SpaceEnthusiast

Hey guys, I've been wanting to increase the difficulty of Kerbal Space Program and I've decided to make everything a tad more realistic. I've been looking around the forums for the past week trying to figure something out. I want to change the Kerbal system to the Solar System for which I'm obviously going to use this mod. But I don't want to have to build enormous rockets to just get to orbit. I'm wondering if any of you guys can recommend which mods to use to rebalance the engines. I don't want to use Realism Overhaul since it's not out for 1.2 yet, and I don't want to downscale the Solar system to stock-size unless there's no other way. I'm using RealPlume and Realfuel. Are there other mods out there that can help me rebalance/replace the stock parts so that I can play with the real solar system on its real scale?

I have RP-0 installed, with RO and RSS. I'm not getting the ability to alter the size of my parachutes (I have RealChutes installed obviously). Does everyone have this, or am I all alone?

Had the same question. The following works:

I'm getting a lot of wobbling when the physics is first applied on the launch pad, is there a mod that stops this? I need my rockets flying straight up. For now.

@NathanKell I just want to thank you for making this game and the most awesome mods for it. After making the actual game, Squad's best decision, undoubtedly, was to hire you.

I have no idea how it works, but it does. You have my sincerest gratitude, good sir. I like my things to be neat. Edit: do you happen to have a similar trick for the RO parts?

No you have to install manually for now. But I assume that CKAN will have the mod in the near future.

I have RO and RP-0 installed but the "part not supported by RO or RP-0" is driving me crazy. What do I delete to get rid of it?

Any guides on how to build proper airplanes? I just suck at those. I know the basics, but I'd like to know more. Much more.

Alright I'm going to wait for some more balancing then. Thanks very much for taking the time to answer, guys!

But it doesn't make science abundant/easy to obtain? I want to have to work for it.

What do you guys think about DMagicOrbitalScience? Does it make science gathering too easy?

Whatever works I always delete the city light, personally I don't think they look so good. I also increased the height of the clouds, other than that, works perfectly. http://imgur.com/0MkT93q This is what it looks like (all highest res packs).

You could install SVE, just change the names from the Kerbin/Mun/Duna folders to Earth/Moon/Mars and go into the clouds file and do the same here. You should be able to get your planets looking beautiful, even without RVE. I did this and I'm very happy with the result.

Do you have RP-0 installed? I've always found it weird that the natural progression of the game makes it easier to put a man on the moon than to send an unmanned probe.