Setting lurk mode to off...

[MachTurtle]

Greeting, future ballistic buddies!

I've been a KSP man since 1.0.4! I can say that now that 1.0.5 has hit the streets. I discovered KSP in July and I can say confidently that it's the most entertaining piece of software I've bought in thirty years! I watched the Apollo landings, drank gallons of Tang, and joyfully played with my Major Matt Mason action figures in the 60's. KSP is the sim/game I've been waiting for!

So far, my achievements have been modest, but I have big plans in the works. I spent the last couple of weeks (Earth time) prodding a class E asteroid into a 200 km LKO. My plan is to make that the anchor for a refueling station for exploration beyond Mun and Ike. I'm trying to figure out how to do this without the Kraken associated claw. After that, the other planets await!

Thanks in advance for insightful answers and brilliant ideas from the community,

---MachTurtle

P.S I thought I had a nearly unique (and hopefully clever) screen name, but I just learned there's a band called Mach Turtle. I am not affiliated with this group.

[Starhawk]

Hello MachTurtle, and welcome to the forums!

OMG! I had forgotten all about Major Matt Mason! I played with mine so much when I was little. Fond memories.

It's always good to welcome a lurker into the fold. Also always good to meet another person of my approximate era.

Happy landings!

[MachTurtle]

Also always good to meet another person of my approximate era.

This confirms it... I am from another era! Thanks for the welcome, Starhawk!

[Dman979]

Welcome, Mack "Speedy Gonzales" Turtle!

It's a clever name, no matter what band used it.

KSP is the most entertaining piece of software I've bought in 18 years (though I was too you to understand "software" for most of them). Props to you for catching an asteroid, I still haven't done that yet.

I'm not sure how you could build a station around an asteroid without at least one Klaw. But again, props for trying.

Finally, major props for being my dad's age and playing KSP.

Space: it's not just for teenagers/twentysomethings anymore.

[LaytheDragon]

Welcome, MachTurtle!

By the way, 1.05 is supposed to fix many claw issues, so although I don't exactly know if every baby kraken has been cleanly extracted from the claw, I can say you should be relatively safe using it on your asteroid space station.

And even in 1.04 the claw wasn't bad when clamping onto asteroids. I embedded that kraken bait during 1.04 into two different dres-teroids around Dres with a space station I built, the Dres-teroid Miner S.S., and there were no problems. I think latching onto kerbals and other ships was a bigger problem, as in pre-1.0, one of my saves experienced an unfixable phantom thrust glitch after I recovered a ship that had latched onto and deorbited a kerbal for a contract, and in .90, I had explosion problems upon timewarp on a ship that had a rover inside the cargo bay being clawed by the ship with the cargo bay. These problems may be fixed in 1.05, though, as stated above.