Refueling, joysticks, and RCS on tugs

[codepoet]

So I have been playing KSP for a week or so, and love itg and no longer have any free time...

I have a few little questions that I am sure someone who has been playing for longer can easily answer:

1) I have added the kethane mod, and lcoated kethane on the Mun, but before I go ahead with my plan for estabishing a refinary on the Mun and runnign a tanker service to haul fuel up the my Mun-orbit fuel depot, how do I get the fuel from the refinary to the landed tanker? Do I have to dock the lander to the refinary? Do I need a rover to do the transfer or can I plug them together using and EVA and the KAS mod?

2) I recon that to fly spaceplanes, and particularly to land landers I will need to use a joystick, but when I tried to use a joystick to fly to orbit it was a disaster because the booster was pretty unstable on launch. Is there a way to enable / disbale the joystick ingame?

3) Finally I have had a problem with tugs and RCS. I been designing my RCS to have two sets of thrusters - those specifically for rotation and those for translation. I hook them up to a couple of action groups and then enable and disable them depending on if I want to rotate or translate. This obviously requires then to be precisly located depending on the centre of mas. However when I dock to a cargo the centre of mass changes dramatically, and I can't dock. Is there a soution to this problem? Onething that occured would be to reprogramme the actions groups in flight. is this possible?

Thanks for the help inadvance. Applogies to the hosts/admins if this would have been better as three threads. Tell me off and I will do better next time!

[TheDarkStar]

1) KAS will work fine for that, since it's docking anyway.

3) It's not possible to change action groups, but you can manually right-click on the RCS thrusters and toggle them on or off. Also, unless you are using them as main engines, you should be able to rotate and translate with the same ones.

[HoY]

There's a mod that lets you change action groups after you're launched.

At least there was in .19.1, I'm looking for it now its called something like action on the fly

Edit; found it. Looks like it hasn't been updated since the thread was created but it may still work

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/24882-Actions-on-the-Fly-Edit-your-action-groups-in-flight-mode?highlight=Action

Edit2; looks like Pontiac updated the mod, link is on the last page of the thread.

Edited July 6, 2013 by HoY

[codepoet]

OK, thanks for the fedback. Sounds like I need to get KAS up and running. It is usual for folks to land landers on the Mun within walking distances of bases? Or do I need rovers to drive for several kilometers between landing sit and base?

Also, on the RCS thing, does everyone else keep all their RCS thrusters on at once? Am I feeling the need to enable / disable them depending on what I am doing because my spacecraft is not designed right?