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Wait, you guys are saying you can click the arrows to change warp speed? I honestly didn't know that...makes sense I guess. Clearly a habit of mine from my early gamer years to not assume anything with respond to mouse clicks.

Climb back up the ladder, and when you see "Board [F]"...press F

Well, anything beyond the simplest DRM is just a PITA, yeah. Is piracy a good thing? Well, not really, and maybe. It's not as easy as saying that every download is a lost sale. Some of those will likely turn into sales, if your product is good and within the person's ability to pay for. Other times, it's kinda crazy how it can have the opposite effect to what is expected, as was the case with BSG in North America. In any case, there's no excuse for pulling an Ubisoft and saddling your customers with anything remotely resembling Uplay. I dunno about others, but when I see devs like Squad, Kerberos Productions, CD Projekt RED, Stardock, or...the guys who made Cities In Motion, I WANT to give them my money. Mostly because I know I won't have to deal with the headaches DRM inevitably causes. The lack of copy protection is practically value added, a positive feature for customers. As for a solution? The only solution that works is to make a good product, one that people will recognise as being good/great and wish to support. You can see this kind of behaviour with the fans of the companies I mentioned. Make a great product, people will want to give you their money. (Gods, just look at the premium Apple charges on hardware as an example.)

Or hold shift and scroll.

Why don't you try building a rocket yourself? I mean, that's half the game right there...

Yeah, they're in the game data. If I recall correctly, the ISA MapSat mod's "Kerbalpedia" has that data.

There's a KSP mod manager. A ten-second google search should find it. O.o

That's the Oberth effect. Not so much a line in the sand, but an asymptotic curve.

In a patched conics (2-body) system, no. However, in a n-body system, sure, for a short while. No way it'd be stable, as someone earlier concluded. Possible? Yes, under very specific circumstances. Not stable, and certainly wouldn't happen in KSP.

Kerbal.net As for must-haves? If you want satellites and rovers and things, MMI Satellite pack. EEP and MechJeb, easily (anyone who calls it "cheaty" hasn't seen the inside of a space shuttle cockpit). Kosmos and DSM are big winners for space stations and such. Kethane is nifty, but detection is sometimes depressingly difficult. When it comes to interplanetary things, Protractor and VOID can be indispensable.

KW Rocketry.

I made masks and stuff. PSD file included in the archive along with PNG masks like the OP signature. Yay, signature, in link form. For linking. This thing has inspired me to make one of my own. With lots of arrows and indicators and stuff. (Still sketching where things will go at this point, so don't expect anything soon.)

Not yet, but using some sort of instruments to discover new places to travel to is a planned feature, so eventually.

Well...blah. :| Thanks for clarification. It'd be...helpful to make those distinctions even clearer. (Indeed it seems this is the case, but the arrow near the ship location is very misleading.)

Because of this. But hey, if it's wrong, it's wrong.

Oh my gods. Yes. Those are my favourite Ivonova moments, first and second (of course, I have many more, both hilarious and sad).

Nobody drinks for because they like the taste! We drink so we can get through the damn day! *ahem* Now that I'm done referencing things...7? Maybe? Not sure when my parents gave me wine with special occasion sorts of dinners. Very young. They were smart about that; got me hooked on the good stuff, so I can't really afford to get super-drunk, because the taste of cheap liquor is absolutely revolting and vile to me. Meaning on the rare occasion I do drink, it's not the watered-down urinary-excretions we North Americans try to pass-off as beer under labels like "Coors" and "Kokanee". *shudder*

The radiator at the bottom right of the station is from Kosmos, I think.

Emphasis added. -.- I dare say that KSP is doing pretty awesome for its state of development. We're lucky to be able to play it now, help with bugs, and get it for a lower price than it will be too.

Those are some pretty glaring holes yet in your maps, but I'll forgive that; that's a lot of data you're trying to collect. How big is the csv (actually semi-colon separated, derp)? And have you tried using that data in QuickGrid?

Sooooo...what are the chances of outputting all that raw data somewhere? A la ISAMapSat... That'd be nifty. We could make graphs and stuff. Not really any compelling reason to do so, but...graphs! Lines! Things! Science!

Cooooool. I hope it survives that blasted fusion reactor in the centre of our solar-system. Okay, so the sun provides the energy to sustain life on this planet...but...it still mucks up a few things. Like comets. Pretty comets. And four months? In both hemispheres? That'd be a nice thing for humanity to share.

Enterprise, hands-down. I've known people who much preferred the techno-babble of the other series, but I liked Enterprise because they weren't nearly as haughty and holier-than-thou, and especially the third season, as it posed many interesting points of ethical debate. That, and it having been structured as a whole season with a general arc a la Babylon 5, or Stargate(ish), and in that they get their asses thoroughly handed to them, made it much more interesting. (The only episode of Voyager that I remember for it's narrative like this was the Omega-particle one. The others were pretty cut-and-dry, we have our perfect moral principles in the Federation and will stick to them stuff.) Then maybe DS9, for some of the narrative on religion, the point at which religious zealotry meets scientific inquiry, etc. That and that Sisko is far from the ideal or perfect StarTrek captain. He was much, much more pragmatic, and certainly willing to beat the crap out of you, compromise his ethics, and more, if it was in the service of greater good, or at least as he could assess at the time. (Garak was certainly a point at which these ethical dilemmas emerged quite often.) Still, I'd watch Babylon 5 before Enterprise.

It's been pushed back to 2014, sadly. As for FOX, well...it might not seem really apparent to intellectuals that that's the right place for such a thing, but once you think about it, it's the only place to air it that makes any sense. Cosmos isn't about preaching science to the choir of scientists, it's about teaching the wonders of this knowledge and the scientific journey to everyone else, not academics. Yeah, it's sitting around here somewhere, probably underneath a big math or ethics textbook. O.o It's an interesting read (one that makes me even more displeased with those whom I've met who blithely bash Sam Harris as an "idiot", claiming he knows nothing and is totally wrong...from philosophy majors, undergrads, who arguably know very little by comparison).