Kerbart

No no no, what you're thinking about is Godwin's law.

Maybe it's intentional? It's intended as a crew cabin, not a crew pod?

I claim Photoshop. Bob is smiling in that picture. He has all reason to look terrified though!

By partless he means that when you play in career, you will need a level 3 tracking station. Or you will need to add the KER parts (either the tape recorder or the print board) to your ship. It's been like that since... 0.90? Maybe even earlier?

8/10 no cut off, more points. But not using “curly quotes” in your sig—typographic no–no.

Your idea has merit, but if past events are an indication, I can already see the communal outrage over such a clause. “Squad just relaxing and reaping the modders'work while cashing fat checks,” and so on...

Wabbit season! Duck season! Wabbit season! Duck season! (Just what this discussion reminds me of)

I'm not a troll. I happened to have a very large booster that was using a Flea as a sepratron (this way it would deorbit itself after staging in orbit). And no, I was not complaining about it. But if you've been hanging around the forums here long enough (or for the past three weeks) you know that people will complain about anything and make a big deal about it. The point though, is that players can come up with designs that, when writing code for a dV calculation, you probably do not think of. That has nothing to do with trolling. The question (thank you for completely ripping my text out of context, by the way) was "why is it so hard? It doesn't seem hard to me" and I used this as an illustration to show that yes, it is hard, because there's all these kind of silly cases that you cannot possibly make up when writing the code to cover those scenarios.

Of course it does but as long as you place them symmetrically around the COM things should be just fine. I've never used RCS balancer, I just eye-ball it and that approach works fine for me. I don't like complex ships; that probably makes a difference. One set of RCS thrusters: close to the COM. Two sets: away from RCS, both at the same distance of the COM. Three sets: One & Two combined. Four sets: never went there.

The problem is that, for a mod, and especially for squad if it's stock, you'll have to get it right “all the time.” For 95% of the cases it's easy. Then there's a remaining 4% that's hard and then there's this one percent that makes you go “shut the front door!” Calculate the dV manually for a asparagus-staged stack with some additional boosters thrown in at launch. Angle the boosters at 15% for no reason. Actually, have one of them point upside down. Why would you do that? I don't know, but I do know that the guy who does it will complain that his dV readings are wrong. And that is why the dV calculation is hard. Edit: Snarked by @Snark!

In addition to that, having docking ports, even if they're just the juniors, really, really helps.

Really... Space is not the special exception. Crime movies? Crimes hardly ever get solved by running around and shooting countless criminals on the spot (remember how much attention ONE police killing gets... let alone a dozen). Car chase scenes in American movies always seem to involve manual shift cars with infinite up shifts and screeching tires on dirt roads. Shoulder launched rockets get launched from inside cars and rooms without roasting the inhabitants alive (something we were told in the army to never, ever, do, even with the tiny LAW anti-tank weapon). Photoshop editing will take one click to select exactly the right pixels with all the feathering and masking required (something that usually takes a lot of work) and of course any police computer can enhance a reflection of 5×5 pixels into a 2000×2000 pixel razor sharp image. Decrypting always has a countdown counter (because if we knew how far away the solution was, why not just start there searching?) and a Macbook will log into the computer systems of alien space ships who happen to have an operating system using elaborate animations (luckily in a format understood by OS X) and english characters. And the list goes on...

There, I fixed it.

The point is other fields. Makes you wonder how botanists look at The Martian. Or decision makers inside NASA. Best thing is not to cringe too much over those things or you won't enjoy any movie.

Remember, it's botany, it's not a real science!

Getting sloppy, eh?

Or, like those awful Mars One people, desert us!

They're never going to give up on innovation, are they?

And now I have to deal with these images in my head of a wooden rocket with a nose-cone made of red clay tiles and "IMPERIVM ROMANVM" on the side. I hope somebody will mod the parts for it...

Exactly! Aside from the occasional lunatic* who has already released a 1.1 version of their mod I don't expect serious work to be started until the final version has been released. No good deed goes unpunished and if the final release breaks the prelease 1.1 mod there will only be more pitchforks and torches. Let's all be reasonable and have some patience. * Yes, of course I'm more than happy to have Better Burntime in the 1.1. pre-release

Are we allowed to hang out without wearing a lounge suit?

Unhappiness about the world they live in. Remember that the first stage of grieve is denial. Conspiracy theorists simply don't make it out of that phase.

The Whackjobs of this world will happily set out to put 3000 part ships into orbit now. I suspect that most of use will continue the way we're used to, with the footnote that we can now have bigger space stations and ground bases without things coming to a halt.

You’re aware that “US” stands for United States, right? Had the Russians won the space race, one could equally argue that the US was the multistate empire and thus bound to lose...

Hahaha! Good one!