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  1. Sir Mortimer
    Because it's a LOT less boring.
  2. Sir Mortimer
    yap. that would have been me messing up the configs
  3. Sir Mortimer
    Nice, I’ll definitely look into this. However, maybe you want to reconsider your license. Using GPL for anything that’s supposed to be a hard requirement won’t help winning a popularity contest.
  4. Sir Mortimer
    You're using an alpha build that had this problem, the current alpha should fix that. It was a bug that was introduced with the first attempt to fix an issue with high speed time warps and science recording. Please get the latest alpha release and see if that is fixed.
  5. Sir Mortimer
    yup.
  6. Sir Mortimer
    How will this work? Will it be similar to how the Sentinel telescope works (deploy experiment, then leave it there, and when finished you can collect the result)?
  7. Sir Mortimer
    Kerbalism does indeed calculate a value for surface and volume, but that value is based on the bounding box of the part, assuming that your part is cylindrical. It is a rough estimate at best, and wildly inaccurate for anything else, especially inflatable parts. Eyeball it and you'll have a more accurate value than that.
  8. Sir Mortimer
    Nope, Kerbalism doesn't calculate volume or surface, it uses whatever values you provide in your config. You should be able to just merge these two into one: MODULE { name = Habitat inflate = ...all the others... volume = surface = }
  9. Sir Mortimer
    Stop what you’re doing and start looking at Kerbalism 3.0. Those messages are a thing of the past, they no longer show up in the new science mode.
  10. Sir Mortimer
    If your Kerbals sink, you’re running version 2.2 which is broken. Either go back to 2.1.2 or get on the discord server if you’re interested in playtesting version 3.0
  11. Sir Mortimer
    You'll be able to add a high capacity antenna which is automatically going to be enabled for data dumping only
  12. Sir Mortimer
    Kerbalism is about killing Kerbals, not about helping to keep them alive
  13. Sir Mortimer
    The savegames will work with the final released version. In fact, I think you can even load old savegames without game breaking issues. We were able to avoid breaking compatibility after all. KCT should work New horizon will be an issue: if there are new bodies, they won't have magnetospheres, van allen belts and radiation parameters. But the bigger issue I think is that new horizons replaces the central body of the universe with something that is not a sun, and that will cause issues.
  14. Sir Mortimer
    But prepare for low bandwidths Transmitting data with a Communotron-16 from low mun orbit
  15. Sir Mortimer
    The crew report taking that long is an issue with the configs that we since changed. You'll be able to do a full crew report and a goo with your very first Mk-1 pod sitting on the launch pad. Trust me, I absolutely hate having to do multiple launches for the same experiment, but this is different. You still will be able to do all the experiments in one swoop, it just might be tricky to do that.
  16. Sir Mortimer
    Yes. Glad you love it
  17. Sir Mortimer
    Nope, it wasn't. It was probably you working with an existing save with the new version. That doesn't work in the version you have.
  18. Sir Mortimer
    You will have to adapt your play style. For example, to get the science from the lower atmosphere, I shoot up a sounding probe that will deploy chutes at 5000m altitude and then, as slowly as possible, glide down to the surface, to give the experiments as much time as possible to complete. A radiation reading uses some 8 minutes, a temperature reading is relatively fast at 2-3 minutes, a barometer scan runs for 15 minutes. And those are the short experiments. If the experiment doesn't get enough time, you still get some value out of it, but you'd have to repeat it. Now, you'll be facing 2 problems: First problem, the experiments usually generate more data than can be stored on the vessel, so you'll have to transmit them back while they're running. That, of course, requires a direct link to a relay or to Kerbin. And transmission bandwidth is very limited, especially in early career (but that can be mitigated by attaching a bunch of antennae). Second problem: antennae and experiments need electricity to run, and some experiments need quite a lot. A goo container for example needs to heat the goo up to a specific temperature, and doing that will use up almost all of the battery capacity of a Mk-1 pod by the time it is finished (10-11 minutes). So you have to figure out a way to generate electricity, which will be a problem especially in early career when you don't have solar panels. You will have the possibility to run a Monoprop+O2 fuel cell, but be VERY careful with that because they'll suck out all the O2 you have and then some. I just lost Jeb and Valentina because of that. Running experiments in high atmosphere will require some clever engineering, maybe you'll have to fly a plane at high altitudes while the experiments on board are running. Launching a rocket into a suborbital trajectory will no longer work. It will be fun to see what engineering solutions people will come up with to get the full value out of a material bay
  19. Sir Mortimer
    OK, tried that version now. Everything looks as it is working as it should: there are no exceptions, I can build and launch a flea, I can do science and x Science won't see anything. Note that this was a bare stock intall, only Kerbalism and x Science! installed. So whatever is causing your exceptions has to do with something else.
  20. Sir Mortimer
    Ah thanks, didnt see that earlier.
  21. Sir Mortimer
    OK, so I've installed x Science now to see what's going on. I don't think that the stacktrace above (Kerbalism.Highlighter) is related to x Science. I got a bunch of exceptions in the log related to x Science, but my best guess is that it just doesn't work on my KSP 1.6 install (last supported version is 1.4). That stack trace there is something else, it looks like UI stuff is being done before KSP is ready for it. Do you get that with a stock install?
  22. Sir Mortimer
    Hey, they all signed the contract. Occupational hazard
  23. Sir Mortimer
    Aaah sorry my bad, I forgot: that's a bug in Kerbalism 2.1, it won't let you control a process from automation. That goes for fuel cells and probably life support / chemical plants, too. I already fixed that on my working branch and forgot about it.
  24. Sir Mortimer
    Kerbalism won't run a process if not all the resources generated by this process can be stored or dumped. A fuel cell produces some water, if your water tanks are full the cell won't run. So, either don't bring a full load of water, or use the dump switch on the fuel cell: set that to anything other than "None".
  25. Sir Mortimer
    It's in the OP: Official Discord
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