m_sporkboy

I wish screenshots and quicksaves were numbered 0001, 0002,.... So they sorted reasonably in alphabetical lists. Also, use the next higher numbered screenshot rather than the first available, so they stay numbered in chronological order even if you delete some. Yymmdd-number would be ok too, I guess

Anyone else found their boulder? What class was it in the tracking station?

I think KSP really, really needs googly eyes. Surface-attached, stick-anywhere, googly eyes. In target mode, they should (try to) look towards the target. In SAS, they should point at the selected heading (prograde, whatever). Otherwise, they should randomly float about. This game is unplayable without googly eyes.

I never played the demo, but if I was going to select parts for it that a newbie should be able to get to the mun, I'd include a small crew pod, parachute, the longest 1m tank, terrier engine, rockomax decoupler, medium rockomax tank (size down from orange), and the skipper. Maybe a set of fins. Plus the medium landing legs. I'd also modify the crew pod to have a huge electric charge capacity.

They don't work with any of the engines at that tier. Or the tier after. You need to wait for the spark, which is in the 90 science tier. Or use the Thud radial engine, which is extremely overpowered for a small lander. The terrier is a perfectly good early-career landing engine, except there isn't a set of landing legs that will work with it until much later.

Early career you're running into parts count doing that.

The game could use a set of non-retractable landing legs that can reach past a Terrier engine, for use in early-career. Basically every career I start I'm landing on the engine bell for my first few missions, which is stupid. Alternately, make the lightest legs about 30% longer, so they'll reach, and move them a tier earlier in the tech tree.

Without trying it, I'd say it's about the same; for sure if you aerobrake at Duna. But if you want a full mission plan with landing and everything, it doesn't take too much ship: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/126536-sporkboys-guide-to-going-to-duna-without-docking/

If your ship can land on mun, it can orbit duna.

I find a 20km periapsis will capture you with an orbit less than 400km apoapsis. A second pass through the atmo will put you on the ground. My duna guide (in the tutorials section) does this.

Nothing I would expect to affect planet meshes. KSP: 1.0.5 (Win32) - Unity: 4.6.4f1 - OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601) 64bit AutoAsparagus - 1.1 Chatterer - 0.9.7.86 Contract Configurator - 1.9.1 Contract Pack: Anomaly Surveyor - 1.4.2 Kerbal Attachment System - 0.5.5 Kerbal Engineer Redux - 1.0.18 HyperEdit - 1.4.1 Kerbal Inventory System - 1.2.3 KSP-AVC Plugin - 1.1.5 Docking Port Alignment Indicator - 6.2 RCS Build Aid - 0.7.6 Trajectories - 1.4.3 Kerbal Alarm Clock - 3.5 Waypoint Manager - 2.4.4 Also, the northern Mun monolith wasn't visible, but maybe it was just too dark

Two things - in 1.0.5, high texture detail, the flying monolith wasn't flying, and the buried one wasn't buried. Also, is there any way to force all the unfinished contracts to become available in the admin building at once (and not expire)? Or one at a time? I guess a third thing is that I love this mod and thanks for making it!

I've got a half-planned story in my head that has Val fuming to herself about Jebediah F'ing Kerman and that ridiculous grin he's always got and so of course that means she's got to grin like an idiot too and how they make her keep her hair up in that bun that is always clipping through her helmet and ...

When the navball is in "surface" mode, make the altimeter at the top of the screen show terrain altitude rather than sea level altitude. Alternately, add a toggle button to pick which one you want to show. I think there's a mod that does something like this, and I always use the KER readout anyway, but it seems much more noob-friendly to have this behavior in stock.

What I would really like to see is if you build something for a contract, it should flip to an "owned" state where you can't control it until you get another contract. Then put a filter icon in the tracking station to hide other-owned objects, and maybe color their orbit differently. Maybe contract completion could change the name of the thing, too.

Sporkboy's guide to going to Duna (without docking) This is a beginner-friendly guide to a first landing and return from Duna. It doesn't require any docking, since that's a sticking point for a lot of people. Written for 1.0.5. As prerequisites, you'll need to be able to orbit and land on Mun comfortably. Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/3tvogb/sporkboys_guide_to_going_to_duna_without_docking/

I made this one a few days ago. [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/3tvogb/sporkboys_guide_to_going_to_duna_without_docking/[/url] if the link doesnt work, go to msporkboy.imgur.com and find the right album.

Sporkboy's guide to mun landers How to build landers that are easy to land without falling over. Reddit discussion

I've got what I think is the same problem, but I'm not sure. I managed to fix it by using hyperedit. I decoupled the ports, and ended up with two ships (I can switch between them), but they won't separate under thrust. Anyway, my fix was to launch hyperedit's orbit editor in complex mode, add a digit to the periapsis (multiplying by ten), activate the orbit change, then remove the zero and activate it again. This left me decoupled and a few meters away from the original ship. Making small orbit changes instead of big changes (probably has to do with staying within the physics bubble) caused the ship to get torn apart by the kraken. So maybe try that before hacking your save file, if you are nervous.