DaRocketCat

As realistic as possible as long as it doesn't detriment the gameplay too much. And keep the UI simplistic, intuitive, and easy to understand, as it is now. For instance, I think re-entry heat should definitely be added, despite the fact that it will incinerate unprotected ships.

From what I get Moonshine lifters are supposed to get the job done with no nonsense and the least amount of parts. Therefore I'd see no point (in sandbox) in using anything that doesn't have 3.75m parts since they provide more lift for less parts.

It's supposed to be the Saturn analog, and Eeloo is supposed to be the Enceladus analog, IIRC.

Here's my attempted shuttle replica which dates back to .17. Never managed to fly very high because managing thrust back in those days was horrendous. EDIT: how do you post imgur libraries already?

We all lamented the lack of beautiful volumetric smoke and explosions, but cutting them down to flashes of light was necessary for performance reasons.

Let's be honest, we all want MP for ramming planes in our friends' rockets.

Everything plane related has remained mostly untouched since .15, so yeah it's in pretty dire need of a revamp once the devs get some free time on their hands.

Pretty much. While your ideas are nice and could be implemented, an entire remake of all the plane parts is in order.

Yeah, the devs almost never post on the forums anymore, but they often mention new versions of Unity and their possible effects in dev blogs. There was a big buzz back when the devs were upgrading ksp to Unity 4.

I remember a loong time ago when this thread was first started, can't believe it's still going strong.

Yeah.....mine would always be at half mast. They just come and go .

This has already been suggested numerous times in the past, one can only hope it will be implemented.

And that's why I only play Sandbox. There is literally no reason (IMO), to play career until they revamp the tech tree as you detailed (gave you rep for that ), add money, contracts/missions, maybe mining, etc...

Atmospheric planes, spaceplanes, and rockets all lie in the realm of aerodynamics and are part of the aerospace industry, which KSP centers on. To put it bluntly, boats don't fly.

Mother of ASCII...

what kind of monstrosities are you building that a 3770k can't handle?!

They tried that with .19 and .20, and everyone hated it. You should've seen some of the megathreads in which people raged about how a whole update added....wheels. Kinda agreed with them. HarvesteR even issued a response in his dev blog, I'm pretty sure it was titled developer asymptotes or something like that. Basically, by shaving 2-3 weeks of the schedule, they ended up spending way too much time bug fixing and testing, and too little time adding new things. That's why .19 and .20 were so feature-empty compared to every update from .13 to the awesome .18. So yeah, they're not going to switch back to a faster release cycle, because that was a fiasco.

A simulator for a simulator...ok then.

This thread was 4 and a half months old when it got revived...

Isn't interactive multiplayer impossible when inside the atmosphere? Because that would make dogfights undoable.

Hey guys, the Kerbal Intelligence Agency has detected new threats that may undermine the freedom of all Kerbals in the United States of Kerbin. The threat is detailed under point 3 of this intelligence report: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/content/239-KerbalKon-Announce In order to counter this threat, Kerbal politicians have ordered the construction of a new air superiority fighter to safeguard the skies. I'm not much of a missile builder, so I'm asking if anyone has a nice, compact, air to air missile design that they'd be willing to share? Thanks.

After career mode, mining and resources will be coming, so that will add a whole new dimension to the game when coupled with career mode. Also, they didn't say that they would never do mp, just that it's not on their to-do list and that they will not be tackling it in the forseeable future. You can also expect an aerodynamics/spaceplane update in later in the future (nobody knows when).

Of course we're not trolling you. -DaRocketCat

MLP is the cancer of the internet. We will therefore use appopriate tools to eradicate this menace, ie. gamma rays.

FYI, recources/mining got delayed in favor of career mode. A lot of work was done though, including a bunch of scanning parts, pumps, drills, etc...as well as a system detailing the distribution of recourses in a planet.