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So basically, because somebody I don't know or care about got fired (possibly for completely legitimate reasons) I'm not able to use my favourite subreddit any more. Great. I understand default subreddits like /r/aww and /r/funny blacking out, but why /r/kerbalpaceprogram? This stupid "internet drama" has NOTHING to do with the KSP subreddit.

Unfortunately not right away. I've got a dissertation to finish which will no doubt take up all of next week, and it would be extremely dangerous to download a shiny new KSP version

Remember that one version where fuel use was bugged? Instead of the throttle/fuel use relationship being linear, it was quadratic, so half throttle only uses 1/4 of the fuel, quarter throttle used 1/16 of the fuel, and it made getting anywhere extremely easy with extremely low throttle (and essentially infinite fuel) and a boatload of patience

"Why is the moon up during the day!?" - my 24 YEAR OLD sister... I just stared in blank amazement

Mods I use: - Kethane - Kerbal Alarm Clock - Procedural Fairings - Distant Object Enhancement - Navyfish Docking UI - Environmental Visual Enhancements - Kerbal Engineer Occasionally, when I'm playing KSP clicking on the UI just... stops working. Sometimes it happens straight from the Space Centre when I load up a save. Clicking on any of the buildings does nothing, clicking on the exit button brings up the menu, but then clicking on any of the buttons in the menu just does nothing. I can still move the camera around, but clicking on things just doesn't work. Occasionally it happens when I'm piloting a spacecraft. After an hour our so, I'll notice that I can't switch spacecraft. I still have full control of the current spacecraft, but clicking on other ships on the map view doesn't do anything, doesn't do anything. And once again, all of the buttons on the menu just don't do anything. Even if I crash the spacecraft, the buttons to return to the space centre just don't work for some reason, and the only cure is to quit the game using OS keyboard commands. I'm sorry I can't give more information on exactly when these weird crashes occur, because there isn't just one particular scenario that causes it, it seems completely random when it will strike!

I've unlocked the whole science tree, upgraded all the buildings and visited plenty of planets in my career mode save, so for the past few weeks I've been playing exclusively in sandbox mode! Seeing as improved aerodynamics are coming I've installed FAR for the first time, and am just just building and flying a bunch planes at the moment, it's great fun!

It's not that noobs "can't" use FAR or NEAR, it's just that it changes rocket design quite a lot, so you it's a very different experience. If anything, a complete noob would probably be better off designing a rocket good for FAR, because FAR forces you to make realistic (-ish) rockets instead of asparagus beasts

I designed a huge MK3 jet to give piggy-back rides and glide tests to my smaller MK2 planes (so not technically a space ship, just a regular old atmospheric jet). Because it's huge, ugly and unwieldy I called it the "C-6 Big Beatrix"

Ah yes, I remember the insane heat killing absolutely everything I sent there...

Have a kerbin orbit with the same period as the Mun, but about 60° in front of or behind it, and you can fake an L4 or L5 orbit that always sees one side of the Mun

No, of course KSP isn't dying. I've been playing since the update that added C7's spaceplane parts (I can't remember the version number) and while I don't play the game as much as I did then, I still play it plenty. And I play it loads when a new update comes out. Think of it like a relationship. At first it's like "wooow, so exciting, must do EVERYTHING" and you spend every minute thinking about, whereas after a while it matures and becomes something longer lasting. Although you still get that frenzy of love every time something new and exciting happens (a new update!) As for the community, this must be the 4th or 5th time I've seen the "KSP community is dying/changing and I don't like it" thread. Is it changing? I don't know. But at the end of the day, communities do change over time. Squad now has a consistent weekly schedule to their community interactions, which wasn't true for a long time. I remember us all waiting weeks between hearing anything, and when we did it would be a cryptic post from Novasilisko on an update thread! (THIS NEXT PART IS MY OPINION, PINCH OF SALT REQUIRED) The fact that the forums activity has mostly changed from "look at this awesome thing I did" to "let's split in half to bash/defend the latest decision by Squad" is probably why it doesn't seem to have as deep interaction any more. I'm not even going to get in to where my opinion lies on the matter, but I'll just say this: there have been plenty of "controversial" decisions made by Squad throughout development (even going back to changing the desktop icon in 0.14.something!) and it has always been fine.

I'm extremely boring, so my lifters are just named after the Greek alphabet. The 1.25m launchers are Alpha, 2.5m launchers are Beta, and the new huge 3.75m rocket parts are Gamma. And they have a number after their name corresponding to the mass they can carry to a 100km LKO. For example, my 2.5m launcher that can carry 25.5 tonnes into orbit is the "Beta 255". Pretty boring, I know

It makes me fear that at any second of my journey, I may be thwarted by gigantic space whales...

Thanks for the advice, but I did get it working eventually using NVIDIA's drivers. The drivers for Linux are relatively new so I previously used Bumblebee, but like you I had varying degrees of success with that!

I've been running KSP on Ububtu for a while! The problem for me has never been getting steam to install, it has been getting my damn laptop's dual power saving graphics wizardry to work properly!