CobaltWolf

Yeah I think it was simply renamed since it was never actually part of the STAR series.

I guess they'd be for hoisting anything from the ground up to the platform and vice versa. Trying to climb or hand up anything, especially something large and heavy like a rock sample box, would be difficult in a EVA suit.

Happy 9th Anniversary, babes <3

I have often wanted to make AAP-1A, since of the Apollo proposals it's one that came the closest to flying.

I have plans.

(Attempted posting this on Friday, forums went down again...) Glad to hear how much you are enjoying it! Love to be part of happy memories. Voyager is planned if Invader ever has time, but the later ones not so much. We tend to stick to 60s/70s stuff except for the rare thing that catches our eye. Finally got over my artist's block and figured out something workable for the X-15 stack adapter. Just about ready to finish the rest of the texture switches for the X-15 parts.

Yes, Discord is trying to stop people using it as a general image hosting place. External linking of Discord uploads shouldn't be working anymore - I'm actually surprised it worked for @Nachtgeist789. I saw it coming back in 2017 and never stopped using Imgur, though to be fair I have no idea how that service still exists either.

BDB devs aren't beating the OldSpace stan allegations...

I don't think its an Ace Combat reference? As far as I know.

Beale's putting all this work into Mars Expedition parts, I'm starting to feel some FOMO...

I don't make IVAs

Finally got the new cockpit variants passed through Unity... And I'm also working on a 'smooth'/'clean' variant of the cockpit's belly, without the mapping camera bits. This will be available on all cockpit variants, and the only version available on the twin-seater.

Yes but Skyhawk and the BDB contracts were made at different times, by different people, and I don't know if any thought was ever given to making sure they worked together.

Honestly I'm so disconnected from the actual game at this point, most of the time when people PM me with issues I just have to tell them to ask here since you all have likely encountered the issue far more recently than I have, if at all.

Rescue from what? They're colonists now!

The what? B-but it looks so good with the black! It's on my to-do to look into it but I'm still... uh... playing Battletech every moment I'm not at the office. Honestly I'm not sure what texture sheet it went on or if there's an efficient way to add an all-white switch. The tags can easily be fixed.

The what now?

I made the BDB Surface Telescope in real life.

In a somewhat annoying position, in that I can't make the ablative variants for the rest of the X-15 parts until I finish the second texture sheet. So I had to go back and dust off some ideas I'd had, since it's now or never. Dual-seater cockpit, replacing the space allocated for the experiments with a second (very cramped) seat. More or less based on the X-15B cockpit design, with some compromises to make it fit with the existing mesh. And a drone 'cockpit', for when your high-speed experiments are too unsafe for a meat pilot. This one is entirely my own creation, I've never seen any proposals for an uncrewed X-15.

Yeah I have plans already.

Yeah we're in finishing touches I think, not sure if all the Mariner stuff will make it in or if Invader wants more time with it.

I don't really keep secrets, if I have some progress to share I usually do.

1.14 release?

Here is the doc I used. You're right that there's mention of flying with different fuel loads for different missions, but frankly I never understood that. I believe there is also some mention of just assuming the thrust of the first stage engine could be doubled. Both are patterns I've seen from the stuff coming out of Redstone/Marshall in that era. As for the Baby Sergeants, yeah those shouldn't be there. Just Friznit being Friznit You don't even need Tweakscale, those LRBs are just the Atlas V tankage in white livery.

Definitely still a concern of mine, but I am not in a position to create a new BDB forum or anything like that. Pappy is right, in that if the forums ever do finally go down for good, I'd hopefully have a new pinned post on my Twitter that directs people to a new place for BDB discussion. I, of course, could make a BDB Discord server. I could have done that a long time ago and chose not to. Personally, I don't like the siloing that comes from moving forum-based discussions on to Discord. I'd rather discussion of BDB stay on an open webpage that can be trawled by search engines, etc. My other thought on making a BDB Discord is that it's a solution for BDB, but not for preserving the modded KSP community as a whole. In other news, my plan to play Battletech until I burn out appears to be working. Or at least, I'm starting to be able to think about BDB again. Nothing much to share at the moment, I think my remaining priorities for this update have been discussed / are clear. Finish X-15, finish the Titan rekerjiggering, finish Mariner. I did take the time to finally implement proper endcap textures for the X-15. I also started messing with a stack adapter for X-15, because I am a kind and generous ruler. Someone had asked if I could make it more in this general shape, I'm not sure it looks the best. These adapters also wouldn't work for the XLR-11 or SERJ engine variants, so that stinks.