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Have the same problem: Lighting in the KSC Overview stays at nighttime the entire day. It's fine on launchpad (normal 6 hours day/night cycle) but as soon as you launch something, the planet and the vessel get gradually darker until both look like it's pitch black night. Once the vessel leaves the atmosphere (so around 70km above ground) the planet returns back to normal, but not the vessel. It also doesn't matter if launched at 0:00 or 3:00, the behaviour of the lighting is exactly the same. This is on an install with only Kopernicus, ModularFlightIntegrator and GalacticNeighborhood, as i was afraid one of my many other mods would be the reason. Problem doesn't appear anymore once i delete GN. Or, probably nevermind: I just read Sigma88's signature to see what files he needs, and then saw on his discord that he published a new version just an hour ago. I'll check that out first once im off work. Edit: Just in case if this helps, it appears to be a problem between Kopernicus 1.3.1-3 and GalacticNeighborhood, as everything works fine when Kopernicus 1.3.1-2 is used.

Well i think i can third it in size (at least) but that is still a lot of time. Guess i have to test it's re-entry capabilities when i find the time to play some more KSP again

And it even looks good, what's it made of? I'm asking on behalf of my kerbonists on Tellumo, as they won't shut up about it, and refuse to manufacture anything else but snacks unless they get the blueprints to it.

I'm not a religious person, but still, i thought today the Kraken will have mercy with my "RP-start" to a new solar system if i remove clouds and such so he might watch it from above. Nope! Ah well, screw this.. That made it worse, but if a rocket is heavy enough, a few missing boosters won't matter. Indeed, quite stable after all. Shed a lot of weight with that half fairing also (over 320m/s in under 10'000m). This might be the most Kerbal screenshot i have. Just for scale, the upper-stage tank is 20m wide and 12m tall, the dropped mass once in orbit is three times as expensive as the actual payload And here we are. It needs some work with the lighting and i can probably add quite a few more weight to it (after this, i don't think i need 200t or more in fairings), actually having a hangar bay for the A-class Asteroids it's supposed to catch to sustain the populace on their journey to a new solar system. Because it's my biggest rocket yet, here are the stats: Mass: 58'637.210t Payload: 5'000t (ish) Height: 215.7m Width: 82.4m Price: 53'997'610

My Kerbals achieved much, much more than what we humans are even capable of in the next 50 years. What i generally do when i introduce someone new to the game is to apologize to them for the ignorance they'll get frontloaded with. They're used to it tough, they had to deal with me when i started out afterall.

I love the look/shape of what i guess is your fuel depot and hope you don't mind that i will steal and enlarge it for my next station

1) Yes, very. I yelled at the screen after the 5th or so botched attempt at a Mun landing: "There's no way you can do it all, break horizontally and vertically while pointing at that retrograde thing and watching distance to the ground without at least flipping that damned rocket over1!". And i'm not even mentioning docking.. But once you've done it you feel like the king of the universe. It's not about the controls, they are actually pretty good, but unless you have done something similar, you need to wrap your brain around all these things. I usually compare it to cooking, once you have some experience with it, everything becomes a lot easier/relaxed. You go from hating the Mun to hating Eve to install RSS and hating Venus. 2) No, not at all. You learn as you go along and unless you choose some "hardcore" settings, you can quickload or even revert an entire flight, even make dead Kerbals respawn. 3) There is none. Just from the video-thumbnail, there are at least 3 mods used, B9 for the hull parts and USI Kolonization/Transport Technologies. Trust me, if you'll buy the game, you probably want many more than them 4) Depends. The building part is only limited by your fantasy and part count (there are ways to extend it, but too big and it will lag). But getting something big and clumsy into orbit without cheating can be a real challenge.

I'm sorry i'm a bit late. It didn't crash to desktop, just not responding: There where some NullPointer exceptions in the log (scansat iirc). However, i just tried loading the save with your newest version and it works fine now. Just incase you had this on a list of bugs or something. Thanks for your great work, felt so weird sending Kerbals up without underestimating at least one vital survival system

The experimental version crashes KSP upon loading a particular save (my 1.2.1 career). I'm playing with a few mods and the galileo planet pack, so the initial thought was "oh well you have to wait a bit longer". But the weird thing is, it works in any new save, created with Kerbalism or not. So i prepared a "test-save" without Kerbalism, endless-fuel-cheating Jeb into an Orbit and tracking a few potatoroids. Restarted with Kerbalism and could load it without a problem. Fiddled around with the career save and it turned out it weren't even the Relay-Networks (altough Kerbalism breaks it, but that was expected), but my single SpySat that was causing this problem. Didn't have more time to investigate further yesterday evening, but i highly suspect DMagicOrbitalScience to be the cause of this issue, as it is more or less the only difference between the satellite and my relays (apart from craft type). I can send the output_log tonight if you want to look into it. Edit: To spread the blame, the satellite also has ScanSat on it i just remembered

There is a description in the OP with all the different configurations that have been made. APlayer is the one that made exactly what you are looking for: http://spacedock.info/mod/880/Kerbalism - Realism without Life Support Turns off the life support of Kerbalism and lets you use any mod you want for it. On a different question: I'm patiently waiting for the release, but i got the KSP bug again recently and now can't hold myself off doing kerballed missions. So, if i use USI-LS now and then switch to the UKS Kerbalism Patch after the new version is released, will that cause any problems (provided i put all the necessary parts into place)? Like empty supply storages for instance? I don't think so but better safe than my frontier outposts dead

Minimum crew is 2, but just at the very beginning (except the very first launch). First Mun (or equivalent) landing is with 3 (altough apollo style mission). Then it's at least 5 (pilot and backup pilot, 2 scientist, 1 engineer) but basically as much as possible (i usually play with life support mods). The only reason is a mod called "final frontier". I like to spread the "first" plaques around my heroes (orange suits plus any badass's that comes along).

First time KSP since quite a while, never had to bother with with relays before. So I played with some pearls on a string, which made me realize that decouplers also have a recoil. Spent a while adjusting the relays AP with very low thrusts while not crashing with those in front. Docking without RCS seems easy now. I then broke a promise to myself and landed on that Mun called Iota without Kerbalism (damn i was wrong above, i had to deal with relays, i just never did it properly) because i didn't get any mission for Ceti yet and exhausted every other source of science. Well outside of these stupid part testing contracts. Here is this version of ElPollo on approach And the lander on the ground. Stupidity played a big role in only getting about half the science i could've, if only a little bit of was planning involved: I forgot all the Goo in orbit and the lander would've had enough fuel to do all 4 biomes if the whole mission was a little bit more sophisticated than "get back from the surface before you go to bed" Anyway, really enjoying this planetpack (thanks Galileo and team!), and i haven't even started with the interesting things. If memory/part-count is a problem, i'd recommend something like SMURFF. Reduces weight of fuel tanks -> less parts -> less lag. Well unless you get a new computer at least.

Realising that i will probably never use it, because of 1.2 around the corner and KSP's limitations with real scales for planets (Aeolis Mons at least seems too big to render), i decided it's time to wrap up my RSS career by building the "end of invention". A rocket with end-game engines, massive enough to justify it's price with a (to me) unmatched cost/convenience ratio. The "Big Stick"-Class: Mass: 23'004.957t (with SMURFF) Payload: 502t Height: 177.2m (payload around 18m) Width: 33.9m (payload 3.5m) Price: 9'991'516 It comes with an integrated waste disposal system and barely makes it to a 450km LEO. Still, only 4 (5 if you want an autopilot) mods. This might make it into version 1.2, i wonder how far it will take me in a Kerbin sized solar system

That would be pretty 1337 (in terms of dedication) tough

After seeing this, i now want a feature to build them on other planets by sending something like 4 engineers and a massive amount of ore to a specified spot. This could actually give Dres a purpose

Mods, lots of them. Drag racing on Minmus, "skydiving" on Jool, speedracing on Laythe or hillclimbing on Kerbin, all provide great fun (and some end in disaster). Check out some (or all) easter eggs by finding them yourselves. Silly or usefull contraptions like a trampolin on Gilly or an Ion powered glider for Duna (none of them my ideas originally). Overengineering to the max (my favourite). Doesn't even have to be useless, a massive mothership for a Jool 5 mission is great too. Add Lifesupport, Deadly Reentry etc and build a big colony plus infrastructure on Duna (or Laythe). Add RSS and then ditch the lifesupport after you realize how hard it would make your first kerbaled trip to Mars. Take a hiatus. Play around with planet packs and fail to make an interesting planet yourselves. Get RSS (extended), this time with Kerbalism and start colonizing the solar system. That's more or less what i did, in order. Provided me with over 1000h of fun, still counting

They are weird during entry, but seem to work well from orbit and on the surface (at least for me). I know this because all i did in KSP (yesterday) was ramming Venus's surface. Luckily it wasn't for nothing, the "Benevolent Benefactor" might not have made it, but it's operator at least conquered his irrational phobia (readers of the expanse novels might know what i'm talking about). In a nutshell: Stock chutes won't work here. I also like the orbital period of 30m seconds before impact

I don't build planes, my only SSTO was built when KSP was in early access. That sadly also means i don't know how landing gears work. And because rovers get tested by boosting over the launchpad with their afterburners, the fact that this design doesn't rove around was discovered once it was landed on the Moon. The Skycrane was supposed to be dual use as comm-array/energy source for a future mining base and a recharger for the "rover" when it's solar panels inevitably get destroyed. The latter was pointless now, because the "rover" probably won't make it out of the crater with the amount of fuel it has. Or so i thought, but as we all know, there's nothing that can't be solved with speed, power and a heavy abuse of physical timewarp. After it ran out of fuel i had to complete the science section of Earth's Spaceport to unlock rover wheels. The debate is now on between engineers and scientist about the power source, nuclear or solar, to power these cyclotrones.

I haven't played without mods since 0.24, i think. I spend hours after a new release tuning "my" KSP, deleting parts and editing some configs.

Apparently i already did that. I solved the problem now by stop being stupid. I used the Tracking Station to check the changes, which uses the atmo sunflare. Thanks to tunnel vision i had to figure the obvious out by deleting everything but scatterer

I'm losing my mind. This has been answered many times in different threads, but no solution seems to work. I can't get any sunflare working in RSS (no rescaling of "stock" RSS) besides the stock one. Changed flareSettings and spikeSettings to values in OP, checked that the SunAU is 1, tried several different flares (and tweaked their flare/spike values), checked the PlanetsList.cfg, used SRSS for another PlanetsList.cfg, installed the newest scatterer again, deleted MM caches, sweared, disabled all the WIP stuff (like godrays etc), got rid of RVE and TextureReplacer just to be sure, all to no avail. Now i can't play anymore because the sun makes me angry. With 1.2 around the corner i don't want to waste anybodies time, but if someone has a hint what is wrong with me or that damned sunflare, please let me know

Apologies if this question has already been answered, but a quick search didn't give me any results (quite surprisingly to me i must say): I'm trying to map the ribbons provided by Nereid to RSS, but i can't get it to work, they are never awarded, only the non planetary ones. Here's part of the CelestialBodies.info, which i put into GameData/RealSolarSystem: Here is the output_log for the first entry (Mercury as Moho): According to CelestialBodyInfo.cs there should be one more entry here, telling me that it worked or not. I'm assuming this is where it goes wrong i just can't figure out why. Especially as other mods do it just like that too (i copied/edited the .info of OPM). Any help will be appriciated by world first hogs Jeb and Valentina

You probably have to look which version of RSS works with whatever version of KSP you have. I have a problem that highly annoys me. Browsed the last few pages but couldn't find it for this version of RSS: "Ground" isn't where it is supposed to be. Sometimes stuff is floating, sometimes it's partially buried, but the planetary meshes and textures never really fit together. Here is an example from a clean RSS installation i just did (its the same for upgraded launchpads): It's not gamebreaking, altough stuff sometimes explodes under timewarp when floating (happened only on the moon, could've been smth else). Also heavier rockets "jump" upon loading on the launchpad (can be prevented with clamps). I'll add the Output_log if needed, but the only thing wrong i see there is a steamworks exception (normal, i have several KSP installations). Edit: Nevermind the above, i just replaced all the dependancies and that solved the problem. ModularFlightIntegrator/my stupidity was the culprit (i didn't download a fresh RSS but used the one downloaded at 6th of july), but just incase, i thought i mention that the problem is solved with 1.1.6.

This is perfect! It needs some tweaks indeed, at least with FAR it's also a very heavy parachute and it has no ablators, but otherwise, just what the doctor ordered. Amazing i never found this mod, thank you very much.

Tried many times to do it with wings, robotics, welding and some .cfg editing. It kind of works, but just looks terrible and the wing clipping tends to produce eye cancer effects. I don't know if this may actually work as a mod, but my lack of knowledge of models and how to animate them is the reason for asking.. so: Would someone be interested in creating a more advanced heat shield that can retract the innermost 1/10, allowing the engines to fire? Im obviously talking about the "Pegasus" from BBC's "Voyage to the Stars": Doesn't have to be a Replica at all, im just looking for that functionality.