BagelRabbit

Hello everyone! I just wanted to say that I made a video on this. I did give mythbusters844 full credit: At the end of the video, something weird happens. The command pod breaks off the Launch Stability Enhancer, spinning madly and travelling so fast it has re-entry flames (navball said about 1,200m/s) but still remaining just a few meters away from the Launch Stability Enhancer and not apparently falling or anything. Yep. I don't know what to think either. -Upsilon

Hello everyone! Just wanted to give this thread a quick bump. Because 1.0 is coming soon, these flying cars will probably only have a few more weeks to patrol the skies of Kerbin, so please take a look at them whilst you still have the chance. Anyways, please do let me know what you think about these vehicles, and thanks for stopping by! -Upsilon

Alright, I have up a video documenting the very first glitch I ever found! It addresses the question that has been asked by humanity since the beginning of time: Can Patcan and Raycan Can-Can in a Lander-Can? (The song about this is simply gorgeous, if you happen to be tone-deaf.) "KSP: Stacking Lander-Cans!" (3:53) EDIT: Yay! I can embed things now! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction KasperVld. -Upsilon

Here's a quick template for that, if you don't know how. Simply type (or even copy and paste!) the following: [NOPARSE]The Positive Forum Movement!*[/NOPARSE] ...it will end up looking like: The Positive Forum Movement!* *You can put whatever you want in here. "Check out this thread!" or the like would also work. You can even color your link: [NOPARSE] The Positive Forum Movement! [/NOPARSE] ...will give you: The Positive Forum Movement! I'm just throwing this out there because this is a great thread, and I would love to see others link to it. Thanks for making this Deddly! -Upsilon

So, I feel as if I should notify you of this beforehand, so that you'll be able to see it happen. Over the next couple of days, I'm going to make a lot of videos (one every day or two) about "saying goodbye" to 0.90. I'm going to showcase every glitch I've found (after all, they'll probably be fixed by 1.0), mess around a bit with the aerodynamics system one final time, and just have a lot of fun in 0.90 while I have the chance. I'm also probably going to make a video of KSP in 0.14 (the first version I played) and note all of the changes that the game has gone through. I'll try my very best to post all of the videos here, though I can't make any promises, as I'm enormously scatter-brained and have enough trouble posting things on YouTube already. It would be a good idea to subscribe to my channel (link below) so that you don't miss out on any of this. The first video in this series should be coming out tonight! Stay tuned, and thanks for watching. -Upsilon

Wait! Did you see that?! The above post was in Comic Sans. The words 'Comic Sans' have nine letters. Thomas988's name has the number 9 in it. After the 9, it has two eights. 8+8=16. 'Thomas' has five letters. 16-5=11 'Thomas' has two vowels. 11-2=9 There are three 'nines' in the above post. There are three sides of a triangle. 9=3x3. Illuminati Confrim'd? But wait! The first letter of "Illuminati" is "I." "I" is the 9th letter of the alphabet. Illuminati has ten letters. It has three "I"s. 10-3=7. It has two other vowels. 7+2=9. 'Kerbal' has two vowels. The middle letter is 'R.' R is the 18th letter of the alphabet. 18/2=9. Kerb-luminati, Eeloominati and Illuminati (notice how there are three of them?) CONFIRMED! 2spoopy4me m8. -Upsilon

I actually made this as an "advertisement" for one of my flying cars a while ago: ... Looking back on this, it probably wasn't such a great idea.

Funny that you should ask! So, first of all, Avera9eJoe finished his percussion for SUN. Video embedding is being really nasty for me, so the song might just be shown as a link. I'm deathly afraid of updating the OP because of this as well. Nonetheless, here's the compete version of the song: If you want the audio file itself, let me know! I'll probably be able to get it out soon. ~~~ I really appreciate all of the music that's been recommended by y'all! I recently took a little while to listen to all of it, and it's really great stuff. Koan Sound is very much 'up my alley,' and I liked r4pt0r's track a lot as well (the beginning of it reminded me of the ubiquitous and very nice M83's 'Outro' song that's used all over the place). Good stuff. I'm currently in the beginning phases of composing my next song, which will probably be either EELOO or MUN. I have themes for both playing in my head (at the same time!) and thus I know more-or-less what to do. If I can get even a little more organized, I'll probably write some sheet music and send it out to whoever plays the right instruments to be included in this. So expect PM-blasts in less than a week. Sorry for not posting more here. Songs take a long time, and this semester at college has been taxing. I should actually be writing a paper right now, so I'll go and do that. Mustn't procrastinate! -Upsilon

I sneakily added in the "excellent poster" right after you commented, Cpt. Kipard. You didn't do anything stupid, at least as far as I'm aware of. Sorry for omitting that statement earlier. Also, I'll definitely include you the next time I update the Group, Niemand303! Oh, and by the way! The Light-Green Group is now linked on my signature, which was long overdue. Now, people from all sections of the Forum can be directed to everyone's favorite* very comprehensive list with a single click of a button! *...well, at the very least, I'm sure it's someone's favorite list. It's certainly the longest and most comprehensive list that I've ever made, anyway. -Upsilon

My goodness. This is awesome! A long while back, I built a very friendly-looking Kerbal who wanted nothing but hugs and sunshine: Now, I'm wondering whether I should simulate an outer-space shark attack on this poor little guy. I think that the shark would be capable of 'eating' his body as long as the arms were poking out of his jaws on either side, although his head would be a little too large to be fully consumed. I really want to go and try this now, although I'm probably too lazy to actually do it. -Upsilon

Hooray! I've been waiting for a thread like this for a good long while. Here, take a look at this thing I made recently! It's a plane, and it's not very large. Jeb seems to enjoy it though. I may well post loads of things on here in the near future... most of my craft don't merit their own thread, but they do deserve at least a wee bit of attention. -Upsilon

I'm sorry. I feel as if I have to post again, just to clarify a few little things. There is a distinct difference between 'being excited' and 'leaving spam.' If I was very excited about a new update, I would write something along the lines of: ...if someone else was really, really excited, they may write: I'm perfectly fine with both of these posts. What I'm not fine with, however, is: Personally, I think that no matter how excited someone is, there are far, far better ways of expressing excitement than this. If it was done on any other thread, it would be removed by a moderator. It really shouldn't be tolerated here, either. And while I know that a fair fraction of the posts here aren't this way, there are also an embarrassing number of them that look exactly like this. So, to re-iterate: I'm not grumpy that you guys are excited. I do want to see 1.0 come out too, and I'll probably be up late into the night trying to download it when it first comes out. I'm grumpy because I feel like this thread is the Forum equivalent of a lot of graffiti sprayed near my house. It's not actually dangerous and it doesn't do much harm, but it's unpleasant to be around for all of the people who don't want to spread graffiti. Which, in this case, is actually a surprising amount of people! You just don't hear from them as much, because they're not posting once every thirty seconds to 'spread Hype.' ~~~ ...oh, and in case you're saying, "Well, then just don't look at it! The Forum is a big place, and there are many other threads to look at." I would like to remind people that for up to a week before the update comes out, the HypeTrain has caused the Forum to overload and stopped anyone from viewing or posting anything, in all parts of the Forum. Sure, these outages haven't been so bad, but it does annoy me that they are more-or-less entirely pointless, and could easily be avoided if people were even slightly more restrained. And I know for a fact that it's possible to breathe in and out a few times and control your excitement (or other emotions) before posting. This is a far better way to 'vent your excitement' than creating a Hype Train, both for yourself and for the KSP community. Again, this is just my two cents. If you're wondering why I'm posting this here, it's because I'm hoping that people actually read it and maybe even approach this thread in a slightly different way. Thanks for reading through this. I really will stop posting on this thread now. I promise. -Upsilon

6/10 I've seen you a few times. I recognize the name and the avatar. Oh, and 'wont' is technically a word...

I'm not going to be on this HypeTrain, I'm afraid. I have two reasons for this. One is that the only thing happening within these HypeTrains is people expressing their excitement, mostly with either very large images or with spam-like posts. Most of the reason the KSP forums are so great is precisely because so few people normally leave spam-like posts, gratuitous large images, or other wastes of bandwidth. Thus, the HypeTrain is both worrisome and a bit unwholesome for the Forum as a whole. (Not even to mention the many, many times that the Forums have crashed as a result of this behavior.) The second reason is that I'm not very happy about this next release being called '1.0.' I personally am of the opinion that another beta version would have been extremely nice, and that 1.0 will be unpleasantly buggy. This will not only be negative for long-time KSP players, but it will also be downright painful for new players who are unaccustomed to the bugs and who want a better game. I kinda wanted this update to be a sort of 0.99 update that allowed the community to iron out bugs, but alas, it was not to be. So that takes a lot of the excitement (and adds a lot of worry) to the coming update. I really can't get hyped about 1.0. So this HypeTrain isn't for me. Sorry, guys. (Because this post will probably be buried after a couple of minutes, and because spam is already rampant in these parts, requoting this when you get the chance would be much appreciated. I'm not going to post on this thread anymore. I've had my say.) -Upsilon

...The leaderboard has been updated. Let be know if everything is okay. (I also sent out Kerdinand's badge to all of the people who have completed this challenge. I also placed it at the top of the original post. It's very cool. ) On the contrary. I'm very nearly overwhelmed by both the quantity and quality of entries in this challenge so far, including yours. I'm giving some Reputation to both you and Kerdinand, as the two of you have really outdone yourselves since I last updated the leaderboard. Thanks for participating, and I look forward to what you'll come up with next! -Upsilon

At the risk of being labeled a heretic, I would state that the actions of the entire community drive the HypeTrain and dictate its journey to the final destination of HypeTown. You, however, regulate who gets on the HypeTrain, as well as making sure that the train is running smoothly and on schedule. This is the job of the conductor of the HypeTrain. So yes, there was some thought that went into me calling you the 'Conductor.' If you still wish for me to call you the 'Driver,' however, I will respect your decision. -Upsilon

Sorry for not updating this thing recently. I'll do it a bit later today or tomorrow... whenever I have the time. As for Fengist's calculator, I'm actually fine with having ElectricCharge (or some other resource displayed in the upper right) as the "readable display" for now. I think that making the numbers with lights (a lá LCD clock face) is probably possible, but it won't be easy at all. So the resources tab may be the closest that we'll ever get. I hope not, though; anyone want to take a crack at a lights-based readable display? Some of these entries are astoundingly clever; I'm continually impressed by how awesome this Forum is. I'll have a lot of fun updating this. ...oh, and Kerdinand, would you mind PM'ing me your Calculator-Project signature badge so I can send it to the participants? The badge is absolutely awesome. Thanks. -Upsilon

I'm going to make a very hopeful guess that this has something to do with pushing the release of 1.0 back, adding an intermediate version, or something along those lines. (I'm mostly saying this because I want it to be true, though.) It'll probably be a '1.0 features' video or set of images...

Aww, you guys are the best. Well, I'm signing off for the night. If a moderator wishes to close this thread at any point, I don't see any problem with that. I think that it's fulfilled its purpose. I hope this brightened your April Fool's day a little, folks. Thanks for stopping by. -Upsilon

Do not consume the Magic Boulder shortly before driving or operating heavy machinery.

...back to the topic of 'Green Names,' they aren't there anymore. Alas. I enjoyed my time as a moderator... I made some good threads and such. Unfortunately, it seems as if the description 'Moderator' will stay put. This means that there'll probably be several dozen people who have the designation of 'Moderator' but who aren't. Is there any way of changing this... or should it be changed? -Upsilon

It's my firm belief that this was a good April Fool's Day joke, in spite of it all. Why? Well, one of the reasons was that it pretended to be serious but really clearly wasn't. There were a lot of hints throughout that this wasn't a real, official thread... but it had some bits that, IMO, were genuinely funny. Sure, this wasn't believable, but it wasn't supposed to be believable. (and I don't have to bring up the time when KasperVld tried to make his April Fool's post a little more believable and... well... yeah.) More than that, though, I would definitely say that this thread had a point: it became a roundabout way of thanking SQUAD, as seen on the top of this page. This thread's point was to make people laugh, and also make them think about how SQUAD isn't doing a bad job with KSP. That, in my opinion, extends far beyond a simple April Fool's. ...unless, as Yellowburn says, you're just tying into April Fool's Day, in which case: Sure, you've made a 'plausible-sounding' post, but nobody found it very funny and it didn't make much of a point. So, sorry, but it wasn't a good joke in my opinion. -Upsilon

Alright. It's time for an update. Here's the Skymobile Mk3 craft file, and here's the Skymobile Mk4 craft file. Yes, it's the two first releases from U.Q.F.C. Inc.! (I really need a better abbreviated title.) In addition, I'll provide a video link (embedding not currently working for me, though I don't know why) to the Skymobile Mk4 in flight. Here you go. It's time to update the Original Post now! (Thanks for sticking with me as I dawdled and did other things besides providing these .craft files.) And as always, let me know what you think: what's great, and what I could do better for next time! -Upsilon

Ooh, I haven't posted my latest video here! Dang... here I was, thinking I could maintain this regularly... *mumble grumble* "Skymobile Mk4: The All-Purpose Vehicle!" (4:52) EDIT: Yay! The embedding now works! (And I'm not the brightest bulb.)

Alright, I've added this to the original post. Thanks for the feedback!