My plane destroys the runway, how am I supposed to launch it?

[tsotha]

Yeah, just turn off destructable buildings. It's something that sort of seemed like an okay idea but turns out to be just annoying because the runway and launchpad are too easy to destroy.

Supposedly they're adding upgradable buildings in a future release, and if that means you can upgrade the runway and launchpad to handle larger ships I may turn it back on at that point.

Edited October 23, 2014 by tsotha

[Excrubulent]

@MisterFister: If you read my statements carefully, I think you'll find that they don't actually disagree with anything you've said.

[LethalDose]

Yeah, but I can't see how I'd ever land it, which is kind of the point - to save money. No use having an SSTO that you can't land.

You can just land it on the flat coastal plain around KSC. If you're worried about the 0.1% of the recovery value you'll lose, you can land on the plain, taxi to the runway, and recover the plane there.