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[Mephansteras]

Wow, that's really cool.

I some point i really need to start playing around with these mods.

[Tyyr]

That parachute calculator should be handy, but I always try to land with a little gas in the tank so I can make a short braking burn. I've never had a ship break when landing at 5 m/s but I prefer to touch down softer than that.

It's interesting to see how the parachutes are figured and how hard diminishing returns hits adding more of them.

[WillowLuman]

So, the tubes can extend or contract so you're not lugging the entire footprint of each base section, or sending 100's of seperate 1-piece segments?

[Shooer]

So, the tubes can extend or contract so you're not lugging the entire footprint of each base section, or sending 100's of seperate 1-piece segments?

It uses KAS and it's cargo system to bring them as parts in a box that you attach in game with a Kerbal.

Edit: I come to love Lack Luster Labs, even tried making a plane with it.

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WHY CAN THIS FLY!  Well, you need to be at about a 30 degree angle to keep a stable altitude.  Also there were no survivors.

[BigD145]

So, the tubes can extend or contract so you're not lugging the entire footprint of each base section, or sending 100's of seperate 1-piece segments?

It was all inside that one white container on the big probe body.

Be careful when opening a dish that's folded up. It may knock pieces off your vehicle. Grr. This dish can never open even though it can reach across the known system.

[MarcAFK]

I've been meaning to start making a space station, some tubes might be a nice addition for my green hamsters.
I've decided to work on a modular system modelling past space stations, firstup a skylab style core consisting of a rocomax32 tank attached to a kerbal equilivent of an apollo command module, I'll add parts onto it untill It's similar to MIR, then perhaps start up a fresh space station freedom style one in a higher different orbit.

In fact I think I'll do it in career mode, after I've sent an apollo style lunar mission so i can modify and reuse the components of that mission like the real skylab. I'll put some pictures up when I'm done.

[BigD145]

If you use Bavarian try to leave the vessel and go away from it and come back, reloading physics and everything. The parts you placed will stick together properly then. You don't need to be too precise in placement.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I hooked up my old joystick, and boy, flying planes in a videogame was never so fun or visceral. It rolls really hard though.

[BigFatStupidHead]

I hooked up my old joystick, and boy, flying planes in a videogame was never so fun or visceral. It rolls really hard though.

Try angling your wings slightly upwards, like in a shallow V. It should help stabilize rolliness.

[BFEL]

Ok so I tried adding in a bunch of mods that Scott Manley had in his new "Interstellar Quest" series.
I didn't mess with them whatsoever but somehow one of them completely broke the game, I can't get the game to load up at all now.



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Ok that image is a bit less zoomed in then I thought but its still fairly visible.

Anyway I know its not KAS, Kethane, Near-Future, or Interstellar (which is treeloader and warp plugin.) its also not Extraplanetary Launchpads.
All those were present and worked together.

Some of those in there went with other things like KW rocketry I think had Firespitter? Or B9 had that....yeah I pretty much did the standard "look in Gamedata of extracted mod, copy everything into gamedata of game" for all of those.
So anyone know what went wrong?

[i2amroy]

Hey so I recently got this game (what with the recent steam sale and all) and I've messed around with it a bit. Now I'm looking to expand a little, and was wondering what mods do you guys normally use, if any?

[Dutchling]

Hey so I recently got this game (what with the recent steam sale and all) and I've messed around with it a bit. Now I'm looking to expand a little, and was wondering what mods do you guys normally use, if any?

KAS for easy refuelling and generally more docking fun.
Kethane for mining so ships have a purpose outside of research mode.
MechJeb so I can watch Netflix while playing KSP.

[BFEL]

Hey so I recently got this game (what with the recent steam sale and all) and I've messed around with it a bit. Now I'm looking to expand a little, and was wondering what mods do you guys normally use, if any?

KAS for easy refuelling and generally more docking fun.
Kethane for mining so ships have a purpose outside of research mode.
MechJeb so I can watch Netflix while playing KSP.

This.

Also try Interstellar for its fast (but difficult to set up) warp drive, and if you REALLY want bases and such Extraplanetary Launchpads will synch nicely with Kethane and a nice low grav body like Minmus.

Unfortunately I haven't actually GOTTEN any launchpads or such on other bodies, but I assume a launch from Minmus would be so fuel efficient as to be game-breaking

[Siquo]

In addition to those mentioned I also use KW rocketry for more (and more sensible) parts.

[kaian-a-coel]

The exobiology teacher is being boring as hell (by not actually teaching new things), so I play KSP instead. Or would be, if my laptop still had battery. My phone has, though, so there's that.
I have a lander on its way to Moho, and damn it is hard to get there.
Standard model still works so far. The launcher is complete overkill