Jethro Bodine

First and foremost, love, love, love this mod! It's renewed my interest in KSP a thousandfold, and clearly the product of countless hours of dedication. Thank you so much! Now if I may offer some feedback, please bear in mind it should in no way minimize my respect and appreciation for your amazing contribution. Also bear in mind I'm a relative noob, and these may be issues between my chair and keyboard, not representative of the mod itself. Firstly, the RPM Blue camera arcs. These persist (in the VAB) on *all* my Clamp-O-Tron Jr. docking ports, and *grossly* slow down performance, frequently resulting in crashes. Yes, I can manually right-click on them to access the tweakable menu to disable the arc(s), but they return the moment I move a docking port, reload, or try to place an additional/new port. Also, it's perhaps worth noting there are two duplicate menu items in the tweakable menu to disable this feature (I'm presuming that's not intentional?). Ultimately I had to remove all RPM-related .dll files from my GameData folder to resolve this issue (which is a shame, as the integration into the ISA is really lovely). Also worth noting, the RPM files that were included with KSO are the *only* RPM files I've ever installed (so conflicts with other, outdated .dll files shouldn't be an issue here). If this is an issue I can resolve myself with a ModuleManager .cfg file or something, please let me know! Secondly, the OA-850 Liquid Fuel Boosters. These look/sound great and with one relatively minor exception, perform great. The exception being they won't "auto-stage" either with MechJeb or dtobi's Small Parts auto-staging device. I'll have to do more extensive testing, but I believe the issue might be related to onion staging or specifically the Thrustmax External Fuel Tank itself. For the time being, I'm using dtobi's altimeter device to force them to stage at ~15km (which works fine). Lastly, and with full understanding KSO "does not natively support MechJeb" and that "compatibility was never intended" , in the interest of trying to be helpful, I'd like to bring to light another small quirk. Performing automated maneuvers works great... for about 90% of the maneuver execution. It's in the final 10% where things get a bit screwy. Specifically, the orbiter appears to lose its guidance as if S.A.S. was abruptly disabled (it's like it's "oversteering" at the tail end of the operation). Mind you, this is in orbit-outside the influence of atmospheric drag-with only the Omnimax 40Ts engaged (the Thrustmax 200s perform markedly worse, as to be expected). I've tried disabling/locking the gimbals as well as the trim, but that only seems to exacerbate the issue. I'm presuming this may have something to do with the engines being slightly offset from the center of mass? I really have no idea. It's quite strange that it only affects such a small portion, and not the whole. My work-around is to simply disengage/re-engage the maneuver, or just ride it out and hope I don't expend too much deltaV or go too far off the intended course. It's not game breaking, just slightly frustrating when trying to perform complex operations like rendezvous. Anyhow, I hope that was helpful. Again, I can't thank you enough for this wonderful addition to my KSP experience. And I'm really, really looking forward to the next phases (drooling @ those screen captures)!