Things that sadden you about KSP

[KD3]

That I accidently fired a missile into one of my old stations killing 12 Kerbals.

[The Jedi Master]

The fact that you can't get interplanetary transfers closer to the planet than about one million meters, and that some of the engines are pretty much useless.

[PDCWolf]

The fact that there's absolutely nothing to do once you reach another world is what saddens me the most. I suppose it's going to be fixed in the near future since career and R&D

[KissSh0t]

Connecting parts together but having a small little gap in between the parts... even though they are connected... It's like they just float next to each other.

Magic.

[djnattyd]

Interactive IVA

It does to some extent, you can mouse drag the throttle and change the velocity readout between Surface/Orbit/Target by clicking on it. I'm pretty sure that at one point, the switches were interactive but don't hold me to that.

[djnattyd]

It saddens me that solar panels aren't fixable, even in EVA.

[SteevyT]

I build a large craft just to discover my computer can't handle it's awesomeness.

[Sapphire]

I build a large craft just to discover my computer can't handle it's awesomeness.

Pretty much this. All of the coolest bases, space stations, and interplanetary ships lag like crazy.

[kodemunkey]

Install the Kethane mod and interplanetary launch centres, plenty to do then.

[Francesco]

The fact that you can't get interplanetary transfers closer to the planet than about one million meters

uhmmm, what?

[Kerbonautical]

The one thing that continues to bug me is when using the attachments that allow 3-4 small engines to be added to a Rockomax size tank also completely disables the us of any decouplers below that. Since their best use is nuclear engines I don't see any logic behind this. It would be great if I could chuck a Rockomax decoupler under the engine group since they fit the dimensions perfectly and it would open up a bunch of possibilities for design too

[littlebattler]

That thanks to unity it's impossible for a part to have 2 parent parts. So much potential wasted there. Good thing we have struts to compensate.

[Psycix]

The physics engine in general.

[innovine]

The IVA screens make me sad. After building a wonderful(!?) spacecraft, I want to fly it like I am on board. Sadly the internal views are a bit lacking.

Stuff I'd like to see: Switches and buttons for the action groups, abort handles, alarms and tank fuel gauges, range to target, orbital params on some readout screen, etc. Analog gauges and numeric counters would be awesome, make the interior look like a submarine or something with plumbing and retro control panels. Furry dice. Windows to peak out of, nicer more detailed models and textures in general, toggleable cockpit lighting (backlit controls and shadows from the sun through the window), cockpit noises, etc. Ksp already makes me feel like a space engineer, thanks, but rarely like an astronaut.

Edited August 23, 2013 by innovine

[innovine]

You should also be able to jump from airlock to airlock, for those times when you haven't got your helmet.

[SpaceHole]

That the game is not 64 bit yet and that many modders make great mods but sadly seem to forget about optimizing simple things like texture size.

Alos one big issue everyone seems to conceal. Every day brave Kerbalnauts loose their life due to tragic accidents (or inkerbal tests) and they dont even have a memorial. I hereby demand a Kerbal Hero-Memorial.

(or at least a Graveyard next to the KSP-Buildings)

Edited August 23, 2013 by SpaceHole

[astropapi1]

Or at least a Graveyard next to the KSP-Buildings.

... I don't recall seeing a graveyard on the Kennedy Space Center.

[SpaceHole]

... I don't recall seeing a graveyard on the Kennedy Space Center.

Well there is the Space-Mirror-Memorial

The graveyard was just an idea since it would probably have an interresting effect having a graveyard next to your mission control growing bigger each day.

Edited August 23, 2013 by SpaceHole

[zekes]

lag... that's the one thing. My KSP crashes a lot when on Laythe, too...

[Wait- Was That Important?]

More wobbles than Skrillex.

[borisvolodnikov]

That there is nothing to do with all my electricity

Ion Engines!

[Mr Shifty]

Mine?

My pet peev with KSP is when you dock stuff together , its just straight in.. theres no 'line up' option so you can get a set of solar arrays square to the space station....

The Docking Port Alignment Indicator mod gives you all the indications you need to align correctly.

Worst current feature of KSP -- hands down -- is that if I load a save that has spacecraft in it that require mods I don't have loaded, it automatically deletes the spacecraft: no warning, no chance to cancel, just gone. We need better in-game mod management.

[borisvolodnikov]

Transfering Kerbals to other pods requires an EVA, even when docked.

[Joe Shmoe]

Watch and read tons of tutorials(Scott Manley's was the most helpful for me) I recommend using the 3 meter wide docking node for your first docking, it's very wide and requires less precision when going in for the final docking.

[alioth]

No multi core support. Those with low to medium end pc's can barely make a rocket big enough to get a rover to another planet while keeping a decent fps

And if the game design wasn't multi threaded to begin with, then it's going to be very difficult to add after the fact. Generally if you want something to be multi threaded you have to design it that way from the get go - trying to convert a single threaded program to something parallelized after the fact is generally very difficult and time-consuming (and effectively will require a rewrite of the thing that you're trying to make multithreaded). So I suspect we should not hold our breath for this one. It's a bit of a shame - the FPS really drops on my machine and the machine isn't even working hard, it doesn't even spin up its fans.