Bej Kerman

Not possible if done with modern technology and fuels. You're just going to have to accept that technology advances. I don't see how bigger rockets and other fuels being discovered isn't hard sci-fi.

Depends on context. Interstellar travel isn't sci-fi, it's a real possibility.

How about we just remove the Mun if it's so not worth it? Extrasolar travel will be worth it, why else would we get KSP 2? A simple rework of KSP 1 wouldn't be worth anything. The purpose of KSP 2 is to introduce new and veterans to future technology, not expand on the current technology that, I'm going to be honest, I'm tired of seeing.

The entire purpose of KSP 2 is that it's going to be KSP 1 with near future technology. What's the point of KSP 2 if it's just going to be a KSP 1 planet pack? The devs might as well have settled as KSP 1 modders if that was the plan.

Have you mentioned greebling yet? The new textures are really lacking in this, and the new parts are starting to look more like plastic models than actual rocket parts. Not to mention that Squad should've just increased the quality of the old parts, the new parts go against the jerry-rigged-looking style all the parts had before.

KSP 2 seems to want there to be a journey in interstellar travel as opposed to wormholes that may not even exist. Jump drives are a bad idea, alien or not.

So we're all just going to assume everyone has access to mods just because OP has them too?

And? The game isn't just played by OP, there's people who don't want to, or can't use mods as well. Wow, mind-blowing idea. I think a search feature (or just scaling up the box to take up more than 1/6th of the screen and not having it take 3 nanocenturies to load) in a game where you can accumulate hundreds of craft isn't something that should just be left to the modders to develop, and left to the people who can and want to download mods to use.

I don't get it. He's playing the game his way and inviting you to do the same. If you don't want to do that then that's fine but when half the game doesn't make sense, arguing about semantics seems like a bizarre and futile exercise. It is no wonder that the OP has chosen the name "DigitalDread". Welcome to the forums btw @DigitalDread - I think your boat is pretty cool. Christ on a bike, I was just saying that perhaps tweakscale on a public challenge may not be ideal given that it might be difficult to tell apart from stock parts.

Exactly. And sometimes we don't want to have to lag behind on big releases for mod updates.

Still, doesn't make sense if this is a supposedly 'stock' challenge. Quite unbalanced too. I mean, scaling up a 1.125m part or scaling down a 2.5m part makes them perform unrealistically given that they were made specifically for their sizes. Imagine how much more OP the Vector would be if you could scale it up to 5m rather than having to use engine clusters. At least it would be better if you had to say if your boat was stock or not.

Still, no point in a challenge if you can just attach a 5m jet to a cockpit with some fuel tanks and watch it go.

I don't think TweakScale should be allowed. You can abuse it pretty bad, and the rules already say stock parts only, so I'm not sure what makes scaled parts "stock".

Citation needed

They never said that they wanted it released soon. There's a difference between early access and release. Plus, won't early access increase the amount of people to spot bugs? Same response for you, mate. There's a great difference between early access and release. Finally, someone understands what early access means, and understands its benefits! Can't believe I had to dig through the replies for this.

Either 9 or heavy.

Why?

"Hey, can you implement this basic, standard feature into the game?" [suggesting they can't or won't download mods] "I know 50 mods that can do that for ya"

They're addressing your entire post, and I agree with the bit that says you might as well just be removing graphics options.

Okay, I'll stop @ing you. But I don't understand why you just stopped debating half way through the debate.

It's blindingly obvious that it's sarcasm, 'properly' with 50 quote marks meaning @Brikoleur's version of properly.

Look at the 50 layers of quotation marks around """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""properly"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""". Another great comment.

Then @Brikoleur comes along and says something along the lines of "But probes IRL need comms" even though someone just said that they sometimes don't have enough time for this. Brik, it's quite clear you expect a lot of players to have a lot of free time, but this isn't true. Oh, and the fact that optional features will increase ability to fix bugs even if it causes some when it is implemented. That's true.

I hate this, because I am a simple player that only wants to design and engineer. IKR. People have different playstyles, and if you're not going to let others play as they do to fix some unnamed bug that's never elaborated upon that has to do with options for some reason, then that's just not nice. A certain quote from Dagoth Ur seems super appropriate in regards to this. What certain quote? Please stop trying to be unspecific.

Why would you assume the worst in the first place? 5 seconds of silence and the world's ending. Come again, how is doing a giant space drift through the interstellar void faster than going there in a straight line? [~ snip ~]