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  1. Ramping up the variety is definitely something I'd like to see. As well as a few more planets, especially dwarf planets and a ringed gas giant.

    . . . and at least on Kerbin, I'd love to see more life. And some signs of civilization. They're a space going species - surely they have cities and towns on the continent that has the space center! Some procedural content could make that a reality.

  2. 2 hours ago, Space_taco said:

    to me anything which is 480p or Above Is good i dont care about anything else:rolleyes:

    For your own use, you can do whatever you want.

    If The Space Dino wants to put videos on YouTube or some other public site, then there's an audience to consider.

  3. 9 minutes ago, Benji13 said:

    I wish they released it by Timezone.

    That would probably require some coding, as I imagine they don't have employees working 24/7. It also risks a problem happening while they're away, which won't be discovered until they have developers on the clock again. Which would be bad if there's a major problem with the deployment. I'm sure they'd rather roll it out when they have people on the clock who can deal with problems as they arise.

  4. As far as multiplayer goes - I really don't think the game lends itself to multiplayer very well, especially with the time warp system.
     The gameplay would have to change quite drastically to accommodate multiplayer in a way that's not frustrating.

    As far as graphics go: The detail of the parts has been improved over time, so they haven't been static. That said, nothing really groundbreaking has happened.

    Adding some sort of physically based rendering would look pretty sweet, and maybe a few (but optional) shaders to make it emulate a film camera.

    Some of the mods have added the ability to have vastly improved graphics, but at the expense of memory footprint: Even my 16 GB machine can choke on them.

    To that end: I'd like to see an improvement in how terrain is generated and rendered, possibly making it easier to mod the terrain generation. Current mods (as far as I know) currently count on hand-crafted material to do so, and if you're hand-crafting a planet, that's an incredible amount of memory. I think there's a lot of improvement possible in the realm of procedural generation.

  5. 24 minutes ago, NuclearMikenetic said:
    50 minutes ago, Tex_NL said:

    I am not at all surprised this was posted on Reddit and not here. I am even less surprised there has of yet been no official reply. It looks a lot like it is Squad policy to ignore the majority of the community and post news last where it matters most.

    I still believe in KSP but I lost my faith in Squad long ago. And things like this do not help.

    There is a post somewhere by a squad dude acknowledging the Dev exodus.  Had to dig around for it last night,  but it's out there. Should have been in the Dev note though... something like the Dev team leaving certainly belongs in a weekly note... about devs 

    Right here.

  6. I'm going to make a note here that RoverDude has been making the rounds on Reddit noting that he's been treated pretty fairly by Squad and has no problems with them. He just has a full time job elsewhere.

    He also makes a passing mention to KSP being a contract situation, which leads me to think that most of the employees were hired under a temporary contract, and perhaps the contract ended. Maybe they were just temporary hires for 1.2?

  7. I'm going to make a note here that RoverDude has been making the rounds on Reddit noting that he's been treated pretty fairly by Squad and has no problems with them. He just has a full time job elsewhere.

    He also makes a passing mention to KSP being a contract situation, which leads me to think that most of the employees were hired under a temporary contract, and perhaps the contract ended. Maybe they were just temporary hires for 1.2?

  8. 18 minutes ago, TheDestroyer111 said:

    Looks like he messed up his calendar and thinks it is April Fools today. :sticktongue:

    Just look at this. He gave no details. His tone looks so fake. All the staff are still there http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/staff/. Nobody posted anything on the forum until a random player who is not staff noticed this (@5thHorseman). He didn't even clearly confirm that the others are also leaving. This is fake :wink:

    @5thHorseman referenced this reddit post, which appears to come from a dev. The community manager confirmed it. It's possible they just haven't updated the staff directory yet.

  9. 14 minutes ago, Diche Bach said:

    If they really do "interactive services [for] customers like Coca-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Samsung and Nissan" then it may be that KSP is small beans, sadly.

    That said, if you go to Squad's website, they give you a menu to go to either their marketing website, or to Kerbal Space Program. KSP has been a pretty successful game in its own right, and it has been (so far) treated as practically a second branch of their business. That said - with all of these developers leaving (including the founder of KSP), there may sadly be a ring of truth to what you are saying.

  10. 1 hour ago, 5thHorseman said:

    I know that several of these guys have (had? I'll freely admit I don't know any of them well though I consider several of them "internet friends") full time real jobs, and it is at least possible that some of them are leaving because 1.2 proved to be too much actual work for a part time job. I've quit jobs for similar reasons in the past.

    I've personally had a few contract jobs where the contract ended, and due to either real life issues, or to the organization not willing to renew the contract, had to go elsewhere. The optimist in me hopes this is just a case of maybe just a short term contract or something like that.

    The pessimist in me says this is still a lot of people leaving - what's up with that?

    Humm . . . followed a link from the reddit post that had some info about Squad and their employees, basically said that employees from other countries are easily underpaid because, to put it frankly: Mexico is a very poor country. $100 USD is the monthly minimum wage.

    Obviously Squad pays a lot more than that, but we're probably still talking wages well below what's livable in developed countries.

    For most modders that were hired, this would likely likely be "a summer job doing something I like just for some extra cash," rather than an actual full time / permanent position. It doesn't sound like it would actually pay enough to be a permanent position for people living in the USA or Europe.

    It could be as simple as it's really awkward to have a software development studio in the middle of a nation that is heavily struggling economically.

  11. Finally finished my tech tree. I understand it's theoretically possible without leaving the Kerbin system, but I finished it with missions to Jool's moons. Next on my list: Rescue stranded Kerbils. Dunno how I'm going to rescue the one stranded on Eve.

    I'll also experiment with ways to improve things in the future. I rather brute-forced my way through it, basically using over-engineered rockets. I want to do things like SSTO rockets and aircraft, having stations in orbit and at Minimus so I can refuel.

  12. Okay, things I'm really missing from my mods: Delta V and TWR. I know, advanced stuff . . . but it's the lifeblood of my missions. Hard to plan missions without them, especially late game missions.

     

    Edit: And orbital info while in flight, like apoapsis . . .

  13. By the way - still have to handle modded ships better when the mods are removed. Had to click through so many dialogs saying a ship couldn't load.

    My suggestion is to group all of the warnings into one dialog. And to offer the chance to cancel loading the save file and go back to the main menu instead of removing all of the ships.

  14. 2 minutes ago, Alshain said:

    Again, guys please do not keep refreshing that page, in the past SteamDB has gotten upset with us over that (it uses a lot of bandwidth).  There is a bot here that will tell you the instant there is a change.

    https://kiwiirc.com/client/chat.freenode.net/?#steamdb-announce

    Not to worry, this "hype train" topic seems to be doing the trick ;).

    That said, refreshing pages is something people do all the time, maybe they need to manage their caching better, or look into something like AJAX to allow controlled updates without the user having to reload the page. I'd hate to see what would happen if they got DDoSed.

  15. 2 minutes ago, Alshain said:

    If parachutes being manually deployed would chase away new players we wouldn't be talking here right now. 

    It's not a black and white thing . . . it's a spectrum. Even Hearthstone, which is very easy to get into for a CCG, and is also an incredibly popular game, has made many quality of life improvements and done plenty of things to try to draw in new players.

    . . . and I do understand that parachutes deploying is a small thing. But, if given the choice as a game designer, I'd go along the path of tweaking things to improve the quality of life for players.

    7 minutes ago, Alshain said:

    It's funny how KSP hasn't had any trouble with getting new players in the past

    People who already have the game don't need to buy it again. This leads to market saturation, and one way to get new players is to appeal more broadly.

    That said, the educational aspect of KSP is also an important part of the game, as young people becoming old enough to play KSP is likely a way to maintain some revenue. I do hope that KSP maintains its educational roots.

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