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A screwdriver and a good pair of pliers could almost certainly take that robot apart. But, on topic:

Your robot doesn't stand a chance.

False. The Person below me likes oranges.

The sound echoes around. Nobody seems to be home.

Exit the SPH.

1/10 Who?

The damaged parts would show up at a certain threshold like the impact tolerance value we have now, maybe a damage tolerance value for each part? Fuel tanks would obviously have much lower damage and impact tolerances. The damaged versions of the parts would have much lower impact tolerances. Exploding parts would have a blastradius value. Everything in that blast radius gets a certain shock, as if it hit something hard. If it's damage or impact tolerance is low enough, it would also explode and cause a chain reaction. Certain parts can be fixed on-orbit. Battery packs, antennae, probe cores, and structural pieces come to mind. Nothing would be affected by a vaccuum. That would be silly. Having to micromanage everything in a vaccuum would get tedious.

I think most people would like something of this nature to be in-game. The question is to what extent? I personally would go somewhere near the more strident end of the spectrum. Reducing impact tolerances significantly for some parts, the I-beams, the structural fuselage, and girders in particular, as well as adding altered, "broken" versions of parts when abused (landing on your engine, smacking something into another something, burning something) that would be less or not at all functional.

Stanley was very bad at following directions and hated the concept of "story" or "plot." He was an anarchist and also probably a communist, and had an absolute disrespect for anything that might end up productive.

3/10 recognize you. Don't remember where or what you're known for.

False. For all I know I could be a boltzmann brain living out its insane perceived life. The user below me knows what I was talking about.

No es cierto! The user below me will answer false.

You're putting on your socks and briefly consider turning on symmetry. This has actually happened to me.

Hmm. This is rather strange, Stanley. You're not supposed to be seeing this until another story arc. Tell you what, we'll pretend that I never said that last sentence. It'll be an adventure, Stanley! Let us follow that yellow line!

This plugin is completely broken for me. On a clean stock install. I attach a part to the stack winch-any part will do-bind a key to extend, and it either doesn't even extend or it drops forever through the craft and the terrain. I was really looking forward to using this in my Curiosity/spirit-esque rover, but I guess not. Oh well. Time to spam parachutes

In the background, some dramatic music was looping itself over and over again, as if it was a scratched record. Stanley ignored the line and continued into the open door in front of him.

Maybe you would need to deliver a resource called "Experiments" to the station, which would be converted to data gradually and broadcast as science? I think it would balance out time-based elements with launches. You can't just wait around doing nothing, you either have to put as many experiments on as possible to a craft or learn to dock to bring more.

Maybe if you approach the surface at more than 30 m/s at under 500m radar altitude it could work. No nuclear alarm type alarms though. At high volumes it could give people a heart attack! Maybe when engines are close to exploding due to overheating or when fuel is low during landing too.

In an attempt to prove that he was better than the narrator, he jumped into the path of an incoming train and was instantly killed. Good job, Stanley. Stanely suddenly woke up. It was just a bad dream, it seemed. He decided to get back to business. Stanley got up from his desk and walked out the door to his office. He looked to the left, and when he saw that the facsimile machine was working, he walked over to the machine and pushed the "Receive Fax" button.

Stanley walked still downwards, through the terrain.

Get up close to the panel. Right-click. "Extend Panel" should come up.

Hang on, what? That wasn't in the script before. I thought I had edited that bit out. Actually, Stanley, go out and see what's happened. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding between me and the game's coders.