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A game like Kerbal Space Program has a feature that needs custom extensions with ANY engine: The vast range of length scales, from under a metre to millions and more kilometres. This feature is always present and the stock engines just don't handle it at all. There's a lot of devs with a great depth of experience coding for KSP and similar games working on KSA. That they obviously support going with a custom engine is one way to deal with the vast range of length scales.

"That's XCOM, Baby!" is about as notorious as "Dwarf Fortress Fun".

The bones look the same because around 80 to 100 million years ago or so, people and elephants have a common ancestor. But elephants evolved that sort of foot because they are so large. It goes with their limbs and their body, evolved to bear their weight on Earth. Mice don't have feet like that and neither do we. Part of the explanation is here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square–cube_law

What? Are they playing "Swan Lake" !?!

While I don't particularly like clowns, I feel I should stand up for clowns here, as none appear to be reading. Nate is not a clown. Clowns have a profession that is often comedically and dramatically demanding, sometimes even needing stuntwork skills. Nate is a game design manager with many failures under his belt. KSP 2 was particularly bad. Nate is now off on the next phase of his life. While I feel he contributed to the mess that KSP 2 turned out to be, I hold no grudge. Primarily because I'm not hiring game design managers. Because I couldn't give Nate a good reference until he gets some wins.

More like...a McJebs!

It could also be read as "One game with a great community, one failed tech demo".

A long time ago I took a lot of Astrophysics. The part covering the Formation of the Solar System has developed a lot, but the basics are still much the same. A good starting place is this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System The study of collapse of gas and dust clouds is complex, with some simple details. It also links into the evolution of galaxies and their initial state. Many of the clouds pass the requirement to collapse. I learned this as the Jean's Mass, though it's more commonly referred to as the Jean's Instability now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans_instability One trend as a cloud collapses, especially if the cloud has high Astrophysical Metallicity (Elements of greater Atomic Number than Helium), is that the Jean's Mass gets smaller. Thus the cloud can break up into many smaller clouds, leading to several stars forming from the same initial cloud. This also leads to higher average initial masses for Population II and III stars. There's also the impact that supernovae can have to prompt cloud collapses. The cloud spins because for the many possible ways the cloud can collapse, the vast majority of dynamic distributions has the cloud on average spinning. This is also true for galaxy formation, which can lead to the clouds within it to spin as well. After that, when studying a single stellar system, things get complex. This has been studied by more and more complex simulations, most of them trying to determine how our Solar System evolved. I suggest digging through the articles in Wikipedia.

@GeoffonTour, I suggest you read a couple of books by Lee Smolin: Time Rebourn and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. There's a lot more to this that you may initially appreciate.

I don't think so, Lisias. I remember the forum changeover due to the links all changing. I have quite a few old BTSM links and the mains ones are all after the 2015 change. Here's a Wayback Machine link from its snapshot (only of the first few pages) from 2016 Nov 21. https://web.archive.org/web/20161121234048/http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com:80/index.php?/topic/56101-104better-than-starting-manned-career-mode-redefined-v1002-sep-21st/ It's an IPC link. Some time after that (January?) was when all those topics were just lost.

Depends on which "day" and which "year". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year If you mean mean solar day and Tropical year: > The mean tropical year is approximately 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds, using the modern definition[13] (= 365.24219 d × 86400 s). The length of the tropical year varies a bit over thousands of years because the rate of axial precession is not constant.

@Lisias, @Vanamonde, there was a major forum issue, i think in either late 2015 or in 2016 or 2017. Where very active topics were just lost. I think the top 10 actively discussed mods in KSP Mod Releases all lost their topics. Those that were still under support had to create new topics. I believe why this couldn't be fixed was because of the nature of the lose of topics and the way backups were made, there was no way to selective restore topics. And as the forums had moved on, none of the lost topics were fixed. I remember this because I used to play with Better Than Starting Manned. The author got burned out trying to follow the changes from v1.0 to 1.0.4 and gave up. But there was still sort of a community playing it. But its topic got blown away in that event. And that was that.

Meh. How about you, @Superfluous J?

Thanks for your support, @Lisias. I know enough about physics and computers that it's more often poor coding that overwhelms the hardware. (Some esoteric details of the hardware, especially video, can also be problematic.) I actually expect things to perform better than KSP did, not worse. Because that is reasonably possible. Oh, alright. (You're no fun anymore!) Seeing as KSP 2 was a disaster, I can't see any new owner just reconstituting the exact same team that had that disaster. It's far more likely that they'll do one of the following: Split off and sell KSP complete to someone else. Use the KSP Kerbals to make a new simple game to attempt to make a relatively quick and certain ROI. Hiring someone(s) to do an independent appraisal of KSP, including KSP 2, to gauge what else they can do with it.

The passing of David Lynch hit me hard.