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    Reference to "The Martian"?

    in KSP1 Discussion

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    1 hour ago, jlcarneiro said:

    Didn't get this one...

    IIRC on Apollo 13, everything went wrong and exploded because the wires leading to the stirrer ended up exposed. So, when the astronauts activated the stirrers, a spark got generated and then everything was on fire.

    Then again I may be completely wrong about the exact details. Pretty sure it's an Apollo 13 reference.

    Why does Windows Mode still don't proper work ?

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

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    I assume you're not a native speaker, in which case, I must advise you: Lighten up on the caps. You need one at the beginning of a sentence, and one if you're referring to a specific named thing. Other than that, nowhere.

    Regarding your actual question, yes, that's actually highly annoying-even for me, when I played on Mac, the screen would always be shifted about a half-inch down because menu bars.

    HarvesteR Easter Egg

    in KSP1 Discussion

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    Maybe a statue of a Kerbal with a hoe standing next to the abandoned parts on the Island Airfield. I also like the idea of a Christ the Redeemer-type thing over the space center. (Christ the Redeemer being that big statue thing in Rio de Janeiro.)

    SSTOs! Post your pictures here~

    in KSP1 The Spacecraft Exchange

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    3 hours ago, Spartwo said:

    I want to know if I'm wasting my time here. Anyone else manage to get a single engine VTOLSSTO below 10 tons to carry 2 tons working? I'm getting close but the way the engines have worked since they were redone makes it near impossible and air hogging just isn't practical anymore for such a light craft.

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    Horizontal is pretty simple because that extra few tons that the engine was can be used as fuel or just shaved off, I've seen a few of those.

    Maybe try taking off by standing on the tail? Technically that's a VTOL, though the "L" might be a bit more difficult...

    Anyone Else Recently Build A Bad@** PC in Reponse to upcoming 1.1?

    in The Lounge

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    Personally, I got a gaming PC for reasons unrelated to 1.1 (namely, because I wanted to play AAA games and that sort of thing.) I may drop $50 on two more sticks of RAM, though-my install is pushing 7.5GB memory use.

    On April 9, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Falcon Coupe said:

    I was meaning the GPU specifically, for pretty much mostly KSP will a GTX 950 be enough? I almost feel that the 960 could be overkill. I know the 6600K will be a great CPU, I was going to put it on the MSI Z170A Tomahawk board, but I'll most likely need to downgrade for budget reasons. Might have to go a 6500, which will let me go for a cheaper range of motherboard.

    Don't go with the Tomahawk. The only reason I got it was for the wifi, but the wifi card comes with no screws for installation and is generally a pain even if you can order the screws (though if you are still going with it, you'll need M2 x 3mm machine screws, three of them with wide heads).

    This cool game called Robocraft

    in The Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Hobbes Novakoff

    15 hours ago, cantab said:

    Saw it a while ago. It looked pretty cool. Then I realised it was "free to play", and I refuse to support games that adopt that business model. It sounds like my concerns were warranted in this particular case.

    "Loot crates" isn't really a good description. They're free to open and all that-you get one at the end of a match depending on your performance; higher-ranking crates give better stuff, crates in higher-level battles give better stuff, crates from longer games give more stuff. There's no real pay2win or anything-it's actually a very fair business model. You buy premium (which basically doubles your earnings) and you can buy lots of crates (IIRC it's $4 for 25 max-level crates.) Used to be you only paid premium currency for cosmetics, but now you get cosmetics free in crates and there's no premium currency. It's much better than, say, WoT or that kind of thing.

    I'd recommend you watch Lathrix's let's play of the new system, actually.

    This cool game called Robocraft

    in The Lounge

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    14 minutes ago, Fluburtur said:

    Is that a good or bad thing? I would say bad.

    Before you had to earn points in battle to unlock parts, you had to choose the parts wisely and then build accordingly. Now it's pointless to play.

    Pretty much.

    This cool game called Robocraft

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Fluburtur said:

    I played it like a year ago, it was great but then the devs decided to make it pay to win, change most of the game (which was a very bad idea) and basically screw with all the veterans just to make the game "more accessible" and now this game that was wonderful is pure garbage.

    Hey, guess what, it now has loot crates.

    A treatise on language

    in The Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Hobbes Novakoff
    The Internet Bible, In Its Infinite Command Of The Forum, has deleted a line break that was making things look weird.

    6 minutes ago, tater said:

    In English "a couple" means exactly two. It never means 1 or 4. A married couple is not 4 people.

    A few weeks would mean between 3 and 6, and Several would mean 7+.

    We must consult the Internet Bible.

    ...

    The Internet Bible Lets Forth Its Infinite Wisdom.

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    How to install Kerbcam

    in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, modded installs)

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    7 hours ago, pincushionman said:

    What you really want to do if you downloaded from Steam is to copy this folder to somewhere else on your hard drive, put the mod folder in the GameData folder, and run your modded install from there. This ensures you have a clean install available at all times, and also ensures the game can't auto-update and stomp all over your modded install.

    True, but that just adds more complexity.

    How to install Kerbcam

    in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, modded installs)

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    7 hours ago, SoggGod said:

    I have downloaded the mod kerbcam and am wondering where to put the files.

    Generally, you'd want to put them in your computer's trash folder, as the mod hasn't been updated for a while. Try CameraTools, it's being updated. Once you download it,   plop the CameraTools folder in GameData in your KSP directory.

    Finding your KSP directory is a little more difficult. If you downloaded the game through the store, the KSP folder is named "ksp_win" or "ksp_osx" and is probably in your downloads folder.

    If you downloaded the game via Steam on Windows, the KSP directory will be at C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Kerbal Space Program. Put that into File Explorer's (or whatever they call it) address bar thing.

    If you downloaded the game via Steam on OS X, the folder is in Users/<your user name>/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Kerbal Space Program.

    How do you deal with all the shortcomings of the game ?

    in KSP1 Discussion

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    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    I understand that some ppl don't like/use certain aspects of the game but that doesn't mean the parts can be ignored.

    Parts that not everyone wants are routinely added. Citation: The three billion posts on this forum about how Squad should stop adding plane parts.

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    It's like who says A must say B.

    What?

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    If you implement a part, make sure it really works without any glitches.

    The only glitchy parts I can think of are landing gear, which you don't even bring up.

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    They implemented wings and obviously wanted to allow the players to build planes, but the whole thing was more of a mess without FAR and such.

    That's because the atmosphere was a placeholder, because the game was in alpha.

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    With the initial drag model they should have not implemented wings and plane stuff.

    Why are you complaining about this? Does it affect anything in the recent version?

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    Now there are wheels for a long time and recently they added more and more plane gears and different size rover wheels. That's not just a nice to have, it's a path chosen.

    I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    So wheels are there to build vehicles, but way too much stuff is missing to make vehicles complete. One could argue that 4 wheels and a base make a vehicle but thats semantics. It's like saying 2 wings and a base make a plane, whether it will be able to fly or not.

    Well, no... If your vehicle can't drive, I wouldn't call it a vehicle...

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    The rockets work quite well, the rest...

    ...also seems to work quite well, so I'm not sure what point you're making.

    3 hours ago, NikkyD said:

    A rover that flips over all the time or ice-skates on kerbin is not really useable.

    It's ice-skating because you designed or drove it poorly. That's how real rovers work. If you take a sharp turn at 20 m/s (about 40 MPH or 72 KPH) you should expect to spin out, lose control, and probably break everything.

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