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Currently working on a new LKO station. First was the core with the hab ring, then drones delivered the docking node, then the large life support module. Both drones came up with independent RCS tugs. I had a third that didn't have half the RCS jets it needed which made docking the hub in the correct orientation rather difficult. That drone was emptied of fuel and then deorbited. Then I brought three engineers up in the Dragon-esque crew transfer vehicle attached to the hub node so I could spin up the hab ring. Next up will be fuel storage and a docking node for smaller vehicles with smaller docking ports.

Started a new save, just came back into KSP again. First orbit: Always starts like that doesn't it? First Mun station: Aproaching first Minmus base with the new science rover, which ended up getting lithobraked after one science run because wheels on Minmus lol. Minmus base as it stands after my day off. Full production capability, can make every resource I currently have access to, including all life support. It's kinda the path I follow - visit Mun / Minmus, maximize science, send a SCANSat probe to each, find the best spot to land that is also flat, which on Minmus is almost always lesser flats, send a base, expand that base, build everything after that off-world. The next goal is a base on either Duna, Laythe, somewhere in the Sarnus or Neidon systems, or Eve, whichever is closer transfer window-wise. I still need to EVA and disassemble all the probe cores and torque wheels and meerkat engines I use to get individual modules in place. Some docking ports are standard Clampos, because I only got access to K&K docking ports 3/4 of the way through assembly. Them radiators get pretty hot. But at least this time I kept them away from the launchpad, and I don't have to spam them everywhere because the Near Future heat radiator pack thingy includes some decent cooling parts.

Been working on Duna in my newest 1.9 save. This week I landed and then expanded a production base. It was pretty barebones to start but it's coming along well. Can produce most needed craft in a few days and fuel them in as long. The airship on the right is for RCS-ing small payloads onto the lander (currently at Duna Station). Low atmosphere means it only lifts ~2 tons but that's enough for some small stuff. Looking forward to Laythe and EVE airships. Rover off in the distance was a prototype crane unit to move stuff off the K&K launchpad. It has some balance issues and I'm mainly using it for refueling the lander with the KAS connectors. Pod connected to the left of the base is the life support systems. Base was landed with just basic stored life support, Kerbals were frozen in LKO for the trip out. Need a big greenhouse pod next though, as food is still an issue. Have a care package loaded with food and frozen Kerbals for next transfer window. Water is gotten through a fuel cell burning Hydrogen, and Oxygen is gotten through mining and converting for ship building. Duna station is still simplistic, crewed by 2. The lander on the right is a more refined Duna lander built by Duna base, and is overfueled so every run it can deposit some into the station. It recently took a science package to Ike to further the research department. The lander to the left came in with the station on first arrival at Duna, but has never been to the surface. I noticed I forgot to give it batteries or solar panels so it is essentially useless outside of being a big fat fuel tank for the station. I'm in the process of emptying it of fuel and will eventually undock it and aggressively lithobrake it to free up the docking port. My Jool window opens up in 343 days, and I intend to send a fully functional base to Laythe, building on and learning from the one I have at Duna. To get it there, I'm assembling a massive vessel in LKO. This is the first stage - the drive stage. Huge MPD fueled with lithium and oodles of EC, it'll provide between 15k-30k m/s once the ship is complete. I'm playing with Bureaucracy, which gives me monthly budgets instead of boring contract money, and thanks to the success of the Duna mission, I have access to almost 900k / month. The unit is currently sitting in LKO unfueled, as that was the only way to keep it both under budget and under the 40.6t payload limit I have on my currently best launcher. I'm playing with KSTS, which makes launching things absolutely painless, if very slightly cheaty, since it lets you launch stuff of whatever shape you want, regardless if it would flip out if you actually stuck it on your launcher. I can build better launchers now - I didn't even have mainsails unlocked when I did my 40.6t launch recording, but launching to LKO for the 100th time isn't fun, so I've been lazy. This will be the next stage of Jool Drive to be launched. It has space for the base I'll be sending, as well as Deepfreeze units for the initial squad of Kerbals I intend to send, some fuel, and a massive reactor to power that MPD. I'd prefer to use the big clampotrons, but haven't researched them yet. Guess I'll either just keep the thrust down or EVA a pile of struts in. I'll definitely be strutting the base down to the main beam, and then the beam to the drive stage. After this unit is mated with the drive section, the command section will come, followed by a 10m heat shield up front for Jool aerocapture. Depending on how noodly this whole thing is, I'll either aerocapture, or just brute force burn my way into orbit. We'll see.

I dunno. I just notice certain names appear -everywhere- for mods on certain games. I checked out his Twitch page and the man looks like my dad plus a code wizard. The past videos are pretty interesting, even though my code knowledge is as basic as you can get and all I ever did was highschool Java. God if my dad only knew how to work a computer I wouldn't have to go fix his stuff every other week. He doesn't even know where his start button is And then there's this guy. I wonder what he did / does for a profession.

You know, I think 9/10ths of the mods I use have been handled by you at one point. It's come to a point where if I want a mod I used to use, but Spacedock shows out of date, I can _almost_ guarantee you've picked it up. Are you a machine? Thank you though, for all the effort, on countless mods that would have been dead and forgotten long ago.

That's the point! Ideas I get so many cool ideas from this and spacecraft exchange. Sometimes I don't know what I want to do next and then I see someone make something cool and I just have to make my own version

Huh. I didn't even know Scatterer did that. My previous GPU wasn't all that and I never ran Scatterer before. It was intended to be a joke, yes, as when I went back to the craft without time passage, it was't there any more. Maybe it was an eclipse effect, though that should still have been there then, unless there was some odd issue with it not rendering upon loading back in. You're probably right though and it is just the eclipse effect.

To finish the day off, and my last of three days off work... ... I decided to crew and fuel my Mun station, recently sent over after being built at my Minmus ground base. Crew arriving from Kerbin - the Poodle pushing the thing wasn't quite as strong as I might have thought, and during velocity matching, it actually passed right between the radiators and the trusses for the solar panels. It was a very Kerbal approach. Then I decided to finally get some fuel to the Mun SOI fuel tanker in a wonky orbit. It used all its fuel to get to the Mun, and had nothing left to land at the ground base with, so I sent an orange tank from Minmus station to the Mun full of fuel, using a lithium tug. At the same time, I decided the Mun station could use more life support for the recently arrived crew. Minmus ground base still had a small life support lander sent from Kerbin over half full, so I got it to hitch a ride on the lithium tanker with the orange tank. The MPD thrust is small enough and each has a reaction wheel, so the off center thrust wasn't an issue at all. Poking a grappler through the engine bell is EXTREMELY realistic. After getting to a stable Mun orbit, the life support lander docked with the Mun station. Burning to match velocities with the fuel deprived tanker, I noticed Kerbin had encountered what looked like a rogue black hole: Fearing the worst, I checked KSC, and nothing was on fire, and the black hole was gone. I can only surmise the Kraken is playing its usual jokes from Dres. Probably because I skipped over Dres yet again when sending probes out. Oh, and probes have now been sent to Eve, Duna, Sarnus, Neidon, Jool, Urlum. I'm still planning on a colony ship to Laythe and perhaps Tekto, and am now thinking about finding the wormholes to Alpha Kerbani, as plotting a standard transfer there was going to result in an eighty-five thousand year voyage. Yeah. Gonna go find those wormholes around Jool tomorrow, maybe send something through.

I'm always a generation or two behind. I can't afford top of the line GPUs and CPUs. I think it's overrated anyway. They're good, yes, but I'm more about spending efficiently. I was humming and hawing about spending $700 on a GPU as it is. KSP seems to react well to brute force hardware power though. It's interesting that my game even loads about 5x faster, and I didn't even change the location of the game. I'm actually running the game from a folder on a home network server through my 10 gigabit LAN. Main PC only has one small SSD for windows, everything else is stored on LAN. Bit of a network nut I am, but it all works, and fast.

TAC has been bugging me about my Minmus base running low on food. I have the ability to generate it there, but I don't think the drills can keep up with what I'm asking of my converters. It isn't helped by my low level engineers and the fact I landed the thing on the flats, which has the lowest ore abundancy on Minmus. I think I need to design and build a mining vessel purely for suborbital hops to the highlands, whose sole purpose will be to drill where it's abundant, store vast amounts of ore, and hop back to the main base. Or maybe it's time for a second Minmus base to handle all that. Nevertheless, today so far I've sent a small vessel here from Kerbin with a few more years of life support for the base. It's off to the top left of the image. Simple Logistics is a fantastic mod. Means I don't have to faff around with pipes. I don't use pipes only because they've made my ground bases explode before. When I set down next to the base with something, I get an engineer out, EVA around the craft, and imagine he's checking systems, then connecting hoses from the base to the lander. Simple Logistics then lets me transfer stuff around without fuss. Here's hoping in KSP2 we get transfer pipes or hoses. This base is slightly hampered by the heat radiators that spin at the top of the main tower. They get in the way of large EL crafts, and I have to time my launch so the Sun is overhead and the panels are straight up and down. Been thinking about another launchpad off to one side so that isn't an issue, but really it just means I have to turn wide stuff 90 degrees in the VAB/SPH before attempting the build. Sarnus probe away! With 12.3 kms, this probe will cruise to sarnus over the next 7 years, then spend several years conducting experiments and mapping the system for potential colony sites for the sleeper ship which will depart during the next transfer window with 5 Kerbals and a ground base. The probe is a modified lithium based interplanetary transfer stage designed to push stuff around, so it has RCS jets, but I took the RCS out of the tank to reduce weight for the Sarnus transfer. The tank has a lot of stuff attached to it and I didn't want to redesign the whole thing so 12.3 kms should be enough to capture, then fly around to everything and SCANsat it all to death. Then I'll probably send it into Sarnus for atmospheric science or leave it in orbit as a relay. Identical ones have now been sent to Urlum, Neidon, Eve, and Duna.

Pretty much. I have everything turned all the way up, full texture res, EVE, Scatterer, full surface scatter, three planet packs... system sort of just shrugs at my craft that would have had my old 960 slugging at 15fps. The new PC specs were my Christmas present to myself

Asparagus everything. Spend forever designing a good launcher that _just_ gets its payload into orbit with maximal efficiency? Nahhhhh. Design payload, slap a jumbo 64 and a mainsail under it, slap 4 jumbo 64s to the sides of that, feed them into each other and the main one, stick skippers on those, stick some fins on it so it doesn't cartwheel, and strut everything. DONE. I have a subassembly called "I Hate Making Launchers" and it's literally all that plus a probe core, SAS and an RTG. I make my stuff on Minmus with EL now. My KSC budget monthly is $2 million. A few jumbo 64 launchers don't even make a dent. All I send up now is Kerbals, life support, and wonky stuff that's hard to fit on an EL base launchpad. This one I didn't even care enough to add fins, and is hauling a 40t payload to orbit. The last stage is transfer. The launcher still has 4400ms which is gloriously overkill. When you wanna get something to orbit, and KSC doesn't care how it's done, so long as it's up there by the end of the day.

KSS was my first functional station, and has had a number of upgrades and replacements over the two years it's been up. Most recently replacing the entire main block with something a little more capable as my science tree has expanded greatly in two years. The very first pod I docked with it is still up there in behind the plane. The plane was my first shuttle attempt, and worked wonderfully, it's now a crew shuttle. Large fuel storage, a lab, habitation room for many crew, currently has I think 3 years of life support. Simple solar power generation and a large battery bank get it through the dark. I'll get a reactor up there soon when I need more power. The little RCS tug on bottom left is terrible. It works, but has very low EC, meaning it dies in two minutes if you don't plug it into something. One solar panel and didn't have RTGs at the time so it's horrific to use. Soon as its RCS tanks are dry I'm sending it into the atmosphere. Minmus station. My second station, built by the base at minmus using EL. Reactor and solar because overkill power generation is fun. The orange tank came from Kerbin to refuel a lander before I had good fuel generation on Minmus. Station is going to get a Deepfreeze upgrade soon, hence the Glykerol. The craft in the back is my first iteration of a lithium MPD pusher tug / interplanetary transfer stage. it has 13kms in it when not attached to anything. To be replaced when I unlock lithium RCS so I don't have to carry the dead weight of RCS around. It was also built on minmus. I tend to overdo power generation because my stations are so multipurpose. I may tug an asteroid to one of them and send up a resource converter someday, so the ability to generate mass EC is only a good thing. Mun station. Currently not even crewed. It was built on Minmus' surface, and sent up on a small ascent stage plugged into the back of the small 16 orange tank. Upon transferring to the Mun, I undocked that and let it crash into the surface because I hate the Kessler syndrome. Its gravity hab isn't spinning yet because it requires engineers to deploy, and the station is currently awaiting crew. The transfer vessel that did the Minmus -> Mun transfer is docked to one of the station's booms. It's an autonomous NERV pusher unit, which preceded my new lithium based tugs. Still, it boasts about 8kms without anything attached. Pushing the station brought that down to 2kms, but it got the job done easily. I think the next large project is going to be a Laythe station / ground base so I can colonize around Jool. Duna is cool, but Jool is cooler. I also have other planet packs, so Sarnus and Neidon are looking mighty fine too.

Alright, I'll start it off. My first Minmus / Mun lander / rover. I don't do things small or on shoestring budgets in KSP, so my creations are usually much more than is needed as I like to reuse my craft a few times before replacing them with more capable ones. This rover is an abomination. It's too tip happy, it rattles around a lot, and was just thrown together with what I had at the time. The lander in the background too. The problem with the lander is the tanks aren't far enough out, so the rover has to sort of push its way under them to dock with the lander. Then the lander was designed to operate without a Kerbal, but I forgot an antenna, so the only way it is unmanned is if the rover is docked. I found this out when I transferred my Kerbal out some time later to my Minmus station and took the lander down unmanned to the base to get another Kerbal back up to the station, and attempted to leave the rover behind. Overall it was a pretty bad setup, but it got the job done. I don't have it any more, as I used it to boost my Minmus station's orbit out and circular, then I deorbited it and watched it unceremoniously smash into the surface. This is all I've got from my current game, and I suppose it's more just weird because it's bad, but I wanted to bump the thread

I LOVED my 8320, had it overclocked to a clean & reliable 4Ghz. It had TONS of life left in it for what I used it for. Anything multi-core it absolutely BREEZED through. Video encoding, which I do constantly, was amazingly fast. You're right on single core stuff though. Although I have limited knowledge of what stuff is done multicore, threading, etc. I need to take a bit of a crash course on modern CPU stuff. I just know what fits with what, and what is regarded as good Enough to throw together a system anyway. The sole reason I upgraded to the Ryzen 7 was my motherboard at the time had a USB3 controller that HATED my VR headset (damn ASMedia). I wanted something with support for it out of the box. However, nothing touches this CPU on KSP performance compared to what I had. I see now why people suggested I upgrade the CPU for better KSP performance, though much of my framerate increase has to be down to the 2070 Super rather than the 960GT. It was expensive, but soooooooooooo worth it. My old 8320 I gave to my dad, as a free upgrade from the quad core AMD FX I also gave him years ago... which was an upgrade to the old dual core AMD I gave him before that lol. He loves my free hand-me-downs. I'm gonna give him my old 120GB SSD next as soon as I pull the trigger on a pair of M2 SSDs. He's still running a craptastic SATA 1 120GB hard drive that's slow as molasses... as his main Windows drive...hoh boy. He's 71 and spends a lot of time making slideshow videos with his massive picture library in... Windows Movie Maker (insert gut-wrenching here). I'm trying to get him on Adobe Premiere, and he loves the added controls, but finds it daunting. He loves the power the 8320 has for video stuff though. He finally has a system that can comfortably run modern creation software and it's a massive upgrade to him. The only thing the 8320 ever did bad was thermal handling. It overheated on me quite a few times, even before overclocking from 3.5 - 4Ghz... During video encodes in Handbrake especially it liked to roast itself at a balmy 85+C. I eventually bought a MASSIVE heatsink for it that promptly fixed that issue though. His PC now comfortably sits at 8 degrees celcius at idle at room ambient 22C. My Ryzen 7 does much better, stock heatsink running KSP at max settings is mid-50s. Think I'll overclock it and watercool it at some point.

KSP has yet to crash on me this version, even with my ~120 mods including three big planet packs. I swapped from my old AMD 8320 & GTX960 to a Ryzen 7 & RTX2070 Super last month and KSP has been WORLDS smoother overall. Can finally max out all the graphics settings with hundreds of parts and no time dilation. But yes, the game needs to just work out of the box, with as few bugs as possible. Cutting some problematic features for stability and them putting them in later I'm all for, provided the game on launch does actually do something KSP1 does not.

Ooo. I like this. Underwater bases and some incentive to do them would be neat. Can be as simple as anomalies on the seafloor that give science, or maybe a resource that lets you use a particular set of good engines that can only be acquired there, a la Karborundum on Eeloo. Integration with life support, maybe some failures of parts like DangIt but a little more specifically implemented. Have to take a base module to the surface to get water out after it floods, things like that. Hey now I like me some Elite. I play it in VR with a Rift S, and even though the gameplay _can_ get stale, it really is a thing to behold in VR. I even have a desktop overlay behind my cockpit so when I'm doing multi-hundred LS supercruises I can swivel my chair and watch YouTube or something while I wait. 6 degrees of freedom combat is something that has never been done quite as well in any other game imo (FA: Off guy here :D). I took a look at the Kerbalism page. I'm completely willing to install the whole thing again. The simple scripting and the radiation zones around stuff has me quite intrigued. Problem is, I have about ten space stations with crew currently using TAC parts. Most of them are modular, so I _can_ replace the life support modules. The bases not so much, of which I have two (Minmus, Mun). Switching from TAC to Kerbalism is going to be not so fun. Going to have to crew shuttle everyone home, then try and get my bases and stations to a no-life-support status, then swap mods over. But I'll give it a go. Sigh. Guess design of my Laythe mission is going to take a backseat for most of today... and then require complete overhaul for redundancy and habitation requirements and dealing with radiation.... Oh well. 3 days off work and nothing planned other than vacuum the house and play KSP. Maaaaaaybe it's time to go all in and start a new save with Kerbalism... but I was just getting to the really fun mid-game of KSP. Sigh. I suppose I could start fresh and bang some stuff into orbit and go full steam on science acquisition with what I know now about how my mods all synergize. I just added Nertea's new exploration pack... Hmm. Maybe I'll throw a probes first science tree in there. Haven't done that for a while. ONWARDS! -- I'd like to see monthly budgets as an option at the start of a game save rather than contract based money. I don't like contracts as the sole means of money, other than specific checkpoints in my career. I'm head-canon-ing a race of Kerbals planetwide that have the sole wish to GET OUT THERE and go see what they can find and colonize stuff. I'm pretending that most of the planet is behind my space program, and it's the focus of my race of Kerbals. It's what I feel humanity -should- be doing right now. So my monthly budget keeps going up as I expand out, and I take contracts for reputation only to further public decision that space is indeed the thing we want to do in life. So, just more options to prevent constraining my gameplay to "you do this thing right now or you're broke", and more of my preferred gameplay of "hey that planet looks neat, let's put a nuclear powered blimp on it, because the full might of Kerbal-kind says why the hell not?". -- I'd also reaaaaaaaally like some far future stuff. I don't want warp drive. Though I played the hell out of USLD? Jump Beacons back in I think it was .90. I had a whole planetary network of beacons and efficient freight ships moving stuff around all the time. My Kerbol system had around 20 vessels on route to various stuff at any one point and I also played with MKS then, which I suppose I should do again (but damn those resource trees, omfg). But I digress. Specifically I would love the hell out of something like an orbital ring, skyhook, space elevator, or just some far(ish)-future method of getting stuff into orbit, especially if we're not giving me launch and station rendezvous automation after my 100th orange tank run to my space station, and doubly especially if we're doing colonization on the scale the KSP2 trailer suggests. If you're unfamiliar with the technologies I'm referencing, I'm going to shamelessly plug Isaac Arthur's video on orbital rings, as the dude needs more subscribers and does a wonderfully detailed job explaining them, and is well worth your time watching.

I've always liked the deployable envelopes. I'd appreciate some inline ones. Identical to the current deployable envelope is perfectly fine, but just inline so I can streamline things more. If you wanna get really fancy, I'd love to see an inline envelope that expanded into a ring rather than a balloon off to one side. I mainly used HL parts to hover around my bases and skycrane stuff around without using fuel, with electric propellers, etc. Also messed around ages ago with an EVE SSTO using HL envelopes as initial thrust. Just to give an idea what I use the mod for. If you're into realism... Ever thought about a part that generates the resources needed for the envelope to open? Like maybe editing the cryogenic gas separator to produce hydrogen or whatever out of the atmosphere, maybe some tanks to compress & store that as liquid. As a start though, yes, I too would like to see other textures for the pink/gray deployable envelopes that more match stock colors.

1. I'm going to have to check that mod out again. It was very early on when I tried it initially. Glad to see it's come a long way since. 2. Science experiments taking time is something that definitely should be a thing, along with life support. Maybe make certain experiments only complete-able by certain vessels, like a landed base with qualifications. So your petri dish experiment must be done on Duna, at a landed base, having at least a level x scientist in a lab, and takes x time, all the while your scientist is burning air/water/food. Then make the result fully transmit-able. One of the convoluted things about my science currently is I have research stations around 4 bodies at the moment, and I have to load and check each to transmit after each significant timewarp. I'd love just a simple UI (even a mod for current KSP), which takes stock of my science generated by my stations, and transmits it without loading anything in. All it would have to do is look at science rates, generate the science value, let me hit a button to transmit, then take that science away on next vessel load. I like how there's storage for data in actual KB. The Jesus science box I constantly use having limitless experiment storage is sort of amusing. I'd love to see digital data storage in proper values for KSP2 (EVA to remove a hard drive from a returned probe? :D). Maybe also requiring a network capable of transmitting at a required speed or gain to accurately receive that data, meaning I'd have more incentives to try to return my probes to Kerbin at least early on, rather than having them scream past Moho at 8km/s, 500m above the surface, then transmit my science, and then proceed to not care where that probe is or is going for the rest of my game... unless it's like that one time that Moho probe then somehow found itself 100m/s from encountering Jool... Still dunno how that happened but I'll take the free science. I haven't done anything with the Breaking Ground DLC science EVA thingies. I'm actually going to check them out right now, as I'm at a point in my save where it's gonna be several hundred days till my probes get where they're going (Duna/Jool/Moho probes are on their way :D). Playing with life support means excessive timewarp has me carting life support cans around my stations over and over. My Minmus and Mun ground bases don't have proper life support generation yet, though they finally do have recyclers. 3. I already really enjoy RemoteTech. The feeling of triumph when my probe receives its orders to turn & burn at exactly the time it reaches the point it needs to, billions of miles away, is a lot of fun. Transmission time delays are another thing I'd like in KSP2, perhaps only in higher difficulties. Maybe a slider from realistic to instant. Already in a savegame I like to get a SCANSAT probe going on the mun and minmus super early, as well as Duna / Laythe whenever I can realistically do it, just so that when I finally get to going there for real, I have the data to set down somewhere actually useful. I've never created a mod, but as someone who uses over a hundred of them, and really can't live without some of them, I wholeheartedly agree. Anything that makes mods easier to develop or update would be great. Especially heavy ones like Kopernicus. It's amazing these authors have hacked their way as far into the game as they have, but I gather it's a pile of work to update every game revision.

I haven't tried Kerbalism since its early days. When I first tried it, it did some weirdness on high timewarps and ended up killing one of my kerbals, so I promptly uninstalled it. I suppose I've gotta try it again. I realized that after the fact. Voltage might be fun to designate though I suppose - might even be fun to have different tiers of vessel electronics. But I imagine it would get a bit messy. Wh is fine but a little more vague. I'd just like to see a realistic power unit that isn't EC. EC transfers near instantly between components, batteries don't need to be heated, etc. I'd like a more in-depth power system. I would imagine if it becomes that prevalent there'd be some form of automated resource transfer / harvesting. I do enjoy micromanaging resources to an extent. But you're right, eventually it gets grindy and repetitive enough I want to cheat things into orbit just for supply runs once I know I can do it for real.

My bad. Didn't mean to necro. Feel free to delete the thread if it fizzles.

After my 70th launch to fuel my fuel stop space station, after being completely convinced that my launcher will get that tank into orbit 100% of the time, I can tell you, it's more fun to simply port the mess into orbit rather than go through another launch, and intercept, and docking.

Psssh. Get out of here with your HERESY

Originally I replied to a thread with this title, but didn't realize I'd necro'd it. So a kind mod moved it to a new thread before I realized my mistake. Nevertheless, anyone else have wishes for KSP 2? Anything goes. I'm aware there's another thread with current replies for this topic as well. I didn't mean to take anything from that thread or its creator, and my apologies this turned into a thread dupe. Any mod can merge (if possible), or just delete this one and I'll post in that one. Here's my initial post: More interactive science, long term habitation. Full ISRU systems, no magic tin cans that do everything. Full life support, using ISRU functions that make sense. AMP HOURS. EC is a stupid resource. Tell me how many amps my modules take, how many my panels produce and how many A/h my batteries have. Make it realistic. Easier resource transfer micromanagement and automation. Doing my 75th refuel run up to my fuel hub space station is boring. Why not give me a tool to automate deliveries? Take the funds, take time to construct, time to launch, and do it completely automatically. Extra points if the system uses a ship I design and actually launches it and puts it in space, then autodocks it while I'm doing other stuff. I want to amazon order a can of oxygen up to my KSS. It's not that I can't do it myself. It's just I've launched that specific vehicle about a hundred times for simple haulage purposes and it gets boring. It trivializes LKO stuff, sure, but once I'm routinely messing with stuff around Jool or Duna, it's sort of a given that I can shove X tonnes of stuff into LKO with vehicle Y. Extra extra points if I can summon that vehicle to a particular SOI, and, with correct computer tech progression and sufficient supplies, mission control can guide that vehicle to me eventually. I did a venture once back before 1.0 where I did a grand tour with two ships to every planet and moon (outer planets mod), landed on everything feasibly, and burned the two ships almost simultaneously every time. It was fun to have two sister ships. One entirely crew focused, and one entirely automated and surface base oriented. I'd land all my surface base units, then the crew, and then spend some time gaining life support resources for the journey to continue. Anything to make that venture easier would make me want to do it again. Along with random failures mods, it was the most fun I've had in KSP. Equipment had to be well designed, and last for decades against random and cumulative failures. So yeah, tools for that.

Ditto. I know I can just hide debris in orbit from being seen. I just... hate it. Like, I think if aliens ever visited, they'd take a look at Earth's SOI, and go "that's a lot of excrements... these people are messy". So personally I deorbit EVERYTHING. I'm not above reverting saves if one single decoupler or KAS tool or something goes flying into orbit. However usable stuff I leave in orbit constantly. I have a habit of overbuilding launchers, then sticking a docking port on them. I have a tug with a huge tank on it in orbit that will dock, transfer fuel, then deorbit the debris. I also have issues with having superfluous parts. Like, I'd rather use one tank that includes both monoprop and LFO as a service module, than two separate tanks. This isn't a performance thing, as I just upgraded to a Ryzen 7 and an RTX 2070 Super. It's just my convergence preference. Duct-taping 50 science parts onto a command pod or a service bay just irks me. I do what I call "science modules". I take a service bay, fill it with science crap, then a docking port on each end. My probes or landers will dock with one of these modules and then useit, then eventually deorbit or reuse it. This also lets me upgrade old landers as I get better science parts. Compartmentalization is something I do a lot - I use docking ports on my favorite landers so I can change out their engines, main fuel tanks, pods, etc. as I get upgrades. Also lets me do cheap launches as I'm only launching say, two new engines for my lander to equip it for Tylo, rather than a whole new lander.