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  1. damerell
    Were it inflated, it would seem like an eminently plausible thing to be stranded in.
  2. damerell
    Interesting point: this mod does create the possibility of some but not all of the kerbals in a pod being killed.
  3. damerell
    Exactly, as suggested above. This would also degrade parts with only structural functions.
  4. damerell
    Three things have vexed me in rapid succession today: A post I made was double-posted. This is buggy behaviour. I couldn't edit the second copy. I often find I can't edit posts I have made, for no readily apparent reason, whether or not I fill in the field saying why it was edited. This strikes me as either being a bug or a very non-obvious thing to be done when editing posts (which I don't know about). In the latter case it should be more obvious. If I type a lower-case b followed by a right bracket, the editor thinks I wanted a . If I wanted a graphical smiley I would use the smiley selector above. Conversely, if I want to type a list of things like so: a) c) d), it is very annoying. Automatic interpolation of graphical smileys should be suppressed IMHO.
  5. damerell
    Right, but what I'm saying is if nodes shifted, that would both be nice (ie, annoying) in a non-FAR world and cause craft to fly oddly in a FAR world without having to understand FAR at all.
  6. damerell
    I don't know a) why the forum double-posted that (I didn't) or bee) why it won't let me edit my own posts half the time or c) why anyone would think it was a good idea for "b" ")" to be interpreted as a smiley, which is why I've typed "bee".
  7. damerell
    That doesn't follow; the LGPL permits relicensing as GPL.
  8. damerell
    Ah, now this makes perfect sense. I agree with you (not that it's my decision) since manifestly the rover is not actually being driven over the terrain. I'd be quite reluctant to use it in any game without a very well proven rover design.
  9. damerell
    I'm not sure what mod you have in mind (please link it) but I don't see why. We have already used MechJeb's rover autopilot facilities, and I'll freely admit for my sea crossing on Kerbin I laid in the course, turned on the engines, and took a nap - leaving a kOS script to shut down the engines if altitude rose significantly above sea level.
  10. damerell
    Second the motion. This would also provide some change to flight characteristics in a FAR world - it might still think each wing part is the shape it always was, but it can certainly tell they're not in the same orientation. It would also provide a way for purely structural parts to degrade.
  11. damerell
    To be honest, I think the poles are pretty gnarly on most worlds. Stick to the equator, that's my motto.
  12. damerell
    My understanding was that the water badge is only for circumnavigations done as much as possible by water. Hence there is no water badge for Eve, although I imagine a carefully planned route could also be about 50% wet running.
  13. damerell
    That seems a sensible design with the RTG backup. I've got a bigger RTG in some mod with a similar mass/power ratio to the stock one, which means I don't need the same part count for an emergency power source, but of course that's abandoning stock parts.
  14. damerell
    In the first page of the old Tweakscale thread, where the OP describes it as WTFPL, the then developer said: "It's CC BY-NC-SA. I want to make it WTFPL (my favorite licence), but I've asked Gaius for permission to do that and haven't yet received an answer." Presumably they got permission and updated the OP.
  15. damerell
    I mean, what supplies electric charge to make the wheels go around?
  16. damerell
    Interestingly compact design. How's it powered?
  17. damerell
    I've been circumavigating a bit more. I set off into the desert in the hope it would mean some easy flat driving - and it did. A welcome development after the difficulties of the mountains. I reached the anomaly I'd been aiming for. Why do I always reach these in the dark? It didn't make any more sense close up, either. I headed North to try and work around the shoulder of the mountains I have completely failed to capture in these screenshots... ...and at dawn I am still steering slightly North to try and get back to the equator, since there are no known anomalies near our course. The desert seems much greener now, but I can see mountains ahead. With any luck sunrise will let me recharge the batteries and electrolyse some water back into hydrogen.
  18. damerell
    Good luck, although I fear you're losing too many bits to be sanguine about it. Flat terrain is the rover's boon - although (while I haven't uploaded the screenies yet) after crossing a desert on Kerbin after an ocean I could almost use some lumps to liven things up. :-)
  19. damerell
    I did, yes, although fair enough to ask.
  20. damerell
    Please could you retry without this tilt? I admit the OP wasn't totally clear on whether or not it is permitted. Sorry about that.
  21. damerell
    And updated... I might have known we'd have a tie at some point. :-)
  22. damerell
    Dunno about the OP, but I think the links in my signature link into the right forum still. I'm not totally sure your rover weighs 26kg. :-)
  23. damerell
    That's exactly my take on it. Very ingenious, but the amount of LF remaining is just being used as a proxy for the amount of dV available. And a good score. I think that's because the craft is over-TWRed at takeoff. The engine's in stage 1, but I expected to throttle it off in the initial stages of the ascent. Moving it to stage 2 has the same effect.
  24. damerell
    Don't apologise; no harm done. I quite liked the soundtrack.
  25. damerell
    I was afraid you'd say that. I have a bit of a conflict of interest in deciding how much the parts I'm going to fly should weigh. :-) However, the Space-Y Extended service bays and the larger stock bay fit nicely if one takes the exponent as 2.1, so I guess I'll go with that.
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