Former most desired features

[Kaos]

Everyone has different wishes for what to implement next. Various things have been implemented in the course of the developement. So I would like to ask the community: Since you play KSP, of the features that have been implemented until today, which features have you desired the most before they got implemented?

Mine were: ISRU and more realistic aerodynamic.

[Vaporo]

Aerodynamics. By a mile. The old stock aero was a joke. After playing for a few hours with FAR installed, I can't believe that I ever bothered with that soup.

[klgraham1013]

Kerbal clamber. No mod had done it, and not being able to climb over the ledge of a ladder is really irritating.

Edited July 2, 2015 by klgraham1013
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[Magniff]

Thermodynamic reentry heating.

Since I saw those flames in 0.19.1, I wanted them to have an actuall effect on my craft.

In addition,

I think Squad hit the sweet spot with the aerodynamic.

I never felt comfortable with NEAR, but I liked the aerodynamic in 1.0.2 and I also like the new one in 1.0.4 (Did never really get my hands on 1.0).

Edited July 2, 2015 by Magniff

[Superfluous J]

ISRU, I think. It's hard because generally I've been happy with the game and when I wanted to do something it didn't have, I modded it. However I never really liked the ISRU options from mods for various reasons, and having it in stock (and therefore "just work"ing) is very nice.

Had I thought to want it, though, clamber would be right up there.

[Robotengineer]

Aero most definitely. The old aero was good for laughs, but a placeholder.

[Vanamonde]

Being able to get out of the ships. (I've been playing a long time.)

[Starwhip]

Bigger plane wheels. It's made a massive difference for me.

Now we need bigger/more powerful jet engines.

[Superfluous J]

Being able to get out of the ships. (I've been playing a long time.)

Oh! I totally blanked on all non-1.0 features.

Career mode. Hands down. I quit the game for about a month because sandbox bored me very quickly, and then suddenly career mode appeared and rekindled my love for the game. I've been playing it (at least) weekly since.

Edited July 3, 2015 by 5thHorseman

[Alshain]

Gotta go with persistence. There was a point in history when you could only have one active flight at a time. (I too have been playing for a very long time, even though I've only been on the forums for a short while)

Edited July 3, 2015 by Alshain

[Wjolcz]

To me it was planets. Not that I don't like aero, ISRU and other amazing things, but playing since 0.11 really made me want them.

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[Red Iron Crown]

Docking ports. Few things changed the game so much.

[mikeb30165]

Just a quick desireable - dragless struts (if they are massless, why do they have drag?). Pain in the neck, as they are sorely need for Mk3 parts (even after the toughening up in 1.04) and rob a lot of Dv for spaceplanes when fitted.

[Red Iron Crown]

mikeb30165, there are no massless parts anymore. Mass for physicsless parts gets added to their parent parts now.

[Felsmak]

EVA, docking and other planets have all been huge items on my wishlist in the past.

[lajoswinkler]

Reentry heating. I've been trumpetting about it for a long time.

[Superfluous J]

This is a weird one, because while it's in the game it's still on my list of desires: Mun craters. I really wanted interesting terrain when I first started, and Mun got it which made me very happy.

I want all worlds to have similar treatment, though, so this will remain on my list for who knows how long.

(No, I don't want all worlds to have craters. I want them to have interesting terrain on the sub-kilometer level on a world-wide basis)

[mattinoz]

Have to say it wasn't till I flow in the new Aero that I understood how bad and un-fun the original soup was.