mrklaw

Nice. Have to experiment with that. Does the decoupler not knock things over with the ejection force?

Pics? I'm often curious how to get a nice wide base for my landing legs (your original pic using radial tanks+engines is my usual approach) but then have a service bay low down. Service bays should have sliding doors.. also I never thought you could squeeze a rover into a 2.5m service bay. Got pics of that?

Games like little big planet and minecraft show that you can do complex games on a controller. And arguably KSP VAB/SPH would be easier than LBP for many builds, as everything attaches to a common node. It would no doubt be less straightforward than a mouse, but doable. and flying ships should be fine on a controller. Hopefully that will also feed back into the PC version giving us better default controller support - there are times when I'd like to play KSP via steam home streaming on the TV in the living room, but can't because controller support isn't comprehensive. my biggest concern is the physics and mods. The PS4 has a relatively weak CPU so would that mean restrictive part count limits or bad performance? And I don't olay with lots of mods, but at least some are important and I assume they won't be supported on console. Overall I think it is a good thing to bring KSP to a wider audience. - - - Updated - - - Not an official app, but there is a mod that lets you display a map and other data on a web page - I use that on an iPad quite a lot. - - - Updated - - - Minecraft ft on console is like that - no mod support, no support for servers (only basic multiplayer) but it is massive on console. Maybe some of those people come to the PC version eventually, maybe they don't. But it increases awareness of the product, and brings more money in so the developer can continue to develop the game. If you play on a different platform and the developer delivers on their promise that it will be not be affected by this version, then it should only impact you in a positive way.

I'd appreciate an update too. I was all happy with performance until I built my first space station. 370 parts and approaching it gets quite laggy. Still playable but not great. Turned AA off, dropped shadows and lights down to 4 and it is better again, but doesn't look nearly as nice. Would give good to have info on which items have the most imoact on performance, maybe with some benchmarks.

Everyone keeps saying how the ejection angle is the most important (phase less so because you're doing it by date if you use the online tools). But does stock KSP have any way to show you what angle you're setting a node at? Can you approximate by rotating the camera in map view so the orbit line is vertical and then eyeball it? Although if the angle really needs to be in single or even fractions of a degree that would be almost impossible.

I have quite a few of these, and thought it'd be interesting to hear others. I just sent a small mun lander up to dock with my mun station in orbit. I got in a nice rendezvous orbit before realising I was going in the wrong direction. doh. So I did a quickload (rather than a revert, not sure why), which took me back ages, to the middle of the previous rescue mission which I then had to do again. Doh 2. Determined to get it right this time, I launched again, got the correct orbital direction and rendezvoused. Brought it in to about 40m, switched over to RCS and prepared for docking. Selected my docking jnr port and did 'control from here', then looked over the target station to pick somewhere to dock...at which point I realised I only had standard sized docking ports on there. Damn. I've been using standard sizes because the game said you can't transfer crew through a junior. But then watched a Scott Manley video where he did - so I was trying it out and it bit me on the backside. Third time lucky I hope. So lets hear your less auspicious moments

I just watched the recent Scott Manley beginners episodes where he is docking in kerbin orbit for a contract. He put a junior docking adapter on, and I was chuckling to myself because then his crew would be stuck in the lander. 'why did he do that?' I thought to myself. Well he did that, it turns out, because you can transfer crew just fine through the teeny tiny junior docking port. The one that has a description in game of 'its usable for transferring resources, but not crew'. The main reason I've been building unnecessarily large landers because you can't really put the normal docking adapter on the small mk1 pods or lander cans. So what other examples are there where the game says one thing, but does another?

what point in your kerbin orbit do you burn prograde though? Some one of you are talking about matching inclination mid-way to minmus to save dv. But how do you know you're on an intercept with minmus in the first place? The map won't show an intercept if your inclination isn't already correct. Do you just know based on experience?

Get into LKO then target minmus and adjust inclination at the AN/DN points. then I zoom the map out, turning the camera so minmus is at around 4 o'clock (with kerbin at the centre) then I put a manouevre node at the bottom of the kerbin orbit and drag prograde to overlap with minmus orbit. I overlap it so the AP is a short distance outside of minmus orbit. If at doesn't give me a minmus encounter and periapsis, I'll drag the node circle a little in each direction to see if that helps (adjusting the amount of prograde so that the orbit always crosses minmus orbit)

As far as I know, that setup was only for glide testing, and possibly transportation between sites - never a powered launch

don't you hate it when you have low torque and it takes ages to stop on your target marker on the navball. Or when the autopilot overshoots the mark massively because it is stupid. Makes you feel like this >< Which is a coincidence, because if you press ><, it'll pop into warp for a split second, which will remove the momentum from your spinning. So spin full speed towards your target marker, tap >< and you'll stop without overshooting

I've had the opposite situation. I landed on a terrier engine (it didn't detach properly when I decoupled it), and it registered my landing for the contract. But when I took off to try and return home, the game kept reporting me as landed.

Oops. Ignore.

Sorry, my question was maybe worded badly. By 'raising periapsis' I meant relative to the equatorial plane.,mint raising it as in making it further out from the planet. My fault for using the wrong term. I.e. If you're leaving minmus while its orbit is above kerbin's, then your apoapsis will likely also be above kerbin's orbit, and your periapsis will be below kerbin's orbit. that was the situation I was talking about with my confusion. I didn't think you could bring your periapsis point above the plane of kerbin's orbit by burning at an apoapsis which is also above kerbin's orbit. Laie's post got what I meant and although I have no idea how to do the things suggested, I get the concept.

I'm confused - how can you adjust inclination at apoapsis if your position is above/below the kerbin Equatorial orbit? Surely you have to be at the AN/DN to do it? Also so what direction would you burn at apoapsis to raise periapsis? Burning normal/anti-normal would keep periapsis where it is and raise the AN/DN wouldn't it?