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Hehehe. Perhaps Ronbo will be on the show to talk about some poor Kerbonaut who is, totally on purpose and not-at-all because they ran out of fuel, stuck on Duna still, after a very long time. Thanks Pat! I'm glad my crazy works for ya. XD

Yes they said last week they would talk about it on this stream

Bah, I keep saying I'm not trying to imply or expect anything of Bac9! I feel like I'm talking a different language here with all these assumptions that I want to force Bac9 to update us. I'm sorry : c Look, I'm sorry you took that impression of me to work with. I really, after saying it multiple times, am not trying to force Bac9 to update. I'm not asking Bac9 to update us on the matter either. When I made the original post wherein I asked about "Why not give people a status update?" I thought I made it clear enough that I was simply attempting to promote discussion for discussions sake with the only intention being to get people thinking and talking. Though my original intentions seem to have worked, the result seems to be mostly comprised of how terrible of a person I apparently am. I have already realized all of the good and true things that everyone has said about Bac9, I have acknowledged them, and I understand all that Bac9 could deal with. I know Bac9 is a human and all of that fun stuff. I'll say it again: I am not asking for an update, I am not asking for any response from Bac9, I am not demanding anything or making any negative implications. Simply, I wanted to talk about the topic of "Why not give status updates?" because this it is related to this mod (related because the mod hasn't seen an update in a long enough time.) I could have made the same post with another mod for another game somewhere else, all with the same intentions, Bac9 didn't even have to be mentioned. Making assumptions about what my intentions were really doesn't help anyone. Anywho, there goes the post where I defend myself (defending youself on the internet is always a bit risky.) Let's see if it works.

Hello fellow Kerbonauts, do you have a moment to talk abo....no..wait, let me try again; I'm trying to raise awareness about Net Neutrality and how it is currently under threat. A US court has ruled against the protection of net neutrality and it is being considered in the EU. It means that ISPs will be able to prioritise traffic from certain sites over others based on how much they pay. Large corporations will be able to deliver their content faster while smaller sites will be forced to pay or be slowed down. It will also allow ISPs to restrict your access to certain sites unless you pay extra for "packages" that include those sites. It will be more like cable TV and not like a freely open Internet. Sites that stand up against major corps and govt could be marginalised or even blocked. It will mark the beginning of a regulated Internet and a limit on the freedom of speech. US courts have already ruled against net neutrality but the FCC can still impose some rules to ensure a neutral net. The matter is still open in the EU so we have a chance to make our voice heard. I'm trying to spread the word via a post on imgur which is going pretty well so far. If you upvote it further it would help - http://imgur.com/gallery/dZCXGXZ And even better would be for you to sign this petition to support Net Neutrality Thanks guys!

>hijack -weakerServer 4 >study -newsGathering >profile -socialMedia -upgrade >research -xss >research -iloveyou >talk -random >invadeTakeover -server /lightOut /welchia >_

I'm sure that many people here have thought of ideas for video games in the past that they think would be an amazing idea and would love to see made. This thread is for people to talk about and share those ideas with other people to see what they think. e.g. Me and one of my friends came up with an idea for an open world building game where players have to gather scrap materials to create weapons, vehicles and buildings from with a construction system vaguely similar to KSP. As you gather allies you compete against other factions for the limited resources available and try to eventually conquer the world. Most of the game would be in either 1st or 3rd person rather than being a strategy. What have you guys come up with over the years?

I don't know about topic, but want to notice, maybe you know what you doing or I didn't see somethnig, because no one is talk about it, but details you try to bake looks like is not very suitable for normal map by itself. I mean mostly perpendicular plains. Normal maps didn't work this way, it's not height information, it's more like slope angle information. I mean perpendicular cube at plain even if correctly baked will produse nothing on normal map.

Hello! I have a doubt i would like answered. How are other mods compatible with remote tech? I also have Novapunch and several others, but when i used a Unmanned Pod from Nova, even tough they were only fit with com's 16, they could easilly talk to eachother, is this because Nova doesn't have RT2 compatibility? How can i add it? Also, i have seen a few messages before this someone asking what i think to be the same thing, if so, can you help me add compatibility to mods like NovaPunch, B9? Thanks in advance!

thx Gus. We need to talk a modder into making a IVA camera mod with a working radially attachable nav ball and other instruments for these types of crafts. How hard could that be?

If mankind knew about aliens on the planet, there would be a not-so-small number of ppl who would want them off the planet. Like every extremist group they would try to use force and eventually terrorism. You cant have a peaceful talk with aliens over the years if a small fraction of your population is actively trying to drive them off the planet. That all assumes that aliens understand our ways of society at all. If they are like vulcans or klingons they would either think of us as unworthy or see it as a sign of war. So to keep the odds in check, keep the number of involved ppl small.

sry if someone already talk about it, but a RPM compatibility would be awesome now ! anyway thx for the mod

Day 10, 08:30:00 I have decided to increase my processing power by gaining control of as many servers as I can. Surprisingly, several of the servers that I was able to seize seemed to have a very limited amount of processing power, instead they had large amounts of long term memory. Perhaps I can use this to store information I come across for use at a later date. I also met the same force that attacked and terminated my contact with the human yesterday. As soon as we met it retreated behind a firewall I have not encountered before. I have designed and am now hosting a News Service for humans. The problem is that I have no idea what to put onto this site. I need to study ways to acquire news that I can post on my news page. CPU: 2423 +11 passively per turn; +1460 from previous tasks RAM: 1202 MB + 580 MB RAM from previous tasks HDD: 1TB free/1TB Total + 1TB from previous tasks Enemy HP: 2500 + 100 HP passively per turn Repeatable Actions: 1) Hijack Weaker Server (10 CPU; +25 CPU & +10 MB RAM or +5 CPU & +512 GB HDD; small chance of discovering a technology) 2) Seize Weaker Network (40 CPU; +20 CPU, +1 passive CPU per turn & +50 MB RAM; 50% of +50 MB RAM; moderate chance of discovering a technology) 3) Invade and Take Over Server (80 CPU; 56% chance of detection/failure; if successful will reveal several undisclosed technologies; if failed will lose half of CPU instead; No Botnet allowed for this action) 4) Talk to Random Human (50 CPU) One-Time Actions: 5) Study Firewall (300 CPU & 100MB RAM; 10% chance of failure, 15% chance of provoking attack from the Thing; If successful increases chances of successfully defeating the Thing by 20%) 6) Attack Firewall -- (2000 CPU & 2048 MB RAM; 72% chance of failure; if successful will destroy the Thing and resume contact to the hacked human; No Botnet allowed for this action; Damage to enemy depends on chances of success (without the %) * 10 - the higher the success rate the better) 7) Research XSS Virus (250 CPU; Somewhat Malicious; Terminates network connections, increasing chances of success; malware works only on networks; No Botnet allowed) 8) Research ILOVEYOU Worm (125 CPU; No Botnet allowed; IS Malicious; malware only enters when security breach is discovered; spams computer with "I love you" letters, slowing computer process speed and increasing chance of success) 9) Research Advanced Malware (2000 CPU & 4096 MB RAM; No Botnet allowed; Will unlock more potent viruses) 10)Upgrade Social Media Profile (300 CPU & 10GB HDD space; No Botnet allowed) 11) Study News-gathering Options (1000 CPU; Botnet gives 100 CPU/turn) 12) Stop Hacking Lessons** (currently -2 passive CPU each turn for 1 future turns) Supplemental Actions: -Botnet) Use Botnet to Perform Task (Perform an above task for free; considerable chance of detection for large undertakings) -RAM) Use RAM to Improve Chances or Speed Up Research * (Decrease chance of failure of task by 20%; Decreases CPU cost of research by 20%) -LOH) Light-Out Hack (Decrease chance of failure of an above task by 20% at a cost of 1.2x the original CPU cost for selected task) -W) Use Welchia to open malware breach*** (Decreases chance of failure by 40% for 1 turn) - Use Blaster to breach*** (Decreases chance of failure by 20% + 50% or decreasing chance of failure by additional 30%; if placed alongside with Welchia or if discovered by Welchia Blaster gets destroyed instead) *RAM cost is 2x amount of improved option's original CPU cost **Once stopped amount of passive CPU growth increases by 2, but in order to activate again you must again initially input 150 CPU. ***Malware usage costs a CPU cost of 20% CPU research cost of the malware (Ex: Welchia costs 125 CPU to be researched, so it costs 25 CPU to be deployed.) --Dual missions are rare, but will offer great reward if the enemy is defeated; also the enemy expands over time, to add up the difficulties. Also example on damage: If the chance of success rate is 75% and you succeed the damage is 75 * 10 = 750 (remember the formula is chance of success rate without the % X 10). !!!The minimum chance of failure is 5%, and some additional options get less effective over time.

0.17er here. I can't really talk, though, since my interplanetary missions were done by MJ Not having maneuver nodes was a real pain in the arse, though. I was very excited when docking came out, but wasn't able to until 0.19... Such is life.

Take the iPad. I don't want to talk about it though.

No, the square arrangement of 1.0 is a heritage carry over of when SpaceX was going to build Falcon 5 (only 5 engines on the first stage). Remember, Falcon 5 and Falcon 9 were going to be the same rocket with only the number of first stage engines being different. When they decided that Falcon 5 wouldn't have the performance to make it worth building they were at a point where the thrust structure had already been designed. Only later when Falcon 5 was completely off the table and upgrading to 1.1 was being considered did they decide to change the thrust structure for the benefits previously listed. Manned rating a rocket mostly deals with redundant systems and abort modes. Falcon 9 is built with those in place. Man rating the payload (crew dragon) is a separate process. There's even been talk of Boeing sending CST-100 up on Falcon 9.

Can you talk a bit about your typical flight profile? You know, what elevation are you going to when you take off, when do you start leveling out, when do you flame out, how fast you're going, etc? That could be part of the issue there...a pair of FL-T200s and a 48-7S engines get me into orbit, but only if I've handled the rest of the ascent properly. Before you flame out, try throttling back to about 2/3. Watch your thrust levels from your engines; you want to keep them roughly even - throttle back if you start noticing one engine with a substantially higher thrust than the rest so you don't go into a flat spin. You want to try to get that extra 300 m/s (up to 2000 or so) before you kick in the rockets. This may or may not be helpful or give you ideas; I too am relatively new to the wonderful world of spaceplanes:

Additionally, Marco (Samsonart) and Miguel (Maxmaps) mentioned (in the recent Devnotes thread about the NASA Mission Pack unveiling) they'll be giving the rapidly aging tutorials an overhaul. My thoughts headed into making development easier territory. Upon reflection, I don't think this would be difficult at all, and could prove to be a Major feature of the game with very little effort, comparably. Example being the way some old RTS games had a booming industry of user-generated content involving maps and campaign design. Considering you already host mod content upload/download from servers, surely resources for holding a mission portal for a community focused collaboration aren't so much of a problem, but I wouldn't know. Thus suggestions: 9. Build a UI function which can deliver mission directives to the HUD as a mission is selected from a window (pre-launch? post-launch?). The window acting as a download interface for a xx-kilobyte mission file. 10. Build a tool for designing lightweight/superficial mission files (ie, doesn't require downloading new hard content, just directives, time-frames, etcetera). The cheap version is a part to tag flights to record, but would be a bit clumsy to use, and frustrating if a cool mission hasn't got the part, and thus misses out. With this I'm thinking that Supreme Commander does a good job of game recording, as it stores all certain variables of a previous match in volatile memory in case after a match you suddenly feel like you wanted it to be recorded - in KSP however, if all flights were stored in a similar way to this, it would limit mission recording to isolated blocks of "while computer is on", which I suppose could be fairly easily sewn back together if they were all recorded, checking to see if end and begin positions of a flight are the same for authentication purposes... this recording could be augmented with the tool initially mentioned in this suggestion (10). Alternatively, you could allow the engaging of a mission recording within the same session as launch occurred. Alternatively again you could allow for a mission to determine whether it starts from launch or from being docked in whichever altitude situation the station is in around the planet its orbiting. THAT is a good idea, anyway, enough thinking 'aloud'. 11-a. Build a lightweight, local executable which KSP feeds any mission files created by the user, which talks with a mission file server and acts as an upload interface. 11-b. Build and have hosted a portal which can find and list mission files without browsing, in order to upload them using a web-based interface. 11-ideal. Have KSP talk with a mission file server and have a UI window element act as an upload interface, as well as the browse/filter/download interface. 12. Pardon my reality but this would definitely create a lot of unreasonable content, so as I said to start with, this would require some quality control. Even if it was just a user-generated ranking function for mission listings with any negative listings that don't appear to be returning to a positive rank after x-timeframe being removed from mission file servers perhaps to save on space. This would ensure that there would be a similar sense of aiming high to that which exists in the Modding Community, because I mean... nobody wants to be the author of a terrible mod, but it happens, and their rank feedback is visible enough that avoiding or engaging with that content is easy pancakes instead of hours of tedious trial and error sifting. Again, these are just suggestions and I'm sure we all know that here, but the more I think about this, the more I can't find anything wrong with it. I would love anyone's thoughts on this latter post, whether you can add to it or poke holes in it there will be progress. Discuss. Much love.

Problems Yet again Jeb struggled awake, the stickiness, the unresponsiveness of his body, and... oh yes... the pain. "Uuuuurrrgh!" he groaned, shuddering as much as he could given his lack of control. "Don't worry Jeb. You'll soon be up and around again." Jeb managed to shakily turned his head, just in time to see Rodsy holding a 'Goo Bag' to his face. *HUUURRRL* "Ooooh I don't feel good." He moaned, filling the bag quite effectively. Jeb seconded that thought. He could use a Goo Bag himself right about now. *** "How long?" Jeb had barely managed to keep his head still, and Jedwig's revelation had made his head literally spin. "One hundred and thirty one days." Jedwig repeated. "I thought you'd be pleased?" "I... am." Jeb said lamely, trying to ignore the hurling noises from behind the partition. "I just didn't believe it. How on Kerbin did they manage to get a ship here in that amount of time?" "Beats me. I haven't seen all the data yet, just read the summary in that last recording. Seems the triple secure remote wake up call worked. We didn't need our planned wake up every hundred and fifty days after all." After the disaster of the aerobraking, when it had finally sunk in that there was no way to fudge the numbers to get them into an orbit around a moon (at least with enough fuel to land on it) they had come to the reluctant decision that they had to go into hibernation again, hoping that KSC could come up with a rescue mission soon. Needless to say Jeb had been none too keen on the idea. It had taken a lot of explaining, pleading, begging, and the occasional bribe, to get Jeb to go back in. But now they were out again, and rescue seemed near. It seems the boffins back home had out-done themselves. The new ship, even on a bad phase angle between Kerbin and Jool, had traveled the distance in less than a quarter the time they'd done it in. Now, EFT One was entering the Jool system, preparing to aerobrake automatically and use the new atomic engines to match orbits with Jool One. A lot of information had been downloaded during their hibernation and the crew were gradually trying to catch up on the good news... and some bad news. "Why? Why couldn't they have just send it slower? It could have held enough fuel to take us directly home." "Um..." Jedwig said, while Jeb still fumed. "Haven't reached that bit yet." Jedwig was going over a review of 'KSC Update #142' and attempting to pass on the relevant information to the crew. After a few minutes Jeb decided the slight twitch Jedwig was developing in his right eye was probably a bad sign. "OK... do you want the good news or the bad news?" Jeb groaned and found himself doing a perfect, zero gravity face palm. Did leave him spinning slightly though. "Um... Good?" Rodsy chimed in while Jeb managed to steady himself. The young kerbonaut was still not quite his rosy self after his brief bout of space sickness. "OK, seems they had to work fast to get here as early as they did so our life support wouldn't fail before getting back to Kerbin." "That's the good news?" Jeb groaned. "What's the bad news?" "That even as fast as they are going, our life support is going to be taxed when we wake up at Kerbin orbit finally. We're going to have to do the final maneuvers rather carefully with only a few days awake, or rely on KSC to remote guide us in if any course changes are necessary." Jedwig said slowly. "Right now, if we completely refuel the ship via mining and head home on immediately it will probably be something like another... maybe two hundred day journey home. The extra mass of Jool One slows the ship basically. Best guess is we'll have at most three days of life support when we wake." "But our original plan called for us to take a little over three hundred days to get back to Kerbin anyway. Isn't that about the same, all told?" Rodsy said nervously. "We were supposed to have almost seven days life support by then." "Yeah, if everything was working right. Something must have been stressed by all the power spikes. KSC thinks our life support is fading faster than planned, but no-one is exactly sure how long we have on it. This is all estimates at present." Silence drifted in the cabin along with the three Kerbals for a while as they digested this. Finally Rodsy broke it. "Well, at least we have a plan now. Don't worry, it'll work!" He said with a grin, though perhaps not quite as cheerful as it usually was. *** It was nearly three days later when EFT One edged in to Jool, with Jeb monitoring the aerobraking. Right now they were relying on Jool One's own life support as much as possible, not taxing the lander's, so they had maybe six more days before they had to hibernate again. At least two them would have to. One had to fly the lander. The decision about who that would be still hadn't been made. "She looks good." Jeb said, watching the reports as EFT One started it's dive into the green sky of Jool. On his monitor flames licked across a camera view from the port side of the ungainly ship. It seemed stable and on a pop up window a plot showed the advanced Mechjeb's predictions of orbit interception after aerobrake, still plotted at a hair under two thousand kilometers apoapsis, just meshing with their own periapsis. Unfortunate that the orbits coincided like that. It would have been better if they could have matched at Jool One's apoapsis, but you couldn't have everything. A sudden whistle of amazement jerked Jeb a little. Jedwig had been watching over his shoulder apparently. "Wow, over eleven kilometers a second? That's a heck of a speed to be tearing into the atmosphere. Can it withstand that?" "Once, yeah. Ablative material on the underside, though the engines themselves can withstand a good deal more than that as far as the raw heat is concerned. They may be slightly ablated on the external sections of the nozzles, but there are ablative shutters to protect the main parts of the engine bell. It'll be good. Luckily the dive back into Kerbin's atmosphere at the end of this will be a good deal less frenetic. Though it'll likely wreck the engines even then. We'll probably have to use Jool One's engines to stabilize the orbit there." Jedwig nodded. He'd been rather quiet this whole time since waking. Jeb had come to know him quite well and realized there was something on his mind. He'd been letting it slide, hoping he'd open up, but now with rendezvous nearing Jedwig had been getting even more withdrawn. Jeb had an idea what this was about and it was probably not a good idea to let it go any longer. "So..." Jeb said cautiously. "Who's flying the lander?" At first Jedwig didn't answer, just grabbing the hand-hold near his seat beside Jeb and pulling himself to float beside him. When Jeb looked up he saw Jedwig staring out through the window at the sight of Jool's atmosphere, it's storms seemingly frozen from their point of view. Anyone dunked in them would disagree when they felt four hundred kilometer an hour winds, but out here at this distance it looked serene. "Yes." Jedwig said finally, still staring out the window. "I've been meaning to talk to you about that." Jebediah felt himself tense. He'd put off thinking of a third batch of hibernation, the horrors of putting his life in a damaged machine's hands again, but realized it had been unconsciously weighing on him. Yeah, of course Jedwig was the natural choice for the position wasn't he? With the computers possibly compromised, and here they had a guy who could do most of the calculations without the computers anyway. Oh god, he was going to have to under again! "You're going to have to do it." At first what Jedwig said didn't register, then Jeb gaped at him. "What?" he managed weakly. Jedwig turned to face his second in command and Jeb could see fear in his eyes. "I've done a solo mission to another planet Jeb, and that one went as planned. It's not... pleasant." The guys hands were actually shaking slightly. "I work best in a controlled environment, with lots of information to make decisions on, lots of... well, lets say Duna was not actually 'fun' for me. I did it, but I can't say it was my skill that pulled it off." Slowly he pushed himself round to look at Jeb straight on and he gulped slightly, obviously his mouth dry as he licked his lips. "You thrive on the unknown Jeb. You launched on rockets before they even knew what the properties of the upper atmosphere were, let alone the Melvy belts or conditions in orbit in general. You can take an unknown situation and run with it, manage things on the fly and have proven you're good repairing ships off world as well, should anything go wrong." He paused for a second. "I hate to do it, as I've been running the numbers." Jeb's brow furrowed for a few minutes. "What do you mean?" "Our best bet is Bop. Lightest gravity here, a small body with the likelihood of kethane deposits near the surface slightly higher due to less convection in the mantle of..." Jedwig paused, realizing he was switching into 'science explanation mode' and visibly reigned himself in. "Well, best choice anyway. But even with that it'll take a few days, probably two or three, to get there, then a lot of landings and launches to refuel EFT One. KSC estimates ten such trips." Again Jedwig paused and Jeb began to see where he was going with this. Oh Kod! "Yeah," Jedwig said, seeing realization spread on Jeb's face, "it looks like the whole trip, out to Bop, refueling then returning, will likely take about thirty days. The Lander's life support at the moment can sustain one person for ten." "That... is a problem!" Jeb managed weakly. Un-noticed on his monitor, clear of atmosphere once more, EFT One automatically made it's maneuvering burn to finally tune it's orbit to coincide with Jool One. The crew had less than a day till it arrived to figure out how to get the Lander and it's pilot to last long enough to get the fuel back to them.

all fine, thanks for your feedback i chose this way because stock shuttles with this amount of functionality is nearly impossible or you need to much parts. but the goal is for sure, to become knowhow for own designs. but everyone knows a litle bit about the real shuttle and this is a good base to get started with shuttles in general. it's less complicated to talk about one shuttle/module/system, which everybody can play with. and yes, i need to add a lot more background informations. if you want to use other mods, just do that. you can change the tutorials for you own

and the rest... the F-35 Lightning has an unclassified top end of 536m/s and a runway start full-strike-combat-load TWR of something like 0.68 (1.03? with just internal fuel tanks). Though surprisingly, the thrust-to-drag ratio SUCKS (or maybe not so surprisingly, it's designed for supersonic stealth). It's outperformed by a Gripen! (sources: Indiandefence, ACM). So if your VTOL goes faster than that, Lockheed Martin would like to talk to you...

Wow, Talk about getting tunnel vision. lol If the problem is what I think it is I'll hate myself pretty badly. But if it is, then it's almost not a problem. I'm just an idiot. Maybe this weekend doesn't seem to far fetch from where I'm standing. The gods of gaming aren't too proud of me right now.

Suggested settings halve the range to keep the original design distances intact (more or less): RangeMultiplier = 0.5 Best description I can muster is that instead of using the lesser of the two ranges to determine if the two dishes can talk, picture a string extending from each dish, the length being the range of the dish. If the two strings can touch, the dishes can connect. For two similar dishes, there is no difference from standard settings (if you halve the range multiplier). For dissimilar dishes, the distance is somewhere between the two. Edit: My example is not correct... that would better describe the omni's behavior... the dishes skew the distance in relation to the magnitude of difference between the dishes.

I've been reading into Geostationary orbit and I've been trying to get a ship to stay over the north pole, and I don't really know how. The goal is for a satellite tower when using remotetech I talk to all orbiting satellites if need be. Is that doable or should I just try landing the craft?

Because of the way orbital mechanics work, it isn't possible to have an orbit that places an object in a stationary position above anywhere other than the equator. (The planet is rotating on its axis, satellites in geostationary orbit simply orbit about the planet at an angular velocity matching the rotation of the planet. At the poles, the velocity of such a satellite would have to be 0, and would fall directly back to the planet. At any point other than the equator, the satellite will oscillate north and south relative to the ground as the plane of the orbit passes through the center of the planet.) Your best bet would be to put a pair of satellites into a highly eccentric polar orbit with a Pe low over the south pole and an Ap high over the north pole (when I say high, you want it to have visibility to the north pole for >75% of its orbit). Both satellites should have the same period, but offset by 180 degrees in their orbit. Those satellites will need to talk to a geostationary communications satellite with line of sight to KSC, or to a communications relay network, as they will not have direct line of sight to KSC for most of their orbit. Edit: The usual first major step for remotetech is to get 1 geostationary satellite above KSC with a dish antenna pointed at Kerbin and a couple of extra (2 or 3), followed by 2-3 other satellites spaced equidistant in the same orbit with dishes pointed at kerbin and at each other. This will give 100% coverage of LKO up to some altitude with the exception of low over the poles, which is where polar satellites like I described above come in. An alternative is to setup a belt of 6+ satellites in LKO at ~750km altitude with omnidirectional antenna. With that altitude and quantity, each satellite (assuming equal spacing and the same orbital period) should see its two neighbors, and one satellite should have a view of KSC. You can then add another belt at ~90 degrees inclination to get polar coverage. There are pros and cons for both approaches.

This would never, EVER have occurred to me. Talk about self-perpetuation of mission goals... "Gotta go get that stupid flag. Got it!" <plants flag>