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  1. Curveball Anders
    The game continued to develop and got better. Just like one would expect.
  2. Curveball Anders
    Just what part that was so dear to you did they leave behind?
  3. Curveball Anders
    How about all the people who got hired after some people left?
  4. Curveball Anders
    erh, marginal hype. Already 1,875 does indicate the questionable hype ...
  5. Curveball Anders
    That's typical of why paid DLCs actually works. I personally wouldn't pay a dime for multiplayer and would rage as mad if dev time on core KSP was wasted on such useless crud. 'The problem with common sense is that it's not very common' ...
  6. Curveball Anders
    This. I'm almost vegetarian, except for bacon, but for Kerbals there's no exceptions
  7. Curveball Anders
    Actually no. Or rather, yes everything is possible with mods, but there's several things that aren't practical. Several things that aren't practical due to the design of Unity and of KSP core on top of Unity. That's why it's so nice that Squad do think about mods in their internal processes (note that modding has a heading of it's own in the release notes). <off topic> 9 exclamation marks ... And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. -- Terry Pratchett in Maskerade </off topic>
  8. Curveball Anders
    Asparagus staging did make more sense in earlier versions, and old habit are hard to kill. The addition of more varied SRB's, the concept of cost and a more refined aeromodel has changed the table quite a bit. But it's not just habits, it's also the dreaded 'internet history persistence'. Searching the net for help/guidance/tutorials for 'KSP launch' (or j.random other thing) and you'll get a pile of suggestions, some of them several years old and totally wrong (some of them totally wrong even when posted).
  9. Curveball Anders
    It's nothing new. Just look at (the still alive) forums (and share sites) for games like Civ and SimCity. They've dealt with X number of versions for years. It's a bit more hassle, but not that much of a deal. I can see that a modder releasing a kit that requires expansion X might get a bit of whines but that's life.
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    For a short period early in career it's an easy provider of science. But very soon my stations convert into core logistic components. I normally have very few crafts that take off from Kerbin and even fewer that ever are intended to return. Instead I use a Soyus/Progress style (UpdownTaxi/Refueller) to get kerbals and fuel to and sometimes from the station(s). Using a 'SpaceBus' to shuttle kerbals and resources between the stations. A tourist trip to Minmus normall takes (at least) 5 different stages, all done when the trip can be utilised to max. UpDownTaxi from KSC to Kerbin Station, when there's 4 (normally) kerbals to launch. SpaceBus from Kerbin Station to Minmus Station, when there's 4 kerbals heading that way. Std 2-seat (robo) lander from Minmus Station to Minmus and back, when there's 2 ... SpaceBus from Minmus Station to Kerbin (or Mün) Station when there's ... UpDownTaxi back to KSC, when ... I also like to build and prepare out of Kerbin missions in Kerbin orbit. So when the Duna or Dres (for instance) window opens I can send a complete package of station(s), landers, tugs, landers, taxis and comsats in one big package.
  11. Curveball Anders
    For me it was two different versions of getting it. The first was already in my first run in the demo. Getting a box of building blocks, a way to attach them and then launch them into space (after a couple of explosive fails). The second was figuring out the basic physics and math related to orbits. (The latter totally dependant on the help, guides, slaps and pokes provided by the members of this forum).
  12. Curveball Anders
    You have my deepest condolences for you bad choice of parents I offered to buy it for my kids. One said "nah, maybe later", one said "already have it, and a copy for my son" and the remaining two said "I'll grab on the next steam sale" ... But it could be added that all 4 are 18+ (some with a wide margin ...).
  13. Curveball Anders
    Given the huge amount of fun gametime I've had (and still have) with KSP I consider it amongst the best spend money in my long gaming life. So I'll happily pay for the DLC. The only issue I can see is that patch management can be a bit more hairy. I remember the mild chaos with Civ4 when they had patches for: Original game (plus localisations) Original game with expansion 1 (plus localisations) Original game with expansion 1 and 2 (plus localisations) Repacked original game including expansion 1 and 2 (plus localisations) Now add 3 platforms (or 4 if they maintain the 32bit version) and it will require a fair bit of organisation and logistics to be manageable. But it's a minor worry, I know that I'll continue to have fun anyway for years to come.
  14. Curveball Anders
    Nice and reasonable, I'll grab it as soon as it's available.
  15. Curveball Anders
    Yes.
  16. Curveball Anders
    That's what they used in the Dambusters raid to get the correct altitude above the water. (Except they angled the spots inwards, so the spots merged at a preset altitude. No radar precision AGL instruments in WWII).
  17. Curveball Anders
    Much the same for me. Something that gets the job done, preferably in a cost efficient way, and looks like it at least might work.
  18. Curveball Anders
    Big thanks for this, just what I needed. (My cheezy desk calculator refused cube roots so I had to write a program (math in C, eugh ...) to solve it.) From now on I will go for 284.5 km orbit for stations since I prefer a launch orbit of 75k for all launches, and with the station (or other parked gadgets) its perfect at 1.5x orbital time.
  19. Curveball Anders
    I've noticed this or similar with several different games. It appears that v-sync and/or frame rate limiters aren't applied in certain nominally 'low gpu load' scenes causing the gpu to run free and generate high load and ridiculous frame rate for no use at all. The worst offender managed to enter this state when the screen saver kicked in ... In KSP it can be solved by either installing a frame rate limiter mod (from Kerbokatz Small Utilities for instance). Or just not leave the game in such scene ...
  20. Curveball Anders
    I tend to restart or at least start a new save (and often forgetting about the old one) when there's either a new release and/or I've decided to add (or remove) some major mod(s).
  21. Curveball Anders
    I mainly play career (with sandbox as testing/simulation environment). While many contracts are boring and or bonkers I have no issues in choosing the ones that fit the story in my head and ignore or reject the ones that don't. Stations are often built as soon as I can (the contract for one almost always appears before that).
  22. Curveball Anders
    Indeed, so it's an ape, not a monkey
  23. Curveball Anders
    I've done 8h+ sessions (yes, I'm a bit sad) in my lightly modded game and recently forgot the game (in VAB view) when leaving for an out of town meeting and found it still running 16-17h later. The gpu was running a bit hot, but it survived ...
  24. Curveball Anders
    Sätter mig som vanligt i bardelen av restaurangvagnen och beställer en pilsner. [TRANSLATION: As usual, I'll sit at the bar in the restaurant carriage and order a pilsner] (It is the localisation train after all ...)
  25. Curveball Anders
    Yey, now I actually might be triggered to put pen to paper (erh, well, fingers to keyboard) and record something instead of just talking to myself while playing
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