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[forsaken1111]

So what all mods do y'all recommend/use? Currently I am using engineer, but I was wondering if I should get FAR or anything like that. It took me a couple days but I got through career mode, but if I changed the game mechanics up a bit with mods I'd probably go through career again.

I recommend KSP interstellar. Its a fantastic mod.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

FAR
interstellar
near future propulsion
KAS
KW rocketry
etc.

[LoSboccacc]

So what all mods do y'all recommend/use? Currently I am using engineer, but I was wondering if I should get FAR or anything like that. It took me a couple days but I got through career mode, but if I changed the game mechanics up a bit with mods I'd probably go through career again.

I recommend KSP interstellar. Its a fantastic mod.

I'm replaying career with far, deadly reentry and the treeloader plugin that comes with a much more satisfying tree (communication devices come much later on so you have to return science, and there deadly reentry happens)

[Girlinhat]

As an extension of Career, I'd get Kethane.  It lets you harvest fuel from most planets and moons so you can continue flying.  There's similar mods for mining and extraplanetary launch pads.

[BigD145]

I'm still trying to figure out FAR. Last time I used Kethane it slowed things way down. I tend to zoom a lot in both views and it became painful. SelectRoot and PartCatalog are handy.

[Krevsin]

KAS, KerbalX, Enhanced Navball and Deadly Reentry.

[Eric Blank]

I've got mechjeb. It's pretty handy for handling long transfer burns and planning transfers that I can't find a good route for after twenty minutes of fiddling with nodes, although it isn't showing up in career mode for some reason despite being set to be available from the "start" tech node. Do I have to start a new career game for new modded parts to show up?

[Canisaur]

Do I have to start a new career game for new modded parts to show up?

No.  Open the tech tree, click on the node that the part should be in, and click on it in the parts list on the right.  It'll ask you if you want to unlock it.  Unlocking's free.

[Eric Blank]

It's actually not showing up there, at all. It does show up in the inventory in my sandbox mode game, though.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

not all mods are compatible with career mode, some parts just don't have the right tags (or something like that)

[Eric Blank]

I tried updating it to the build that was released today (ten minutes ago according to the little timer) and now one of them is showing up and it allowed me to research it, although I don't actually see the node for the other (automation.) Probably just not there yet.

[TheBronzePickle]

Okay, so I got Engineer. I don't know what some of these numbers mean, though.

[forsaken1111]

Eureka Science Station

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Currently performing a long term plant growth experiment via the Station Science mod.

[Greiger]

I don't recall exactly what engineer outputs, but the big important numbers I know are Delta-v and TWR.

Delta-v how much potential for changing your velocity you have,   More delta-v is better, you need at least 4500 to get into kerbin orbit, but compared to that getting from kerbin to anywhere is cheap, I think it's about 2k to get to eeloo.

TWR is your thrust to weight ratio.  If it's above 1 your ship is capable of moving up (very slowly) when in kerbin gravity.  Higher is also generally better, though I hear you waste fuel if you have it too high.  Somewhere around 3 or so I think.


These vague likely incorrect tips brought to you by Greiger's dead reckoning rocketry corp.  "Why do complex math when you can guesstimate!"

[Girlinhat]

Get TWR of 2, and highest Dv you can get.  That's the basics of getting a lifter stage.  Once in space, just get high Dv.