Endangerment

Using spherical tanks, kw rocketry and MJ I've had a pad weight of 3500t which got to 95km LKO. Don't have payload weight but it was a lot!

Well I find I relax while playing them, so does serve a purpose to me on that front. They also provide entertainment..... But yeah agree with you on the general point :-)

With a twr of 3 for the first 10km I reckon you'd be pushing against terminal velocity or else throttling down which means you are carrying excess weight I'd suspect. For my biggest launches (1000t +) I normally try and have a twr of about 1.5 up to 10km, then about 1.8 up to around 45-45km then it is normally around 1.1 or less for final ascent and circularisation. I then use tugs to get whatever it is I've launched out of LKO. They have nuclear engines so very low TWR

I might not give them all my money, but I'd def play ksp while chillin on the space station, can't cost that much to rent a space right?

I think the point payload is making is that with FAR it depends much more on your ship, specifically the drag your ship has. If your design is aerodynamically horrible it might be more, if it is a smooth shape it might be a lot less.

You can get into orbit with three parts. Prob core, grey fuel tank and a '45 engine I believe. Turn right (east) at 10km and that will get you up into orbit (think with this design you cut thrust once apo is >75k and restart to circularise but can't remember).

There is a trilogy of books, the mars series, by Kim Stanley Robinson. They are about the colonisation of mars - I would heartily recommend them. From memory they did large holes on mars to release heat into the atmosphere. I'm pretty sure they are called moholes, so suspect one of the devs has read the books.

Enjoy your youth! It's even harder to play once you have a job and commitments.

I thought adding the tricoupler simply moved the instability from the ports to the join between the tricoupler and whatever it is attached to? Or do you strut it?

Thanks, thought that was the case.

With that heavy docking port I can't attach two together in the VAB, is that normal - do they have to be attached in space?

I'm guessing English may not be your first language? In your above post you are saying 'scene' and I think you mean 'sense', as in "does that make sense". On another note, I like your video's :-)

Don't go 'through' the sun, that will end badly :-)

Surely this is crying out for somebody with a 3d printer to make a rocket 'box' to house a DVD?