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    [UNOFFICIAL/FANMADE] 0.17 Discussion thread

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    Posted · Edited by willitstimothy
    Correcting repetition.

    I'm not sure if you can in ksp, but in real life i don't think it's possible due to tides, here is an interesting post about it http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=679

    Yeah, that link doesn't actually say that:

    "Yes, in theory, moons can have moons. The region of space around a satellite there a sub-satellite can exist is called the Hill sphere. Outside the Hill sphere, a sub-satellite would be lost from its orbit about the satellite." (exerpt)

    "Yes, the Moon could have a sub-satellite. If we look at a system of the Earth, Moon, and a sub-satellite, the same idea as above applies. The Moon has its own Hill sphere with a radius of 60,000 km (1/6th of the distance between the Earth and Moon) where a sub-satellite could exist." [EDITED]

    "...tidal effects require thousands or millions or more years, depending on the system, to cause the loss of a sub-satellite."

    So in a sense you are right, however the same rules apply to any orbiting body (given enough time, Kerbin should should de-orbit). Even then, a moon orbiting a large moon within the program would not de-orbit for months or even several years of continuous running at 100000x (which I believe is rails, and hence would not de-orbit anyway).

    It seems realistic to me to allow at least large moons that are sufficiently far from their parent bodies to have their own "natural" satellites in the game.

    @Shadownailshot

    I talked about this very subject extensively back when I first got on the forums, and basically even the best ways to allow for ships to have their own SOI would not be practical, in the opinions of most people who know more than I do about these subjects with relation to the game. Even if your largest, most massive, rockets had SOI, the attractive force would be so low that a single burst of rcs from a single thruster would de-orbit any satellite of the rocket. Even a 500 meter asteroid would be extremely difficult to orbit (though not impossible).

    There was a part "gravity" plugin that was working in .14.4. I haven't tried to use it in .16 at all, but it may still work.

    Put a Face to the name

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    Posted · Edited by willitstimothy

    He's not talking about that hair!

    Edit: Or maybe he wants to look bald.

    What other hair is relevant to that picture. The only visible hair is on his head.

    Show off your awesome KSP Pictures-Presented By Venku Rocketry International

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    By the way, Minmus seems to have some libration, as Kerbin does move in the sky, albeit just a little.

    That\'s probably only because of the inclined orbit of Minmus...

    Those jagged 'orbit' rails are pretty annoying, I have some that I took pictures of that really were pretty wild looking.

    My pictures:

    iBEvP.png

    Note the line extending somewhat behind the path of the spacecraft.

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    The ground-state appears to be rising.

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    Taken with the camera below ground level (even the visible ground level).

    QBmnU.png

    Burning for a sun escape.

    0mAUu.png

    Crazy orbital lines.

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    I am definitely not waiting around that long.

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    Weird orbits seem like haze in space.

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    Other direction.

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    Having fun making this work.

    My views on language usage

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    But you are making wild leaps, that someone who can\'t speak the exactl language you know is somehow disrespecting your country and you personally. YOu assume that immigrants are driving up the debt, when many many many of them contribute vast quantities of manual labor for terrible pay.

    Worse, you carried that poor attitude over into your interactions with people who are actually from other nation and were highly insulting to them. They aren\'t insulting America by posting in another language, and you were out of line.

    I\'ll say it again, you need to educate yourself about a lot of things. When you go off on half-cocked rants about America and disrespect and immigrants, you make all of us Americans who are perfectly reasonable people look bad. As a fellow American, I IMPLORE you to think before you speak.

    As for 'respect' and the degradation of our society; How about the slothful youth of this generation who have everything handed to them and barely know english themselves; not because they\'re form another country but because they can\'t be bothered to properly apply themselves at school.

    No, the degradation of the American culture falls squarely on our own shoulders. We can\'t push that off on someone else.

    I assume. I assume! I assume? Who pays for their anchor babies to go to public school? Who pays the emergency room bills for those who cannot get, either because of ineligibility or because of a lack of legal citizenship, insurance? Who pays for them to be in our prisons when they commit crimes?

    LA county alone spends as much as 4.4 billion dollars on just education for children of illegals who do not pay taxes (http://www.the1789project.com/2011/02/illegal-imigrations-cost-education-of-anchor-babies/).

    More than 100 billion dollars are spent annually in the US to support illegal, improperly taxed, illegal immigrants.

    I have paid attention to this kind of stuff since I was seven years old, over 13 years ago.

    I don\'t expect other Americans or people who post on an English forum to speak English nearly as well as myself, but I do expect them to try to speak and utilize English predominantly in their lives, or in this forum to just attempt to use it by way of broken self constructed grammar or google translate, and teach their children to use and speak it.

    Those kinds of jobs are what they do because those are the kinds of jobs that those lazy apathetic hand-fed kids were meant to do and do not (I am not saying anything negative about the people who do these jobs, what I mean is is that those kids are slothful and useless because they don\'t do the jobs they should be doing). When my father was a young boy (a minor and a teenager) he worked in the fields picking and boxing fruit, he worked in canneries, he worked at gas stations pumping gas and washing windshields, and he did jobs which today are rarely ever done by young Americans anymore. I have done some of these jobs myself. You are very right about that one thing, yes this degradation of our society is our fault. We have taught our children, both through law and example, that they don\'t need to work or do anything. However this is not purely our fault, for some of the blame also falls upon those who flood those entry level job markets, making it next to impossible for significant numbers of young Americans to enter into those jobs. Minimum wages have also shot us in the foot, those jobs should be met by young people who are not fully responsible for their own support, but they aren\'t being filled by these young people and are being filled by those who do have to support themselves, thus wages 'have' to go higher, thereby increasing costs for consumers and decreasing available jobs as companies trim off positions to save money.

    Language is the most important part of any culture, without it one cannot ever really come to appreciate its facets fully. Thus when someone does not speak English in America, they don\'t really learn American culture either, nor do they interact with Americans particularly much. In many cases they simply gravitate to 'international' communities within America where everyone speaks their language and is party to their customs, and thus isolating themselves from the country they are in. America was not meant to be that at all, thus it is disrespectful to the founders of America, my ancestors, for them to be doing that.

    It is a lot like a person going to a school, who was also accepted into the school with the help of one of its professors, with a free ride for which the rules are that they will attend all classes, earn a 3.0 or higher, and that they will be socially active, who then proceeds to miss most classes, fail on a regular basis, and live in their dorm away from all social interaction. Such actions are obviously disrespectful (right?) to the professor who helped them get there, to the institution that gave them a free ride, and to the rules that were laid down for them to follow.

    It is true that I do have a tendency to say things that can be hurtful (you aren\'t the first person by any means to say that), and this is a problem that I have that is inexcusable and is also one of the main reasons I end up having to live my life away from most people (like that\'s obvious here). It is actually part of who I am, I won\'t explain that but it is true. In my defense, though, I must say that the policy or rule or whatever you want to call it (the first page of the forum seems to pretty clear concerning the nature of postings of non-English content in the description of the International forum) that we use English on the forums is the reason that I am even talking about any of this at all. My comments had nothing to do with where they were from (they did not mean to anyway).

    Please take what I say with an un-healthfully large helping of sugar, it\'s meant to sound far sweeter than it apparently does when you read it.

    I have read and re-read all of the things I\'ve written, and with a few exceptions, I\'ve never really found what people find so upsetting in my writing. Sometimes people complain about my writing being too 'snooty' or proud, or whatever negative adjective that is most common today, because of my use of long and complicated words, phrases, and sentences. Personally, though, I believe that clarity is best served by the utilization of many words and phrases that are craftily arranged to paint the picture of one\'s thoughts. I also tend to write like this more when I am tired (I often wonder why I make my life harder when I am tired)... In any case, I apologize for my offenses, and as a Christian I hope you will be able to forgive me.

    My views on language usage

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    To be very very clear: I don\'t hate immigrants or even illegal immigrants at all. That which I do not like ('hate' is misunderstood by too many people) is when those people who come here legally or otherwise refuse to assimilate and instead create zones of America that become exactly, or remotely, like the countries they left, and I especially don\'t like this when it causes them to become a financial burden upon the rest of our populace, thereby dragging our country even further into debt and necessitating higher taxes to be paid by those who are not responsible for the increase in cost. I don\'t hate them, but it does seem to me that, out of respect, anyone who comes here should assimilate or go back to where they are comfortable.

    If you like America, I celebrate you, and I am honored that you want to live here. I, my forefathers, who are both recent and distant immigrants, and all true Americans are dishonored, though, when you come here and take the freedoms we give you but refuse to become part of our culture.

    The worst is slowly showing its face in America today because the culture of America, in the eyes of the majority of the nation\'s populace, is coming to be known as a lack of identity, unity, or respect.

    I used to be a Hispanophobe like you, but then I took a Spanish class to the mind. As long as there is dual translation, I don\'t mind, but I do know what upsets you. It\'s not really that it\'s Spanish, it\'s that you don\'t understand it and thus fear/dislike it. Simple psychology tells me that much, and explains why education is a good thing.

    Languages are cool...

    Man, I do know some Spanish, I took two years of it in high school and now I know enough to be able to read things that are in Spanish (somewhat) and communicate on a basic level, but it isn\'t the 'fear of the language' that I am turned off by. It is the lack of respect for my country, on the part of those residents that necessitate the use of multiple languages within it, that bugs me.

    Yes! Other languages are cool, but that does not mean that it is cool to be disrespectful to someone else\'s country, ancestors, culture, or rules (in the case of this forum).

    My views on language usage

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    California was the territory of Spain, and then Mexico, for well over a third of its existence. By your own argument, the very fact that you know English is \'disrespectful\'.

    California is part of America today, not Mexico. If it was part of Mexico then you would be right. Additionally though, while Spain claimed California for a long time, it and its residents were not directly controlled by Spain (the native residents did not speak Spanish) until the time of the missions (beginning in 1769 at San Diego (where I currently 'live')). California\'s residents rebelled 79 years later in 1848 and became the short lived California Republic, which within a couple of months became a territory of the United States.

    Are you saying then that I should delete this off topic post?

    My views on language usage

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    I\'ve put this here in off topic to explain to those who may have seen previous posts by my person, and who wish to understand better my own position so that they can then better understand what I say.

    I was born and raised in southern California, and I was educated in a very sheltered manner (home-schooled). I am very conservative and very passionate about many topics. Additionally I am very interested in politics, and am willing to take (and I do take) very politically 'incorrect' stances on many issues.

    I grew up in a region of the US where the supposed majority is actually the minority, and is stigmatized, as if they were the majority, by everyone else, where the language and customs of America are often abused or forgotten, and where people like me are very very rare. The friends I had while growing up were apathetic and liberal, but I was never either.

    Thus, it bugs me (and mildly angers me) when I am driving around in SoCal and I see a billboard or a street sign that is written in Spanish, when I see ballots written in Spanish, or when I ask an employee at a major store a question and they cannot answer me in English. I live in the United States, not Spain, not Ecuador, not Mexico - the United States. By default, the language of America is English, nothing else (America was the territory of Great Britain for over a third of it\'s existence (currently)), and to me it does not seem unreasonable to expect English to be spoken in America.

    Now I am not unreasonable, I recognize that other nations and cultures have their own languages as well. Russia speaks Russian, Ukraine speaks Ukrainian, Mexicans speak Spanish, and Brazilians speak Portuguese, and I would not expect to see anything normally being written in English in those nations, and I would not expect the residents to speak English either. It simply isn\'t their language. It is discourteous to them to expect them to cater to the linguistic needs of someone who did not bother to learn their language, unless of course it is their job or profession to do so.

    Hence:

    I tend to be a Nationalist of sorts, though not in the sense that I think that my country (by merit of race) is greater than any other. Simply I see America as being America and not Russia. America\'s language is its own, and its original citizens should not have to learn any other language to to survive, socially and physically, within it. America\'s customs are its own, and it is disrespectful for anyone within America to ignore those customs and instead practice the rites of another culture.

    I am a conservative.

    I am not of the 'there is no absolute truth' crowd, or the 'everything you say doesn\'t really matter because its just your opinion' crowd.

    I am by choice politically 'incorrect' quite often.

    These things are some of the reasons why I enjoy going to school in eastern Washington state.

    I am in NO way a racist.

    So what does this have to do with this forum and what I say here? After all, Squad is a Mexican company, and thus by all rights this forum should be primarily in Spanish, with English being stuck in a corner of the forum, right?

    The game is made in English, which I suspect is probably because whoever studied this project proposal decided that the game would probably do better, sales-wise, if it catered to English speaking customers, and furthermore the forums rules specify that posts and comments everywhere on the forum must be in English, except in the non-English section which is dedicated to the rest of the languages on earth.

    I appreciate this highly because first of all I recognize that Squad doesn\'t really have an obligation, based on where it is from, to write anything in English (I do actually know enough Spanish to where I can understand, somewhat, things written in Spanish though). Also, most forums that I have been on do not have such rules, and it is annoying to see a bunch of posts being written in another language, which to me is simply blah blah and more blah, especially when those people use bad grammar and spelling to the degree that google translate can\'t translate what they are saying. I try my best to write what I say with proper spelling and grammar for partially this very reason (so that it can be translated properly for those who do not understand English).

    I am not intolerant, per se, of anyone, or their character, culture, and language, and as a member of American society, being both descended from recently (about 100 years ago) immigrated and hated (for being immigrants, Romanians, and originally non-English speakers) Americans and from Americans who who lived and died while being British citizens on this continent, I feel that it is not intolerant for me to expect people here in my country to speak my country\'s language. Likewise I don\'t believe that it is intolerant for me to feel that it is rude for members of a forum, wherein it is specified that posts contained therein must be written in English, to use another language.

    Please recognize that that which I am saying here is meant to be an explanation, not an insult. If it is considered a strike against me, please recognize at least that much.

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    Right, but the sun also isn\'t casting a corona. If I had taken it a couple seconds earlier when it looked 'right' it would have just have been a picture at night =P

    It didn\'t look right before, or ever (except for when the sun was blocked by the Mun, and even then there was too much light), because the game does not model the lighting and shadows so that they take into account distant objects that are blocking the light\'s path. I\'ve done this before and I\'ve talked to some of the team members concerning this very issue. The lighting, along with the sun object, needs to be fixed before this will really become proper.

    Pre-Munar Landing Anonymous - A support group

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    Posted · Edited by willitstimothy

    I just bought the full game yesterday and was able to complete a mun mission after reading all the helpful tips in this thread/watching a tutorial vid. Thanks y'all! This game is a blast.

    I did it the first day...with no help at all.

    I guess I should be able to though, given that I am a pilot, a college sophomore, and a student of engineering.

    Hello there / first orbit achieved!

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    Posted

    I know how to change the axis of an orbit, and how to make it circular / more elliptical, but how does one change the angle of the location of the apogee relative to Kerbin?

    Do you mean that you are wondering how to change orbital planes, or that you are wondering how to rotate the Apoapsis/Periapsis about Kerbin? If all you want to do is rotate the apsis then that can be accomplished by simply doing burns in the +/- direction of motion, this will raise/lower your apsis as well though. You can compensate for that though by doing burns that compensate upwards or downwards, depending on whether you are decreasing or increasing your velocity (respectively). Vertical (+/-) can also be used, but this tends to 'rotate' your orbit about your present position, and can quickly drive your apoapsis into a Kerbin escape trajectory and drive your periapsis into the surface. Orbital planes are way easier though.

    Flight-simulator Discussion and Comparison thread

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    Posted

    The Maule, the Cub, and the F18 were always my favorites.

    I enjoy low and slow, and super fast. The mediocre stuff bores me to death.

    Before FS-X and FS-9, as far as the cub is concerned, I prefered the Lear 45/35 and the Cessna 172 (I flew mod aircraft in all of them, but I found those to be distasteful in the long-run, unless they were realistic low and slow planes or realistic jets).

    Pre-Munar Landing Anonymous - A support group

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    Posted · Edited by willitstimothy

    ...several Munar modules running out of fuel whilst still a thousand feet off the surface, requiring an abort; and at least eight command pods left in various locations on the Munar surface when their spacecraft toppled over.

    You should (If you are not already), start your approaches at around 20k (It doesn't really matter, just so long as you have enough landing fuel to make all the needed burns) or so, if you are having trouble with them, carrying out a burn retrograde to your motion until your vertical component of velocity is cut to ~=zero and your horizontal velocity is in the vicinity of 100 m/s or so, you can then adjust your final landing spot by using vertical burns to slow your descent, and thereby sending your landing spot further down range, or you can do burns that are normal to your heading to move your landing spot left or right (Northerly or Southerly). When you've gotten your landing spot lined up, and you are roughly over the top of it (within a couple km), you should do another retrograde burn to bring your horizontal velocity nearly to zero, or at least low enough to where you will no be moving primarily downward. You should then switch to a vertical attitude and descend without power until you reach 5000 meters above the surface. At this point you should do another burn to bring your vertical velocity down to 30 m/s or so. Descend at this rate, using short periodic burns to keep your velocity down, also using RCS (you should bring plenty) to make final adjustments on your landing spot and to bring your horizontal velocity to zero (move the the retrograde bug to center on the 90 degree dot). At around 500-1000 m AGL, you should slow your descent to around 15 m/s, slowing continuously until you are within a few meters of the surface and moving at no more than about 3 m/s or so. You should be just fine. I've successfully landed 50 m rockets (whole) on the Mun, as well as a large Mun 'station.'

    Flight-simulator Discussion and Comparison thread

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    Posted · Edited by willitstimothy

    Have any of you guys been accepted to the World of Warplanes alpha?

    It's about as much of a simulator as World of Tanks is, (some realism, but that's not its goal) but extremely fun to play. Most of the flying mechanics are pretty good, except doing a barrel roll (not an aileron roll) is somewhat impossible with current controls/mechanics.

    No, and I probably won't. I am a busy student (supposedly), and all I have time for is KSP.

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