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Why is it called subtraction? It should be called SUPERtraction! -13

We're the team minus, victory defines us! -12

Something you may need to watch out for: I noticed the price of the Core i5 6600K has spiked in the last few days and it seems like there may be a shortage. I got it for £200, the same as it was around launch, but I've no idea when mine will arrive. Some retailers have pushed the price up to £220 or even £250 and on some sites the processor is completely absent.

Indeed. Add electrons, which are a negative charge. -11

It's all about the minus, bout the minus, no pluses -1

Our wait for victory, like this number, shall decrease. 1

BlueSubstance's riddle was out of turn, so unless TheMoonRover waves play on it should still be their turn to make the next riddle.

I played with DMagic and ScanSAT and gains at 60%, on Science Mode. Early on I found getting science a bit tricky, and was snagging bits round Kerbin biomes a bit. Since then it's been a mixed bag. A Mun science station brought a good few thousand and felt a bit overpowered, and then a mission to a heavily modified Jool system got around 4500 Science from orbiting its seven moons and landing on two of them. (I landed on the others as well, but forgot the antennae on my vacuum landers!) That 4500 felt like a lot, but then I realised I need another 6000 to complete the tree, so considering the complexity of the mission - gravicapture at Jool, transferring between moons at different inclinations round Jool while dealing with a ship in polar orbits round the moons, multiple landings on bodies I've never before visited - maybe it wasn't unreasonable. Likewise my Mun station felt like it was giving tons of science easily, but then I did make multiple launches from Kerbin, multiple Mun landings, and tons of orbital rendezvous and docking, so again maybe the science was deserved after all. That said, I'm regarding finishing the tech tree not as the end but as the beginning. Once I have all parts unlocked I'll add UKS and get serious.

You're too good.

One I thought up on the bus. And yeah, I'm just copy-pasting and tweaking a bit. A man falls thirty storeys out of a thirty-storey building. After he hits the ground, he gets up, brushes himself off, and walks off to get back into the building. How is this possible? The man is not invincible, the ground is not soft or unusual in any way.

I stick fuel tanks on the Launchpad and blast them into space to where I want them ISRU? What's that? On a serious note, I think for small bodies I'd use orbital refinement because I'm good at rendezvous and docking but bad at precision landing. For large bodies though I'd refine on the surface so that the lander only needs the one-way delta-V.

It's hard to know from Steam figures because that's just simultaneous players, and what I think we want is unique players during the last week/month/quarter/whatever.

Chances are it varies depending on setup. Regardless, it doesn't hurt to try it.

Still purple, or a completely different colour? Either way I think its colours are iconic.

Yeah, the rover wheels won't drive above a certain maximum speed. You can use thrust, and in that case you can use aircraft landing gear instead.

Anyway thanks for the advice before all. I decided that since I've basically been waiting a year to do this build (waiting for Skylake) I may as well go with the good stuff, and my final build is: Case: Fractal Design Core 1100. CPU: Core i5 6600K Cooler: Thermaltake Frio Silent 12. Thermal Paste: Noctua NT-H1 Pro-Grade. Nearly forgot the stuff. It's quality non-conductive paste. Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170MX-Gaming 5. ASRock's marketing didn't give me much confidence, I decided I'd rather have the Gigabyte board. Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4-2400. Dropped down a notch on speed to save a little cash. SSD: Crucial MX100 512 GB. HDD: 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300. I saved a bit of money by going for 3 rather than 4 TB, and opted for the Toshiba based on Backblaze's reliability figures. Graphics card: EVGA GeForce 750 Ti 2GB. PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W. No optical drive. I had considered getting a Blu-Ray drive, since we have no others at home, but decided to save the money. Total cost: £600, not including the graphics card and SSD. It would be more like £870 if I had to buy those.

No axial tilt is a limitation of KSP as it stands, but I'm sure Squad could fix it if they wanted. I think on balance I'm against giving Kerbin a tilt because the "jump" from visiting Mun and Minmus to going interplanetary is hard enough as it is, but supporting different tilts would enrich the rest of the system.

In my view Tylo should keep its current size (unless the whole system is upscaled), gravity, and lack of atmosphere. It's one of the game's standout challenges and should stay that way. Laythe is already a loose Titan analogue, but if there's to be another one that can easily be a new body, quite probably the biggest moon of GP2.Or Vall could take some cues from Titan. It's the right sort of size and could permit interesting Laythe-Vall spaceplane operations. In fact, that makes me think of a cool Titan-analogue idea: an atmosphere containing fuel that can be burned with onboard oxidiser, the reverse of how it is on Kerbin and Laythe. The RAPIER could have a new FuelBreathing mode, and a pure fuelbreathing engine or two might be added. If KSP also adopted a more realistic fuel:ox mass ratio that would make things especially interesting, fuelbreathing engines would seem very oxidiser hungry making for a novel spaceplane challenge.

If it's your first overclock I suggest leaving the voltages alone as well as all the other fancy settings, just keep it simple and see how far you can push the CPU multiplier up. I expect you'll hit around 4.5 GHz. That CPU cooler is very widely used and well regarded. Nowadays air coolers are really good and the advantage of liquid cooling is somewhat reduced. A GTX 970 will handle 1440p or similar resolutions, but it's not enough performance for 4K gaming so keep that in mind. I assume briansun1 already has it. But if you are buying an Ivy Bridge CPU I'd have a look for second-hand ones, it's not worth paying over the odds.

Hyperthreading itself indeed doesn't work like that. However bad scheduling by the operating system can put two threads needlessly on the same physical core. If you have an older OS or one that you haven't kept up-to-date this is more likely, but it shouldn't happen with a modern and updated Windows or Linux OS.

Well I haven't played in the stock system for a while, I've been playing New Horizons planet pack instead. But my thoughts: The overall layout is good. Clear similarities to our own solar system but enough differences to not feel like a slavish copy. A good range of challenges for players to take on. Not too hard for novices. The system scale warrants a look. I'm not in favour of full scale because launches to orbit and many other common tasks take a lot longer, but maybe something like twice or three times the current size. There are some oddities because of the small Kerbin, in particular the ease of an unrealistic ascent profile. All the planets should be much more detailed and interesting on the surface. I admit that's a challenge to develop, the surfaces of KSP's planets dwarf almost all other games with a reputation for large worlds. As for specifics I'd change, and considering only gross features: The Mun could have a better highland/maria contrast. It's a bit bland compared to the real Moon. Duna would be really cool if it had an axial tilt and its icecaps expanded and contracted with the season. Dres wants some friends to make a decent asteroid belt. A Vesta analogue with the huge crater-mountain, and maybe a third object. Jool should have a real outer moon. It's SOI is *huge* and even Pol is pretty close in comparison. I'm thinking something five times further from Jool than Pol, in an awkwardly inclined and eccentric orbit. Gas Planet 2 should have a layout like the Uranus system, tipped up on its side, to create new challenges and not be just another Jool. The actual moons themselves could take various inspirations. The Plutoid could have a thin atmosphere. I'm thinking something like that of Mars - enough that you can't ignore it, but not enough to feasibly land with chutes alone. Said Plutoid might not be Eeloo, since it's slated to be relocated to orbit GP2.

Well, and then Unity 5 was delayed and there's an interim features-and-bugfixes update.

They're actors in a play, film, TV show, or whatever. Pretty much every scenario can be explained like that

It's some sort of secret spying or dodgy dealing, "glass of water" is a codephrase, and pulling out the gun is the expected response to that. --- "On the man" is literal. The man who asked for the water had a loaded gun on his person in an unsafe manner and didn't realise for whatever reason. Or maybe the gun is a booby trap designed to shoot the man if he tries to remove it. The bartender did him a favour by removing it safely. --- The bartender is a devotee of xkcd's What If series and seeks to recreate the scenarios therein, including Glass Half Empty. The man only remembers this after asking for a glass of water. All things considered, for the bartender to pull out a gun is one of the least threatening things he can do. --- EDIT: The man has a speech impediment. He was actually saying something else that rhymes with "thank you" and that I'm not allowed to type out on this forum.

It was a water pistol.