[1.12 Wheel Devblog, and Special Note]

Thanks for some AMAZING work, and herding all the cats to get it there. Best of luck to you in your next adventure!

[1.11: Weighing in on some changes]

On 1/1/2021 at 11:00 PM, Superfluous J said:

Actually it was confirmed, by the creator of the game no less

I stand corrected. I remember that post, but couldn't locate it - probably just didn't look hard enough. Thanks for tracking that down. :-)

[1.11: Weighing in on some changes]

On 12/24/2020 at 6:23 AM, PocketBrotector said:

I think that this was an intended feature in the extreme early days, which is why command pods contain an amount of monopropellant too small to be useful for docking. I don't remember that it was ever implemented in stock, though.

It wasn't. There are a couple references to it in the Wiki, which seem to have this forum thread as their root. It was never confirmed by a dev at that time as far as I can tell. The small amount of monoprop was added to all the CMs in 0.23. The best post on the details and background is this one from 2016.

[A Fond Farewell]

2 hours ago, Andem said:

I agree with you completely, but the game also isn't feature-complete.

True, it's Scope-complete, but it's pretty close to feature-complete.  1.2 is supposed to have it almost there.  Hard to say since the current crew may have a different notion of what that entails than Harvestr did.

[Goodbye, friends]

Thanks Kasper!  Best of luck in your next endeavors!

[A Fond Farewell]

2 minutes ago, Waseemq1235 said:

Kasper also left us..

Ah, then I stand corrected on major departures.

Any game producer is going to have fairly high turnover once a game becomes feature-complete.  It's normal for the industry.

[A Fond Farewell]

1 minute ago, Waseemq1235 said:

KSP is falling apart, no no no..

Isn't that a little alarmist?  Ted left more than two months ago, there haven't been any major departures since, and there's a great team of developers and QA folks working to push out 1.2.  The new features for 1.2 look great - doesn't seem to be falling apart to me, seems to be in pretty good health.

[Help us clean up the Bug Tracker]

3 hours ago, TheDestroyer111 said:

Why does the bug tracker require my first and last names to register an account? It doesn't seem like they are shared publically, but I want to know what they are used for.

Because the bug tracker runs on Redmine, and the developers of Redmine built first name and last name as non-optional fields in the user registration page.  This isn't some nefariousness on the part of Squad, it's a limitation of the bug tracking platform.  There's no mechanism that forces you to provide your actual first name and last name, the only true requirements are a unique username and a real email address for account verification.

[A Fond Farewell]

Thanks for all the hard work.  QA is a thankless job, even more so than development, and you navigated it well, with professionalism and thoroughness.  Best of luck in your next endeavor, it's been a pleasure working with you and, during the times I had my own stuff going on, watching you work and lead.  You showed how it *should* be done.  Thanks and if you're ever in Portland, Oregon, look me up and I'll buy you a pint.