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Battlesloth

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  1. Hi All, And thanks for the all the response and thanks for the Planet entry info too... However just to clarify a few thing its not that I am unable to Dock and after 3 long days I have this down pat, however I mostly play in the sandbox mode and this has limitation and no quests available but with learning it invaluable for all the training and testing you need to do. I mostly like the game play for Building Rockets Lander, Rovers etc and planetary exploration and now getting into all the MODS. I do use about 25 different ones now working fairly stable only issue is in building hanger sometimes crash when you go way to big. I do like the new mods like Kolonization Mod and the new Massive B9 Part for building which are too big to get off the ground in one piece. So with playing with some new part and looking into sending out Ships with Lander etc to all the planet take a look at the Mining Mod after the colonies established on all the worlds, however due to the new power requirements I need about 40 flights to build it all together. This is where my problem starts, 1) When I am docking I like to transfer between the two ships to aligning easier for docking procedure, however when you are about to dock the Space map makes it almost impossible to select the correct ship as you are almost met in space. A second delay and your blown up, so this is why I was looking into a Docking Mod, its not that I carnt do it its so time consuming and when I want to launch over 400 parts in total this will drive me nuts. 2) No matter how aligned you will be there no less than 20-30 min pressing H and N waiting for Lock. What the its perfectly aligned too.... 3) Also when traveling now I have my space station combined I can not tell if this will break apart as for the Docking ports appears to flex and bend in space when setting new orbits and only taking it slow. These are not the Massive Docks which appear to lock without issue so far about 4 Electric Engines now combined to drive the new 50,000 thrust wanting to see this Warp Thing and what it does really. So do the smaller Docking port fall apart ?, I am trying this Crane Mod thing but beats me how to make it work in space doesn't appear to lock to anything. I will send a docking port into Orbit later once main vessel is assembled to see if that make any difference but shouldn't as different mods. From forum i can see people talk about building in space with containers to send parts up which I have in orbit just carnt use them in space is all. Trying to stick on Struts after my space station docked to more secure so i can send it out further in space. Either way I have the docking down even massive parts with no issue just the time it takes is exhaustive and selecting between ships is annoying. I guess my first problems was due to the massive Size of the parts I was docking. I will update this post later when I test these auto Take Off Resource Drones from Davin Mod, I will use TAC to test so will need to fly out massive food water and waste and Life Support Tanks to test this may take some time as have 5 massive part in orbit awaiting docking. To summarize I MechJeb and use the "Hoffman Intercept Maneuver" when I am close I turn it of and manually drive it in with H and N keys and A,S,D,W. I am just finding it limiting in exploration and it may take a few months real life to assemble and with no save feature on mission whole thing could be waste of time. To my knowledge and searching there is nothing out there which will Auto Dock and the Auto Refuel Bot I have not yet tested but limited to refill stocks only.
  2. Hey Guys and Gals, Loving the game and have had a great time playing this can really go somewhere. 1) Building In space, Few Questions : Whilst I have many larger ship part docking power rings etc all in space in alignment and ready to build I have had no if limited success in docking. Yes I can get them aligned and in same orbit, I have even attempted to use the KAS Mod Kerbal Attachment Systems with Crane and everything which doesn't appear to assist. I was thinking possibly I would need to Dock the modules and then use Cranes maybe ?. Just wondering how other players are doing this or is this only through mods. However if anyone could assist me in finding a AUTO Docking mod this would be beyond belief and can start kolonizing far planets. I use Mechjeb etc but not great at landing I dont think it does anything but put a marker and the most useful thing the height from ground not visible especially when landing on dark side of moon.... I also can land on Mun and return to earth with some of my ships but I would still say 8 out of 10 of my attempts end in less than happy circumstances, still only able to land small crafts, Soo if anyone has great mod or way to land larger ships be great. Which would lead me to next Question.. 2) Landings As mentioned above I can do Moon landing and haven't attempted much further out as yet, so I would assume the outer body also would have atmospheres but is there anything different than land on home planet or do they all not have atmospheres ?. I have some ships on way with fuel recharger on board like propellants so never run out of fuel but takes time to orbit recharge. Hate to get this far and fail. So with the mining mods and remote drone to mine etc, I would like to effectively hit the same spot so some type of landing assistance mods would be beyond helpful. Any one know if they exist ?
  3. Hey Mate, Look I was also new to this not long ago and now really love it. So firstly I would get you to download the following two "MODS" for the game which are free and you just extract to game data folders. MECHJEB : http://www.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/220221-mechjeb So this will place you into orbit automatically in space, meet objects etc. Only drawback it only affect the current orbiting object not good for interplanetary yet. All you need to do is hit space bar and type orbit height. This will show you wants need to orbit like speed and direction etc. I don't need this now but still use full with all the other sections. (BTW to use it you need to attach the mechjeb box under "Control"Section to the actual ship "Pod" ) I also think you may have next one by sounds of it, B9 Aerospace http://www.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/223932-b9-aerospace-5-2-6 This is all the massive rocket up to 5M Dia, these can can anything into orbit. Many new toys etc Then you are up to my but now but still looking into forum before i post about building in space and landing whilst I have done it before soo hard need auto pilot.
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