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Hahaha, when I first started playing the game, I wondered that very thing myself (back in 0.18) until it dawned on me—I am the pilot! No, you're fine. You will learn other things in this game that will frustrate and infuriate you even more. Such as rendezvous and docking with other craft, plotting interplanetary transfers, and, oh, let's not forget, making sure you have not forgotten anything while designing your craft (this, by far, will get ya. Try a Duna mission, and forget solar panels or a ladder. ) Don't let it get to you too much. Instead of "Trust the Force, Luke!" we have a saying here: "Watch the Scott Manley tutorial videos on YouTube!" They are a little dated, as most were done before KSP1 reached 1.0, but the basics are correct.

KSP (the original) is destined to become a legacy game. I believe it is already in the early stages.

Ah, yes, it is! I hate to admit it, but I have a team of brave and daring Kerbalnauts stranded on Eve. I used too much fuel to slow the craft's descent to achieve orbit again, so I'm planning a rescue mission in that particular save. Or the solar panels, landing legs, antenna, and batteries... yeah. Newbie mistakes even us veteran players make. Ah, yeah. This is why I think KSP lacks a "simulator" where the design can be tested before launch. I have one game named "Sandbox Simulator," where I will design and test new craft designs. So, starting three years ago, most missions went reasonably smoothly once I decided to use it. Sometimes, I skip testing, and that's when things get wonky.

It's not playing KSP, but I did move my 1.12 game from my desktop to my gaming laptop. I'll have some images to share on Sunday.

This is the best type of KSP victory—figuring something out for yourself. I'm glad you were able to do it. I was going to ask you about parts mods—even small ones can cause issues. And welcome to our forum community.

Floor 5275: The floor everyone loves. A giant sign greets you as soon as the elevator doors open. It reads "FOOD COURT" in giant neon letters.

I am operating on the pretense that it will remain. If it does go under, there are ways to reconnect. I'm not ready to say "Ah, the forum's gonna fail, it's gonna die!"

Here. There are a bunch of us here in this forum. It is a pretty safe place if you abide by the forum guidelines.

A member of the moderation team has acted upon this thread. Folks, please remember that we are still following the rules established in the early days of KSP. This forum must remain "Rated E," meaning that we must be careful of comments and content posted on it. Some comments that were not in keeping with the forum guidelines have been removed. We have also removed some off-topic posts. Please ensure that future comments (and content linked to this forum) comply with the forum guidelines and are related to the OP of the thread. If you have questions about whether a post violates these guidelines or follows the topic of the OP, do not address the post yourself, but report it. Allow a member of the moderation team the opportunity to take a look. Remember, the moderation staff desires to keep this forum rated

At the community college where I still teach (unfortunately), we had a meeting about this. Since May 18, 2024, there has been a 370% increase in spambot attacks on social media, public works, financial, and educational websites. He said that while some of the bot attacks are to overwhelm servers with traffic to cripple them (he called this the most common reason some servers are having errors), some are more malicious and are looking for vulnerabilities within the site itself. We are not the only site experiencing these kinds of attacks. The community college is also experiencing them and unfortunately, the course I am teaching this summer is affected as it's an online course.

I blame the forum software.

I think it is an Internet-wide issue. I have been having similar problems with other websites today. An article that appeared in my newsfeed in April explains why there's more difficulty with webpage loading times. It seems the whole Internet is experiencing "bot traffic." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bots-now-nearly-half-internet-070000068.html @Snark, did you get hungry during the middle of the night again?

No, we should keep it. A small but healthy modding community may be able to keep KSP2 alive even though official development has stopped. The modding community may complete the planned roadmap and take the game beyond.

It's probably because they have way cooler stuff out now than when I was a kid. When I was younger, the Lego packs didn't even have wheels, wings, or mini-figs! Now, there are all kinds of shapes, sizes, and sorts of Lego bricks out there. Even Star Wars-themed Lego sets! I cannot even imagine what my room would have looked like had they had those when I was 7 or 8 years old! This here. I can get down to pick them up, but it's a little difficult. It's the dining room table for me most of the time.

@JustDark shared his comment on the original OP on this thread: Here's the op's contents:

Or the NPC walks so slowly that you and the NPC become "sitting ducks" to the angry horde coming after you.

When I initially posted the OP for the Thread of the Month for June 2024, it contained the following: This has now been removed from the TOTM. I was asked if I would be willing to separate it from the TOTM to avoid confusing the thread's purpose by both members of the forum community and others on the moderation team. I add this not as a member of the moderation team but as a regular forum member. In repeated posts on the social media platforms I'm involved in (Discord, this forum, Steam, and X (formerly Twitter)), it's all the same - we are free to discuss Take-Two, Intercept Games, and the like. Still, we cannot make personal remarks, personal attacks, or salacious or defamatory statements about other forum members or members of Intercept Games (this includes everyone - including members of the moderation team). And I believe my statement above did no such thing - it was an agreement with most of the complaints many of you have had over the past year or so (which no one has been discouraged from sharing in the past). All I attempted to do was add another layer to what's really bothering me about the entire thing we are currently experiencing - the human element. I've personally worked with the team as a member of the Pioneer Group when Squad was working on Kerbal Space Program. For a while, I was a member of the Pioneer Group when Intercept Games was working on Kerbal Space Program 2 -- this will be ending when the studio closes on the 28th of June. When you work with people long enough and are in contact with them on a daily basis, you get to know them, and friendships develop. So, yeah, that's a big part of it. It bothers me when I see my friends facing so much uncertainty in their lives, and I am powerless to help. The other part is that many of you are friends, too. We communicate through the forum or the IG Discord. We still do not have any word on the future of this forum or the official Discord server. Everything is uncertain right now—we are literally in the dark. For all we know, on June 29th, the forum and Discord will operate as usual. Or we could discover something different. We just do not know. And that bothers me, too. Kerbal Space Program is more than a game; it is a sense of community for many of us. So while KSP2 may have failed to be the game we wanted it to be at 1.0, it's not really the game I'm worried about. I'm more worried about the community as a whole.

Yeah, it was. I enjoyed it immensely. I hope we can work together on another project down the road.

The KSP forum moderator's team presents the Threads of the Month June 2024 Edition The Future is Uncertain Edition Yes. The end of the month is almost here, and I have been very negligent in my duties in posting this month's thread of the month in a timely manner. I will say that it seems that next month, which starts in a few days, will be a much slower-paced month. 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 313 new forum accounts created in May (an increase of 30 or up 10.6% from April). Out of the new forum members who joined last month, 25 transitioned from new accounts to being active and participating in the forum. This conversion means that 7.98% of the new users who registered their accounts last month are now contributing members of our community! (This is an increase from May; 3.88% 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 June: 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 @Oraldo revak, "The Launch: KSP2 Cinematic," as stated in the post, a test of KSP2's cinematic potential, was an attempt to test KSP2's "cinematic potential." Based on the forum community's reaction, I think we can say it was successful! Sometimes, the forum software will get glitchy, and an exact post may be hard to find. If this happens, here's @Oraldo revak'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. Although Kerbal Space Program 2 might never complete the planned roadmap, it still offers a lot of opportunity to both the modding and fan-fic community. This month, we are happy to feature this mission report by @BechMeister, based on a mission challenge created by a member of our moderation team, @OJT (The Duna Mastery Challenge). This thread contains several missions already completed, but it's more than just a "look at my craft and here's a story" thread. There's a discussion of the math behind the mission, charts, and detailed explanations about mission requirements, craft design, and fuel requirements to achieve the mission goals. @Bechmeister 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. There was no submission for this category this month. 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. Since those early days of the original Kerbal Space Program, many old-timers remember the two common questions that we would flood the development update threads (and would hear NO!). Those questions were, "What about clouds? and "What about some weather?" We all know there's already a specific modder and a particular mod we can install that gives us the clouds we want. But this mod, thanks to @CashnipLeaf and the other contributors, gives us the winds and temperatures we wanted on stock worlds. For now, the mod does add weather for the stock bodies within the Kerbol system, but the OP does state: 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/game mod categories. There was no submission for this category this month. 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. There was no submission for this category this month. Honorable Mentions: 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: Celestial Rescale v0.3.3 by @SpaceNerd24 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, @CashnipLeaf, @Skrix, @SpaceNerd24, 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'd also like to thank @PD_Dakota, our community manager, and @Nerdy_Mike, the KSP Franchise Community Lead, for tolerating me and allowing me to continue to serve our Kerbal Space Program forum community through the monthly Threads of the Month post. If you missed last month's threads, you can click here.

It doesn’t.

Ugh, yeah, 7, 8, and 9 were bad. Rogue One was fabulous. I will say that.

The KSP forum moderator's team presents the Threads of the Month May 2024 Edition 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 283 new forum accounts created in April (a decrease of 18 or down 5.98% from March). Out of the new forum members who joined last month, 11 transitioned from new accounts to being active and participating in the forum. This conversion means that 3.88% of the new users who registered their accounts last month are now contributing members of our community! (This is a decrease from March; 5.98% 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 May: 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. In @AnimatedK's cinematic presentation, "Frontiers Await A Kerbal Space Program Animation [Subtitles]," we hope future installments will follow! This month's cinematic post was not shared in that thread but in a separate thread, not by the creator, but was brought to the forum community's attention by @Ariel Kerman. You can find the thread here: Sometimes, the forum software will get glitchy, and an exact post may be hard to find. If this happens, here's @AnimatedK's cinematic presentation, "Frontiers Await: A Kerbal Space Program Animation [Subtitles]." 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. I enjoy the nominations from those of you who want to share the mission reports you've enjoyed reading. In this fan-fic featuring Kerbal Space Progam 2, @Uuky does something rarely seen—Valentina and Jebediah work together! Many of the fan-fics have them in competition with one another, often to see which one is the most skilled pilot. Although this thread only has one entry, let's encourage @Uuky to keep writing! @CollectingSP 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. There was no submission for this category this month. 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. Building colonies on the Mün is the next thing many of us do after landing on Minmus and the Mün without difficulty. And this mod will help you realistically build them. This mod, by @RoverDude, introduces an entirely new tier of gameplay to KSP1. It makes it necessary to plan each mission carefully as you construct your colonies on the Mün, Minmus, Duna, or wherever you're constructing them. The OP introduces the mod: 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/game mod categories. In April, many of us in North America were treated to a total/partial eclipse. Many of us were in the path of totality. Because we all love science - why else would we play the Kerbal Space Program? - it was only a matter of time before a thread was started to celebrate the celestial event. In this thread, started by @cubinator, everything about the eclipse is discussed, including a "pre-eclipse" discussion with some members sharing pictures of the eclipse and even some of their telescopes and related comics. If you still have some eclipse images you would like to share, please do share them in this thread! We would love to see them. On a related note, if you live in the area that was able to see the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) or the aurora australis (Southern Lights) because of the most recent coronal mass ejection on May 10th through May 12th, and you would like to share your pictures or videos, you can visit this thread: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/224806-strong-aurora-forecast-tonight-may-10-11/ 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. In November 2022, @Minmus Taster began a thread discussing the ongoing race between NASA, the ESA, the Chinese, and other space agencies and the desire to return Martian rock and soil samples to Earth for further studies. Space exploration enthusiasts, amateur astronomers, and scientists are currently debating whether this is a necessary step toward the eventual colonization of Mars. This thread is full of discussion around the various obstacles and the requirements of such a mission, and armchair (and a few actual) engineering experts weigh in on how such a mission might look. So, if you are interested in reading some of the accompanying links and ideas proposed by the forum members and contributing to the conversation, why not visit the thread? Honorable Mentions: 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: JFA (Jeb Far Away) - 1.12.5 (Alpha 0.3.2) by @D4RKN3R 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, @Ariel Kerman, @D4RKN3R, 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'd also like to thank @PD_Dakota, our community manager, and @Nerdy_Mike, the KSP Franchise Community Lead, for tolerating me and allowing me to continue to serve our Kerbal Space Program forum community through the monthly Threads of the Month post. If you missed last month's threads, you can click here.

Astrophysicist's debts are

Banned for being too wordy. That's not how this game is played.

It is also not as complex as KSP2. I am familiar with the game. It would be like comparing chocolate cake and a chocolate chip cookie. Yes, they both have chocolate and are considered enjoyable. But both are uniquely different.