Simple/Quick Questions (For more complex questions please make your own post)

[azure crescent]

hope ksp2 will run on multi cpu-cores

bought a 10 core cpu for the game

[brave ingot]

I docked with another ship, how do I disconnect from it now?)

[vestal trout]

right click the docking port and click undock

[brave ingot]

how is a nuclear-powered rocket engine different from a conventional one?

[tropic shuttle]

Much Higher isp and only burns liquid fuel

[balmy sapphire]

lol was going to correct you

[brave ingot]

Please send us a map with entry windows to other planets

[tropic shuttle]

https://ksp.olex.biz/

[midnight bane]

How much stuff do I need to throw at the ground for the ground science seismometer to reach 50%?

I’m making suicide probes and I wanna know how many I need

Is it dependent on the mass of the object that makes the impact?

Also it says that the impact needs to be “near” the deployed ground science. Just how precise do I need to be?

[balmy sapphire]

mass and speed

[midnight bane]

… ok

Can I get some numbers please?

[balmy sapphire]

does it say near? I think the description said it only needs on the same moon/planet

[midnight bane]

Maybe I read that on some random wiki

But you’re right, the in game description makes no mention of distance

And I’m still looking for numbers

[balmy sapphire]

I think no one really knows the formula

[midnight bane]

Shit

[midnight bane]

Oh apparently it bugs out if the active vessel is the object being impacted. So you should focus another vehicle while waiting for the impact.

As of 2021 that is

But yeah, the wiki says “near”

And people on Reddit seem to agree that the total kinetic energy and the distance to the seismometer are important factors, but still no hard formula.

[harsh adder]

I have crashed

And now I can’t go back to the ksc

[tropic shuttle]

press esc

[harsh adder]

Thanks

[silver cloud]

are the survey scanner results randomly generated or are they the same for every save

or does it randomly generate everytime you use it

[gusty lance]

it's random per-save

[silver cloud]

ok

[azure crescent]

what are these use for? can i take parents licensing and open-source tech program at the same time?

and also what does reputation affect?

[brave ingot]

would I have enough 2841 delta V to make a manoeuvre to eve, fly over it and return to kerbin

[vestal trout]

,dvmap

[thick spoke]

https://i.imgur.com/yO0bQax.png

[stuck wasp]

they change how much science, rep, and $ you get from whatever is listed in their effects. They are pretty up front about what they affect and how much they affect it. Some are one off IE: you buy them, not subscribe to them. If you dont think they are useful it's because they are more useful the harder you have your settings set to where you have scarcity of one resource over another.

some are mutually exclusive, yes, I dont know which ones but it says so on the description

reputation affects the difficulty of missions you get and the rewards they offer I believe

worth noting: you wont get missions to places you've never gone to before

except for the Mun

[midnight bane]

Reputation affects how much money you get from contracts. Also higher reputation unlocks better, more difficult contracts

[midnight bane]

I have a spreadsheet that explains every single option, dm?

[waxen comet]

Reputation doesn't increase yields from the same contracts, just means the risk and reward of the ones you get offered both go up

[midnight bane]

Pretty sure that’s wrong, I’ll check the wiki

Hah.

“2: rewards are improved for all contracts”

[waxen comet]

it would appear it does, though it's not something I ever actively notiuced

nor have I ever seen a full breakdown of how the mechanic works

[midnight bane]

Yet another mystery

I don’t think there’s a detailed breakdown of how the deployed ground science seismometer works

[waxen comet]

I don't have the DLC so I couldn't tell you either

[midnight bane]

Well your knowledge is just about as good as the wiki’s

Everyone seems to agree on a few key points, but nobody has any hard numbers

[azure crescent]

thankyou
I hv also done some research
Since I am having 80%reputation ,changing science to reputation is not that cosr effectively
I chose 95% science to fund

[waxen comet]

I don't know all the details and are bit a rusty in some areas but I've been around the block a few times

[midnight bane]

Everyone knows that it requires you to slam a rocket/debris into the ground on the same celestial body as the science unit. Most people also agree that the distance to the science unit, the mass of the object, and the speed of the object will all influence the amount of science you get

And there also seems to have been a bug (idk if it’s still present) where if you focus on the object that’s hitting the ground, you get no science.

[waxen comet]

There's a lot of things that just aren't very well explained. Some have been worked out experimentally like the rough formula for asteroid size class and weight and a few picked apart from the code, but some are just black boxes.

[midnight bane]

Like the f3 log

It tells you info about your entire flight, but it’s known to have very inaccurate distance and speed readings.

Nobody knows why it’s so inaccurate

[still sage]

Anyone care to explain how the mobile lab works? I know it gives more science over time, but I'm not sure how. I have a rover full of experiment data on minimus. I can get it back to kerbin, but would it be better if I took a detour on my mun station, and use the mobile lab I have there? Or even bring a new lab to minmus orbit and process it there?

[brave ingot]

Can I get a refund for the first stages if I put parachutes on them? I just saw that the game seems to destroy all disconnected stages at some distance from the main ship

[balmy sapphire]

no unless you have stage recovery mod

[brave ingot]

It doesn't work on newer versions, or I messed up with something, I don't know.

[balmy sapphire]

u messed up with something

[brave ingot]

If I'm not mistaken, there is a way to open the settings menu of this mod, but I do not know how

[brave ingot]

what is the problem? why does it say there was no control, my ship had SAS on, i separated the boosters and main engine, main engine came back ok but the boosters did not, why

[balmy sapphire]

there is recovery calculator in vab, have you used it?

[brave ingot]

no

give me a link to this calculator

[balmy sapphire]

link?

it is a frikkin button inside your rocket building facility

[midnight bane]

It’s best to put the lab on the surface of anything but kerbin. You get a base 500% science boost when you use the lab. You get an extra 110% multiplier if the lab is landed on any surface, you get an extra 130% multiplier if you start processing the data in the same sphere of influence that the data came from, and you get a 90% data penalty if you’re on the surface of kerbin. The lab also takes a ton of power, make sure you have enough solar and batteries for it. The lab can hold 500 science points, so make sure that you have enough energy storage or energy production to transmit that much without interruption. As for the speed of the lab, you can store 750 data inside the lab and the lab will go faster for the same energy consumption if the lab is as full of data as possible.

TLDR: bring it to minmus surface, you’ll get a 715% science boost, and make sure it has an antenna, a big battery, and a TON of solar power.

[pearl cove]

Power ran out?

[stuck wasp]

make sure it has a probe core

[brave ingot]

what are these parts of the ship, where do you get them and what are they for

[tropic shuttle]

thats are the dount tanks (stock, maybe dlc)

[brave ingot]

what is dount

[tropic shuttle]

*doughnut

[ebon frost]

i'm trying to dock with a Pea reentery module on a rescue mission, how do i actually dock with it/get the kerbal out?

[ebon frost]

worked out my issue, i had to go to the tracking station and control the kerbal in the pea module

[gusty lance]

you can press the square bracket keys to cycle control between nearby vessels

[lavish osprey]

Started a career save. If I try to attach a liquid fuel tank, it disappears. The connection node is used, and the mass and part-count include the tank, but I can't see the tank itself. Tried restarting the game and the computer already. Any ideas? Not sure if related, but the FL-T100 tank appears many times in the research tree.

[stuck wasp]

thats 4 parts put together with the doughnut tank on top clipped inside. They are all 1.25m so if you go into the VAB/SPH and search "1.25" they all will come up.

dont recall their names but they are all stock

[stuck wasp]

reinstall the game/verify the game files

[lavish osprey]

I had hope the small download after verifying would fix things, but nope. Reinstalling now. Appreciate the help though.

[stuck wasp]

good luck! if that doesnt work id try things like GPU drivers.

especially if no mods. if mods then copy your KSP folder and start the cycle of remove mod>launch game>see if works now>redo cycle

[lavish osprey]

Weirdly, sandbox had been behaving fine. It's only lightly modded. (kOS and some QOL)

[stuck wasp]

youd be shocked at what can interfere with what. id definitely still try it

the modded approach, I mean. if it's light then it should take less than 30 mins

[brave ingot]

can the radiator panel be used as a heat shield but on the sides?

[ebon frost]

Welp, this is huge to know. Thank you

[tropic shuttle]

No

[midnight bane]

Once you get close enough to the stranded vessel, you can gain control of it.

[midnight bane]

Yet another mystery key. Here’s another one that I found: pressing F in the VAB will cycle your symmetry mode between the whole craft and the individual piece you’re placing the part on.

[gusty lance]

there are so many.

[midnight bane]

Yep

Now for my question

[gusty lance]

I think F also toggles local/global mode when using the move and rotate tools in the vab

[midnight bane]

The basic 2.5m nose cone weighs 0.3 tons, and the advanced one weighs 0.75 tons. Is the advanced cone’s aerodynamics actually better?

Cuz if not, then it’s a waste of 0.45 tons

Oh sorry, divide all those numbers by 10

But the idea still stands

[gusty lance]

the 2.5m...?

[midnight bane]

…

Sorry

1.25m

My bad lmao

[gusty lance]

the wiki says

It has 2.5× the mass but 55% the drag of the Aerodynamic Nose Cone (as of KSP version 1.2.2).

it would probably be best to test both versions and see which performs better for your particular rocket

[midnight bane]

Wait

I can get the best of both worlds

I can decouple the nose cones lmao

It’s not going back into atmosphere after launch

So I’ll use the heavy ones

[ebon frost]

yepp, i learned that earlier, thank you

[midnight bane]

Do RCS thrusters work inside of a service bay or protective shell?

And more importantly, do they push on stuff when they’re burning in the same way a normal thruster does?

Hello?

[spiral plover]

nope

at least not in the protective shell

i didnt test inside a service bay

[midnight bane]

KSP just crashed and now it’s taking SUPER long to load

No mods, just DLC

It’s like six times slower for zero reason

Oh it’s not KSP, it’s my pc

“Windows modules installer worker” and “system” are sucking up all the disk.

[midnight bane]

Would you please? My computer is currently out of action.

[spiral plover]

only works if the service bay is open

if its closed it doesnt work

[midnight bane]

Ok

Very specific question

Does a linear RCS thruster work if it looks like the non-door part of the service bay is blocking it?

[midnight bane]

Is a TWR of 0.5 at launch good for an SSTO?

[midnight bane]

?

[tawdry cape]

how long does it take for kerbals to respawn in normal mode?

[vestal trout]

2 hours i think

[midnight bane]

Why did the UI text just become blurry?

I enabled advanced tweakables and the UI changed and the text went blurry

[midnight bane]

How tf do I get the afterburner to work?????

[vestal trout]

for what

[midnight bane]

At all

Period

How do I get the afterburner mode of the panther engine to make more thrust than the normal mode

What speed to I need to be at for that to happen

[vestal trout]

any

[midnight bane]

Wrong, it produced less thrust

It went from 130 to like 70

[vestal trout]

right click the engine and click toggle mode

ok

[midnight bane]

Yeah

I have it set to an action group

“Dry” mode is the afterburner mode

[vestal trout]

no its not

[midnight bane]

Uhhhh

Ok, lesson learned, never use panthers

The high thrust mode does nothing for me, and the “better” mode is even worse

[gritty frigate]

Where should the center of thrust be compared to the other center of things in planes

[midnight bane]

Oh yeah, another lesson learned. Screw planes.

[gritty frigate]

?

Mods

Forgot

[midnight bane]

Vanilla, the panther engine

[gritty frigate]

The high thrust mode is the wet mode

[midnight bane]

Correct

[gritty frigate]

then what is the "better" mode

[midnight bane]

Dry

It uses less fuel and has over double the ISP

[gritty frigate]

Whats wrong with Panther

[midnight bane]

The “dry” mode is its entire gimmic

And it performs worse in every way other than ISP

[gritty frigate]

What are you using it for

[midnight bane]

Less thrust, less top speed

[gritty frigate]

Top speed?

[midnight bane]

SSTO, so yeah, top speed

[gritty frigate]

Oh

SSTO

Then whatever

Well

They are planes but with other stuff

Panther is not supposed to be used for heavy stuff or smthn

[vestal trout]

dont use panther for sstos

[midnight bane]

Oh

[gritty frigate]

Whatever this dude is saying

Because I have gotten over 1000m/s with one or two of them

[vestal trout]

use whiplashes darts rapiers and nervs

the stock aries 4a is a good example

[gritty frigate]

On a small aircraft near sea level.

[midnight bane]

I understand whiplashes, rapiers, and nervs, but why darts?

[vestal trout]

effecient and good at both asl and vacuum

[midnight bane]

Oh it’s a rocket engine

Should I replace rapiers with darts?

[vestal trout]

imo rapiers better than darts

maybe a combo of the both

problem with dart is high fuel consumption

[midnight bane]

Hm

I think I’ll use vectors on decouplers

[gritty frigate]

Yo why is there an inline clamp o tron

[midnight bane]

Much higher thrust and slightly better ISP

[gritty frigate]

on the aries 4a

Refueling?

Oh no

[midnight bane]

It’s an SSTO right?

[vestal trout]

if you want to dock it to something

[midnight bane]

Once in orbit, it should be able to do stuff

Which means docking

[gritty frigate]

O

Ok

[vestal trout]

its used in the orbital refueling scenario on the menu

[gritty frigate]

kool

[azure crescent]

is that only for efficiency ?
or the science yield increase ?
if yes then I will plant the lab into the asteroid orbiting minmus

[azure crescent]

oh I get
it is better to move data into lab in the same soi
but the processing efficiency is independent from location

so you can move data into lab in orbit of same soi
and tow it to anywhere

[midnight bane]

Yes, but there’s a catch

You get more data when you turn your experiment into data, so you can move your lab after you begin processing your data

But the lab can only hold 750 data, and after the bonuses, a lot of experiments can have like 170 data per experiment. So it’s best to leave it where it is, and do other stuff while the data processes

[sour sail]

Guys, can you please help? I can't figure out how to correctly connect my probe to the ship with the docking ports. When I tried to release it in space, it didn't detach. It just stayed there and I couldn't do anything.

[gaunt merlin]

No engineer Kerbal onboard? it could move it. Screw retrieving probe's in one piece, just attach them

[sour sail]

No, like, it seems like the game welds them together, like any other piece. But I want them to be both docked with each other.

[gaunt merlin]

So, the thing you are trying to say that you wanna make the root part of the probe is the docking port but else it wasn't. Try putting the docking port first before the probe.

[sour sail]

Oh my god, thanks, I finally got it.

Yeah, for some reason I have to look at it from a weird angle, so it'd actually connect them and not just wield them together. I've noticed it with attaching engines too. Like, it kinda locks on instead of just sliding around during the assembly.

Okay, now I think I can do this darn mission. I've already reached Minmus several times, only to find a mistake in my probe when already in its orbit. Thanks again!

[brave ingot]

How do I transfer fuel from one tank to the other? I connected them with fuel pipes but the fuel does not flow

[sour sail]

Click on the tanks which you want to transfer the fuel with while holding Alt.

[brave ingot]

nothing has changed.

[sour sail]

Oh, sorry, right click on them while holding Alt.

[brave ingot]

I told you, the menu doesn't change

[sour sail]

What menu?

The menu of the tanks?

[brave ingot]

yes

[sour sail]

Are you clicking on multiple tanks or just a single one?

[brave ingot]

one

how do I click on more than one tank at the same time?

[sour sail]

Right click on one tank. Then right click on the other tank. All while holding Alt.

[brave ingot]

ok ty

[sour sail]

Ya welcome. :3

[brave ingot]

what are the most powerful engines for taking off from kerbin and for vacuum?

[tropic shuttle]

mammoth is the most powerfull enine. In vacuum isp is more important

[brave ingot]

What is the ISP responsible for? I don't know

[gusty lance]

ISP is efficiency

technically a twin boar has a higher twr than a mammoth, when you subtract the fuel tank, but you'd use 2 twin boars to get equivalent thrust

buttt...the mammoth does have higher thrust at sea level because it has slightly better isp. But that difference would go away pretty quickly

[brave ingot]

is it true that on Eve it is very difficult to land and return to Kerbin?

[gusty lance]

Landing on eve isn’t too difficult as long as you have a very light ship and don’t plan to return. Coming back from the surface is one of the hardest things in the game

[frail mist]

Landing on Eve is easier than landing on the Mun or Minmus

Getting home is another story…

[gusty lance]

the only tricky thing is getting down through the atmosphere, with a light ship it's not too hard but with something heavy enough to return it can be a challenge

[brave ingot]

on the jool even more difficult?

[gusty lance]

you can't land on jool (bugs aside)

[brave ingot]

What does resource extraction produce? Money or science, or both?

[gusty lance]

fuel

[brave ingot]

and that's it?

[gusty lance]

pretty much, I guess it's possible to make money from it if you then recover the fuel on kerbin

but being able to produce fuel on a low-gravity world is pretty great

you can also produce fuel from asteroids

[brave ingot]

🇺🇸 🦅

[midnight bane]

You can also make money from it by building a craft with no drills and massive ore tanks that are already filled. Having an engineer on the craft will also increase the efficiency

[brave ingot]

How much ablator does it take not to burn when you land on Eve?

[tropic shuttle]

a normal heat shield is enough from a low orbti

[brave ingot]

I plan to enter Eve's atmosphere from Kerbol's orbit

[gusty lance]

it really depends on how heavy your ship is

[flint arrow]

I have a sub assembly called "science truss" which consists of ~150 part regarding science, nothing but, just thermometer and all that jazz, however, once I fly with this truss attached, my framerate goes into a deep dive, is there any way to fix this?

[waxen comet]

the usual answer to any question involving ablator is 0

[azure crescent]

too many parts
your pc can't handle
place it in fairing may help
as drag is not calculated
reducing cpu load

[lavish osprey]

Trying to reinstall some mods via CKAN, but it's complaining that I've got mod DLLs in the wrong directory. When I check that directory, it's empty. Any thoughts?

[gusty lance]

try hitting refresh in ckan or restarting it

or it's possible you're not looking in the right directory

[lavish osprey]

It seems I needed to refresh CKAN between changes. I think I've got it working now. Also, thanks!

[midnight bane]

I have two ships with docking ports in orbit

And they’re at the point where the docking ports are magnetically attracting each other

But how do I get them to actually dock

Somebody

Please

Quickly

Oh I just had to press Q and E until it worked, the yellow arrows weren’t aligned

[unborn gust]

how do i fly my planes

its too hard and i dont know how

[spiral plover]

i think this is a question for its own post

[unborn gust]

Alright did one.

[lavish osprey]

Trying to boot KSP after getting kOS added via CKAN. It seems to be stuck loading #autoLOC_7001191 (the number varies). Do I just need to wait it out?

[gusty lance]

try verifying game files, or post logs if you can't get it

[midnight bane]

I’m building a station and I have a very strange and very specific question

[unborn gust]

?

[midnight bane]

I have a craft that’s basically like an octopus, four arms with three joints each and docking port jr’s on the ends

And I’m basically using that to build the station

[unborn gust]

So a robot arm but alot of these

[midnight bane]

My question is, can I safely connect multiple docking ports to the same craft

So that I can “walk” the octopus along the main body of the station

[unborn gust]

Yes, you can

[midnight bane]

Ok cool

[unborn gust]

Or use rocket thrusters, unless its not a option

[midnight bane]

I don’t want to ever disconnect the octopus from the main body

I want it to always be connected by at least one point

So my question is, can I safely have it connected by 2 points?

Even if the points are far away and at different angles

Obviously I’m afraid of the kraken here, but I’m mainly afraid of the controls and navball freaking out

[unborn gust]

Yes.

Or you can just experiment around in sandbox

[midnight bane]

Eh that sounds too easy lmao

I might just make a quicksave to fuck around and find out

[robust stone]

the targets for my atmospheric reading missions aren't showing up on the map, any idea why?

[midnight bane]

Wrong planet?

[midnight bane]

?

[tropic shuttle]

Its in the traking station normaly

[lavish osprey]

Trying to use CKAN, but when I try to boot the game, it just says "The system cannot find the file specified". This happens whether it's a clone or fake. Any ideas?

[gusty lance]

does it tell you what file? is it actually there?

[lavish osprey]

That's all the info it gives me. Not sure what to check.

[gusty lance]

if you go to manage game instances, it should show you the path. is ksp_x64.exe there?

[flint arrow]

well, are physics for thermometers calculated for each part even if attach to a "main" part?

if so: it's incredibly dumb

[gusty lance]

most small parts don't have their own physics, but their modules etc will still be updating every frame

heat transfer, etc...lots of stuff

[flint arrow]

oh balls

how am i supposed to haul my science truss without lag then

[azure crescent]

some parts drag is calculated independently
but for some surface mounted small parts , the drag is adding to the parent part

[robust stone]

i know, that's how it normally shows up but it's not showing up now, normally i could hit M and see the indicator and click on it to track it but that's not happening

i have an upgraded tracking station

[lavish osprey]

Somehow, ksp_x64.exe is gone. Ksp.exe is there though.

[gusty lance]

did you rename ksp_x64.exe? Did you enlist in an ancient beta from steam?

it's also possible the clone/fake instance thing is busted, I always just copy the ksp directory myself

[lavish osprey]

Gonna reinstall again. Even tried creating a shortcut to ksp.exe under the name "ksp_x64.exe", but no such luck.
Everything is working as expected! Thank you JonnyOThan!

[brave ingot]

How do I reject or skip the mandatory contract? because I'm still a noob and I'm already being asked to sit on an eve and go home from eve

[gusty lance]

yikes. unfortunately they can't be canceled, but you're also not obligated to do it - just focus on other things or go other places until you're ready

[brave ingot]

Well, the problem is that I need money to cover my travels, and if I don't have contracts, I don't have money either

[gusty lance]

you should have lots of other contracts available..

[peak girder]

Could I used minmus or the moon to flip a retrograde orbit around kerbin to a prograde.

I am capturing an asteroid

Or is it easy to flip your orbit out here pass minmus

[brave ingot]

why you dont use screenshots 😭

[peak girder]

School firewall, and someone sits somewhere downtown manually blocking VPNs on the schools network

He is a very sad man named Michael

[spiral plover]

wait you are playing ksp on school?!

[unborn gust]

What is the path from KSP file system to the mods?

[peak girder]

Yes.

[unborn gust]

How? USB drive?

[peak girder]

My own laptop. I used to use a USB drive though

[unborn gust]

Wait

[peak girder]

They block VPNs not on laptops, but universally

[unborn gust]

Wait, do you use any school software?

And you cant use mobile data?

[peak girder]

I cant

I do. Word.

[unborn gust]

Word is mircosoft universal software.

So its not school.

[peak girder]

What's even weirder is there is one VPN that does work. And that's it. It only works on phone

[still sage]

Thank u so much.

[midnight bane]

Np, just paraphrased the wiki

[still sage]

Quick followup, brought a mobile lab on minmus, and after 5 years of processing, I have transmitted enough science to complete my tech tree. I also have about 5-6k science worth of data left. What should I do with it? I suppose fiddle with strategies at this point?

[unborn gust]

Get new mods!

They will expand the tech tree and allow more exploration with huger pushes

[brisk sundial]

Hi 👋
I don't know why, the mod mechjeb is not working anymore. Since I started a career save (which i ended up deleting), mechjeb is not working, even in sandbox mod. I clicked on the button that says "MJ" multiple times to toggle the UI, but nothing happens. Can somebody help me ?

[tropic shuttle]

you have to upgrae buildings in career for mech jeb

[brisk sundial]

yes, but why doesn't it work in sandbox ?

[tropic shuttle]

did you changed something at your mods

[brisk sundial]

no

[tropic shuttle]

verify your files

[brisk sundial]

in career mode, i understand, but from that point, it's not working anywhere

mechjeb files ?

[tropic shuttle]

no general game files, with steam/epic

[brisk sundial]

oh ok

[brisk sundial]

I'm on epic, and it's still verifying, is it normal ?

[tropic shuttle]

idk

[brisk sundial]

oh i'm dumb, it was waiting

[brisk sundial]

still not working

[brisk sundial]

nevermind, I uninstalled it then reinstalled it and it's working now

[jolly mantle]

Never limit thrust on launch vehicle. (Unless you opted to have g-force tolerances)

Yes. I've used one. Planning to get a new one for ksp 2

[tropic shuttle]

Limiting thurst at launch vehicle IS useful. Especially for srb

[stone granite]

not such a bad idea for srbs imo

[tropic shuttle]

Or if you need a bigger diameter but not all the thrust, like big volume but low mass payloads

And at a too high twr the drag gets too high

[jolly mantle]

If your twr is so high that aerodrag is more of an issue than gravity drag, you can remove or reduce the size of some boosters.

Hmmm... I guess i can see it being useful in career mode since the srbs are so cheap.

[stone granite]

the srb lasts longer so it can be good for space shuttle type craft for the center of thrust and so on

[jolly mantle]

^this is legit.

Ya'll got me thinking about whether it's worth giving up thrust to reduce drag. I'm unconvinced but open to the idea. Anyone have an example to share? I'd like to see if I'd do it differently and what the outcomes are.

[waxen comet]

Generally not too much of an issue unless it's a flying house. Too high TWR is more likely to make doing a gravity turn difficult.

[stone granite]

you can test it if you want, just launch a few boosters with different thrust levels and see which one goes the highest. Not a perfect test, but its something. Although when going straight up you're in the atmosphere for less time then in a gravity turn

[jolly mantle]

Gravity is also pulling directly against thrust the whole time of you go straight up, so that test would be twice biased towards higher twr = better. 3 times if people think high twr makes the gravity turn more difficult.

[gusty lance]

usually you want to go as fast as you can without overheating. if you need to reduce thrust, it might be a better option to just use a smaller engine

[jolly mantle]

Or add more fuel to the main stack to reduce twr and give yourself some extra dV.

[stone granite]

I haven't actually tested it with srbs, but with convetional engines that is definitely not the case (I tested it)

[jolly mantle]

Tested how?

[gusty lance]

I'm curious, what was the test?

now, that advice applies to typical streamlined rockets. If you're launching a kite, you might need to take unusual measures

[stone granite]

they were all streamlined rockets and best twr is about 1.5 any more and the extra weight of the engine isn't worth it. At least for a rocket ssto

[gusty lance]

errrr right. I'm talking about limiting the thrust of the engine. If you're paying for the engine, use the whole engine

so i think we're saying the same thing: if your engine is so big that you overheat on ascent, use a smaller engine instead of thrust-limiting it

[stone granite]

well yea, but yust so you know I did the math and its best at 1.5twr

I mean I did the tests

[gusty lance]

sure, I guess. all I'm saying is that lowering the thrust of an engine is usually not a good idea (because it doesn't proportionally reduce the mass or cost)

it's certainly possible that given other constraints it's the best option though

[stone granite]

for conventional engines that is the case, but for srb a case can be made where lower thrust is better

[gusty lance]

even then I'm skeptical

[jolly mantle]

^

[stone granite]

I don't have the program anymore, so it doesn't open correctly, but trust me the the tip of the hill is at 1.5 twr (though this is with a liquid fuel engine)

more to the right is higher twr and the height of the graph is payload to orbit

on the same mass of rocket

[jolly mantle]

But is that twr with the same engine mass, or with different engines?

[stone granite]

the engine is the same I just changed the amount of fuel and fuel tanks, so the twr is different. and then I calculated the percent of rocket mass I was able to get to orbit, so the comparison is as fair as possible

[jolly mantle]

So the higher twr had less fuel

[stone granite]

well yes obviously if you make a bigger rocket it's gonna be able to carry more cargo, but if you have the same size rocket 1.5twr is gonna get you the most payload to orbit

[brave ingot]

So you can understand from this graph that the first stage should be around 1.5 and no more and no less?

[stone granite]

like I said the graph is not shown correctly, but yes.... Tho this is for a rocket ssto so there is only one stage

I did it that way cuz it's easiest to test

[brave ingot]

What are the values for an ordinary rocket?

[stone granite]

donk know

should be similar

why make a non ssto anyway

[gusty lance]

How did you determine an ascent trajectory for each test case? because that should vary a lot depending on twr

I'm also a bit confused - you said the mass of the rocket is the same. How did you achieve different twrs then?

[tame stump]

Does anyone know how I can see biomes in orbit as I need to land in different biomes on duna but don’t know where they are

[waxen comet]

in the alt-f12 menu, in the cheats tab you can turn on a biome overlay. Alternatively, bring a probe core that can use the biome mode for kerbnet.

[tame stump]

What probe core has biome mode

[waxen comet]

rightclick on them in the VAB and look at their infoboxes

[idle wharf]

Do you get scientific data from doing experiments out of the kerbol systems SOI

kerbol not kerbin

[mellow owl]

why does this plane keep veering to the side

[echo orchid]

There's not enough boosters, add enough boosters and it'll stop /j

[mellow owl]

this is help not #kerbal

[spiral plover]

on the runway or on the air?

if its on the runway check the landing gear is not angled to a side

[mellow owl]

its not angled

and its symmetrical

[stuck wasp]

on the runway or in the air?

one can be fixed the other is ksp physics bull

[tame stump]

you need actual side to side control by giving that rear tail an elevator part

as SAS cannot keep the craft straight if there is nothing for it to use

[mellow owl]

I did put an elevon there and the same happens

[tame stump]

Does it do it on the ground or In the air

[mellow owl]

On the ground

I turn on sas and it sqings wildly

[tame stump]

Ok that’s a problem with where your wheels are and it’s relation to your centre of lift and mass

Try moving the 2 centres back more into the middle

Also you should for best performance have your centre of lift just behind the mass

[mellow owl]

still goes to one side

[stone granite]

@north egret I did each one 10 or so times and took the best one

[stone granite]

The rockets were not the same mass. They all used the same engine and a differing amount of fuel/fuel tanks to get the different twr

[north egret]

[stone granite]

Sorry mb I have no idea why it pinged you

[gusty lance]

So I don't think you found the optimal TWR, I think you found the optimal fuel/payload/engine ratio

which is going to be very rocket-specific

I'm not exactly clear what the y axis represents, was it payload fraction to orbit? that's not necessarily the only metric, surely each of these tests ended up with different amounts of dv left over in orbit

[stone granite]

You are correct the y does represent the payload fraction, but to calculate the payload as acurately as possible the payload is the remaining fuel itself + the necessary control pod weight and the like and of course I took into account the fuel tank weight (but only of the remaining fuel)

[gusty lance]

hmm ok I think that's probably a reasonable approach

[stone granite]

Anyway I go sleep now

[gusty lance]

thanks for the data, this is interesting

[valid cape]

are there any other launch area in the stock game other than the KSC and the island runway?

[tropic shuttle]

There is also a runway in the dessert

[valid cape]

is it stock?

[valid cape]

im currently flying near the dessert pyramids where is this runway?

[tropic shuttle]

Yes in stock (maybe dlc). Close to the equator

[valid cape]

Is it called Baikabanur?

[tropic shuttle]

Idk the exact name

[valid cape]

i have a map where u said i should be

[valid cape]

so now where is it

[tropic shuttle]

You can show tjhe landing sides with the upper bar in the map mode

[valid cape]

i only see like two

do i have to go there before i can use it?

[still sage]

Why does my rocket flip out of control when I stage to get rid of my radial engines?

I'm using Mech Jeb,

But I haven't done anything different to what I've been doing all the time.

[gusty lance]

are you on console? do you have the dlc?

[valid cape]

i dont have dlc

[gusty lance]

yeah you need making history for the other launch sites

ah I guess that's just the desert site and woomerang; there are some that you can use once you discover them

[valid cape]

wait so there are other launch sites in stock i just have to discover them?

[valid cape]

is the crater launch site stock

[balmy sapphire]

wiki say it is stock

[gusty lance]

yeah it's not exactly clear...it's not under the dlc heading though

[balmy sapphire]

time to troll people when people say all launch site need making history
mention Crater Launch Site

[dire plume]

i'd like to question how the ksc forgot they had like half a dozen launch sites

[valid cape]

are there any stock bases other than the ksc and island runway that has a runway?

[balmy sapphire]

I don't think so

[dire plume]

dessert has one

[valid cape]

wait isnt that one dlc only

[dire plume]

i think it is

[balmy sapphire]

ye

[valid cape]

well looks like i have to get kerbal konstructs and make my game even slower than it is

[still sage]

So I'm trying to make a relay system over minmus

I have 3 satellites in identical orbit, but they're not equally spaced.

How do I change their phase angles?

[wet token]

ive played the game for two and a half years but i still dont know what combinable means in antenna ratings

[hazy fractal]

how many relays is recommended for a stable, constant connecton to the kerbnet?

[gusty lance]

I usually do 3 in an equatorial orbit for local connectivity, and a powerful one in a high polar orbit to connect back to kerbin

you might not have full coverage on the surface at the poles, but I usually don't land there anyway

[brave ingot]

what's the atmosphere like on the dune?

I'm going to visit her

[gusty lance]

thin enough that vacuum engines work well for ascent, but thick enough that parachutes can almost entirely slow you down and you can't totally ignore aerodyanmics for liftoff

[brave ingot]

what are very weak engines for?

[gusty lance]

very small ships like satellites

you'll usually get more dv out of an Ant engine on an oscar tank than a spark, even though the spark has higher isp. dry mass matters

[tame stump]

God I hate the time warp bug how do I stop it from happening

[tropic shuttle]

/

[tame stump]

I just did a 1100 DV change to duna and I timewarped to make a correction then it just bugged out and now I’m bearly leaving kerbin

[gusty lance]

yeah that's a longstanding bug that happens when you jump to high timewarp levels. To mitigate it, press > to go to 5x warp, let it settle, then you can warp faster

[tame stump]

The one thing that ksp 2 will do that is more important than new parts or solar systems will be a much much better engine

[gusty lance]

welll......

[tropic shuttle]

more qol

[gusty lance]

the min specs just got released and the GPU recommendations are crazy

[tropic shuttle]

but i bet they will be lower in 1.0 for HD/60fps

[gusty lance]

no the MINIMUM recommednation is a 2060

[tame stump]

Damn

[mellow owl]

how in the living hell does this thing not fly

[spiral plover]

video?

of it not flying?

settings of the control surfaces?

[peak girder]

@gusty lance hey i tried removing the mod from my install. and now ksp starts with a black screen and a curser

nevermind it has started

nevermind it hasnt

[daring verge]

What is this part from or shall I find out tomorrow with release of Benjee's Habtech 2?

[gusty lance]

I assume you're talking about KerbalVR. You need to restore the backup globalgamemanagers file in ksp_x64_data. Or just verifying files on steam should do it

[peak girder]

i have tried verifying the files. i get stuck on a loading screen

@gusty lance

[gusty lance]

ok post logs

[gusty lance]

looks like you installed kerbalvr's native dependencies into gamedata. A) that's wrong and B) I thought you said you removed kerbalvr

[peak girder]

wait how. i did remove kerbalvr and i think i messed up on the native dependencies

[gusty lance]

well let me back up a sec: this bug happens when a dll file in gamedata doesn't have a fileversion attribute. that's true for one of the native dependencies of kerbalvr, but that's not necessarily the only dll that might be in there with that problem

show a picture of your gamedata folder?

also I'm pretty sure I had put a fileversion attribute on the dll, so either screwed that up or you're using a pretty old version of kerbalvr

[gusty lance]

yeah there's a kerbalvr folder there...

what's in it?

[gusty lance]

that openvr folder doesn't belong there, and you're missing some other stuff

and kerbalvr.dll is not in the right place

hmm, did you install the old vivero version, and then mine on top? but that wouldn't explain the missing files..

in any case delete your kerbalvr folder and start over with the install guide if you want to use kerbalvr

[peak girder]

i dont, i want to remove it because of performance issues

[peak girder]

how do i delete it

and can i uninstall dependances

[gusty lance]

uh, you click on the folder and press the delete key

RocketSoundEnhancement is going to tank your perf way more than kerbalvr, it's terrible

I guess unless your gpu is pretty weak

I have an optimized build somewhere around here..

[peak girder]

wait really. i have been trying to figure out why i am getting 10 fps on low setting with a i5-10500 and RX 6600

[gusty lance]

well, certain settings can also make parallax really terrible

there's a performance section in the parallax forum post

[peak girder]

medium on pallerax

[gusty lance]

that's not what I mean

certain in-game settings like lights and reflections

go read the parallax post

it's under the troubleshooting block

[peak girder]

alrightly

[peak girder]

what do you do with your flags. i just come up with jokes

[gusty lance]

hah nice

[shrewd rivet]

I made my own planet config file, where do I put it to make Kopernicus load it in?

[balmy sapphire]

In your own mod folder, just name it whether u want , make sure the texture and other related files meet the absolute path stated in ur cfg

[shrewd rivet]

i only have a .cfg file

is that all i need?

[balmy sapphire]

Yes, then I think you can put it anywhere in gamedata folder if I recall correctly

[shrewd rivet]

this is my first planet mod

ok

if i get this first try im going to go insane

[shrewd rivet]

its stuck on the loading page

still stuck

[vestal trout]

why wont this lunar module not connect to the rest of the rocket?

do i have to re-root something?

[spiral plover]

is it conected to anything

or does it have anything in the lander to connect

[vestal trout]

nvm i fixed it

[dire plume]

are there any extremely high-gain antennas/relays (100's of Gm or a few Tm) added by any standalone mods? i know JX2Antenna exists, but according to some comments on the forum post it seems to be extremely unoptimized when in an atmosphere/launching. Reason being I have Outer Planets Mod and Minor Planets Expansion, and without using like a dozen communotron 88-88s, i can't seem to get any connection from the very far dwarf planets (in particular Soden)
this is only half of the way to Soden, and i need to drop off some SCANsats as part of the mission since two missions would be very impractical

[stuck wasp]

Tweakscale solves most issues. Make a new save and hyper edit a tweakscaled antenna real far. See how it goes. I know it scales pretty well so if you take the largest one that might work

[dire plume]

just tried JX2, seems to work perfectly fine after all, atleast inside a fairing

[stuck wasp]

Follow your heart

[last patrol]

why cant i get rovemax m1-f rover wheel to actually show 100% power usage? im crawling around in my rover i made at like 4m/s and it shows like 30% power output

[lone ember]

How do I fix this problem? I tried it o. mobile, desktop app and browser.

[balmy sapphire]

click keep trying

[lone ember]

Thanks

That was a quick response lol

[brave ingot]

How do I get on this dune, I always land on some hill and the shock absorbers start to bounce wildly and I fall over, I've already switched off the springs and the shock absorber but it doesn't help.

[snow echo]

Why is my FPS 1-2 frames? After a reload my first launch is super smooth, but any launch afterwards is 1-2 FPS

[unborn gust]

How do i help make a giveaway? I have leftover gifts and i cant use them, my friends also cantt use them, so how do i help make it a giveaway on this server

[brave ingot]

How to take off from Dune properly?

[unborn gust]

uhh

you turn on the engine get to orbit and dock to your station or somthing get fuel and go back to kerbin with the delta-v map if you need it

[brave ingot]

I was asking how to get into orbit, I meant at what altitude to start turning and at what level to keep TWR so there is no resistance

[unborn gust]

Oh

Any kerbin tatic will work, but you want to first quicksave or go into sandbox to experiment around with the TWR

just

i recommend experimenting in sandbox if you dont understand somthing with rockets/planes

[balmy sapphire]

dm moderator about that, but I don't know how would you deal with physical gifts if you talking about these

[unborn gust]

Im talking about digital

[balmy sapphire]

go ahead dm them about them

preferably oxens since you know
PR

[unborn gust]

k

[brave ingot]

at what altitude is it safe to make an orbit on a dune?

[tropic shuttle]

dunas atmosphere is 50km high

[unborn gust]

So 60km is good enough

If you want to risk alot, you can aim for 51km

[jolly mantle]

Turn traction control way down on front wheel only. This also helps on rovers.

[jolly mantle]

Did you stage away all your fins with those engines?

[jolly mantle]

I want finding other people's flags to be part of the multiplayer.

[thick drum]

how do you make helicopters i am very confused

[still sage]

No, that's the thing. I got rid of the radial engines, but still had fins on the center rocket. I tried basic fins and tail fins, also had extra reaction wheels.

Also, the rocket didn't rotate out of control, it just flipped, doing a nosedive and then kept flipping while trying to point up again

[brave ingot]

Give me some photos of some good homemade planting supports

[shrewd rivet]

My game is stuck on the loading screen

[gusty lance]

14675 [ERR 16:03:04.354] MechJeb caught a ReflectionTypeLoadException. Those DLL are not built for this KSP version:
14677 [ERR 16:03:04.354] KittopiaTech 1.0.6479.31186 GameData\KittopiaTech\Plugins\KittopiaTech.dll

[shrewd rivet]

So it’s a KittopiaTech problem?

[gusty lance]

yes, I'm pretty sure kittopiatech has not been updated for modern ksp...where did you get it?

[shrewd rivet]

well the KSP wiki said to get it for planet modding

so I think I got it from the GitHub

[gusty lance]

the latest release on github is 3 years old

[celest ferry]

will the original ksp be going on sale for the lauch of ksp2?

[vestal trout]

how tf would we know

[celest ferry]

i was thinking the staff might know and i was hoping they'd answer

[gusty lance]

that seems really unlikely; it would have the potential to cannibalize ksp2 sales

if I were them I'd give away ksp1 for free with a purchase of ksp2

[snow echo]

Bump ^

[stuck wasp]

it's going to be a mod interaction. you will have to start systematically removing mods to narrow down the culrpit

[gusty lance]

or bad graphics settings + parallax, or somethign else

[quasi talon]

how to not clip so far away?

hmmm the problem is gone now

the problem came back lol

[midnight bane]

It’s the Coriolis effect, the only way to not have it veer to the side is to fly PERFECTLY on the equator

[brave ingot]

is there a mod for rover parts, like some new scientific tools like in real life?

[tropic shuttle]

Dm orbital science

[red vapor]

I put deployables on Duna, but I didn't have an antenna connection so they didn't transmit. I just put a relay satelite in orbit and even though I can clearly see its connected the science still won't transmit. Do I have to send a kerbal down there to manually send it?

[brave ingot]

does it make sense to use this mod in science mode?

[tropic shuttle]

its like more expirments

[brave ingot]

ok, ty

[lavish osprey]

In kOS, I'm trying to programmatically change the mode of a Rapier engine. The following code complains that labels are read-only, despite mode being labeled as "settable". What do I need to do to make this work nicely?
rapier_1:getmodule("MultiModeEngine"):setField("Mode", "AirBreathing").

[gusty lance]

try using doevent or doaction to toggle the mode

[lavish osprey]

Got it working. Thank you!

[gusty lance]

oh actually the engine parts in kos has a togglemode function

https://ksp-kos.github.io/KOS/structures/vessels/engine.html#method:ENGINE:TOGGLEMODE

[mellow owl]

is this enough chutes for a soft eve landing?

[tropic shuttle]

i would go with one 0.65m parachute in the midddle

[mellow owl]

yeah but...

oh the capsule parachute?

[tropic shuttle]

the small, white one

[mellow owl]

is it ok so just strap a communotron 88-88 on the side of a rocket when launching?

or would aero forces mess it up

[tropic shuttle]

if you extent it alter it maybe survive

[hushed wave]

some mods aren't showing up in ckan despite spacedock listing them as being in ckan

namely scatterer and stock waterfall efects

[gusty lance]

those are definitely on ckan

[quasi talon]

You might have a filter on so check that they’re all disabled

[unborn dust]

Now this is #kerbal lmao

[snow echo]

My game keeps crashing when I dock my shuttle to my space station, is there a fix for this?

[midnight bane]

Hey

The auto strut button still shows up even after I’ve launched

Does it work?

Can I use it to add struts without an engineer?

[hushed wave]

pretty sure i dont have any

[spiral plover]

i think it actually does

[midnight bane]

Coooooool

[slender canyon]

Simple question. I got a contract here asking for a temperature scan from the "KSC" Biome, where is that? All the places around the KSC are specific like "VAB
or "SPH"

[midnight bane]

Ah, there’s a little blank triangle with nothing in it between the VAB and Tracking station

Well, “little” compared to the VAB and the other buildings

And by “nothing” I mean no buildings, just grass and concrete

[slender canyon]

Thanks man, tried to find it for so long

[midnight bane]

It worked?

[slender canyon]

yeah that little triangle area

[midnight bane]

Gg

[snow echo]

yup

[midnight bane]

Did KSP just get an update? I’ve never seen these staged heat shield jettison or adjustable parachute spread angle before

[vestal trout]

this has always been a thing

[midnight bane]

OH

I guess this is just my first time putting parachutes and heat shields on a rocket after enabling advanced tweakables

[tawdry cape]

why does timewarp move my apoapsis?

[azure crescent]

whats the difference of the angle？

[brave ingot]

Is there any way to interact with these stones? (I have dlc breaking ground)

this Dres

[midnight bane]

Build a rover with a robotic arm, it’s a single piece in the science tab

[midnight bane]

No idea

Can you treat a transfer from the mun to minmus like a small interplanetary transfer with kerbin as the sun?

I’m planning on a mission that’s probably gonna involve landing on the mun and on minmus and I’m looking for ways to save fuel

[azure crescent]

believe me
always land on minmus first

[midnight bane]

Ok, good advice

But still

Can I go from minmus orbit to munar orbit with a transfer similar to interplanetary?

[azure crescent]

you will not want to carry large amount of fuel landing and ascending

[midnight bane]

I already made sure my TWR is above 1 for the mun

[azure crescent]

I think.k yes

this is mine
I found dull when wasting fuel for carrying the fuel landing on mun

[night stone]

This might be quick and I did make a post for it, but my command pod keeps disconnecting from my rocket when I try to launch (new player)

[waxen comet]

Check yo stagin. Show a full image with the UI.

[night stone]

ahh this fixed it

thank you

[jolly mantle]

Could be floating point rounding error. I get these if I "warp to" across sphere of influence changes but not if I manually time warp across those changes and then "warp to". I also get these errors less when I "warp to" next maneuver rather than apogees etc.

[stuck wasp]

also I get those errors when my orbit is close to perfectly circular

my AP and PE will just fly around the circle randomly

granted they are only changing by about a meter

[hollow kestrel]

@keen narwhal

Here we are

#1077266055212318750

[snow echo]

bump

[stuck wasp]

screenshots

well honestly its gonna be mods if it's crashing

start removing stuff

[snow echo]

Yea makes sense

Think astrogator would do it?

What is the upper limit of mods that KSP can survive?

Atm I have 11GB of mods

[tropic shuttle]

You pc is the limet

[snow echo]

Is the cpu the limiting factor?

I have an i5-7300HQ @2.5GHz, 4 core

4GB VRAM

[tropic shuttle]

Its not so easy to tell. But remember ksp use only one cpu core

[snow echo]

Ah that explains the bottleneck

[gusty lance]

ksp is almost always cpu-bound unless you're running all the graphics mods and don't have a decent gpu

[snow echo]

Dang

[snow echo]

My station is 182 parts

[waxen comet]

Single-thread performance is king, and your CPU is very weak in that regard. It's going to struggle with partcount.

[snow echo]

Should I make a ‘lite’ version of my station?

[night stone]

Liquid fuel engine doesnt work (new player)

Also none of the fuel pods are being used

[snow echo]

Turn on Advanced Tweakables in the settings then select “show fuel delivery overlay”

[waxen comet]

the fuel tanks have liquid fuel and oxidiser in them?

[night stone]

yeah

[snow echo]

It’ll confirm whether or not the engines receive fuel

[waxen comet]

what part(s) is between the engine and fuel tanks

[night stone]

more fuel tanks

[snow echo]

Also check your throttle

[night stone]

it was maxed

[waxen comet]

to word it differently, what is the engine attached to directly

[night stone]

the fuel tanks

[waxen comet]

by the way, do the fuel tanks actually have fuel in them

[night stone]

it says 180/180 for this one im using rn

they did before too

[waxen comet]

ok go back to the VAB and post an image

with the full UI

[night stone]

ok

[snow echo]

Is there a way to see what causes my game to crash on docking?

[waxen comet]

No, unless you know the ins and outs of the crash logs, which very, very few people do

[night stone]

This is what im using now

[waxen comet]

seems okay, from a will-it-fuction perspective anyway

[night stone]

a

[waxen comet]

It's not going to fly, but that's another matter

[night stone]

I think its too heavy

[waxen comet]

You are using an engine that is not only low-power, but is bricked by the atmosphere

[night stone]

o

[waxen comet]

hover over the engine in the part menu and rightclick twice, which will show you the extended stats which includes things like thrust and specific impulse

also click on the blue number in your staging stack to expand the stats for things like thrust to weight ratio

[night stone]

ahhh

[waxen comet]

I mean hover over it in the part selection menu, not on the rocket

[night stone]

yeah

[tawdry cape]

this is by kilometers

[gusty lance]

don't use "warp to" when you're not already in timewarp

press > to go to 5x first, then you're fine

[waxen comet]

going up and down timewarp quickly will cause orbit jumping, as will crossing SOI boundaries at excessive warp

[stuck wasp]

still happening after restarting your computer?

[peak girder]

Any time I target Laythe my game crashes

Like what the fuck

[tropic shuttle]

Verify your files integrity

[peak girder]

Ok

[peak girder]

Still crashes

[stuck wasp]

got lots of mods? thats likely the culprit

start removing them in groups

[gusty lance]

Reduce your conic patch count

Also turn off “always show closest approach”

[peak girder]

That I can do.

My conic patches are at 2

[stuck wasp]

yeah I dont think he is lagging out from targeting laythe

unless he is in the exact same orbit and managed to find the trajectory that really pisses KSP off

still recommend to do a reinstall, targeting somethihng should not cause a crash just right away.

or a binary search this sort of shit tends to be a mod interaction

so not necessarily everything but certainly batches

[tawdry cape]

i'm in a flight now so we'll see

[severe tiger]

is there a way to put the "shutdown engine" command in the staging sequence?

[azure crescent]

action group

[severe tiger]

i know about action groups. im asking if i can have it so one stage will activate the engine, and then the next one will shut it down.

[ebon frost]

does anyone have a suggestion for what tech(s) to get next?

[gusty lance]

Probably way too late at this point, but miniaturization has the eva science kit which is very valuable.

[ebon frost]

i've already got it, it's in the screenshot. i appreciate you trying to help though 😄

i bought fuel, advanced electronics and advanced exploration so i can start a space station, already got the first section in space, now i need to expand it tomorrow

i also now have 112 science left over (recovered something i must have forgotten and got science from it), so when i can tomorrow i'll get heavier rocketry

[gusty lance]

Ohh right I was off by a column. I don’t have it fully memorized…but the seismic accelerometer is another great experiment if you can afford it

[spiral plover]

do science lab keep producing science when the vessel they are on is not being controlled?

(i mean when it is very far away from the vessel you are controlling, or when you are in tracking station or something)

[jolly mantle]

It does, and it will transmit the science as long as the communication parts are not set to sleep during time warp.

[quasi talon]

for an eve lander do i go for high or low twr?

[azure crescent]

aerobraking is enough to slow down

[quasi talon]

Sorry I meant to take off

[night stone]

my display is 1920x1080 but the windowed version cuts off a portion of the screen, is there a way I can fix this without making it smaller or going fullscreen?

[midnight bane]

Too late to answer?

[queen fractal]

If you don't feel like you need anything specific, go for techs that let you get more science

[midnight bane]

I was going to recommend the convert-o-tron for infinite fuel and money

[ebon frost]

Yo, whuuuut?!?

[midnight bane]

I think it’s on that path on the third from the bottom

Or wait

[midnight bane]

Do you have the mobile lab unlocked?

[midnight bane]

Well, whatever research unlocks the mobile lab, the fuel maker is two or three spots to the right.

[ebon frost]

I do, that's the center section of my space station. I only have one in space atm but the plan is to have three connected in a line and then smaller sections built off those that are made from empty fuel tanks

[midnight bane]

Oh uhh

I suppose I should mention

The “infinite” fuel requires you to be on a surface with ore and you also need a lot of power and radiators

My personal infinite moneymaker has 6 medium thermal control systems, 8 big drills, like a dozen launch clamps (they give a little bit of power), 8 fuel cells, 1 convert-o-tron making LF+OX to power the fuel cells, and another convert-o-tron that makes monopropellant to fill up the empty monopropellant tanks on the craft

Also it has seating for 4 crew members, because having an engineer on board will increase the speed and efficiency of the convert-o-trons and drills

[ebon frost]

i feel like i'm being stupid, how do i align my clamp-o-tron with the port i am looking to dock with?

[tropic shuttle]

Vab or flight?

[ebon frost]

flight

[tropic shuttle]

Are you able to control both ships?

[ebon frost]

no

that's the issue, isn't it?

[tropic shuttle]

Its not but its a bit more complex then

Do you have rcs. Thruster?

[ebon frost]

on both? yes

[tropic shuttle]

How close are you ships together?

[ebon frost]

withing 50m

[tropic shuttle]

Go to like 10

[ebon frost]

in docking mode?

[tropic shuttle]

I am not a fan of

[ebon frost]

same

i only have 1 section of my station to go, so it's less important atm, but i thought i'd try to learn what i'm doing wrong

[tropic shuttle]

Do you know the rcs "movement" keys

[ebon frost]

i do

i just thought there was a way to have the docking ports be facing the eachother just offset

[tropic shuttle]

Then you have to turn and adjust more and more. Do only small thrust

[tropic shuttle]

If you could control both ships

[ebon frost]

makes sense

thanks

[forest sky]

not a directly KSP question but i dont know where else to go with it,i want to edit a KSP video and i just cant find a good free editing software, any ive found is either buggy or forces a watermark on the final product if you dont pay(i noticed that one with the first one i tried after finishing editing down the 13 hours of footage and had to abandon the entire thing),does anyone here know any good ones they could recommend to me?

[stuck wasp]

https://www.openshot.org/

for just about all cases google "open source <software I want>" and you can find a simple piece of software to do <thing>

make sure it has a github as they cant screw you by hiding stuff in the source code then

[waxen comet]

I'd also recommend VSDC

[forest sky]

ok thank you

[ebon frost]

any recommendations as to what to get next? i'm wondering if advanced fuel followed by nuclear power is a good idea

[stuck wasp]

these decisions are largely based on what you want to do next. if you want to get a better idea the nuclear power is good for all travel outside of kerbin. when going literally anywhere else you need NERV's

I think advanced fuel is fine to get to nuclear but it might be wasted if you dont use the larger parts

of course if you have lots of science or have the multiplier turned up it doesnt matter

[ebon frost]

NERVs?

my science is at whatever selecting "normal" mode on career mode is

[stuck wasp]

NERV are the nuclear rocket

AKA LV-N

AKA
https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/LV-N_"Nerv"_Atomic_Rocket_Motor

[ebon frost]

riiiight. thanks! I do need to improve my ability to get back from the mun an minmus, the last two missions i've done (one mission to each) required me to do 3 rescue missions to bring the kerbal and science back because of lack of dV

[stuck wasp]

well nervs are most than enough to go between the moons of kerbin so I say take them for a spin once you get them, they will make travel far easier

more*

[ebon frost]

i think i'll go for heavier rocketry and then nuclear power

never mind, you need both heavier rocketry and adv. fuel for it

[gusty lance]

ehh, you don't need NERVs to go interplanetary - they're often the lightest method to build a transfer stage with given specs but they're very expensive

I'd go for electronics - has the magnetometer and sesmic accelerometer, both very valuable experiments

[severe tiger]

Will ksp 2 be on normal Xbox

[shrewd rivet]

not until 1.0

[severe tiger]

But it will come to Xbox 1

[stuck wasp]

id argue that most people are better off using the nervs anyway just bc they provide a large margin for payload

[quasi talon]

they say theyll eventaully release a console verson

[severe tiger]

Ok

[quasi talon]

but be prepared to wait awhile for it to come out

[severe tiger]

Ok

[urban warren]

How were the terrain created for the planets and moons in KSP?

[sonic plume]

Does the combo of Parallax 2 and Planetshine still cause problems?

[spiral plover]

should i buy (in science mode) very heavy rocketry, the 100G rating antennas, or high power electrics with unmanned tech? (tbh i dont really need unmanned tech the probe things i have combined with the fly by wire is good enough)

[tropic shuttle]

the nuclear engine is better as very heavy rocketry

[spiral plover]

so i dont buy very heavy rocketry because i already have the nuclear engine?

[tropic shuttle]

so you have the nuke? do you have mainsail?

[spiral plover]

both

[tropic shuttle]

that is for me in the most cases enough for engines

[spiral plover]

i think i will get unmanned tech so i can later unlock ion engines (i already have the other thing needed)

hmmm idk tbh

[pulsar scaffold]

how can invert these? make the escape on the other side that the arrow points

[pulsar scaffold]

i want to decrease my orbit but it always rises bc the escape is pointed the wrong way

[tropic shuttle]

or

[pulsar scaffold]

still doesn't work

[tropic shuttle]

If you are in the (near) soi then /

[shadow thistle]

why cant i press apply changes in ckan when i made a change

[gritty frigate]

what is happening

[spiral plover]

its a module manager thing

because its national cat day in japan or something like that

[gritty frigate]

Kool

[gusty lance]

nyan-body cat physics

[tropic shuttle]

You took conflicting mods

[mellow owl]

Mix of procedural and manual adjustments

[urban warren]

Ok

Thanks

[peak girder]

I saw that too lol. I thought I accidentally installed the nyan cat mod

[jolly mantle]

I would put a maneuver node right where you enter Eve's SoI. You can miss the planet from any direction you want with very few dV.
There's gonna be a solution from further away too(like how you're trying to do it), but it won't be intuitive, will be broken by tiny deviations carrying out other maneuvers, and it's subject to being messed up by floating point rounding errors.

[spiral plover]

should i buy advanced unmanned tech and ion propulsion?

[jolly mantle]

Yes

[gritty frigate]

Why is this happening when I haven't even turned the engine on

[river bluff]

What is the most efficient Kerbin orbit altitude to begin a Mun transfer at, and what is the most efficient Mun orbit altitude to begin landing from?

[dire plume]

anything circular for kerbin to mun and 15km is good for mun landing, especially if doing an apollo style CSM separate from the lander

[dry jacinth]

what does the smart ass "node" option do in mechjeb?

[river bluff]

Yeah, Apollo style is pretty similar to what I'm doing, except I'm landing an autonomous construction vehicle and discarding the transfer stage.

[dire plume]

yeah, did an apollo replica just the other day and found that orbiting low is good for the mun and similar bodies
i mean docking was impossible since the lander had about 3ml of fuel and i had to land with the S-IVB stage but it made the landing easier i guess?

landing on that tiny fuckin engine bell took like a dozen tries lol

[river bluff]

Any Mechjeb users here? I keep trying to circularize after a transfer to the Mun and it just decides to burn in some direction until I am on a trajectory that would slingshot me out of Kerbin's sphere of influence.

[jolly mantle]

If you're discarding the transfer stage, you might as well use up it's fuel and decelerate as much as possible before decoupling. Even better if you can destroy it by lithobraking it. Disposing from tracking station is tedious and unrealistic.

[nocturne gull]

Heyo, just wondering how to get rid of "decoupler fairings" (not sure if they have a proper name or not) that appears around an engine or thermal shield whenever you put a decoupler under one

[balmy sapphire]

I'm sure you can disable it by clicking the shroud button for engine, not sure if you need advanced tweakable enabled and whether works for heat shield

[nocturne gull]

I've seen a few youtubers with it completely disabled, perhaps it's a mod?

namely Matt Lowne

lemme try what you suggested though

oh, fantastic

it's simply the "shroud" tweakable

unclick it and the thingy disappears

thanks mate

[balmy sapphire]

Btw ur new member icon is gone now lmao

[echo viper]

hey, I've recently played KSP 1 again to get into KSP again after a longer break, so I started a career.
However, I stopped playing it due to a bug I had, my deltav wasn't displayed right. My thruster stage for example had no deltav, but a decoupler stage has the deltav, and I'm not sure if the deltav is correct either. Can someone tell me how to fix it? Already tried verifying game files, didn't fix it

[tropic shuttle]

Did you check your staging? Also when side booster burn out early as the core the decoupler gets a dv amount

[echo viper]

huh, that's interesting, that could be it

[north fable]

hey, what does p.a.i.g.e stand for anyway?

[echo viper]

here, this is what I mean, just checked the rocket

If I take the engine away (it's a separate engine for a central tank, the one's in the first stage are solid boosters) it still has deltav

but the coupler also has deltav

o h I think I fixed it

well thanks for the help then

[jolly mantle]

Personal assistant in game environment. Nm i made that up.

[late breach]

dont know why but im getting low FPS whenever in flight (high fps in VAB, SPH, tracking station and more, but not in the facility selection)

[stuck wasp]

make sure you are controlling from the right part

IE right click command pod and hit control from here.

[deft oak]

When planning to dock parts onto a Space Station in Kerbin orbit, when's the best time to launch the mission? e.g. how long until the station passes Over the KSP launch site.

[gritty frigate]

Does anyone else get the stack overflow thing once in a while?

[flint roost]

what do i do when i cant turn my heat shield towards the planet at all? im coming from mun trying to reenter into kerbin

[dire plume]

does your command pod have any RCS fuel/electricity? otherwise it wont be able to rotate, though if the approach through the atmosphere is shallow enough you'll be fine anyway

[flint roost]

thats what my vessel looks like when reentrying into atmosphere. i tried pretty much every approach. so far i only survived with the science jr blowing off. could it be that its too long?

[dire plume]

you should be able to just have SAS hold retrograde and be fine

[flint roost]

for elictricity i need battery?

[dire plume]

yes, although the command pod should have a small one internally, though a battery would help. also a single one of the tiny solar panels would work as an alternative.

[flint roost]

okay thanks

[tawdry cape]

how much DV will it take to get to tylo and back on a 2 way mission?

i've been doing this for the past 2 months and most of the time either i don't have enough DV or the kraken gets me

[gritty frigate]

Wait so if I am using engineer redux, does the max twr have to be above 1?

probably yes

but

so...

[quasi talon]

Planes don’t need a twr above 1. A twr of 1 just means you can point it straight up and it’ll go up. A plane just needs to be able to go sideways so you can have a twr lower than and still do fine

But for rockets yes it should be above 1

[balmy sapphire]

yes, that's just normie ksp memory leak

[stuck wasp]

you can get away with very low twrs for jets

0.3 is manageable

[knotty vigil]

I just installed real solar system, but everything is so dark

[rugged gate]

why isnt better time warp working? so far i click the time warps and I try changing the vanilla time warps but nothings working

[tropic shuttle]

Yes

[tropic shuttle]

You have to click on the small arrow next to the timewarp

[tropic shuttle]

It doesn't really look that dark

[rugged gate]

did that

[balmy sapphire]

just the grass looks dark

[frail mist]

Also you really don’t want to play RSS with stock parts, getting the full RP-1 Express Install modpack will honestly bring less pain than trying to use tanks which are literally made of lead.

And it will also make Earth look better.

[knotty vigil]

I'll try realism overhaul, but how's the performance impact ?

And is it compatible with other visual mods I use like parallax, scatter, eve and the astronomer visual pack ?

[light jungle]

I have a station and on the station I have Jerry cans on Mono. When I got to construction mode I can't move them. My limit is "no limit" and I don't think anything is attached to the cans. Is it because they are modded items that's an issue?

[frail mist]

Express Install includes Scatterer and RSSVE (don’t remember if that’s a config or a replacement for EVE but whatever it is, it’s all included). There are Parallax configs that you can get separately. Performance is mostly limited by visuals (and Principia if you have it).

[gaunt merlin]

nope

[gaunt merlin]

4k ish

[vestal trout]

,dvmap

[thick spoke]

https://i.imgur.com/yO0bQax.png

[vestal trout]

from where?

[gaunt merlin]

ok do it for him

[vestal trout]

what

[gaunt merlin]

no

[vestal trout]

huh?

[gaunt merlin]

forget about it

[gaunt merlin]

whats the transfer window for jool

[unkempt turtle]

I accidentally dropped a jetpack, how do I pick it back up?

ping when reply pls

[severe tiger]

erm is anyone able to help me or direct me to learn how to match the final 2 criteria for this, not sure how to approach it, already set the top 3 but the bottom 2 are abit less intuative

[queen fractal]

Longitude of the ascending node is where you go from southern hemisphere to the northern one.
Argument of periapsis is the angle difference from the previous point.

So since you're so far off the best option I can think of is to place a maneuver node where your orbit intersects the target orbit plane. And have that maneuver node match orbital plane. It's going to be an expensive as hell burn though.

For future: try to launch to the same plane as the target orbit by waiting for KSC to be almost in the right plane and launching to the correct inclination.

[severe tiger]

yeah i meant to launch on the same plane but was an oopsie; i think i get what i need to do will try later probs ty

[queen fractal]

one thing you can try is to go into a highly eccentric orbit with Apoapsis at the target plane. It might be cheaper that way than the previous method I mentioned. still expensive though

[severe tiger]

Yeah i mean i can budget a lot of delta v for this anyways its not really an issue

ty

[severe tiger]

how do i connect this small cone to the booster

[balmy sapphire]

grab it again, press s to flip it upright if it isn't already, hold alt while trying to connect it (assume you're playing on computer)

[unborn gust]

WWhat mod adds MK1 sized cargo pods and is for 1.12.3 or higher? My spaceplane would look werid with adapters

[severe tiger]

thanks

[balmy sapphire]

(fyi, hold alt force the part to connect to "green orb" only)

[severe tiger]

👍

[red vapor]

do .625 heatshields just not work? they don't really protect the probe core behind it

I am using restock so there's a chance that mod changes the aero model for it

[fallow axle]

question: do SSTOs need nervs?

[red vapor]

Depends on where you wanna go with it. They definitely help, but I've gotten payloads into low kerbin orbit with just the whiplash and aerospike

[fallow axle]

im just doin an orbit with rapier

[knotty vigil]

Can I move or remove the default buildings in ksc using kerbal konstructs ?

[unborn gust]

What mod adds MK1 sized cargo pods and is for 1.12.3 or higher? My spaceplane would look werid with adapters???

[tropic shuttle]

not that i know of

[dire plume]

isn't the 9-slot cargo pod the same radial size?
if it isnt you could use a few of the 3-slot ones and then just put it in a service bay

[unborn gust]

What? i dont find that

[dire plume]

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/SEQ-9_Container_Module

wait are you talking about storage containers or cargo bays

[unborn gust]

CARGO BAYS

[dire plume]

oh im stupid

[unborn gust]

not storage containers

[dire plume]

yeah there isnt one for mk1 fuselages

[unborn gust]

not even if modded?

my original question was if a mod adds it

[dire plume]

i could check super quick, dont remember seeing one though