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  1. Bej Kerman
    They could be potentially disruptive on really short and stubby planes, but other than that, they look very nice. This thread is old? Ah, oops...
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    The thread is talking about a hypothetical construction time aspect. The current KSP1 Kerbal Construction Time mod does have a ship inventory system. I've got a small fleet of SSTOs, mostly ready to go, with each having different specializations. I've also got a stock of recovered boosters ready to slap on new 2nd stages to. I've also got a bunch of cars for my hype-train inspired space train, with a locomotive and a few tankers docked in orbit, an uncrewed locomotive en route to a rendezvous, a science lab/caboose section and lander waiting for a reconditioned launch pad, a probe car, an ISRU unit, and a RCS tank / heat shield being fabricated. Without the timers, that would be pretty helpful. But I want to fly my ships, not wait for my ship to finish building despite having already watched myself build it in the editor. KSP1 may be a bad management game, but the devs themselves said on the game's Steam store page that career mode was intended to be a management game mode: "Kerbal Space Program features three gameplay modes. In Science Mode, perform space experiments to unlock new technology and advance the knowledge of Kerbalkind. In Career Mode, oversee every aspect of the space program, including construction, strategy, funding, upgrades, and more. In Sandbox, you are free to build any spacecraft you can think of, with all parts and technology in the game." Regardless, there aren't any timers dictating how long it takes to set a strategy in motion or how long it takes to hire a kerbonaut.
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    What a rather pointless array of fuels that could just be one simple early game fuel. Unlikely. I think they will have more diverse fuel types, but they are focusing on future tech and (*vomits*) magic tech like the PSM/purple space magic engine. I doubt we'll see a large expansion of chemical rocket fuel types. My guess is that they call it methalox, and move on from chemical into the higher Isp engines. They're not "magic". Metallic hydrogen rockets aren't "magic" unless you just have a major phobia of the future.
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    Not Kerbal Space Transportation System, that's already confirmed.
  5. Bej Kerman
    Don't give them ideas!
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    I used autostruts in one game for a period of time, and had horrible problems with space stations going kraken, especially when releasing large orbital-built ships. I strongly suggest anyone who builds big to stay away from autostruts and stick with KJR. Try using grandparent instead of heaviest part. Grandparent leads to much less wobbly links. I'd strongly suggest anyone just make sure to use autostruts instead of mods to keep craft shareable between stock installs.
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    And the magnetometer that weighs half a ton instead of 50 kilos isn't a mistake either (it's confirmed by the devs). You underestimate Squad when it comes to mistakes. The flags are essentially some pieces of paint that you add to the craft. You think it should have an aero model? I disagree. And even if it is the intended behavior, the amount of lift should be negligible or at least a lot smaller than it is right now. It dazzles me that Squad hasn't replaced their team with modders yet.
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    I don't mind using some mods, but I definitely mind using that one. My game suffers from pixel lights enough as it is, I will not add something that relies on additional projections and draw calls to work. And on top of that, am I wrong to assume that I can use some newly added feature of the game and expect it to work without any problems straight from the box? I think I should at least have that right as a paying customer. If not, then we have a problem. It can't have been a mistake to give the decals an aero model.
  9. Bej Kerman
    There is a lot more to making a change like this than just going into GIMP and downscaling the textures. There would be a significant amount of QA involved to ensure that the downscaled textures don't cause any visual issues, in many different circumstances. This isn't a game you are making a quick change for your friend; this game goes out to >2 million players, each of whom runs a different computer, different OS, different memory, different graphics cards, etc. And if they don't do that QA and something is off, even for a small percentage, then everyone starts jumping on them saying "why couldn't you test it better?" It's just not worth it from a business point of view, and the impact to the game is so miniscule that it's not worth even looking at it Yeah, leave it to Squad to make seemingly small mistakes that pile on and can't be fixed because it takes too long to even just look at a chair alone. I think I'll just stop updating KSP 1 because it kills my PC, none if its performance issues will be fixed and mods will break. Cya when KSP 2 comes out with competent devs that get stuff right first time.
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    The effort it would take to fix the 2k textures doesn't justify the amount of time, you are talking about an artist for a period of time to redo each texture, at least 1 qa person to go over, etc. Is it perfect? No, and it will never be perfect. Is it good enough ? Absolutely I never said redo the entire texture. Is it hard to go into GIMP and downscale the textures?
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    No, those are still blurry lines.
  12. Bej Kerman
    Draw the line between conventional and unconventional. There's no such thing as a "conventional rocket". Case in point:
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    They are old parts, they were replaced but kept in secret to make sure saves don't have things go wrong.
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    Good news. Thank you Well that aged well... Just a request for mod adoption.
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    But you have yet to say why other than "performance improvements" despite the fact that there is no major concerns regarding performance that these texture changes would fix. The loading times and RAM usage within the stock game itself, when running at least the minimum requirements, is perfectly acceptable. Or do you disagree on that? Perfectly Acceptable? I give up, you're just going to keep arguing that 2k textures aren't a sign of something being wrong.
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    Once again, I am not. I am not sure how many times I can tell you that. What I AM against is the expectation that this something Squad should focus on. I do expect the devs to make an effort to make a game not cause my PC to slow down until the next restart. What would Squad be to not take suggestions or save hours of a slow and laggy desktop? It's not like they don't take suggestions, there's an entire subforum dedicated to that. Squad NEEDS to focus on the 2k textures for small parts and ancient formats. I am not sure how many times I can tell you that.
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    Like I said before I don’t care if they do it. Just like I don’t care that they did that for the fairings. I agree that fairing change didn’t have any business case, but not everything Squad does has to. It is their business after all lol. This change was probably someone pets project because it was a personal annoyance and they got the go ahead to do it. If someone in Squad wants to take this on as their pet project as well, they can go right ahead, I don’t care However don’t expect this to happen anymore than how anyone expected a change to how fairings worked. If the change to fairings didn't matter but was enjoyed, then why are you against another idea that doesn't matter but will be enjoyed?
  18. Bej Kerman
    Once again, make a business case. I don’t see review bombing or people not buying the game because of loading times. Existing users might care but unless those existing people aren’t planning on DLC specifically because of loading times, then once again there is no business case. Squad is a business and everything they have done over the years for existing users also benefits them as well. If you can prove that this is impacting them negatively, then I will agree with you. Make a business case for the ability to lock a fairing's fade out in the editor. KSP was selling good enough before and no-one's going to buy the game because of said small feature. /s
  19. Bej Kerman
    Yes it matters. Is Squad a charity? Do you understand that those resources have to be paid to do this work? Do you understand that doing work which doesn’t provide any increase in revenue is literally a waste of money? If KSP was getting bad reviews for performance problems for example, then absolutely they would have a good business reason to do it. If they could present it in a PR way to increase sales, once again they would have a good reason to do it. The simple fact is that there is currently no business benefit to doing it, so it is both a waste of time and money for Squad. If you can provide a business case for Squad, feel free though. A lot of people will care. In fact, everyone will care if they'd fix the loading issue and make KSP stop loading everything on startup. You may not care but it doesn't matter.
  20. Bej Kerman
    Because the majority of end users aren’t going to notice the difference. Does it matter? Besides, people seem to like the fact that Restock fixes issues like this. Besides2, things like this build up. If you fixed everything draining on performance, you'd get a game much faster.
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    I don’t care if they do, it just appears to be a complete and utter waste of their resources that could be better spent on literally anything else. You have yet to tell me how saving resources is an utter waste of time.
  22. Bej Kerman
    No, what benefit does that provide to Squad? Is that going to increase sales? Are those textures actually causing performance problems that need to be resolved? As far as I can tell all it does is eat up a bit of disk space and RAM, and quite frankly if it wasn’t a big enough issue to fix in 2013, it certainly isn’t in 2020. It's not like Squad has their priorities set.And what's wrong with spending time on increasing performance? Why do you hate the concept of Squad taking 5 seconds to do some converting and retexturing?
  23. Bej Kerman
    If you're launching from outside Kerbin you are going to need to deliver resources needed to build things before you can launch them, so it won't be istantaneous. No, but clicking the launch button after gathering said resources should be.
  24. Bej Kerman
    Not quite the same concept on paper, practically the same exact gameplay requirement and consequences. I don't care because I want the launch button to instantly take me to my craft, regardless of colonies.
  25. Bej Kerman
    TLDR: Resources required for extraplanetary launchpads + automated supply lines = construction time. Not quite the same. I thought we were talking about the construction time of craft, not the colonies and the supply lines.
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