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  1. damerell
    I wonder if it might be worth keeping the ship on standby nearby. Just in case...
  2. damerell
    You've got it in the bag now, nice one...
  3. damerell
    Now, that's a rescue mission. Do I see IR booms on the deck?
  4. damerell
    I hope you can limp home the rest of the way in spite of the damage....
  5. damerell
    My personal take on it, which isn't everyone's, but this is a bit of a grey area, is it's fine to glide, as long as you can't push when you're not touching the ground.
  6. damerell
    I'm sure as soon as lo-fi and Shadowmage have something other people can usefully test, they will let us know.
  7. damerell
    I think the difficulty there is that any CO2-splitting reaction should demand a great deal of energy. The US Sabatier and Elektron between them can extract the oxygen back from carbon dioxide, but this is a process that ought to be expensive.
  8. damerell
    I've hit this (the earlier issue, bangs but no shove). It seems like a fuel flow issue, but it seems odd to begin with that the engine can be in a state where it makes a noise but doesn't actually do anything. (Indeed, a quick peek in USI_PulseDrive.cs leaves me no better informed). The problematic vessels seem to have a procedural fairing between magazine and drive (with crossfeed on). This may be working as designed, although it's odd since LFO can feed through a pfairing and they don't seem to have differently organised resource definitions... I notice it does this: return broker.AmountAvailable(part, res.name, 1, "") > 1; in HasFuel() - doesn't that make it impossible to blow the last unit of fuel?
  9. damerell
    It's an ingenious device, but it seems a little, uh, fragile. :-/
  10. damerell
    Discussed in the previous page in this thread. I realise one can't read back indefinitely but "hours and hours" might have allowed going back one page, no?
  11. damerell
    Apologies if this is a hardy perennial question. I've used the US fuel cell on a series of rovers. The configuration file has FillAmount=0.95 and AutoShutdown=True but it is also set to DumpExcess on both output resources. The effect seems to be that it will happily buzz away consuming your hydrogen and oxygen when no electricity or water is required, and so I've had to control it from kOS. I suggest it not dump excess electricity. You're much more likely to be using it for electricity than water (and in some life support disaster it is generally feasible to burn up excess electricity).
  12. damerell
    If this is by design, just let me know. The lift fans have an atmCurve which does not allow them to operate below 0.1 atmospheres at all. This makes sense for the airbreathing mode but I wonder if it is intentional for the electrical mode? I would expect the fans to be able to produce a (very modest) amount of shove on Duna. ETA: Purely wishlist stuff now, but I would be very grateful for a shorter version of the cargo cockpit and corresponding shielded docking nosecone in Clamp-o-Tron Sr. size. A second wishlist item, after a bit of fiddling in the VAB: would it be possible to have an adapter that necks down from a large circular size, say 5m, to the Mark IV parts, please?
  13. damerell
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/g2z5104fshgwvnd/BetterTimeWarp.zip?dl=1 If you change the trailing 0 to a 1 you get a URL that just downloads from Dropbox, rather than one that drops you in a steaming mass of Javascript that pesters you to register. Seems worth mentioning. Thanks for the recompile - BTW a much more useful time control mod than other, in my experience.
  14. damerell
    It's often worth deactivating or limiting the travel of the gimbal.
  15. damerell
    Looking further I see the issue is at my end; PrivacyBadger blocks gyazo because it's overly stalky. This'll affect other people who run browser plugins to protect their privacy, of course.
  16. damerell
    It opens quite the can of worms - we know little from stock KSP about the surface of various worlds besides the colour and that Minmus may be made of frozen pudding (and in all candour I cannot claim to be an expert on the tractive properties of frozen pudding).
  17. damerell
    Your images seem to have been lost.
  18. damerell
    Look, there's a time and a plaice for fish puns.
  19. damerell
    However, that doesn't reload the libraries that determine their behaviour, which I'm afraid is the issue here. That is why @xEvilReeperx has such an interesting suggestion.
  20. damerell
    That is normal practice. Some of us will follow it and kibitz wildly. :-)
  21. damerell
    Provided it's not powered by magic, I can't see why there would be any objection. Oddball vehicles are half the fun.
  22. damerell
    I arrived at the temple in darkness, of course, like everywhere else interesting. ;-)
  23. damerell
    That would certainly save a lot of SPH->runway development cycles. I was vaguely considering a system where you could adjust more suspension parameters (like spring strength) in biomes with names of the form KSC_foo (a nasty hack, that) but one that adjusts to the vessel mass (within sane limits) would be brilliant.
  24. damerell
    Perhaps any stock approach should be allowed, as long as it fits within the total budget from the contract and would in fact satisfy KSP that that contract was completed (and there isn't some obvious cheat that no-one would ask about in good faith).
  25. damerell
    I'm tempted to say, you can land on a 3-way intersection... but then if you can do that precisely enough you don't even need the rover. I like the idea mooted in this thread of moderately-nearby science hotspots to drive around.
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