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[monk12]

It will be difficult but i'm almost hoping there will be no HUD's with orbit and trajectory information when the moon(s) are implimented. Eventually yes, but not at first just to see people try and fail miserably to get to them  . Not that I won't, but being familiar with orbiter will surely help. How to align your plane to that of the moon, finding the right amount of thrust in the correct orbital position so you end up where the moon will be (will be the most difficult part).

I'm hoping that the game will progress such that you have a series of mission objectives, with the goal of completing them with the smallest possible budget. I'm also hoping that specialized HUD equipment will be available as parts, such that if you want to splurge on it you can have fancy telemetry data and whatnot, or if you're cutting every corner you can do without proper gauges/safety equipment/skilled crewmembers and fly by the seat of your pants.

[Saint]

I still can't get this damn large rocket to take off, it just falls apart before launch, not even able to fix that bug by removing and replacing parts.
sunday punch, why are your parts so weak.

[Jay]

sunday punch, why are your parts so weak.

Probably because the connection strength isn't something he can affect?
Prop the rocket up on boosters or couplers, don't just sit it on the liquid engines.

[Saint]

sunday punch, why are your parts so weak.

Probably because the connection strength isn't something he can affect?
Prop the rocket up on boosters or couplers, don't just sit it on the liquid engines.

I have been actually, the connection always breaks on decouplers to the upper stages because decouplers are for some reason the weakest thing ever made. Tissue-paper and watered down paste weak.

[Jay]

I have been actually, the connection always breaks on decouplers to the upper stages because decouplers are for some reason the weakest thing ever made. Tissue-paper and watered down paste weak.

*shrug*

This thing gets me into an orbit easily, without dipping into the final stage tank/engine (hidden by the hollow decouplers) at all.

[Saint]

That's a LOT smaller than my rocket.

[Sean Mirrsen]

It's possible to do quite audacious things, with just a little modding:

Spoiler: I've only allowed surface attachment for fuel tanks (click to show/hide)

And used the 3-meter decoupler from Sunday Punch's part set.

I've also built a stratoplane, again, with minimal modding and the Yawmaster control module from Sunday Punch's set:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Saint]

I created a long burn solid rocket for the sole purpose of getting large long distance rockets into space. without this part I had to create I would have a 30 stage rocket to do the same thing.

Reached 5000 km and then decided to turn around and return to the planet.
Travel speed was ~2km/s constantly.

[Rex_Nex]

Hmm.

I might download some mods. Barely any parts in vanilla. Then again, I could just get orbiter...

[Saint]

Hmm.

I might download some mods. Barely any parts in vanilla. Then again, I could just get orbiter...

You can't build your own rockets in orbiter and they don't explode in hilarious and fun ways.

[Sowelu]

I think that what I want most of all, in terms of "toys to spend my space budget on", is more delicate stuff.  Show me my velocity down to the mm/sec.  Let me adjust my velocity in tiny amounts.  Show me, in arcseconds, what angle I'm moving relative to "straight down".  Oh, and lateral thrusters would be pretty cool.

...A numeric readout of my angle would be most important of all though.

[Jay]

...A numeric readout of my angle would be most important of all though.

That's what the gyroscope on the middle-bottom is.
The green circle without the X in it is your current vector.

Granted, it's not exactly numeric, but..

[TheBronzePickle]

A really expensive part could be a device that lets you type in numeric directions for your ship to allow pinpoint accuracy, so the OCD people can put their rocket right where they want it. Granted, most people wouldn't use it, but I'm sure there would be a small market. Especially when someone wants to fly straight to the Kerbal equivalent of Mercury (Merkerbal?) from Kerbal/Kearth/etc.

[BloodBeard]

Hmm.

I might download some mods. Barely any parts in vanilla. Then again, I could just get orbiter...

You can't build your own rockets in orbiter and they don't explode in hilarious and fun ways.

You can make your own rockets and things for orbiter, it's just not part of the main game and is more like the mods people make for this game.

[Jay]

You can make your own rockets and things for orbiter, it's just not part of the main game and is more like the mods people make for this game.

You can make your own [blank] in [any game that can be modded].  It's just a significant difficulty delta, and is more like the mods people make for [any game].