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For a game like KSP2, I am confident that watching someone play it for a couple hours on YouTube is more than enough to know if I will enjoy it, so long as I pick the correct videos. 2 hours of someone crashing starter rockets into the VAB isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about someone knowledgeable building an interstellar ship and using the interface to pilot it.

I don't hate any world. I like Eve the least because to this day I can't reliably even land there with a ship capable of launching back to space, little alone launch that ship back to space. My most popular challenge has manned landing and return from every world in the game, and the Eve return is the ONLY step I'm even remotely uncomfortable with in the entire challenge. Jool 5? With one or both hands tied behind my back? Eve return? No thank you!

I don't know the answer to your question. However, I would like to suggest another way. Build your craft so they can be placed on the launchpad with launch clamps holding them in place, and then use the cheat debug menu to "rendezvous" them with whatever you're building in orbit. They will instantly teleport near it and you can then dock them and repeat the process with the next craft.

That sounds like a horrible game. And at the end you're stuck with an iPhone. I've been playing V Rising and really enjoying it. It's fun for all the things that are typically "bad" in survival games to be good here. Like night. Traditionally it's harder but here it's almost essential, being a vampire and all. Also been toying with Dorfromantik, Rogue Tower, and Plants Vs Zombies (which I managed to not ever play until about a week ago).

You don't need a perfect relay satellite constellation over every world in the game. You don't even need 100% (or even 75%) coverage. Completing a few satellite contracts with relay satellites is more than enough coverage, provided your probes can always at least aim prograde and retrograde without control.

I'm 100% sure I'm wrong. I'm also 100% sure that in 2014 I was right.

Fun podcasting fact #2: If you have some secret - some terrible, horrible secret - that you must make absolute sure your family, friends, and employer never EVER find out, the only way to make 100% sure it will stay a complete and total secret is to mention it on your podcast.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, but you may actually have a learning disability or disorder that is impacting your ability to learn using the tools you have been given, simply because no one (yourself included) knows that your brain requires different tools. ADHD can cause what you describe happening on your tests where you make errors so obvious that you can't believe you made them. Dyscalculia is a particularly nasty one that affects learning math in particular. Even dyslexia (which I have my own self, albeit undiagnosed and only to a slight degree) can hurt your ability to do math because it's not just words that you can mix up, and numbers without context have no "correct" order. I had to teach myself to double check any number more than 2 digits because no matter how sure I am that I had read "1537" there's a pretty good chance that the number's actually "1357" The older you are, the harder it is to both diagnose AND treat these, so you should look into getting tested for them as quickly as possible. I for example didn't really know about any of this until I was already a working professional, so I'm basically out of luck. My brain has found its own ways to compensate and that will muddy any test results. Well so much for "do this as quickly as possible." I hope you're doing well, OP, wherever you are.

Or combine both ideas. use an engineer to attach everything together into one big ball and then delete it from the tracking station

Usually, a preorder-only bonus. Also, if you preorder it sometimes you can start playing the second it comes out instead of having to spend those 3-5 minutes downloading it first. That last one was a joke. Well it's probably a reason for some people but it's still a joke from me.

Q: Are there any reasons why Intercept Games wouldn't want to do polls or beta tests for KSP 2, to make it a better game at launch? A: Because there is scant evidence that polls and beta tests make a game better at launch.

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The craft in orbit become yours. It's as if you left them there. You can terminate them in the tracking station to unclutter your map mode, go up with another craft and recover them, or just ignore them. Recovering them can be fun the first few times. It's a logical puzzle building a ship that can grab something from orbit and land it safely) but after you solve that puzzle the task can get repetitive quickly. Also, any rocket you send up to get the piece will probably be more expensive than the piece itself. So, I suggest you terminate all the ones currently in the tracking station, then the next couple contracts you take you try to actually grab the craft and bring it home. When you get bored of that just go back to terminating the empty craft after you save the Kerbal inside.

The best part is, when (if?) the game does come out, some people will hate it because something they wanted isn't in it or doesn't work, and some people will love it because it's exactly what they wanted or at least close enough to make them happy. So in a way we'll all be right!

To this day one of my all-time favorite lines ever spoken by humans. "With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

So long as we also drop the myth that deadline missed = you are an incompetent fool who should not be making anything little alone something as important as a video game

I am personally of the mind that while delaying the game will not magically make it good, releasing it on time just so it's released on time will certainly make it bad. But in the end this is all just speculation on our part. The game will be released or it will not be released. It will be good or it will not be good. Nothing we say will affect any of that.

I think we should ALL be able to define our own personal years so we can confuse each other. I know for a fact that KSP2 will come out in 2024 because I define New Year's Day 2024 as the day KSP2 comes out. I'll reverse engineer everything that happened before into that time frame.

The pre-alpha footage we saw in 2019? I'm sure it would have rivaled KSP 0.7.3 in functionality for sure. Yeah what am I thinking that's never happened before. (EDIT: I never said it was ready, that was you)

I don't understand this question. There were videos posted then, but other than that I don't know what you mean. Covid is not that kind of virus However if that source code was ready for release they'd have released it back then. It's possibly not even the same code base they're using today. I don't know between Starship and KSP2, but I would put money on them both being before Orion.

We can only hope.

Take your time. Make a great game.

Could you post a pic of it coming down tail-first? Full screen so we can see the entire UI. If the craft is the entirety of what you put in that first pic, my first guess is that the Onion is so draggy. They're terrible for anything in the atmosphere except slowing down.

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