I discovered something awesome you can do with the offset tool

[dryer_lint]

oO Undersea rocket launches are go!

Submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Yesplease

[AbacusWizard]

Could this perhaps be used to finally complete all those "test launch stability enhancer on Minmus" contracts??

[CaptainKipard]

Moderator, please delete this thread!!!! The Devs will fix this exploit in 1.0!!!!

Oh ye of too much faith.

[Whackjob]

Argh. I was hoping this would allow me to unbind the camera from the center of the VAB and let me scroll out further. It did not. So I can't build out further than I am currently restricted to.

[CG_Kerbin]

I dint know this that's pretty cool

[bakanando]

With the new aero infiniglide will be vanquished, but now they can just launch from space. lol (You'll still need to circularize though)

Btw, what happens to the launch clamps? Are they attached to the 'floor'?

I wonder whether the devs will fix it before or after releasing 1.0 (yes, I still have some faith in them).

[Teoman2]

I can hear the devs furiously clicking at their keyboards...

[MKI]

Is this a bug..... Or a feature

Gotta try this out ASAP.

Ya no so my SSTO's get to space with almost all their fuel and all

[Columbia]

Tried it myself. It blends into scenery so well.

This is hilarious!

[Jodo42]

You can do some... interesting stuff with this particular bug.

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Strange side effects though. Stage lock, Kerbals can't EVA, can't throttle up/down or toggle RCS/SAS. Can't right click on decouplers either.

Edited March 29, 2015 by Jodo42

[Rainbowtrout]

This works, and I have nothing cool to test it on...

[Van Disaster]

Argh. I was hoping this would allow me to unbind the camera from the center of the VAB and let me scroll out further. It did not. So I can't build out further than I am currently restricted to.

Hangar extender mod would work absolute wonders here... half the time that starts my camera considerably outside the SPH/VAB as it is.

[Majorjim!]

This is fantastic!! For launching boats it's a godsend.

[Elowiny]

I can't manage to make this work, but I do like you said : grab an axis and move the cursor perpendicular to the axis..

Edited March 29, 2015 by Elowiny

[Moonfrog]

orbital elevator?

[Lupus Irae]

I was fiddling around in sandbox mode and got the launch clamps about 36000 M tall. The previous time, when I went to the "launchpad" view, about 9000m tall, the rocket exploded and the game crashed.

[LABHOUSE]

Muwah ha ha ha!! *coughs

[Lupus Irae]

Um. The Kraken attacked. I was attempting to launch a probe core this way, with a large rocket. I disengaged the clamps, let the rocket fall a bit, fired up the engines....

There was a large explosion. The screen went black save the ui.

The navball speed indicator reads as follows.

202567323332449000000000000.00 m/s

Kerbin is gone. The Kerbol system is gone.

I deleted the save to prevent further catastrophe, but will post the video tonight.

Note: My latest attempt seems to have left Kerbin intact, but the rest of the system is gone. Possibly the rest of the universe as everything is shrouded in darkness.....

Edit 2: I closed the game, and it came back.

Edit 3: and I will post the video within the week.

Edited March 30, 2015 by Lupus Irae

[Engineer of Stuff]

Wait, what? When did they say that?

I meant 'could'.

They could fix it.

[Moesly_Armlis]

Is this a bug..... Or a feature

In the Kerbal universe bugs of this nature are features!

[Bev7787]

This. Is. Awesome.

[NecroBones]

Challenge: Use it to start all of your launches from the VAB roof.

[SpacedCowboy]

Challenge: Use it to start all of your launches from the VAB roof.

You might wanna try this first, with destructible buildings OFF.

[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