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[Aseaheru]

Well, you must never cockup your ships or over engineer then.

[dragnar]

Yeah, yesterday I tried adding probe controls and parachutes to all of my discarded stages. It didn't work since they simply disappear as soon as I look at the map, I'm not sure why. But it saddens me, because I'm losing a lot of money in discarded staging...

Scott Manley did a video explaining this - short version, if something is unloaded (ie, 2.5km away from the active ship) and under a certain altitude in the atmosphere, the game deletes it, regardless of whether or not it should have survived. There's already a mod to fix it though - check out DebRefund, it autorecovers stuff when it would otherwise be scuttled, based on parachutes active on it. (technically based on drag, but close enough)

[MagmaMcFry]

Well, you must never cockup your ships or over engineer then.

That, also I got over a million funds on my 22nd mission (it was to lug a Kerbodyne KS-25x4 into Kerbin orbit). Some of these missions pay waaay too much.

[Aseaheru]

Perhaps...


Gaah, now I want to learn to code so I can grab asteroid/kerbal spawning and make vehicles spawn in orbit with missions to be taken to another world...

[Putnam]

'Our scientists are bored. Can you please crash an asteroid into Jool?'

"We had been dealing with the issue of whether or not our scientists really were as bored as we were telling people they are."

[Aseaheru]

Hey, its to see if we can lob things through it.

[BigD145]

Some of the larger lifter stages will run half a million and you throw those completely away. Costs ramp up quickly.

[Putnam]

Some of the larger lifter stages will run half a million and you throw those completely away. Costs ramp up quickly.

Put parachutes on them, recover the debris later. Scott Manley's Reusable Space Program series should give you an idea on how to better save money in this kind of thing.

[nogoodnames]

I wish that the B9 pack were still being actively updated. Its spaceplane parts would be more useful now than ever, especially the cargo bays. It's pretty difficult to design a good satellite deploying spaceplane when the payload has to be strapped on top of it and you're using FAR.

[Aseaheru]

They arent the only ones with cargobays, but they are one of the better ones, yes.

[BigD145]

Some of the larger lifter stages will run half a million and you throw those completely away. Costs ramp up quickly.

Put parachutes on them, recover the debris later. Scott Manley's Reusable Space Program series should give you an idea on how to better save money in this kind of thing.

Debris = 0 money
Parachutes also cost money and weigh quite a bit. You're lifting dead weight.

I wish that the B9 pack were still being actively updated. Its spaceplane parts would be more useful now than ever, especially the cargo bays. It's pretty difficult to design a good satellite deploying spaceplane when the payload has to be strapped on top of it and you're using FAR.

Cargo Transportation Solutions

[Putnam]

Some of the larger lifter stages will run half a million and you throw those completely away. Costs ramp up quickly.

Put parachutes on them, recover the debris later. Scott Manley's Reusable Space Program series should give you an idea on how to better save money in this kind of thing.

Debris = 0 money

put a probe core on it then :V

[Aseaheru]

Even then it can go away without a mod.

[miauw62]

How the fuck are all you people doing so well at this. I could hardly scrape off enough science to unlock stuff in the previous versions and now I have to pay for all that too.

[Aseaheru]

I still cant really get the science, but the missions help. The test ones give science BTW.