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This is awesome. Works perfectly for me with no (even minor) issues.

That would be incredible. You should suggest things more often: that's awesome.

Regardless of how everyone feels about it, Squad is in a rough spot here. Myself (and many other people here) purchased the game in early Alpha, way before Steam Early Access, docking, maneuver nodes, and the resources system (remember when all you had was the green bar in the cluttered staging stack?). Back then, the terms that you purchased the game under promised that once you bought the game, you had it. All of it. Forever. That's a legal agreement, and if Squad had backtracked and tried to charge those people for the new content Squad could very likely be facing a class-action lawsuit. Obviously the reaction of the userbase was quite negative as well, which was no doubt another a strong incentive to backtrack the way they did. However, it's not realistic to expect a company to take a one-time fee for a product that they continually develop. Regardless of how you might personally feel, if everyone got every update for free forever Squad would go bankrupt. That's how business works. So they can't charge everybody, and they can't charge nobody. You see the situation they're in. While their final solution is not perfect (and the whole situation was a bit of PR fiasco), it's probably the best option for everybody. While I would be fine with paying for expansion packs myself, the legally binding agreement I saw upon purchase says I don't have to. As long as the Expansion Packs are just that - big updates to the game that add new content - things will work out OK. Something like the Mining System {note that this is just an example} or new star systems or a whole plethora of functional and useful science equipment; things that feel like extra content, not like core functionality. We need to remember that this is a spaceship game, and (in my humble opinion) anything that goes beyond that would be considered "extra." I trust Squad to make the right decisions here. I also trust that they don't want to screw over their customers and that they care about their community. Everything points towards Squad being a "good company," and I have full faith in them and their decisions.

It's a mess. It doesn't look good. It makes Squad look amateur (when they're really not). You can't browse by category, because you get flooded with .craft files. You can't search, because you get flooded by .craft files. If we wanted .craft files we could just go to the Spacecraft Exchange, I don't see why .craft files even need to be on Spaceport. At the very least they should have their own category or users should have the option to omit all .craft files from a search.

I tried to register and got the "We're sorry, but something went wrong" page.

Personally, I'm more of an engineer than a pilot. I find the game much more fun when I design the rockets and plan how my stations will hook together, and then let MechJeb launch them into orbit.

Was he fired or did he quit? I didn't think that information was released. My hope is that he saw some better opportunity somewhere and everyone parted on amiable terms, but that's probably not the case.