Khorso

What a cool idea!! I am going to copy this - I like the novelty of it Great way to see more of Kerbin! Did you hack science to build the vehicles?

That was incredible. I hope to see much more of your stuff. It was timed perfectly with the music, and your minimalist story-telling style is absolutely breath-taking. I applaud you - well done!

So, mobile launch platforms sound pretty legit. I'm actually starting to get quite excited about this expansion. I've more than gotten my money's worth out of this game at 1300 hours logged (plus offline hours on a vacation), so I really won't mind paying for the expansion. - Khorso

WHAT ON EARTH. That was absolutely incredible, @Avera9eJoe - especially the Spear's landing. When I unlock more aero parts in my current save, I will have to studiously learn from your designs. I wish I could hand over +5 for your post. - Khorso

@Angel-125 I love the look of this - one thing that would make it even more useable for me are transition adapters. Square to 2.5m etc. Parts 1, 10, and 11 would make for sweet cabins on certain rocket designs. Beautiful promo piece! What program did you use to get that looking so?

For getting things straight, I always use the alternate mode on the Rotation Gizmo. With the Gizmo active, hit 'F' to turn it into 'Absolute' mode (as opposed to 'Local'), and keep it locked to the incremental adjustment mode (as opposed to smooth adjustment) with the hotkey 'C'. In Absolute mode with Incremental adjustments, the Rotation Gizmo should lock adjustments relative to the cartesian plane rather than relative to the part's collider mesh. This should always lead you to having straight wheel/gear contact with the runway! Cheers!

I just had to quote this for the fact that it needs to be read again. I'm busy planning my conquest of both moons at the moment, and conceptualizing rovers in my mind. I have limited experience with 1.2 wheels, so this was the answer to a question I had yet to ask. Thank you, friend. H/T. Today, I'm launching SpaceLabTwo to the Mun on a polar orbit to begin biome mapping for my two Mun lander missions. I recently downloaded SEP (as featured on the dev blog), and am excited to get more use out of KAS/KIS in the process. The lockers that come with SEP make for much more compact landers. I have been practicing and fine-tuning my maneuver nodes through rescue missions, and have gained much more confidence for doing interplanetary maneuvers now. I'm confident enough to let my rescue crafts launch straight from KSC to intercept rescue missions without needing to first circularize and line-up. I tested my new skills with lining a maneuver node for Eve, and realized my only challenge was that Eve is out of phase at the moment, so my fly-by craft doesn't have the Dv to execute. It got repurposed to a Munar mission. Long story short, after two years of playing, I will finally put a kerbal on another planet intentionally. We will not speak of the Laythe mishap in 0.22. Therapy has been helpful. - Khorso

What happens when I rescue more Kerbals than my astronaut complex is rated to hold? I'm at my max of 12, and I have three or four rescue contracts underway... Do I get to keep them if I bring them down, or must I upgrade my facility to keep them? I don't want to lose valuable engineers/scientists this way. -Khorso

I'm very interested in this mod - I'd help out with it if I only knew more of programming... This would be a great way to teach financial literacy in a simulator! On that note, graphs aside, it would be interesting to be able to allocate budgets into the game! Budgets for manned missions, robotic missions? Insurance is a possible idea too, for those RPers who play hardcore - insure a kerbal or mission, based off of DV, kerbal skill, etc. Keep up the good work @magico13 and co, I like what I see! -Khorso

@RenegadeRad Post pictures! We'll help analyze the designs and offer tips. This community rocks for that. Today, I extended my early career remote tech network, and officially launched my first non-Kerbin mission to the Mun. I got an unkerballed satellite-and-lander combo onto a 50k root launcher, and its Mun-Bound now for a polar orbit to set up a SCANsat system. I'm nervous about my lander - I overestimated my Delta-V capacity, and now I'm approaching to land on the Mun with just under 1000 Dv once circularized... I had to juggle fuel from my lander to my satellite just to get enough Dv to transfer and circularize. With little Dv for margin of error, and questionable remote coverage, I will be put to the test landing my first lander. Tips on the best descent profile? I'll be circularized at around 200km polar, and need to land on the kerbin-facing side of the Mun. I'm comfortable with the flight computer, it just doesn't have the finesse to land remotely. I'm still in the first tier of the RnD center. Trying to get science on a shoestring budget is always fun. Pictures to follow as the mission progresses. -Khorso

@Bigbootie You can add 'toggle thrust reverser' (last option in action group) to your breaks action group, and as long as your brakes are active, thrust will be reversed. This works with the hotkey, as well as with the altimeter toggle button. I use this on all planes with reversable thrust - it's highly effective and responsive. -Khorso

Hi all, While playing for a while, things run smoothly, however, I randomly have certain building scenes crash on me even though the rest of the game is playable. If I attempt to load any building other than the VAB or SPH, the overlay screen will pop up for a moment, then disappear back to the KSC scene. If I mouse around a bit, I'll occasionally have the building scene flicker as I mouse over a tooltip (such as RnD research nodes or the 'exit scene' button), but I cannot get the building screen to persist once this bug appears. I can exit the building scenes to regain functionality of KSC scene. It is fixed upon a reload of the game, until the next time it randomly strikes. I have made sure that all of my mods are up to date. I am running the following mods: [x] Science! Blizzy's Toolbar AsteroidDay Chatterer DistantObject DMagicOrbitalScience GPOSpeedFuelPump KAS/KIS KER KW Rocketry Redux NavyFish Docking Nereid's Final Frontier Procedural Parts RealChute RemoteTech SCANSat TarsierSpaceTech KAC with ModuleManager 2.6.22 Any suggestions? Is anyone else experiencing this problem as well? -Khorso

So I made this back when the new engine modes came out. Thought it was a fun MiG-esque plane. Very flyable, very fun. -Khorso

Logged in just to tell you how much I liked this movie, and this song. Brings back good vibes from Titan A.E., perhaps the biggest reason why I was drawn to KSP in the first place! Maybe I'll have to recreate the Valkyrie now... -Khorso

That's a seriously admirable endeavour. I'm impressed by the elegance and complexity of it- I have much to learn from this mission! -Khorso

A simple contract drove me nearly insane. Thanks Kerbal Space Program. What started out as a routine 'grab atmospheric pressure readings from the surface' in the badland mountains halfway around Kerbin ended in the most painful birth of new innovation. I present to you, my imgur album chronicling the ultimate success of the mission. Not included are the five failed designs before this successful one. Operation: Furious Atmosphere -Khorso (p.s. Thanks to @fourfa and @Snarfster for helping me get the Imgur link sorted out.)

Rage quit because my Moho intercept was a failure, in spite of Kerbal Alarm Clock giving me a go-ahead window. I have skimmed Jool and Duna once, each. I am at 830 hours now. What am I doing with my life. -Khorso

It seems like my 1.0 career has been dragging its feet, trying to collect science and cash. Today, I believe that has turned a leaf. I have a probe moon-bound, and it looks like it has enough DV to circularize. Then once its purpose is fulfilled, I may have enough left over to land it and crank out some repeatable experiments! Things are really 'taking off', one could say... -Khorso

Do all four wheels on the grocery cart work properly, or is there always one that jags around and throws your cart off its normal course?

Hurray, page 1500! -Khorso

MARES has been in flight for 200 days, in that image. In real life, it's about monitering health. Does this relate to life support? Envision is related to an ESA probe for monitoring geology on Venus from Space. Could this be a connection to ESA support, akin to the NASA support in 0.25? As well as resource scanners that we all know of already. Hmmm... -Khorso

KerrMü, not gonna lie, I had a dream last night about the exact mission profile you ran after seeing those pics. Evidently my mind is wanting me to try that exact thing- way to be inspirational bruder. Here, have some rep.

Kerbal Dinosaur Park. Yes.

You know, it would be neat to have generated craft in orbit to rescue- stuff like the Kerbal X and such. There are stock craft files already, would it be difficult to use those for craft generation? It would also provide a unique opportunity to salvage craft that may have technology on them that you haven't unlocked in your career yet- giving you an incentive to land them and refuel them. I'm thinking more of planes there... though ready-made ships in orbit that just need fuel would be handy too! -Khorso

At this point, you'll want to start the slimming down process of the design. Try getting a few orbits, and monitor how much excess jet fuel you have. Then in the SPH, reduce that excess fuel from your starting fuel tank. It also looks like you could get rid of about half of those struts. Weight on small SSTO's is a huge clincher! -Khorso