Vaporo

Actually, I created this thread is to discuss any feature that you think is rough around the edges and needs looking at before the final release. Not just bugs.

8/10 Traveled a million miles to land on a point so small you can't see it.

All right. 1.0 is coming, and I've noticed that there are still several totally unecessary and (some very easily, I think) fixable unrealisms roaming around KSP that I haven't seen any mention of fixing. For example: engines still decrease fuel flow and keep thrust the same as they transfer from an atmosphere to a vacuum, instead of increasing thrust and keeping fuel flow the same. ISP doesn't get reduced when pressures are above 1 atm. And LV-Ns still burn Lf+O, instead of hydrogen or something of the like (Though it wouldn't be unbelievable if they just burned liquid fuel. Or if Lv-Ns were just called a nuclear-chemical hybrid). So, what other unnecessary unrealisms, long-standing bugs (Squad is working on a lot of bugfixes for this update, though), or just plain weird things do you think need looked at before 1.0 is released?

B9 adds the HL parts (which are very similar to the new mk3 parts), the HX parts (which are half the size of the VAB), some the MK2 parts, and the SH parts, which are like smaller HL parts. All are spaceplane-oriented parts. As for having too many parts... The pack is downright enormous. I would highly recommend adding a part search mod with b9. Though I think that the author does say that the pack is designed to be a bit too big, and to delete parts that you feel like you don't need.

Random stuff? And I'm sure almost everyone's seen this before, but it's still funny (mild swearing at the beginning, so I'll just put the link here):

This is so random, but I couldn't stop laughing. This song is perfect background music for KSP.

I despise part clipping in my designs unless I am specifically trying to cheat. Occasionally, I will clip for aesthetics, but other than that, I avoid it. Personally, I wonder if part clipping could have been handled a bit differently than the complete removal of the part-clip module (which was buggy and did need a lot of fixes). Perhaps the collision meshes used to detect clipping could have been reduced to 3/4 size or something.

When I Flag XP grind with ten Kerbals, I just name my flags "1, 2, 3, 4..." etc. And then I take them down.

To my knowledge, the cost of paying astronauts is trivial compared to the cost of launching rockets. It may have such a slight impact (if it's done realistically) that it just isn't worth implementing.

Was it anything like this:

In all seriousness, my greatest fear is probably having my mind altered (drugs, sci-fi mind control, anything that causes me to lose control of me). The idea of my brain, me, being adjusted by some outside force terrifies me. For the same reason, I have nightmares every time somebody is killed by a head injury in a movie. A shot to the chest kills your heart. A shot to the head kills the thing that contains you.

Th scariest though I've ever had was the laughable idea that I might, some day, run out of bacon. *fake laugh* Yes. A world without bacon. Might as well remove protons while we're at it. *has horrible nightmares for a week*

9/10 Got enough engines there?

Narrarator: Stanley, upon noticing a large red button on the desk in the center of the room labeled "BANG," is overcome with an urge to press the button. He promptly moves forward and gives it a nice hard smack.

Granted. Wall Street is evacuated due to an earthquake, but you are the only person left behind. I wish for a fully operational portal gun.

Granted. You are given a rusty crown, cut your scalp with it, and die from tetanus. I wish for Techno Trousers.

5/10 Kind of funny, but I just do not get this obsession with MLP.

time for an upgrade?

I think that there should be at least one more release before 1.0. One more beta release (0.91) to test the massive list of stuff they'll be adding with a broad test group (crush all the bugs!), then fix any problems that arise for 1.0.

Wow. Fourteen (EDIT: fifteen) pages on this subject in under 3 hours. I can't believe what kind of negativity is coming out of this. Why wouldn't Squad create a bit of hype about female Kerbals? It's been coming for a long time, people have been asking for it for a long time, and it's finally happening. In any case, no matter how Squad announced it, I think that the hype would have happened anyways (By tomorrow, there will probably be half a dozen threads on the subject).