LambdaCactus

It looks like the pre-order/donate button is still up? $10 is still a great price for this game! I really want to buy it but I simply refuse to deal with Paypal in any way, whether it\'s a guest account or not. Sorry, but those guys are scum. If HarvesteR or someone from the team wants to put up a mailing address, I would gladly even pay more for the hassle of dealing with a postal cheque.

Handy tips, thanks! And don\'t worry about saying 'as you can see', I didn\'t even notice you were saying it until you pointed it out. Is there a way to place N-way symmetry and then remove just one of them? Say if I needed to add 2 items on the outside, 120 degrees apart, but the third one would get in the way?

Yes, I\'ve done this successfully a number of times, looking at the map and adding throttle until the orbit apogee stretches to the Mun\'s orbit, but using the map is too easy! I\'d like to try how it\'s done using the calculator (i.e. timing the orbit and accelerating to the determined velocity) which is more like how it\'s done in the real world. (I know, calculating is so not Kerbal!) Anyway, I did find that eyeballing the map works quite well (Apollo astronauts had little more than window sights for alignment too!): 1. Press TAB to focus on Kerbin 2. Zoom to fill the screen with the globe of the planet 3. Align the view so the Mun icon sits at the bottom of the planet (behind it) Assuming you have a nice round equatorial orbit (I tried this with 100km), your craft will point to the top of the planet when it passes in front. This is conjunction. For opposition, your craft will pass behind Kerbin, and you can spot when it passes the Mun, about a quarter of the way from the bottom of the planet\'s globe. Agreed, maybe a measuring tool or something!

I\'m playing around with the awesome KSP Orbit Mechanic calculator and trying to work out how to apply it in the game. So if I want to time my orbit insertion, I need to know when the craft-Kerbin-Mun are lined up (conjunction) or when the mun is directly overhead from Kerbin orbit (opposition). Is there a trick for measuring the syzygy events (even semi-accurately), or do you just eyeball it (rule of Jeb) in the map? 8)