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NovaSilisko

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Okay I may have grossly underestimated how difficult a tylo rover actually is now... entry sequence went off fine but, a 5 degree incline might as well be a cliff. You accelerate... kind of quickly. In the span of about 5 seconds I was going 25 m/s, dipped downward and tumbled downhill under 4g, leaving a trail of dust and shattered bits of metal. Not to mention the lander itself basically snapped in half on landing, and the rover lost 3 of its 8 wheels.

Tylo is a terrible place. I did make a nice glowy meteor when coming in though

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Okay I may have grossly underestimated how difficult a tylo rover actually is now... entry sequence went off fine but, a 5 degree incline might as well be a cliff. You accelerate... kind of quickly. In the span of about 5 seconds I was going 25 m/s, dipped downward and tumbled downhill under 4g, leaving a trail of dust and shattered bits of metal. Not to mention the lander itself basically snapped in half on landing, and the rover lost 3 of its 8 wheels.

Tylo is a terrible place. I did make a nice glowy meteor when coming in though

DAEaZHN.png

Wait, how much atmosphere does Tylo have? Is it thin or thick?

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NovaSilisko

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Wait, how much atmosphere does Tylo have? Is it thin or thick?

About 0.5 kerbin atmo. Unrealistic for a planet of its size (as are the 15 km sheer cliffs), but it's much more interesting than being able to simply parachute down safely in a thick atmosphere.

Also, Nutt, if you're gonna work on a project like this of your own, can you not do it on my thread? :P

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I'm gonna be honest, I'm more excited about this than I was/am about 0.23. Does that make me a bad person?

No. I didn't even download it when it was released. :P

OK Nova. I was mostly just asking for help. Eh. I guess I'll message aftokinito or My for my questions. Thanks for all the stuff you did help with! :)

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i broke minmus

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Also Nova how do you update Scaled Space? The map view is not reflecting any of my changes. PM me if you want.

Broke? Broke?!? This is mearly...'Improved'! (Its actually really cool looking :) )

Also Nova, your comet textures are just insane. HOW?

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One thing guys, can you not quote images when you quote messages? It just makes the page unnecessarily long and a bit annoying to scroll past the duplicate images.

But for your trouble, have a new picture:

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Dang, how do you get the stuff looking that good?

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NovaSilisko

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Why do you torture us with these pictures and still haven't released it yet! WHY!

It's not ready, there's still a lot to do. I also want to clean up the code a bit and optimize it.

Unrelated note, Mechjeb's helpers all work no matter the configuration of the solar system, which is nice (and smart of it to read from the existing values instead of having them pre-set)

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It's not ready, there's still a lot to do. I also want to clean up the code a bit and optimize it.

Unrelated note, Mechjeb's helpers all work no matter the configuration of the solar system, which is nice (and smart of it to read from the existing values instead of having them pre-set)

Its okay take your time its better wait for a stable release that isn't rushed then a unstable rushed mod that quickly dies out.

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NovaSilisko

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At some point I need to rewrite science descriptions too, to better describe the new system. Tweaking science values themselves right now though.

Also, panfish, your signature reminded me... maybe once this mod is done and released, there could be a ribbon generator specific to it. That would be interesting.

Edit: For the curious, here's a map of tylo. I'll get some of Laythe and the other changed bodies in the future. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/575558/KSP/alternistylo_map.png

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