mareolan

@daver4470: There should be plenty science available in the neighbourhood of the KSC. Did you take surface samples, EVAs, thermometer, barometer data and crew reports after landing in various biomes on Kerbin (there're many near KSC - Launchpad, Runway, KSC, Shores, Water, Grassland, Highlands)? Each surface sample (from different biome) should give you 9+ science and another 2+ when repeated. You can also do most of these when flying in lower and upper atmosphere, some even per biome. I tried and got all 5 lower tier techs + Flight Control with 3 science remaining and I visited just Launchpad, Runway, KSC and Water, maybe part of Shores (and didn't get to upper atmosphere at all). If you get to an orbit you can do crew reports per biome that you're flying over (I use VOID add-on to see which biome I'm flying over). That doesn't mean that the idea of getting batteries sooner should be thrown away, just that you should be able to get from your situation regardless .

I see - I changed the shortcut to Control+MiddleClick. Hopefully it won't be in collision with something else. I also clarified the purpose of the plugin (yes, it allows you to pick obscured parts).

Mini-plugin which allows detaching ship parts that are obscured (in VAB/SPH screens). Position the mouse somewhere over the obscured part and use Control+MiddleClick (a menu will be shown - see screenshot). The shortcut can be configured to anything else (see config.conf after unpacking the .zip file). Download: vabhelper-0.1.1.zip Current version: 0.1.1 Author: mareolan Source code: https://github.com/mareolan/VABHelper MIT license Notes Using Alt in the shortcut is discouraged as it seems to collide with the functionality of the editor (Alt+Click in KSP duplicates the selected parts).