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    What's happened to the Kerbal SPACE Program?

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

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    I think it's not unreasonable that the plane side of the game has had some loving in recent updates, and a few improvements are still needed. The new aerodynamics model is absolutely needed, not just for planes, but also for rockets. The space side of the game is pretty good as it stands, and getting a space plane to work is a fun challenge.

    To my mind there is one current limitation to the stock game that, I suspect, the new in-situ resource gathering will make a more irritating problem, and could do with some sort of attention. I can build an orbital space station out of a number of modules with docking and RCS in various methods. Building modular surface bases, though, is a much bigger challenge. To dock modules of surface bases together, though, requires vertically-aligned docking ports and the ability to drive modules together. Rover wheels, either built in to the modules, or on separate assembly vehicles, suffer from suspension travel, so that you never really know whether your docking ports will be vertically aligned when you actually get the modules on location. The problem is worse if you are on a not-very-level surface. With resources being added, I imagine building a mining outpost will become an interesting challenge, but assembling larger surface bases, and loading up the finished product into visiting craft seems to me a real challenge.

    I also have a niggling concern about how the new aerodynamics model will impact my ability to launch some of the more pancake shaped utility craft I use in space. I have a tractor design nuclear engined tug designed with engines on pylons to fit a 2.5 m payload behind it with the engines clear of it. I also prefer my landers to have broader bases, so the landers I use for e.g. base construction, tend to be quite broad and flat.

    speaking of stuff for the ground, I really think there need to be more rover bodies, and stiffer suspension wheels. better, make suspension tweakable.

    a forum app please?

    in Kerbal Network

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    I love ksp. I also love the community behind ksp. we give each other tips,tricks, help, support, and everything else a community needs. but I wish there was a forum app so I could view the forums on my 4G qhone without the large scale twitches that I get when trying to see words, the small text, and without the bad layout of my regular internet. I have a windows phone, but I really don't care if it is only on android/apple products.

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