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Indeed, the only one that really needs a rebalance is the "Hard" difficulty. The others don't really require grinding.

You need to go into "advanced mode" to get the subassemblies. See the arrow in the top left corner? Click it. The little green ship icon is for subassemblies. As for the buttons, clicking one and then clicking a part allows you to tweak the position and rotation of that part. The first one is the "place" mode button. It is the old style of part placement. Once you place a part, you can use the other three. Buttons 2 and 3 let you shift and rotate a part, respectively. Clicking the second and then a part will bring up some arrows. You can now click and drag the arrows to move the part. The third button lets you rotate a part, some circles pop up when you have it enabled and select a part. Click and drag the circles to rotate on the indicated axis. The fourth button lets you reroot the craft to a valid part. I.E. a fuel tank. Click a part, then click a valid part next to it to reroot the ship to the second part.

Here's what I think: "Hard" Mode needs to be hard, not just more grind-y. Give trickier contracts, with narrower parameters. Make contract failures more detrimental. Other than that, it just needs some tweaking on the building upgrade costs and contract rewards, one or the other.

Switch to "Surface" mode earlier, and kill your horizontal velocity. (In layman's terms, point in the opposite direction you are going relative to a surface, and burn until you are falling straight down instead of sideways). If you time it right you'll be right on top of your target. If not, just tilt toward the target and burn to start moving, then in the other direction to fall down again. The closest I've gotten (I could get closer if I had the fuel and time) was within 100 meters.

I made orbit! Huzzah!

Banned for telling a moderator what to do.

Yeah, don't do it if you don't have to and don't want to. Fairly self-explanatory.

SQUAD, YOU ARE MARVELOUS. Wahoo! This came as a total surprise. Just came online now and saw a screenshot. The hype went up. I thought he was a beta tester. He wasn't.

So am I! Here comes the wave of income for the companies that sell the F5 keys.

Wait, it goes; Strong Force, Electromagnetic Force, Gravity, though, right? Electromagnetism?

Every. Time. I have trouble reading scientific articles about satellites that mention LEO. And I've almost said LKO several times when I'm talking about the International Space Station and such. This game is going to be a pain.

Aesthetics are nice, and with 0.90.0 (I think) scope completion will be reached. So, the devs will have time to spend on the little things that make the game better, and be tweaking like there's no tomorrow. I fully support the idea of little background noises. Especially some beeps from probes and wheel motors. However, in the meantime, check this out. Chatterer Mod

Basically Career mode endgame without having to !!SCIENCE!!, right? Or, Sandbox mode with funds? I would actually like this, I'm tired of the grinding but like the challenge of contracts.

Hit 2 E-Classes together for a spectacular show! I like this one too. Classic "Asteroids". (Now we need missiles. Zekes, bring a Drek!)

With the new vector holders in the next update, this is going to be trivial. Just set to "Radial In" and presto! EDIT: With a "downward" facing part, of course!

Is it gravity?

AAGHH, it gets worse! *COUGH*timewarp*COUGH*

Indeed, this.

NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Name List (Chip #1) NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Name List (Chip #2) EDIT: Forgot about the second chip. Is your name on this list? Mine is. Just click on the letter that corresponds to your last name and do a search. (Ctrl+F) A little bit of context... Sarcasm quotes on the "little" bit of context.

How are you guys getting your ships to look like that? KerbPaint only lets me paint the wings... Has there been an update?

Lightning?

Kill it with FIRE!

UGGHHH, that last minute shove to the side! So many different messages...

Hey, this is really good! How's the music plugin coming along, Upsilon?