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Probably some time next week, but I'm not making any promises. The game is running smoothly these days, but I'm very busy in real life right now.

There we go again:

Good news, everybody! After Cydonian Monk's advice, I realized what the issue with the save probably was: the game crashed the last time I played it, so it probably generated a messed up file. So I just replaced the persistence with the last quicksave and everything is back to normal (except for the long loading times, I can't figure out those). I'm beating myself up for not realising that sooner. Thank you all very much and we'll be back with a new chapter soon!

Tried the Alt+F2 method, and noticed there are a bunch of errors related to the Pathfinder/Buffalo mods. But where the loading gets stuck is while loading the Kspedia assets, and the big issue is that after clicking "Resume Save Game" in the main menu, I get an empty list, as if there were no saved games in the folder. I tried running the program as admin, changing the game folder from "read only", not to mention disabling my antivirus and my internet connection, and also did a throrough clean up of the drive, and updated the graphics driver. I think Kuzzter's solution might be a good idea, but I don't know when I'll have the time for that.

Hey, folks! I'm glad there's still someone paying attention to this comic. But I have some bad news. I've been having issues with KSP on my computer since last week. At first, it was just the newest install taking forever to load and being very laggy, so I ended up taking the chance to play with my buggy 1.1.2 install, which contained Plan Kappa. But after I posted the latest chapter, the same issue started happening with the old install. Now I can only get it to work after 10 minutes loading, and even so I can't access the Plan Kappa save (or its backup), because the "load save game" button isn't working. Does anyone have any idea about what may be causing this? I'm at a loss.

Moar it is:

And there we go again!

Thanks for your comment! "Kerbalness" is exactly what I'm going for here, so I guess it's working! Thanks, I just added a little footnote under the page. I guess it doesn't matter how many times I reread the pages, there are still a few errors when I post them online...

Thanks for the comments, folks! Here's another one! * Obviously Ron Kerman is a bit confused when he refers to our planet as "Earth" instead of "Kerbin" ;-)

Hi, guys! Just dropping by to give you a quick update on the state of Plan Kappa. As I already told you, I have little free time these days, but what's really delaying the new chapter is the fact that the Plan Kappa save game is even more screwed up than the in-story universe. Ships randomly explode, engines stop working for no reason, the planets and moons often disappear when I load a vessel, and the game crashes at least 50% of the time. It's been really frustrating working under these conditions, as you may imagine. But I'm doing my best, and if the game cooperates, I may be able to release chapter 52 in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned!

A new chapter!

Oops! I'll add a little note under the page. Thanks!

* Correction: In the third panel it should read "Adventurous 4" instead of "Adventurous 3".

I was planning to use this exact line when the subject comes up in-story...

And we're back!

The bit about the movie is a little joke, but yeah, I don't know when I'll get back updating this and Plan Kappa regularly. The docking ports were actually stuck. It's a bug where the docking port is set as undocked in the persistance file and the "decouple" option doesn't appear. I could have fixed it by messing with the persistance, but I decided to run with it and see if I could save the crew.

Chapter 10 is here! This mission was done before my current KSP hiatus, and I never got around to turning it into a comic.

I use Photoshop CS3, one of the few programs left on my PC from my days as a designer.

Fascinating indeed! And that last line sounds like someone who's concocting an evil scheme!

I was mostly joking about Pokémon Go, since it doesn't really work on my smartphone (old android version), although it interests me as a research subject. As for No Man's Sky, not even that: the game is disappointingly boring and has little resemblance to what was shown in preview videos. The actual reason for my absence is that I'm really busy. I have a bigger workload this semester than I had last one in the college I teach, and I'm also preparing to go through a selection process for a job on a different university. I'm trying to find time to keep working on Plan Kappa, but it has been difficult. I'll probably manage to finish the next chapter whenever there's a holiday. We have a couple of those during September in Brazil. So long story short: Plan Kappa isn't dead, but it's currently in hibernation mode.

Well, there's also the coup d'état and the olympic games, but all what people are really talking about is Pokémon Go.

To be completely honest, while I have enjoyed the GameBoy and Nintendo DS/3DS Pokémon games, I find Pokémon go more interesting as a research subject than as an actual game. But there's also No Man's Sky coming out next week, and then I'll probably kiss my social life goodbye for a few weeks.

For reasons of Pokémon Go being finally released in Brazil, we might not get a new chapter of Plan Kappa this week. Thank you for your patience.

I'm still on 1.1.2, but I think the problem only afflicts bases that are attached to the ground. I'm thinking of rebuilding Feather Base (for the 3rd time) without the attachment.