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It's not a program files issue. But it could be what SVM suggests as I had been picking the motor first. I will try again when I get home from work.

The only relevant info I could think of is install order. I started with a clean 1.0 install and added the USI mods in the order they were listed in my downloads folder. So sounding rockets was copied over after MKS and before SrvPack. When copying I did allow files to be overwritten, as I assumed all the latest builds had the same versions of the common folders (usitools etc).

Hmm. I have tried multiple configurations and no joy. My Kerbals must be using Super glue.

Did not see the trusses until later. How is the engine supposed to fall off? Keeping in mind that you don't get the small stack separator out of the gate. Sure once you unlock some nodes you can use that, but I think the issue being brought up was the utility of the parts you get out of the gate at the start of the game.

Such an informative and constructive post. Given the pace that the popular mods have already updated to 1.0 I wouldn't count on that.

I had: 1-SRM-S motor 1-Nosecone Parachute 1-Meteorological Survey Package 1-Mini battery pack (otherwise I had no EC, would not launch) 1-Avionics package (Otherwise I had no control, would not launch)

I have. The standard nosecone chute seems largely ineffective and I only just unlocked Pack chutes as they are 2 levels deep.

Well to be fair, Rover has had somewhat of an advantage as he has been directly working on aspects of the 1.0 release. So he probably had better access than some modders to the code ahead of time to get ready. Im also pretty sure he is a cyborg who needs no sleep.

Yay, I basically stopped playing a few months ago waiting for 1.0 and all the USI goodness. Time to dust off KSP and start exploring again.

Translated as: I'd rather not spend 1-2 minutes of my life to sign up on Github that would make the lives easier on the team of VOLUNTEERS who dedicate their free time making something that i like to use.

Make a .90 copy of your game so you don't update over top of it. That way if it does break it you can choose to finish your save game in .90

Check firespitter version. Those all sound like they are functions that firespitter handles.

this for sure

People play out of their Steam install directory to begin with? First thing I do when there is an update is make a copy of my KSP folder to KSP-Current and play out of that. That way especially when you start adding mods, it is less messy dealing with future updates.

Browse thru this thread. I'm pretty sure someone had a sort of tutuorial with pictures.

One thing to keep in mind is that due to Roverdude's design, the MKS/OKS mod is pretty light on RAM given the number of pieces. Also the way many model's and textures are shared, you will likely not gain much unless you plan on removing all of the parts.

What? your reply makes no sense. He was asking if ART and AMT were full of bees (or wasps in his case). I was replying that only ART is full of bees at the moment. AMT is fine.

You are going to want AMT for the drill parts etc. I believe ART is still full of bees

Only ART IIRC.

I think Roverdude's idea was that it would be hard to fill up the tank. You don't need that much fuel to go really far.

Amazingly right in the OP

It isn't. If you read carefully it states you must install tweakscale separately (ie tweakscale is not included). That does not necessarily mean tweakscale is a required mod. If you search the thread you will find numerous references to the fact that tweakscale is only necessary to change the part sizes

I use IR without tweakscale. I just can't resize the IR parts so I have to be more creative.

You can stay at the same altitude and move forward by tilting. And a helicopter by definition is a VTOL so I don't see where that's an issue.

If you are using USI MKS/OKS it hides the parts from this mod in favor of the MKS/OKS alternatives.