Geonovast

I really think the bottleneck here is that poor Atom CPU. The Atom is out there to use as little power as possible to make your Facebooking last as long as possible on a battery. @Sharpy Which distro are you using, anyway?

It's kinda nice that GoG lags behind a few days to a week with their Linux releases. I get to see all the issues before I even can try it. It might be awhile before I play 1.5 anyway. I mean, I just recently let go of 1.3.1.

I don't. I used to. While it was awesome that I essentially didn't have neighbors, I also essentially didn't have internet. The internet was so bad I would have to literally go to other people's houses to download anything more than a few MB.

Maybe I need Automated Screenshots back. I sent my Falcon for an eastward circumnavigation last night, and left it running when I went to bed. I wanted to see how far it got, if it would make it all the way around, crash, etc. No autopilot mod, just steady as she goes. (It's nuclear with electric props, so no moving CoM to worry about). Well, it didn't do either. It got a little past the next land mass (We really need continent names) and then stalled out. Well, not stalled, but... equalized? Hovered. About 4.5 km above the water. Woke up this morning and initially thought the game froze. Nope, just hovered. 4 of them just sitting, hovering, doing nothing, for I'm guessing at least 5 hours. And I Didn't.Take. A. Screenshot.

Huh. So they are. I stand corrected. Maybe in a MH update, but probably not the base game. There's likely a suggestion thread here somewhere you could add your voice to.

Making History already has that.

I didn't realize the Death Star came with a display stand.

What happens if you stick the engine and the decoupler in the same stage? I have a feeling that could be tripping it up.

Thanks for the chuckle! Glad you got it working though.

The only thing you can try is to open up your .sfs file in a text editor and change the version number on the third line from 1.5.0 to 1.4.5. Hopefully 1.5.0 didn't change anything else that 1.4.5 can't understand. You can also check and see if your save folder has a Backup folder inside it with backups that are still 1.4.5.

Simply install to a different folder, and keep both versions. Then copy your current save over to the 1.5.0 game and play it for a bit, make sure everything's fine. Since you're unmodded, it should be ok. That way, if anything goes wrong, you can just go back to 1.4.5 and finish up your current game before starting something new in 1.5.0 as you haven't actually touched your 1.4.5 install at all. The game doesn't care where it's installed. I have, like, 8 different installs right now.

I just found out that one of my childhood pets (who now lives with my Dad) is incredibly sick and likely won't make it through the night. He is a cat and is likely around 20 years old (we're not certain, found as an adult stray, like, 18? years ago?), so he had a good long life. Still He's the last one of my 4 childhood cats left.

Did you happen to install over top of an older version?

I know what it is, I just don't know where it is on Kerbin. You need to watch more STS launch videos!

Wasn't me. I have no idea where max Q is. I wouldn't mind knowing though!

Are all of your files still there? *snort* GoG finally updated with 1.5 Linux installers, so I'll have to do some side-by-side comparisons between stock 1.4.5 and stock 1.5.

Of course not. But you're not separating the game from reality. That is those people's JOBS. Do you think they'd do it without being paid? Some, maybe. Most? No. Pretty sure I'd stop going to my job if they stopped paying me, and I like my job. Do you think their job is nothing more than "Push W to go forward", "Right click on rocks to get science"? Every action that rover does will have dozens, if not hundreds of manhours behind it. They have more than their share of stuff to do. They most likely have job duties that involve something other than the rovers. The rovers weren't put on mars by some kid sitting at a computer clicking premade parts together and then just sitting and waiting for months for it to get there. Because it's their job, it's what they're supposed to be doing at the time. Lets say you send off a rocket to get to the Mun. Takes a few hours to get there. You plan on being at your computer when it gets there. But what if you're not? What if your internet or power is out? What if someone you're playing with is depending on your rocket to do its injection burn and land at the right time, and you're taking out the trash? (Insert link to youtube clip of Brandon taking out the trash in Galaxy Quest that doesn't seem to exist). Do you have backup to jump on your computer and do those things if you can't? You missing your deadline could cause someone else to waste hours, days, or even weeks. This isn't some matchmade shooter where you can just quit and start a new match when one of your teammates flakes. Please do not equate real space agency jobs with playing multiplayer in this game. This is ignoring the fact that people can be *insert not-nice word of choice here* and you could spend all that time landing and starting your base just for someone else to come along and blow it all up, steal it, kill your kerbals, etc. And if you say "Well they can't interact with my stuff", then multiplayer would seem pointless if you don't play at the same time. You'd essentially be passing a save file back and forth with someone you trust, and you can already do that. Don't get me wrong, I would love multiplayer, if they could somehow make it tolerable without turning it into a freaking war / shooter base that almost every other multiplayer game out there depends on. I already play Halo. I have just never seen an argument for multiplayer that both involves actually going to space and makes sense.

I wouldn't mind very, VERY localized multiplayer. Timewarp is out of the question, always. I believe battles and races were mentioned. I could get into that. That would be pretty nifty. Control room style multiplayer would also be neat. Especially if you launched, and had people controlling individual stages after jettisoning for recovery (Say, Falcon 9). While that would be fun, for like, 5 minutes, it would get old fast. I just don't seen enough opportunity there to justify the dev time. Ever.

As far as I'm aware, no, not really. After all, Wine Is Not an Emulator. From what I understand it's basically just a giant reference library that tricks the program into thinking it's in Windows.

I just tried 0.13.3 in WINE and it works beautifully. Doesn't even need to be installed!

It's amazing how complex and photo-shoppy basic free graphic editors are getting, yet finding one that still does simple stuff like make a circle or re-size a selection is getting harder. MSPaint is the only thing I miss about running Windows. Even the newer versions of that are getting too shiny. I would so run a VM of Windows XP just for MSPaint, since it refuses to run in WINE. Pinta has been the most friendly so far I've found. Has a bucket and a Mac version.

A little something for all the Halo fans out there. I planned on spending a few hours tonight playing Reach, but after one mission, I had to jump back on KSP and put this together. I have some refining to do, but it's flyable and landable at least. Hooking up my joystick should help with that.