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Voicey99, Thanks for the detailed reply and info! If the auto-shipping of resources uses a Hohmann transfer, it will probably be too slow to be practical. For me, with all these colonies, money is not an issue. It's possible to build a big expensive 3-stage nuclear rocket and get stuff to Leto in around 9 years or so. So it would be nice if the auto-shipping feature allowed a tradeoff between cost and travel time. But I expect that would be difficult to implement.

Hi, I've build a bunch of fully self-sustaining bases on the Galileo planet pack planets but I can't figure out how to do it on Leto. I've scanned all the biomes and as far as I can tell, Leto has zero RareMetals and zero Uraninite. I can't create them from dirt or resource lodes since the planetary average is zero. Leto is in the middle of nowhere (it takes 44 years to get there by Hohmann transfer) so lugging stuff there is not very practical, it has no moons and there are no asteroids up there. BTW, MKS is awesome and I recommend trying it on some of the difficult and interesting planets in the GPP. For example there is Tellumo: a huge earthlike planet with 1.9G surface gravity and a 10atm oxygen atmosphere that hits you like a brick wall. It also has rings and a small moon embedded within the rings! Any hints? Thanks.

Hi, I'm having an issue with some mining outposts. Each outpost supports 2 kerbals and has 2 duna colonization modules. They have plenty of colony supplies and fertilizer and are nuclear powered. The colonization modules are turned on. Now if I switch to some distant probe and time-accellerate for a hundred days or so then switch back, I find that the colonization modules are turned off and the hab timers have expired and by kerbals are tourists. Everything else including all the mining drills are still operating, so it's not like the base ran out of electricity. Is this expected? Or is there some way I can avoid this? Thanks!

Saw the movie last night. Great movie, go see it! But I suspect I'm preaching to the choir. I had to suspend disbelief a few times. The gravity assist off the earth seemed wrong. They would be coming in faster than the earth so a gravity assist would slow them down (and possibly give them a little radial velocity). Useful for visiting Venus maybe but not useful for going back to Mars. Also Mars would be in the wrong position for a Hohmann transfer (assuming they had just arrived from a Hohmann transfer). You would have to add velocity and swing out beyond Mars orbit, making the transfer time much more than the 9 months they seemed to be saying it would take. Or maybe I'm missing something? Still, awesome movie, highly recommend it.