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No, if you got banned, you'd know it. You could log into the forum and be hit by a big screen explaining why you've been banned.

Yes, you asked a question and implied that the moderation team treated the forum users as if they did not matter —or that you did not. Go back and read your post: None of us on the moderation team have any role in the "official Intercept Games" Twitter account. Our numerous community managers have done that over the years. While there is a Facebook group, no one from the moderator's team is an admin of it. So, any post we make does not go to the top of the group's algorithm. I did post one to it when we were told that T2 was aware of the situation with the site being down. This is because Facebook puts posts by regular members low on the group's algorithm. However, there are only about 50 KSP/KSP2 groups. I only belong to one group, and I will not join many more groups to relay messages as I am only a volunteer. I get it, but there are only a handful of moderators. I am not trying to be flippant here (I am fighting a severe migraine), but there are a lot of social media options out there. We only post to the most popular ones and the ones we are already using. The problem is that we are telling everyone everything we know, yet some in the community believe we have some "top secret stuff we ain't telling." We don't keep any "secret" information. So, when we say, "That's all there is..." and three days later, we are asked again, and we say, "Nothing's changed," we really mean it. It is not that we do not want to serve the community or calm fears of the forum disappearing or anything of the sort. We do not have any additional information.

We are not paid staff of T2. We are volunteers. I commented on what was once the Kerbal Space Program's Facebook page since I am relatively active on Facebook because of my job requirements. No member of the moderation team is paid, and, in my case, I have classes at the community college where I teach that require a lot of preparation (I am revising a course "on the fly" since I have not taught the class since 2016). I also have family obligations; I am working on a third graduate degree (which has more coursework involved) and dealing with health issues as if what I had going on wasn't enough. With Facebook's pace, I do not have the time to post an update every five days so that that content remains "fresh and visible" without falling into the pit of antiquated posts (at least it isn't as bad as X, formerly known as Twitter). What you categorize as "GTFO" is more like "we are buried by real life because we all have stuff we are doing." In any gaming community, the community manager (who is paid to do that position) is the person who does that kind of thing. The KSP community has no one doing that—you have a bunch of tired volunteers who, while we are shown some support, our community is not given near the support we grew accustomed to in the past. The information we did have at the time was all we had to relay to the community through the various channels we had at our disposal. Oh, and on the Facebook group, I am not even an administrator but a typical member. There's only so much I can do in that role.

Lately, I have been sharing old concerts from bands back in the day with my 13-year-old daughter (when she will let me). I shared the 1981 Escape Tour from Journey the other weekend with her. She wasn't impressed, but I have always thought this was one of their best concerts. And from this concert came one of their most well-known songs. I'm so glad that YouTube and other sites have the full concerts available! @Superfluous J, my song is a little older than a decade!

Typo.

Thanks! I've been watching a lot of videos about the software. It's pretty straightforward when it comes to what I can do with the block editor. All I am doing is playing around with the formatting blocks available, adding things to what was once the vast, empty right column for those who use the PC version of the website. All of my stuff is cosmetic, which you've pointed out. I couldn't handle the out-of-date dev updates for KSP2 any longer and decided to see what I could do. In the future, here are some things I am going to try to figure out: A block containing the forum "tag cloud": a dynamic and automagically updating tag area that identifies the most common tags for forum posts within the last sixty days and displays them. This would allow the forum member to select posts that have used that tag to display. A block containing the six most active forum games. I'm open to suggestions if anyone else would like to see a particular block added, provided the forum software supports it. It's the easy stuff compared to what @Deddly and @Anth have been doing "under the hood," so to speak. Thank you so much; it means a lot.

Calling 911 to find out the best place to hide a dozen donuts.

This is almost too painful for me even to share...

Try @Angelo Kerman's mods. One of them has stuff that may have what you need. I don't remember which mod it is, though...

That's the nature of the game! Your craft building will get better with experience. My problem is that I get bogged down when detailing my craft. Not a bad way to play KSP! One of the things I enjoy most about the game is the flexibility it allows us. I mostly do the same thing- aircraft and build ships.

This forum offers a long-standing community. Many of us here began playing KSP before there was a bloody 1 or 2. It was just KSP. We also made a lot of friends on this forum. For us, this is our neighborhood. ^^ This.

The KSP forum moderator's team presents the Threads of the Month September 2024 Edition "What happened to my coffee?" edition It's September! Like many of you, I have been really irritated with the frequent but random 502 and 504 errors, and I was getting the occasional "Domain does not exist" errors in July and August. Now that it seems the forum is a little more stable, I hope the stability is here to stay. For many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the fall semester of university studies is in session. For me, this means my gaming time is nearly cut in half. But as Ian Malcolm said in Jurassic Park, "Life will find a way." Instructions on using the TOTM images: If your thread has been selected as a TOTM, you can copy the image's link above, go to the area of the forum where you want to place it, and then paste the link. Press the <CONTROL> button when the image appears and right-click on your mouse. A menu will drop down and allow you to edit the picture. You can resize it - the first number can be changed as large or small as you want. Eventually, I will add these images to the thread I've created as a repository. For those out there who like the nerdy parts of the TOTM: To continue what I started in May 2021, I have kept some forum statistics to respond to those claiming the forum was dying, or interest in the Kerbal Space Program was declining. There were 322 320 new forum accounts created in August (an increase of 2 or up 0.63% from July). Out of the new forum members who joined last month, 17 transitioned from new accounts to being active and participating in the forum. This conversion means that 5.28% of the new users who registered their accounts last month are now contributing members of our community! (This is a decrease from July; 9.38% of the new members became active and contributing members). If you're interested in meeting the new members of our forum, click here! Now, without further delay, I present to you the threads of the month for September: Cinematic-based Fan-fiction, Mission Reports, and Kerbal Space Program-inspired Creative Works: This category features a video or other cinematic form of a Kerbal mission report using in-game video-recorded gameplay. Note: This has changed. Instead of awarding this to a thread, this is a *post of the month* since most new cinematic works are posted in a single thread. We have a lot of great content creators, but because they've been posting their mission reports as videos in a single thread, most of their work goes unnoticed by the general forum audience. Hopefully, this change in the category to a Post of the Month (POTM) will highlight the great job done by these deserving content creators. Other threads containing cinematic posts will also be featured in this category. Many great content creators deserve this recognition since we were aware of the thread by @Halban: Post Your Cinematics Here! (Cinematic Enthusiasts) that serves as a repository for cinematic threads. The thread received the TOTM previously, but it was felt that it wasn't enough for those who shared your fabulous creations featuring our favorite Kerbalnauts. Instead of being a TOTM, I've changed it into a CPOTM - a Cinematic Post of the Month. This cinematic work by @Socraticat, titled "The Spot - The Duna Files - Episode 1," @Socraticat shares a little about the passion and storytelling they have for the game. The cinematic is introduced as: You can find the cinematic here: Sometimes, the forum software will get glitchy, and an exact post may be hard to find. If this happens, here's @Socraticat's cinematic work: If you encounter other cinematics you feel are worthy of being recognized as this category's post of the month; please nominate them! You can use the exact instructions to nominate a post containing a video as you would use to nominate a thread. Fan-fiction, Mission Reports, and Kerbal Space Program-inspired Creative Works: This category features threads (or threads) that, while not directly related to the Kerbal Space Program, may be creative, fan fiction, or other presentations related to the game. One of the things I enjoy is seeing the many different ways the forum community imagines the world our little green friends live in. In this mission report by @Natso, a brave few Kerbals are curious about the bottom of Kerbin's oceans. This mission report focuses on their efforts to do just that! I'm hoping @Natso will continue to share his vision of what exploring the ocean floor of Kerbin is for those brave undersea explorers. @Natso begins the mission report with this introduction in the OP: Here's where you'll find this thread: So, if you're interested in reading a mission report and seeing how others imagine their Kerbal-verse, why not visit this thread? Forum Member Created Challenges and Missions: This category contains missions and challenges created by you, the members of our gaming community. Many excellent missions and challenges threads are created that expand our fun with the game and press our skills, creativity, and sometimes, luck beyond what we get accustomed to. Let's face it: we all have our go-to design basics and our go-to vehicles we like to use. Sometimes, a good challenge can cause us to think of another way to achieve our goals. One of the exciting features of our community is the great mission ideas and challenges shared within the forum. This month, we want to share a great challenge by @Devblaze called "KSA (RC) Project Lunar Vanguard." @Devblaze introduces the challenge: This challenge offers a lot of flexibility - modded or unmodded, various levels of difficulty and mission goals! So, if you are looking for something to do differently in KSP and are interested in giving this challenge a try, you can find it here: Game Support/Game Mod of the Month: This category features either help with the game (stock or modded) or mods that improve the Kerbal Space Program's quality-of-life gameplay. One thing about the stock system we all noticed early on is that there are not enough places to go! The next thing many of us do is turn to mods to provide us with more places to explore. Many of us turn to Outer Planets Mod, but even then, as much as OPM adds to the stock system, it still is missing something. This mod, a collaboration between @The Minmus Derp and @Interplanet Janet, fills in some of the gaps - and adds moons to the gas giants of the combined Kerbol system.@The Minmus Derp introduces the mod in the OP: You can find the mod here: We want to thank our family of mod contributors who continue to develop new and exciting mods that support our KSP1 and KSP2 community! So, if you're looking for something that will cause you to take your shuttle fleet to the next level, this is the mod for you! General community threads of the month: This category features a thread that adds to the community and doesn't fit the game support or game mod categories. Once in a while, a thread is nominated so that when it's read, one can't help but get touched by the power of the writer's words. This is the case with this thread started by @Fizzlebop Smith in the thread, "Testimonial - What Does KSP Mean to You?" I want to share that since I have been a member of this forum, there have been several threads where community members have shared what this game and the community has meant to them. In this thread, @Fizzlebop Smith writes a very touching open letter to our forum community. In the OP, @Fizzlebop Smith states: If you'd like to read the open letter to the forum or contribute to the thread's topic, you can find it here: I'd also like to thank @Superfluous J for sharing with the community what Kerbal Space Program means to them in the same thread. General space flight and space science threads of the month: This category features a thread that adds to our forum community's STEM knowledge (science, space flight, and related fields) and doesn't fit the game support/game mod categories. Whenever you have a fan-supported game and an active community that forms around it, there's always an area of that game's forum that generates good conversation. Our forum is no different. This month, a few of you sent me a DM through Discord and recommended that I read the thread started by @Nuke titled "transforming mars... by digging." [sic]. This thread presents an interesting theory of how to terraform Mars. @Nuke introduces the theory in the OP: Since the 1960s, there has been a lot of interest in terraforming Mars as the best candidate for eventual human colonization. This idea has captivated scientists, the writers of novels and movies, and been the subject of television shows and lines of toys. In Kerbal Space Program, many of us colonized Duna, the analog of Mars. It's why many who have found this thread have added, in many cases, our "armchair astronaut" wisdom of what we think Mars colonization or terraforming might look like, its technical aspects and limitations, and even what might change once humans set foot on Mars. If you want to take a look at the thread or are interested in taking part in the conversation, you can find it here: Honorable Mentions: Kos controlled fully automatic Starship Flight Loop by @theo3er The birthday thread! by @Souptime The Rest In Peace thread: Wally "Famous Amos" Amos, Aug 13; Phil Donahue, Aug 18, 2024. by @StrandedonEarth (TOTM Aug 2020 - not eligible for TOTM again) Sometimes, choosing which threads will be selected as the Thread of the Month for our five categories is challenging. We get many good nominations each month but limit it to one for each type. Threads nominated but not selected as a thread of the month become honorable mentions. The honorable mentions for this month are: Although this month's honorable mention may not have made the Thread of The Month, if you think it might be worth another opportunity, please renominate it! Congratulations to all the winners of the Thread of the Month! We want to thank our forum members @AlamoVampire, @Interplanet Janet, the moderation team members, and the staff who nominated this month's contenders. Thank you so much for helping us identify noteworthy threads and bringing their awareness to our forum community. We'd appreciate your continued help in the future. Odds and ends: TO NOMINATE A THREAD FOR CONSIDERATION: If you find a thread you feel should be considered for next month's thread of the month, use the "Report a comment" feature (the three dots on the upper right corner of the comment box) to report the thread. Please put in the text field of the port post "Nomination for the thread of the month," and we will do the rest! You can always nominate more than one thread, too. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT GOES INTO THE DECISION WHEN CONSIDERING THE TOTM: Wonder no more! This helpful guide is to help you understand what we use to help determine what makes a thread a really good thread and one that becomes a thread of the month/cinematic post of the month. It's everything you did or didn't want to know and includes helpful tips. And the last word for this month's post: I'd like to thank a few people who trust me enough to continue supporting and allowing me to contribute to the forum. I want to thank the Lead Moderator, @Vanamonde, for bringing me on as a moderator. It was a decision, and I'm sure he has had moments where he often wonders why he did it. I have no idea who else to thank since we do not currently have an active contact at Private Division or Take-Two Interactive - but thanks anyway for letting me continue to do the threads of the month. You can click here if you missed the last edition of The Thread of the Month (June edition).

Wrong again, or is it foiled again! Will @kerbiloid come out to play today?

The cookie less taken is the cookie that crumbles the least.

It sounds like it should be able to walk around on its own. Unless the road is made from a giant cookie.

"We will use KSP to simulate the next Boeing Starliner launch."

None. AI doesn't have any hands. AI can only write a pleasant and positive paragraph about how to do it. Why doesn't Siri or Alexa have a last name?

"Yes, you are right. We will install more cup holders in the next version of the space shuttle."

Calling 911 because @ColdJ took the extra chicken nugget sauce packet from the McDonald's bag.

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If you use Firefox, this is a common occurrence with the forum software, even if you are not in the "five posts before no moderation" queue. This happens because sometimes Firefox uses a local cache copy of the forum rather than downloading the forum. This can be resolved by pressing F5 on your keyboard.

Nah, brother, the old forums were Greek. The Romans stole the idea of forums from the Greeks. I was there as a student of Socrates, sitting in that forum, right next to @Vanamonde.

@Cydonian Monk - nice avatar change.

I still support them about once a quarter. I am thinking about sharing my SC4 city there, too. They even have a Cities: Skylines subforum now. Ideally, if the community were to do something like this for KSP, it is the model that needs to be followed.