SpacedCowboy

How many Kerbals have I killed?

It's about time someone like me got highlighted! Someone who's orbital and piloting skills were, well let's say somewhat challenged! It makes us 'dumb kerbonauts' feel better to see someone else fail. Well almost;;; Boy, did he get lucky!

Ok, I get it, but I don't like it. Just depends on how much gun powder you lay down and lighting the fuse! Only wish there was some way to control the fuse.

How is it, in the VAB or SPH, that you can adjust the thrust on both the rocket engines and SRB's but, on the fly you cannot adjust the thrust limiter on a SRB? I understand that a SRB is an off or on thing but, I just don't get the logic! Either it is what it is or, it is what it isn't!? If it's adjustable in the VAB, then it should be adjustable in flight! Right? Comments welcome.

I'm sorry, but I have no technical advice to give you however, the explosions and crashes were quite entertaining! Not trying to be troll or anything like that but, that was pretty cool!

Yeah, I did try the map view and space center thing and that didn't work, but I will keep in mind the save and load idea. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for quick reply, I will try the right clicking on empty space thing and the IVA next time it happens. It was not a complex ship, just in lander stage with kethane stuff on it. I was trying to right click on the Kethane detector which was shrouded underneath a (I don't recall what it is ;;; 1.25 to mini hexagonal strut), but couldn't bring it up, kept on clicking on stuff and voila, a big mess. Any way, I will try your suggestions when it happens again.

Had a fine ship ready to land on Minmus. Right -Clicked on various parts to check status but those various parts would not "right click off", like they're supposed to. Had this "glob" of highlighted parts imposing on the screen that I did not want to be there! This resulted in a crash landing due to the obscured view! Is this a bug or, am I doing something wrong? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

It was not the wrong area and you are horribly inaccurate!

I'm sure a lot of you have seen this flick but, was that one awesome ship or what?! The scenes of the ship entering the atmosphere of the planet (or moon), and then landing were just awesome! the big pivoting engines and all just impressed the hell out of me. Don't you wish you could build something like that with KSP? I know it's only a pipe dream but, damn!

Alright! Thanks guys for all of your input. Think I"m gonna go with KER. I've lurked the forum for a while now and have noticed the "Great Debate"-MechJeb; Cheat or no Cheat So for now I think I'll try KER to start[/i

Oh, yeah!,,, Duh, forgot about that. I refer to it a lot, especially when I'm trying to remember the name of the ship I was building the night before, looking a the part count on the auto-saved ship at the top of the list, and then scrolling down until I see the same part count and,,, yup that was it! Think I'm mainly concerned with the accumulated tonnage as I'm designing. Thanks so much for your quick response. Just one more thing, being kind of basic game player I'm not really into mods that much, (however I am running the Kethane pack), which one of those mods do you think I'd happiest with? I see by your join date that you're a "veteran" so I would seriously consider your advice. Thanks again

While in the VAB or SPH, is there a way one can keep track of part #'s and weight while building a ship? Aside from putting it on the launchpad, going to space map and clicking on the little info button on the right side of the screen so you can see your part count and tonnage, there's got to be a better way, isn't there? Not knocking the devs here but one would think this sort of basic feature would've already been put in the game. Is there a mod for this?

Ok, I get it, I just thought there was something deeper going on there. Now I feel like a real moaron.

Wow really,? We're going way back with the time machine, Sherman. So the phrase was originated by a guy called "Lawn Dart"?! Lawn Dart Please report now!

I get the more and moar part of it, I just thought there was something moar to it!

Thanks for the enlightenment, have not been around the net much, now I feel like a real MOARON

Ok, I've been around this forum for a while but, what is the origination of that phrase? I always think I'll stumble over the explanation eventually somewhere but it hasn't happened. And what's up with the obvious misspelling? Is the MOAR an acronym for something?

Too many "ginger ales"

And you've got 8 junior labs going on there because ????

I'm kind of a "nooby" but have been around. Recently loaded the Kethane mod. Launched two sats, one on a polar orbit, and the other on an equitorial ( sorry , can't spell it) orbit, slightly inclined, with kethane scanners, thinking that both in short time would map Kerbin for kethane. Meanwhile, did a couple of Minmus and Munar missions thinking by this time, Kerbin should be totally mapped out! Not so. This was all in the same game save, but I did not realize you had to be flying that or other particular ship to effect a change! My bad, live and learn.

ER MER GERD!!! I can envision it now; with the release of .24, A new area added to the K.S.C.--- "Whackjob"s Junkyard"

Yup, you guys were right! The ship was slightly sagging between the clamps, causing a bit of motion. Duh. Thanks for your help guys, and Taki I like your sub assembly idea and gonna' try it.

Thank you for replying so quickly. I "lurk" the forums quite often and have noticed your intelligent and prompted advice to other "noobies" like me, and it is greatly welcomed. Any way here's the deal. I have this particular ship mounted on launching pad clamps at about a 45' angle. There are no wheels to "brake"! Does the game think I'm on the runway, therefore I should have wheels?

I had a plane on the runway and it was just after sunset, (game-time) Needed daylight so I hit the warp button, but it only goes up to 4X, like I'm doing a re-entry with the chutes deployed! Time warp works fine on the VAB's launch pad. I know I've used warp on the runway in the past with no problem so, what's going on here? A bug maybe?, or What?