[What's With The Hate?]

They called it feature complete BEFORE ADDING RE-ENTRY HEAT...

And mining. And heat management. And an atmospheric model that wasn't a placeholder.

[What's With The Hate?]

Lower your expectations, sir. The game WAS finished... it contained all they wanted it to contain, which was part of the goals included when the they started this project, and it was added to over time with the help of the community. For that reason, once all the goals had been met, the game was released. It still contains bugs, but what doesn't? And now, there is more goals to add to the game, and THAT is the on going side of things, had goals been added constantly, the game would NEVER have been released, btu the thing is, even with the new goals, the game is there, it functions. It plays as expected and is fit for purpose. If anyone finds a bug, it is reported here and till the next patch is released, people find work arounds and accept that the bug was no ones fault except maybe of the Gods....

...so shouting about it isn't helping anyone.

As for version .90 straight to 1.0.0 ...

People, really? Is there some .... written law or something that says you do this, that and the other then release it as .90.... then a bit more and 0.9.1 ????

The fact is, the guesstimate these versions, the fact is, between .9 and 1.0 .... they moved heaven and Kerbal, hauled ass, survived on coffee and no sleep.... and achieved all the goals they had.

The rockets point UP.... the engines work.... there is gravity... atmosphere where it needs to be.... and the Kerbals look cuter.....

Of course it was time to release 1.0 ... they work to their agenda... NO ONE ELSES!

Just as the Microsoft team had released win 3.31 ... win95... ME.... XP and all the others WHEN THEY SAID IT WAS TIME..... and as well all should know, there isn't a version of windows out there that doesn't suffer from bugs and security issues and ... release patches even now for those windows they still support.

So, my advice to you is not to cry too much, you're fighting a losing battle.

JUST as I have decided I am fighting a losing battle over my locked threads... etc etc...

Well the idea about a software development cycle is that the Alpha phase is for testing ideas and features, the Beta phase is then for a "feature complete" game, which needs bugs shaking out, and release is when the game is both feature complete, and bugs have (largely) been removed.

KSP was not "feature complete" when 0.90 was released, and only really became "feature complete" with 1.0.2 or 1.0.3. In reality these should have been the last alpha updates/ first beta updates, not release updates. There could have then been a period spent solely to crushing bugs, without the added distraction of trying to add new features/port to U5, and then a release version would be ready. There is a reason that a significant proportion of people still think it should better be referred to as 0.28 rather than 1.0.4.

Thats not to say it isn't a great game, and that squad hasn't done something truly unique, but a lot of the anger is justified.

[[1.12.x] Heat Control - More radiators! (August 22, 2021)]

It could be possible to bring the heat insulators and exchangers over to a stock-like system, by allowing the heat exchangers to remove heat globally (as the stock radiators do) and then heat up to a high temperature according to the heat flux being removed from other parts. Radiators (behaving like stock radiators) could then be attached to the exchangers, equilibrate with the exchanger temperature and radiate at that temperature.

In this was the exchangers operate as "refrigeration and heat rejection" units.

The insulators can be used to prevent the exchangers conducting heat to parts that need to remain cool.