RocketryClub

First post but I've been lurking the forums, learning a ton, and loving KSP since 1.0.4 (yeah, I know I was late to the party, but fashionably, because I think these releases have been feature-rich and largely stable). Having read through this thread, I should think the state of KSP is dire, but my experience has been entirely to the contrary. I can think of many other full scale titles by big name developers that were buggier for me and received far less developer support. I have much respect for Squad, their ambitious game, and an overall quality project. I have clean installs of 1.0.4, 1.0.5 and 1.1.2. The only mod I use is KER and before installing, I double check with a search that it's suitable for the corresponding KSP build. I did drop save games from 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 into 1.1.2 and that largely worked except a couple details listed below. I run the game on an msi ge62 laptop in w10 with a recent mobile i7 and a gtx970m. I can't help but wonder if the major issues people are having are related to buggy patched and modded installs or insufficient hardware. My laptop doesn't hold a candle to high end desktops, but it is performance-oriented and I wonder if folks installing the game on older hardware may be getting different results. I host a rocketry club at a local school and 1.1.2 was rock solid yesterday during a series of demostrations I did on a school classroom projector. We went back and forth from the VAB to launchpad maybe a dozen times tweaking a rocket and then launching to view the results of our design changes. It ran buttery smooth. No issues at all during the club demonstration and KER did its job on top of 1.1.2. I also took off and landed a plane on the new wheels and visited some of my space stations in orbit, undocked and docked some parts, as well as deployed and stowed the landing legs on some crafts, some of which even had some clipped parts. I did a quick trip, complete with landing on the mun, and the legs worked fine there as well. I did notice a vibrating part on a space station, which may be the phantom forces, but it was slight and not "game-breaking," and in one of my 1.0.5 crafts, I noticed that some struts that may have been clipping when constructed were no longer attached and had to be replaced. Nothing is perfect but the game in general and this update exceed my expectations. Thanks Squad, and thanks to all of you on the forum that taught me how to play! I am passing along as much knowledge as I can to the club, and hopefully squad will sell a few additional copies of the game to my members.