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My experience is that 1.0.x has clearly and considerably worse performance with high part counts than 0.90. It's probably, but not definitely, down to the new thermal and perhaps aero system. The extended physics range is a factor too - in older versions once your dropped stages got 2.5 km away they vanished getting rid of the CPU load, now you still suffer that until they're over 20 km gone. 0.90 I still consider the best KSP version, the gizmos revolutionised VABwork and as a committed FAR user I have no interest in the newstock aero, though I know some Windows players had a lot more trouble with its stability than I have on Linux. 1.0 through 1.0.4 I consider the worst KSP versions since I bought the game, with their glacial performance and shoddy thermal system. I've yet to play 1.0.5 enough to really make a conclusion, though my preliminary results are that game performance hasn't improved over 1.0.4. If it wasn't for new FAR along with Kopernicus, I'd probably switch back to 0.90. Unfortunately the modders all swiftly move their efforts to the new KSP version whether or not it's actually any better than the one before.

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In the real-world, if you turn a customer away you don't magically get another one with different wants straight away. But you can over time expect a decent steady stream of customers if your company is any good. If you think the contracts are "almost universally awful", have you considered playing a game mode that doesn't involved them?It does seem like the majority of people criticising this change to career are criticising career anyway. If you don't like it why play it?

Nope. PS: Corrected a grammar error in the riddle.

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None of the above.

Not that. No clues just yet. Well, OK, one semi-clue. "Reasonable guess" means reasonable guess, it doesn't mean it's 'close' to the answer.

The problem there is that one man's interesting contract is another man's grind. My last career I enjoyed cruising around Kerbin in planes doing science survey contracts, whereas many players won't touch those with a bargepole. And one of my most fun creations was a whacking great engine KASed onto a plane for a part test contract, again the kind of thing that gets heavily criticised.I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement, but we can't make every contract liked by everyone.

If you want a real challenge, dock two ships with no reaction wheels, no RCS, and no engine gimbal. How do you turn the ship? Why, by getting out and nudging it with the Kerbal, of course

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Not that.

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-66 (-) We are the Borg?

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Nope. Reasonable guess though.

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Attempted an ion glider. I got some promising early results - by which I mean my plane *moved*. I reckon if I can make an airframe that will fly at 20 m/s I'm in with a chance.

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