Hakari

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I'm gonna try this with the Near future propusion pack. Cuz otherwise it would require either extreme command chair only mass saving, or gigantic ships that are a pain in the ass to launch.

10 minutes? that's what happens when you have a race with stock cars, and no rockets, it becomes a boring grind.

because manned pods are heavier than unmanned probes. If a lighter part gives the same amount of science, why would I ever use the heavier one? It is essentially reducing the difficulty of the game. So you might as well go all the way.

might as well just do an infinite science mod, or better still, play sandbox.

you won't hit anything because the relative velocity is too high, even if you aim two large ships directly against each other you won't have a collision.

I feel sad because it's a fantastic piece of work but the parts are pretty much useless since it's just an orbiter and most people have already landed on every planet. Also Kerbals are highly disposable so nobody cares about their safety.

I don't see how this might work unless you reduced the resolution of the textures. The main reason the squad folder is large is because the .mbm texture format is a lossless uncompressed bitmap. When you load your game every texture will be internally converted to something else anyway, regardless of your original format or file size.

mod parts? FAR?

While that's not a bad challenge, but whenever you point your craft above the horizon you are using part of your propulsion as upward lift. And if you never do that you would never get into orbit.