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[Karlito]

Yep, if you get the new patcher, you can download .18!

[Aseaheru]

i want one...

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Currently at 40% downloading at a rate of 35 kb/s...

Why must ye be so slow!

[sneakey pete]

Well, so much for not releasing on fridays. Fingers crossed that there isn't a monumental bug in it

[Twi]

The patcher instantly commits suicide when I try to open it.

Then again, this is the same as 17.1

[Skyrunner]

Ooh, completed clean download of Kerbal .18. Time to see if it works.

Good thing I have a 1700 kbps download rate :3

[Ozyton]

Would have been playing sooner had I not had to watch some stupid show. Going to try it nao-ish

Edit: Yes!!! Glorious!!!

[Mageziya]

Last time I played Kerbal was when the only extra terrestrial objects were the Mun and Minmus.

I tend to do that. At least it makes my returns to this game to have a greater chance of blowing my mind.

It already sorta has.

And that music.

[sneakey pete]

Just completed my first orbital rendezvous and docking.

Spoiler: thar she blows (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: looking good (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: great sucess! (click to show/hide)

here's a quick rundown/guide to what I did, there might be some handy hints for people in here.
The station hub was in a 100km orbit, and i got my ship into a ~77km orbit. Set the station as the target, and then picked out the best spot to place a maneuver node so that when I made an elliptical orbit I was getting pretty dam close approach distances with the station when i intercepted the orbit, without going out to much further, to minimize speed difference at closest approach. I also corrected for inclination at ascending node. Ideally, in kerbin orbit at least, you want to get a minimum of perhaps 3-5km (i got 2.9 for this case), but less is always better.

Once you reach the closet approach point, make sure the speed reading is set to target (it should auto change). this reading is a speed relative to the target, and the navball should change showing you this direction. Burn opposite to it at the closest approach to get the reading down to zero. After that I did a small burn towards the station and slowly made my way to it, slowing down when I got there. This isn't the most efficient way, but i think its the easiest with the tools we have in the game currently.

For docking, I found that the easiest way to dock is to like up parrallel to the docking port, put ASAS on, and then use the RCS translation keys to translate. The SAS will keep the craft orientated in the same direction, which is very handy. If you want to try docking without RCS, you're a crazy person.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

I just landed my first lander on the Mun. Unfortunatly, Jebediah has been stranded there, the engine being too long for the landing struts. I will fix that in the next iteration. I have also launched a satellite and a space station hub into orbit of Kerbal.

[Guardian G.I.]

I wonder will KSP still crash on my laptop every third launch due to out-of-memory errors...

[Karlito]

[DOCKING! DOCKING!]

That's probably a better method than what I ended up doing. I started by putting my target craft into a very close orbit, and had to fast forward time for quite a while since they had ended up almost on opposite sides of the planet. I also wasn't really able to figure out what all the icons on the navball represented when you target the craft, but I was eventually able to dock by burning toward the space station when it was <2 km away and then eyeballing the speeds. I'll have to play around with the docking-mode controls some more, I ended up using the old "staging mode" controls for most of the operation.

Spoiler: Station is coming along (click to show/hide)

[Sirus]

Has performance increased any, or has it gotten worse?

[sneakey pete]

Those big solar panels... where are they? can't seem to find them in the menu's

In other news, my station has got a habitation module now. Next.. crew i guess.

edit: pictures

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[LoSboccacc]

Before I start an hopeless download over 3g network, does the patcher work this time aroubd or is it still aost as bad as downloading the full version in term of size and speed?