhile for a taxi to be launched to bring them home, not because mission control didn't think that far ahead or anything. And a nice discovery by one of the Kerbals. After thinking about it for awhile, I decided to deorbit the Discovery rather than saving it. I would have liked to save her as a museum or for reuse, but decided the design wasn't suited for other missions. In the end, she was so strongly built that she survived reentry in one piece, which made me a little sad as I watched her fall into the ocean. Hard to see in the dark, but to the left of the capsule is the bulk of Discovery still in one piece. Now to update my mods, upgrade my orbital inrastructure, and maybe finally go to another planet for once.

The other day, after landing on the last Mun biome and finishing my science there (or at least as much of it as I'll worry about right now) I wondered if it would be useful to launch a single mission to Minmus that could hit every biome there in one trip. Rather than a single ship for all the biomes, I did something more like an interplanetary mission, with a command ship and numerous landers docked to it. And so I built the Minmus Discovery. Not the biggest or complex design in KSP history, but for me it's the closest I've yet built to a major spaceship. I decided to wait until tomorrow before building and launching the landers it'll carry, since I realallized after the five or six times I had to restart the Discovery's two sub-assembly launches because I screwed up on rather simple mistakes that I've been awake for 24 hours. I'm unnecessarily endangering kerbal lives at this point. Sleep now, landers in the morning.

Minmus return. Learned my lesson about jettisoning my stages directly into retrograde instead of away from my flight path. Was dark and hard to see, but that's a one-kerbal capsule 5-10 meters below the jettisoned SM. Fortunately, I saw it coming. Unfortunately, I didn't have RCS on the capsule so there wouldn't have been much I could do if it had been on a collision course.

(grinning and laughing proudly at what I've built) 'Damn this thing's fast!' Rocket- afterwards known as 'Murphy's Delta V Chariot'- melted from atmospheric friction 5 km above KSC (thanks Murphy and Deadly Reentry). (having trouble holding the gravity turn, bird wants to keep yawing starboard towards the ground) 'Maybe turning off the port (of three) engine will help' Cue unplanned and un-recoverable acrobatic maneuvers at 30 km. (several times in various situations) 'Meh, I saw Scott Manly do this on Youtube. It's easy.' Crash, boom, screams. 'Think I'll go watch that video again.'

Forgetting to deploy neither solar panels nor com dish before probe goes over the horizon from KSC, still with a negative periapsis. (remotetech) Getting panels and dish deployed in time, but forgetting to target a com sat for connection relays. Fail to check staging during Minmus CSM launch, decouple upper stage engine at the same time as lower stage, and forced to use CSM engine to circularize orbit (and use up all the fuel). Get the bright idea to still launch Minmus lander, dock with above CSM, transfer fuel from lander to CSM to make Minmus rendevous. Lander undocked for landing with empty fuel tanks. Decoupled boosters a half-second too early, watched them obliterate the upper stages (but amazingly leave the capsule unharmed). 'Need MOAR boosters and delta V!'. Watched overpowered rocket melt from atmospheric friction at 5 km. Having trouble holding a gravity turn, decide (like an idiot) to turn off port engine 'to see if it helps'. Learn what asymetrical thrust is.

Is there any way to change the color of the un-scanned areas on the maps? Make them more visible? I've got Kerbin scanned to 99.6%, but even shifting orbits for better coverage hasn't gotten that last .4% scanned. And I can't see where it's at to plot a better orbit. I know I should just accept it and move on, but I'm a perfectionist.

Found myself messing up a Minmus landing, hit f5 to go back to before I undocked my lander. Found out my last quicksave was three days ago. On the bright side, I know which of my 'bright ideas' from those days don't work and can do them right this time.