Blackswimmer

Made it! First ever SSTO, and it took more attempts than I'd care to admit. Seems to me that angle of ascent is pretty critical - too steep and you don't get enough speed, too shallow and you explode due to heat. Right, now to build a big one!

TSFH make the best music ever.

How? I have trouble enough hitting a target at rest relative to me from 1000m out. How on earth do you do flybys? Please share your technique.

Ok, thanks for the info. I'll have to give it a shot, see what I come up with.

I've been reading the thread, and I fancy making a couple of ships. If someone could answer a few queries for me that would be great. What kind of tonnage/part count brackets should I build ships for? How much delta-v, roughly speaking, does a combat ship need? Thanks in advance.

Looks like a really interesting space RTS. The graphics look great, and the tactical combat style is great. It's on kickstarter now here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1826182233/contact-vector-rts?ref=discovery

Cool, thanks.

Anyone know yet whether or not it breaks saves?

Question: are the figures for tonnage brackets for ships with or without ordnance?

If you've only got 60m/s left to get him home couldn't you use the old get-out-and-push method?

Resources are my biggest want. Aerodynamics are second for the shrouds and fairings.

Ok, as long as I can keep my precious ships.

Does this save breaking extend to saved ships, or can I bring those over manually?

Thanks to everyone for the help, I'll put a few of these suggestions into practice and see what works.

I'm trying to create a spacedock, and I'm sending it up in parts, but I want to make sure the parts line up perfectly, instead of being at angles. Anyone know if it's possible to make sure 2 docked parts aren't rotated relative to one another?