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

[midnight bane]

For moons and planets with no atmosphere, what TWR do I need to do a horizontal takeoff to just immediately put myself in orbit?

[azure crescent]

at least 1

[north egret]

I just set up a satellite around the Mun in a (roughly) semi-synchronous orbit, but im orbiting in the wrong direction, would this make it a semi-semi-synchronous orbit?

[obtuse inlet]

Is it possible to change my ingame language ?

[midnight bane]

Well I know that. But if I had a TWR of like 1.5, then I would start thrusting horizontally and then crash into the surface because I stopped thrusting vertically

[midnight bane]

It’s just an orbit bro lol

The only orbits that matter are encounters, keostationary, and orbits that dip into the atmosphere

Oh and polar orbits for scanners

[azure crescent]

then just adjust your angle of attack to ensure your AP does not decrease

1.5 is quite large
I took off a 1.2 from duna with insane drag

practice more

[midnight bane]

I’m not talking about difficulty

I wanna know how much TWR I need to launch with my rocket horizontal on the ground

[dusk ember]

does this contract need to be a manned vessel or can it be a probe?

[midnight bane]

It should say

[midnight bane]

Full pic ?

[midnight bane]

Hm

It doesn’t mention crew at all so I assume it can be either

[dusk ember]

ok

i hope a probe is ok because i'm playing with kerbalism and no reverts

[midnight bane]

Ohhhh

Well

Bring lots of science I guess

[waxen comet]

If something is a requirement, a contract will mention it. If it doesn't, then it doesn't matter.

[unborn gust]

what caused this?

[gusty lance]

camera nearplane is too far away

now, what caused that? no idea

[unborn gust]

i have many mods

[gusty lance]

probably one of them

[unborn gust]

yeah or incompatibilty

[gusty lance]

physics range extender, through the eyes, and scatterer all mess with the camera plane distances

[vestal inlet]

are there no other flat servos than f-12?

[dire plume]

yeah, its the only one

[severe tiger]

why can't i fix any engine on the falcon large tank?

[severe tiger]

i need to know this

[dire plume]

does anyone know of a tech tree mod that adds a few more nodes, but not as many as CTT? i have a few part mods installed, which means that the stock nodes are somewhat cramped while the CTT nodes are still pretty sparse, some entire branches having just a few parts. i know theres some way to add nodes without a specific mod for it, since SSPXR adds a node when CTT isn't installed.

[balmy sapphire]

alteratively there is a mod called hide empty node that hide CTT node that don't have mod use it

[dire plume]

i'd use it, but it'll still leave branches that have like one item per node and end at ~4000 points for a single goddamn part
i'll download it again later and see if its as bad as it was, since i have a few more mods now
10% science playthrough gonna be a lot harder though

[balmy sapphire]

the problem is most mod support CTT and don't support other tech tree

unless you have tech tree that based on CTT (like probe before crew)

[dire plume]

i assumed most didnt, since i cant find one that supports EVERY mod i have

[balmy sapphire]

wonder if jadeofmaar make a tech tree in the future lmao

[dire plume]

wish i could easily get CTT to only generate some of the nodes so things like SSPXR parts in the habitation branch still get forced into the stock structural branch

[dire plume]

tree ended up not really doing much
the lower branch is a bunch of random SSPXR parts
i guess i dont have enough mods (or ones that support CTT) that it would be necessary

i mean i do plan on getting a few more parts mods (really just NFLV and NFP) so maybe that'll change something but just stock+OPM+MPE doesnt really need that kind of thing

[tropic shuttle]

Near future and kerbal atomics are really great

[serene cairn]

why does my rover lean forward so much when pressing W and lean backwards so much when pressing S?

[dire plume]

turn off the reaction wheels in the probe core/command pod
alternatively switch it to SAS only

[waxen comet]

or rebind your drive keys to something other than your PYR keys.

[serene cairn]

thanks I'll try that!

what is considered a suborbital space flight?

like hitting space and just coming down?

[dire plume]

this. as long as the craft makes it out of the atmosphere it is considered suborbital instead of just a flight

orbit means it has made a full orbit around the planet

[austere cloak]

Should i go into a prograde or retrograde trajectory around Kerbin if I wanna go to Eve

[tropic shuttle]

prograde

[austere cloak]

Got it

[queen fractal]

Only reason to launch into retrograde for transfer is to get ejection burn to be in sunlight for some trajectories.

[austere cloak]

Meaning?
Can you pls put it simpler

[queen fractal]

So if you're using ions for ejection burn and solar panels for power, your ejection burn might happen on the darkside of kerbin. That would mean you can't execute the burn because you don't have power to do so.
But swapping from prograde to retrograde orbit has the same ejection burn on the other side of the planet allowing solar panels to work.

[austere cloak]

Oh

[tropic shuttle]

a higher orbit is in that case the better option

[queen fractal]

Won't help. Also larger dv loss

[tropic shuttle]

also a kerbol orbit is also a option

[austere cloak]

I noticed that I can't try to send a bit of data to the science lab, if I failed to do so before (reason being the lab is full of data)
Is there any way to actually try to send that thing of data?

[tropic shuttle]

No. Once in a lab you can only transmit it after processing

[austere cloak]

I mean, when I fail to put it in the lab, it says in the experiment module, and I can't try to put it into the lab again.

[tropic shuttle]

i dont get what you mean. wdym with fail

[austere cloak]

It says Cannot analyze data as the lab is full of data

@tropic shuttle

And after that, the science beaker is grayed out

[tropic shuttle]

ok so you have to save the expirement. and after a wile you can put it back in

[austere cloak]

Got it

How long do I gotta wait for?

@tropic shuttle

[tropic shuttle]

you see the rate? like 5science per day?

[austere cloak]

Do I just wait till the lab can accept the value

Ohhh

[untold plinth]

I need to to do temperature recordings on the surface any tips on how to land accurately (they're right next to the KSC and I don't have any wheels or plane parts)

[tropic shuttle]

you can roll with reaction wheels

[untold plinth]

yeah but I can't figure out how to land without over/undershooting

[tropic shuttle]

i mean wit reactin wheels you can make a rover without wheels

[untold plinth]

really?

[tropic shuttle]

yes. just make a "roller"

[untold plinth]

that would be helpful except I don't have reaction wheels

would it work with 2 mk1 pods?

[tropic shuttle]

yes

[untold plinth]

how would you steer though?

[tropic shuttle]

reaction wheels are magic

[untold plinth]

thanks

[austere cloak]

When people refer to the delta v to get somewhere, like in this map, are those numbers based on what I see for delta v in the VAB?

[tropic shuttle]

yes. but messuerd in vacuum, click on the delta V symbol in the toolbar

[austere cloak]

Ohhh

Thanks, I never new that existed.

[tropic shuttle]

you also can set that to other planets to check things like twr

[austere cloak]

That's really cool

I forget, does the game tell you it has these tools?

[tropic shuttle]

no

the game (tutorial) dont really tell you anything

[austere cloak]

It really should.

[tropic shuttle]

the tutotials are older as that tools

[austere cloak]

Ik this is off topic for a help channel but wtf
That's like Microsoft pushing out a new excel version without listing changes

[tropic shuttle]

i mean ksp is just a game, exele is something people work with. But yes. because of that is it (in my opinion) important to watch a toutorial series. i also lernerd after 150h something

[hushed wolf]

Quick question. How can I change it back to the scroll thing?

[vestal trout]

click the # in the corner

[hushed wolf]

THX

[cursive trout]

Hi. my problem with KSP is that I can't figure out how to land properly in KSP.

I recently just started playing the game as my new computer can handle KSP at high framerates. I got the game on the Epic Games Store for free back in January 2023.

Anyways, anyways, how I land is that I try to get between 0 and -5 m/s on my Vertical Speed Dial. Doesn't work, keeps crashing the plane.

[tropic shuttle]

Try to keep your horizontal speed below 60m/s

[cursive trout]

Do I need flaps?

[tropic shuttle]

Nah. You plane looks fine

It just a bit tricky

[cursive trout]

Okay...I'm trying to cut off throttle and landing the plane at 60 m/s but it just stalls

It crashes

[cursive trout]

Trying what you said...um...

Yeah my microphone is too quiet

[primal wigeon]

try landing somewhere flatter?

[cursive trout]

Yeah I should

I don’t think KSP is my thing so…yeah I probably shouldn’t touch it

[primal wigeon]

I can’t land a plane either no biggie

just try something else

like launching a rocket

I sucked when I first started (still kinda do) but I got better

[cursive trout]

Yeah

[queen fractal]

Wheels are notoriously finicky and can get explode happy.

It seems you're coming in too hard on an incline. Or stalling at around 80m/s and falling out of the sky.

5m/s descent speed is a good suggestion but when landing on an incline it might by 15m/s vertical speed upwards to get a soft landing.

There's a flat piece of ground around ksc, try to land on that instead.(or the runway, but that's a small target)

I notice the wings just stop existing on each touchdown with the tail.

Either you're coming in hard or the craft just doesn't like wing attached gear for some reason. Try attaching the gear to the fuselage and use the translation widget with shift pressed to move them under the wing. Could also add more main gear in parallel and see if that helps

Finally you could add more lifting surface to lower stall speed and see if that helps, though 120m/s shouldn't be too fast for ksp.

[strong sigil]

how do i remove parachutes from the staging sequence altogether? there's no option for that with the part itself (advanced tweakables enabled)

[waxen comet]

Only decouplers and fairings can be removed from the sequence, others cannot

[strong sigil]

can i somehow modify the game files to do this?

[waxen comet]

maybe if you knew C# but the ability to to this is built into the code of the functionality in question

[strong sigil]

well, that's a bummer

[primal wigeon]

can anyone give me help with the space dust mod

in the sense of harvesting things with the sift-o-tron

I just need the sift-o-tron and nothing else or what

[quasi talon]

is there a way to remove all debris in a save?

[tropic shuttle]

at one click?, no

[quasi talon]

damn

do you know if theres any mods that can?

[tropic shuttle]

I looked it up a long while ago. I actually found what but did installed it

I don't remember the name

[quasi talon]

alright, ill loook into that, thanks

[waxen comet]

or go into settings and set max debris to 0, load it up and poof

[quasi talon]

oh cool

[serene cairn]

why can't I get the green check mark for landing the ore on Kerbin? Because I'm in the water?

[serene cairn]

the answer is yes, because I'm in the water. lol

[balmy sapphire]

I know what you're talking about, but isnt it made by a guy that as insane as listas
don't think that mod got adopted

[strong sigil]

i have two hinges set to symmetry and i've bound the "toggle hinge" to an action group but only one side rotates. why? i've got pistons bound to the same action groups and they work just fine, symmetrically as they should

[strong sigil]

replaced the parts and now it works. weird...

[strong sigil]

it happened again! is there something about clipping hinges that prevents them from working?

[stuck wasp]

clipping shouldn't change part functionality unless you were moving something with same vessel interaction enabled. It's off by default, assuming you haven't changed it, it's just robotics being utterly brokenly buggy

which is normal for robotics sadly

[high fractal]

Hello y'all I need help with making rockets, I'm still new into this, I've seen videos and all, nothing seems to help...

I wan't to make a rocket that can go further than a low orbit (Kerbin), I ass more boosters and engines, but I don't go any farther, sometimes not even low orbit, it's almost like the more propulsion I try to put, the more weight it goes into the rocket, basically giving the same result as always

[primal wigeon]

screenshots of your rocket

and how are you launching it

[high fractal]

Should I send a screenshot of the rocket that made it into orbit

[primal wigeon]

both

the one you tried to improve and the original

[high fractal]

ok

Red circle on what got into orbit

Has just enough fuel to get off the orbit

and return

[primal wigeon]

ok

so

[primal wigeon]

for first stage use a liquid engine

[high fractal]

Same orbit, nothing better

[primal wigeon]

the middle booster

second use bigger srbs

[high fractal]

I'm playing career rn

[primal wigeon]

ah

[high fractal]

Mhm

[primal wigeon]

ok

that complicates things

alr

use those SRBS for radial

like you have

but

replace middle one

[high fractal]

okay

[primal wigeon]

with a liquid engine

prob vector

[high fractal]

Activate the 4 boosters at the same time?

Or 2 at a time

Or I could put 50% max power on the 4

Imma do that

[primal wigeon]

yea

all firing

maybe limit the SRBS to 70

what’s ur TWR

I will have to leave soon just FYI bc I have exams tmrw and I need to sleep

[primal wigeon]

yes

[high fractal]

Ok changed to 70 limit

[high fractal]

Sure sure

[primal wigeon]

what engine for upper stage?

[high fractal]

Above the thing we modified, a Hammer, then a swivel

[primal wigeon]

why hammer?

testing?

[high fractal]

that I used that hammer to finish getting out of the atmosfere

💀

[primal wigeon]

the first stage should take yo our if atmo

-dvmap

[fickle bloom]

https://i.imgur.com/yO0bQax.png
(Consider saving this image on your device)

[high fractal]

I love the game but oml im new into this rocketry stuff

[primal wigeon]

you have enough DV?

[high fractal]

How do I check

[primal wigeon]

I’m relatively new

screen shot of entire screen

should be in bottom right corner tho

[primal wigeon]

XXXXX M/S

[high fractal]

oh ok

[primal wigeon]

you have 100 percent enough

[high fractal]

hm

[primal wigeon]

might be the way you fly it

you should have 400 m/s left

in orbit

[high fractal]

I think

[primal wigeon]

alr I have to go

[high fractal]

Okay

[primal wigeon]

you should make ur own post in this section

[high fractal]

Aight

[primal wigeon]

I can help more tmrw morning

[high fractal]

Sure thing

[primal wigeon]

but exams so I have to sleep🫡

[high fractal]

Thanks for helping

[primal wigeon]

np

[high fractal]

Have good exams!

[primal wigeon]

thx

[dire plume]

does anyone know of a mod that adds more gold foil parts, like more gold fuel tanks and probe core variants? trying to make more aesthetic probes but stock doesnt have many options other than slapping the shit into golden structural panels or using the small handful of foil tanks

[gusty lance]

Bdb I think

[silver cloud]

at what altitude should deploy my fairings?

[tropic shuttle]

depends on your ascent profile and speed. but somwheer vetween 25 and 50km

[silver cloud]

oh i normally do that around 60

40 should be fine then

[tropic shuttle]

like i said it deepnd mainly on your drag

[silver cloud]

i have plenty of delta v so it's not that important

[vestal trout]

50

[waxen comet]

no reason to drop them if you're still coasting through the atmosphere. Drop them in space.

[gusty lance]

right, if your engine isn't on then you don't get any benefit from popping the fairing, and it will increase drag

if you have a very underpowered upper stage then you might need to start circularization while still in atmo. there's pretty minimal drag above 50km

[spark prism]

How to position satellites in specific orbits?

[queen fractal]

a single one for a specific orbit or multiple ones on the same orbit but spaced out?

[spark prism]

Singular satellite

[queen fractal]

If highly inclined, timewarp until KSC is in the orbital plane of the target orbit. (Ideally a bit before). Then try to launch roughly into the correct inclination and pus apoapsis to match the periapsis of the target orbit(just numbers to be the same, location doesn't need to be close.)

Once you get to Ap lift your Pe to make a circular orbit. Now either:

Schedule a burn at An/DN node to fix inclination and then lift AP to the correct spot.

Or

Schedule a burn at target orbit Pe to lift Ap to roughly the right altitude and then fix inclination.

Some final tweaks should get you close enough.

If you need a specific point in an orbit, say above KSC, You want a parking orbit at ~80-120km and make a save. Then schedule a burn to lift ap to target orbit, execute and see where ksc is once at Ap. Reload save and adjust burn, save, and try again until you get the right spot.

[serene flint]

why is there lift when no wings ?

[primal wigeon]

those are lifting bodies

[forest sky]

im trying to switch the resource mined for these MKS drills,but for some reason it keeps saying im missing materialkits to do it,even though i have a construction plane with lots of them connected to the miner with a KAS resource transfer pipe in docked mode,any idea what could be going wrong here?

[stuck wasp]

I am sorry, I am unfamiliar with material kits but holy crap your vehicles and machines look so awesome, I wish I could get this level of awesome with low part counts

thats all, thank you for posting the pics

[forest sky]

thank you,no problem

main reason the miner looks good is because i worked from a reference image i found though

just googled scifi mining device or something similar and found something that looked good

Partcount doesnt matter as long as you dont get above ~300(and even then you can go way further before the game really dies),ive found it somewhat hard to actually detail my craft properly since i tend to overoptimize which leaves them looking somewhat bland.For something like this miner which will just be sitting there alone mining resources and not next to some huge colony with a massive partcount you dont really have to worry about optimizing partcount

[stuck wasp]

I just want my FPS to be as high as possible so I keep it to about 200 parts or less to keep it >30 fps

it's a compromise I guess

thats across all ships loaded at any one time

so my tiny little base helicopter is gonna be like 30 parts if I can lol

[forest sky]

yes it is needed sometimes,just depends on your FPS tolerance and device

[dire plume]

is there a way to get mechjeb to only make a maneuver in the current orbit? it'll usually do this, and if i tell it to make a maneuver at any other point (i.e at periapsis) it gives an error

[high fractal]

What keybind do I use to use that action group? Do I need to set one?

[gusty lance]

U

[high fractal]

ok ty

[formal thorn]

I’ve gotten to 1400 and even though it runs at 10 fps during launch, with a lot of free time and patience it works

(Saturn v stock recreation i did)

[forest sky]

Yes it definitely does,I’ve done similarly high partcounts on colony ship launches before,I just mentioned 300 as the point where in my experience it becomes somewhat noticeable

[gusty lance]

It’s really going to depend on your pc specs and mods installed

[serene flint]

why is the lift so much in the front

[gusty lance]

mk2 parts have body lift

[blissful gust]

i can't deselect parts anymore. i right clicked on a fueltank

clicking anywhere else, right clicking, pressing ESC, none of these work

there's no button on the tooltip to close the window, just the pin button

[waxen comet]

If you've alt-tabbed in and out of the game, your alt key might have got stuck on. Press alt once and see if that returns it to normal.

[blissful gust]

i actually tried this before i asked and that didn't work but spamming it certainly did! thanksce

[hushed wind]

Help, autostrut wont show up, advanced tweakables is on and i even installed a mod that automatically autostruts for me, i am using KSRSS bdb habtech2 sspx redux parallax eve scatterer and so on

[gusty lance]

if you're in science or career mode, you have to unlock the strut part first

[main vine]

Odd question: is solid rocket fuel a transferable resource; or in other words, can I asparagus stage solid rocket boosters?

[gusty lance]

no

[gritty frigate]

may I ask how many hours of flight at 100m/s would be able to go around kerbin around 5000m above sea level?

[gusty lance]

kerbin is 600km radius

[gritty frigate]

no

like how many hours of flight would i need

also why do vehicles keep on sliding on the ksp when they have their brakes on

[gusty lance]

605,000m * 2 * pi / 100 m/s = 38,013s = 10.55 hours

[gritty frigate]

thanks

[blissful gust]

dw i keep forgetting simple math too. i'm 25 and i still forget how to calculate the volume of a cylinder

i look it up regularly, so it isn't because of disuse.

[balmy sapphire]

maybe just ppl didn't taught you math properly/make you recite

if you know it is just a base multiply by how tall it should be easier to remember lol

[tall acorn]

is hangar extender supposed to disintegrate the vab?

[balmy sapphire]

no, it only put you outside of vab when you click the button

[blissful gust]

base multiply by how tall
? * h
'base' here means 'area of circle'
pi * r^2
(pi * r^2) * h
this makes so much more intuitive sense thank you
how this works clicks now
if i had ppl who told me this 12 years ago i would've done so much better in math class
i went to a discord server to learn math and all i got was snarky ppl telling me i'm lazy
elitism makes learning so much harder than it could be

i asked them specifically for a simple one sentence translation to english and they said there is none "that's just how it works"

where did you learn math and where can i find more of these simple explanations

recitation doesn't work for me because i struggle to remember things that don't make sense

[balmy sapphire]

khanacademy and The Organic Chemistry Tutor is a good start

but university should clear it up better since teaching assistant are usually postgraduate student, so they know what you're having trouble with

[blissful gust]

i can design a nuclear reactor because i understand the principles in english but not in math
i had some of my designs checked out by some phd guy and they made sense and he could not figure out why they added up mathematically when i hadn't done the math

i wanted to learn science and really tried my best learning math but i couldn't so i just made analogies for everything

i can't follow a university program because of mental health reasons involving stress and deadlines. i love science. at this point i'm looking for studying resources like khanacademy and yt videos as well as people who know this stuff and can translate it to english

so to give reason to this long paragraph, are there any general tips you can give me that will help me on my journey? again thanks so much you have no idea how much this has helped me

[balmy sapphire]

nope I just do these 3

[gusty lance]

The volume of anything is it’s cross-section area multiplied by its height. If the cross-section changes you can use calculus to integrate over its height

[blissful gust]

that goes for 3D objects i suppose. i read that second sentence up until i encountered the combination of 'integrate' and 'over', at which point i disintegrated in the atmosphere.

[gusty lance]

heh, it's the same concept though. It's just adding up an infinite number of infinitely thin cross sections

[forest sky]

Im trying to make a mirror for my ISV Venture star replica,i used a reflective pWing(settings on last picture) to create the mirror,but for some reason it doesnt work,in the SPH it looks relatively normal(although it doesnt reflect the ship itself and displays the inside of the normal hangar),but when i launch it it is just solid black,i saw someone else post a picture somewhere of this working,can anyone tell me what could be wrong here?do i need to use a different one out of the 100 different pwing mods?

[high fractal]

If I already did experiments and reports somewhere, like the Mun, is it worth to put a lab there?

[gusty lance]

Yes, the lab science checklist is completely separate from the normal r science checklist. However IMO the labs are completely overpowered and you should avoid them if you like the tech tree grind. But if you’d prefer to unlock things as quickly as possible then go for it

[high fractal]

Thanks! I'll go for the lab this time, it's my first career, so I'll take advantages this time, on my next run I'll play differently

[dry jacinth]

How do I find the location of a coordinate in the map

[gusty lance]

You can place waypoints with the kerbnet window, or in scansat

[balmy sapphire]

or waypoint manager (which put it in navball too)

[tame stump]

Plz use the terrier

[high fractal]

x3

[high fractal]

How do I get off the rover? I spawned in it.
What do I do if the Kerbal falls off? I can't control it, only the rover.

Supposedly, it already counts as EVA, it allows me to do EVA report

[waxen comet]

you are on EVA, since you are outside the vessel.

to get out of a chair, rightclick on the kerbal and press the button to do so

[high fractal]

hmm ok

...

I didn't see it for almost half an hour

ty

[dire plume]

is there a mod that allows you to see SOIs like in KSP2? cant seem to find one on CKAN

[serene cairn]

where should I put the CoM on a rover, the middle? slightly forward or aft?

[gusty lance]

middle, and as low as possible

[waxen comet]

you can abuse jet engine CoM offsets to bring it below the ground surface, but this is cheesy

[dire plume]

anyone know a Kerbol rescale mod other than BetterKerbolRescale? i dont like how it makes far-away modded planets like Soden really dark, but i also want the sun to be normal sized

[tropic shuttle]

Soden looks in the map screen dark, but when you are there you have enough light

[serene cairn]

Do I need radiators on Moho?

[tropic shuttle]

no

[serene cairn]

What are the best types of kerbals that I should prioritize training, pilots/engineers/scientists?

[tropic shuttle]

In stock its enough if you have good pilot and a few good scientist for labs

Engineers only if you use eva surface scince from breaking ground

[azure crescent]

you won't fly too many crafts tgt so may be 5to8 pilots r enough
but since engineers r good for ore mining so I will have another 5 to 10 for mining ships
for scientists i like 20 as you may have 6 to 10 scientists, 2 pilots 2 engineers in 1 craft（with lander）

[old brook]

my solid boosters (clydesdale) just start to twitch and then blow up on launch

nvm i fixed it with struts

[serene cairn]

what's the best moon to mine in Jool system? Not Laythe or Tylo I'm guessing

[queen fractal]

Laythe: Good position, jet engines are great for dv but you still need a fair bit of it.

Tylo: best location but expensive to lift stuff into orbit and into Jool orbit.

Vall: about the same as laythe, but no atmo.

Pol and Bop: shitty location, cheap as hell to het into orbit, less so to get back to lower orbits to leave Jool. Also finding a good landing site can be annoying.

Personally I would go with laythe or Vall. Laythe if I can figure out how to stol ssto and a site it can land to.
Vall if not.

[stuck wasp]

I think Pol is better to be honest, most transfers through jool require about 800-1000 dv so you arent making much of a save

Vall has more gravity than the Mun so you end up needing efficient launchers just to lift heavy payloads, it kind of sucks. and one way or another you want to lift fuel off the surface

Pol is has such low gravity that, yes, you might end up having to hover around looking for a flat spot but the center of any valley is flat and when gravity is basically nothing it's not hard to just go somewhere else

with Pol's low gravity you can basically make super massive miners that can lift hundreds of tons of ore off the surface

my design was I had all my equipment in Pol orbit at a massive station with refinery and extra ore storage. From there extra, specialized, vehicles would transfer fuel to wherever it was needed

this worked pretty well and since Pol low orbit speed is about the same as minmus it isnthard to scale operations up

Vall is going to hit an upper limit very very quickly

Bop might also be good but in my save I had relocated it to around Duna using mods so I can't speak for Bop. Pol, though, single handedly replaced all my fuel stations on Laythe and Vall (both of which I tried to make work but grew frustrated with the high gravity)

With Vall I also had problems with TWR on heavy payloads

also, if you are in an emergency with fuel, tylo can totally be used to capture you when descending from pol to laythe or vall.

[serene cairn]

Good info! I’ll have to try Pol with a giant miner, thanks

[stuck wasp]

some of my greatest memories are making giant turtle miners with tweakscale that take advantage of Pol's low gravity to basically deliver entire asteroids worth of fuel to my space station. I recommend thinking big and having a blast with it.

it's a LOT of fun

[spiral hazel]

is there any reason to have LF and OX at different %s, like this?

[dire plume]

is there a way to make rover wheels weaker? i want to use a stronger set for their stress tolerance, but it makes my smaller rover go a bit too fast and flip over when attempting to turn (mostly sharp turns for braking)

[vestal trout]

no

[gusty lance]

If you’re using nuke or jet engines you’ll want more LF than the normal ratio but I can’t think of a reason you’d need extra oxidizer

But also you’re usually best served by adding LF-only fuel tanks, because if your tanks aren’t full you’re still paying for their dry mass

[spark prism]

maybe for weight but that’s not that much of a difference

[gusty lance]

but if it's for weight, you'd set LF and Ox at the same percent, because you can't use extra oxidizer

[dire plume]

for KSRSS, is the correct folder for manual install the "KSRSS" folder or the "KSRSS-reborn-KSRSS" folder?

[tropic shuttle]

You put the "KSRSS" in gamedata

[dire plume]

I assumed it was that one but wanted to be sure

[tropic shuttle]

The ksrss-64k can you put in gamedata for highe res. Eve configs

[dire plume]

I’ve installed it and attempted to run it, it seems to get stuck on the very end of the loading process, just stuck on the black screen with the loading icon

it’s been going for 45 minutes, pretty sure it’s stuck

[gusty lance]

post logs

[dire plume]

which log are you looking for, or all of them?

[gusty lance]

ksp.log

[dire plume]

"upload failed, try again later"

yeah wont let me post it, and its a 62MB file anyway so outside of a boosted server i cant post it

[dire plume]

got it to upload by copying it to a different folder

i'll make this into a separate post, although im going to give it one more try first

[dire plume]

am i insane or are Kerbin's deserts oversaturated with scatterer?

[gusty lance]

Install this version of scatterer https://github.com/LGhassen/Scatterer/issues/183#issuecomment-1257268134

[dire plume]

the download(?) link at the bottom is broken, is that what you ere linking me to?

[gusty lance]

Oof. Yeah

The volumetric clouds version of scatterer should also fix it, but you have to pay for it

Or you could compile it

[dire plume]

i'd rather not pay for this issue (volumetric clouds would probably not be good for my GPU anyway)
wonder why i havent seen a lot of people with this issue

it magically fixed itself after i fiddled around with Kcalbeloh's config and added a few mods, both for unrelated reasons

[gusty lance]

It’s non deterministic, it will come and go

[idle wharf]

Can someone specify what "Move the rover means?"

Is it really just using EVA construction to move it???

[gusty lance]

use EVA construction to make it driveable, then move it to a certain waypoint

[idle wharf]

thanks

[late lantern]

But you can also cheese it by making a skycrane, and lift it up to the waypoint. But hey, that's harder for some.

[gritty frigate]

is there any oxygen on duna at all for even the least powerful of flights?

[dire plume]

no oxygen
you can use propellers or chemical engines though
Laythe is the only one other than Kerbin with oxygen

[gritty frigate]

oof

[tame stump]

You can with mods as they use the heat of a reactor to super heat the atmosphere to produce power

So you don’t need O2 just any old atmosphere

[high fractal]

Yo

What mods are recommended

In general

For graphics, tech tree, parts, whatever

[gusty lance]

You might need to get a little more specific. There are like 2500 mods

[high fractal]

What mods are a "must have"?

[gusty lance]

KSP community fixes

Graphics:
Scatterer + an eve config (AVP, BoulderCo, spectra, etc)
Tufx
Waterfall
Planetshine
Parallax

[tropic shuttle]

parts + tech tree: ctt and probes befor crew, and the near future mods with kerbal atomics and stockalike station parts, also restock+

[high fractal]

ooo okes

i'll look into them

hopefully will get to figure out how to download and setup 💀

[gusty lance]

use ckan

[tropic shuttle]

Never use curseforge

[high fractal]

I was just looking there xD

It was the first result for mods

[tropic shuttle]

The website Should be the last alternative. But the application breaks everything

[tropic shuttle]

Read #ksp-faq point 6. That should awnser your questions

[high fractal]

Aight

[high fractal]

||@gusty lance can I ask something?||

[gusty lance]

you just did

https://dontasktoask.com/

I'm sure I'd love to answer whatever you have to ask, but now I'm just waiting around for the question. That's why you don't ask to ask

[high fractal]

a

Sorry

I just wanted to know if it'd bother you, beforehand

So!

I checked and there's mods that relate to this, but I cant download them for some reason

Some mods say they need license to be downloaded, others simply don't say anything

Is there something I am missing, or it's like that because of some version of the game? (which would be odd, cuz I have mods with the same version)

[gusty lance]

I don't think there are any mods that require a license to download except for maybe the volumetric clouds...

[high fractal]

Weeeird

[gusty lance]

so I'm not sure what you're talking about there. But there is a mod called "hide empty tech tree nodes" which will remove the ones that don't have any parts in them

[high fractal]

Hmm okay

I thought I could've installed the mod incorrectly or something

[gusty lance]

also: if you're going to show a screenshot, include the whole screen

[high fractal]

Alrighty

[gusty lance]

no this is a common problem. Community tech tree (which is what I assume this is) has a ton of nodes that other mods add stuff to

if you don't have those other mods, some nodes will be empty

[high fractal]

Ohh I see

Ty ty

[gusty lance]

"hide empty tech tree nodes" prunes the tree if you will

[high fractal]

Alrighty, I'm downloading it

lmao it just hid the whole community tree cuz there was nothing in them

[austere cloak]

Can I do crew reports from a chair

[waxen comet]

No, since you are on EVA and not in a pod

[austere cloak]

Sad

[dire plume]

does anyone know of a mod that adds very large steerable wheels? the massive stock ones work fine in terms of speed, but i cant actually turn in reasonable amounts of time. trying to make a rover to move colony buildings to the site on Eeloo

[waxen comet]

try Kerbal Foundries

though side note, those huge vanilla wheels can only effectively turn when stationary

[main vine]

@dire plume if you’re using NearFuture, it should come with big probe cores that also work as reaction wheels if you’re creative

[dire plume]

i use them for that actually
i needed rover wheels, although i found out that the second largest stock ones are far better than the giant ones at steering

although the probe cores are less weight efficient

[main vine]

oh ROVER wheels

I’m dumb

Well, it might be fun to make your own using Breaking Ground!

[dire plume]

i did consider that, but its easier to drive if the steering is actually attached to the movement keys
unless you can set them to action groups, which you might be able to

[candid bramble]

is north kerbin dynamics and bd armory not compatible with each other becuase it says that in ckan but i am not sure

[keen vortex]

how can I do multiple crew reports

[tropic shuttle]

make a eva, take of the data and enter again

[dire plume]

i'm attempting a landing of Enots from kcalbeloh, and the SOI is only a bit wider than the moon itself, so i'd like to know what would be a good way to brake into orbit?

the braking burn is about 2000m/s and the encounter less than a minute so I’d have to do something before I encounter

[gusty lance]

Treat it like a rendezvous instead of planet intercept. You can reduce relative velocity in target mode even if you’re not in the SOI

[dire plume]

not sure why I didn’t think of that, I’ll have to try it

[keen vortex]

is there a way to put more then 14 experiments in mk1 pod

[dire plume]

i dont think there is a limit on how many experiments you can put into a command pod, or atleast ive never encountered one

[high fractal]

How do I transfer fuel from one tank to the other one? (orange ones) I didn't bring one of those fuel hoses, I've seen vids saying that when I'm docked, I gotta hold Alt + click, to get into the transfer options, but that doesn't happen

[dire plume]

right click on one tank, hit the pin icon, then right click the other tank and the options appear
theres also a mod that allows you to move all fuel from one side of a docking port to another, in case you have lots of tanks
https://github.com/SumGuyTwitches/FuelMyShip

[high fractal]

Alrighty, thanks!

[dire plume]

does anyone know of a good way to keep large amounts of the same part from causing a lot of lag? i plan on using a few dozen RTGs as a monkey brain solution to keep antimatter tanks from exploding, but i feel an extra hundred or two parts might increase the lag a bit

[high fractal]

o.o?

[old brook]

maybe dont pin them, right click on one tank and after that. hold alt, and then right click on the other tank

if it dont work, turn on advanced tweakables in the settings

[gusty lance]

if you're in career mode, you have to have the R&D building upgraded. Otherwise you might have the "resource transfer obeys crossfeed rules" option enabled

[severe tiger]

Hey i have KSP on epic games, but would like to buy the DLCs, but they're quite expensive
It will work if i pass by GOG to by the DLCs? I think it wouldn't but i'm note sure

[balmy sapphire]

yes ksp is dlc free. You can copy and paste dlc from gog to ur epic game ksp

[severe tiger]

OOh! okay thanks

wait gog doesn't want to buy the DLCs separately

[balmy sapphire]

rip

[severe tiger]

so i've purchase KSP anyway, 25 bucks for it + DLC isn't that expensive + on epic games i've got it for free so yea, not that bad

[high fractal]

OH! Thanks!

If I do have it enabled, what do I do?

[gusty lance]

I can't quite see all the parts, but you can right-click on decouplers to toggle crossfeed if you have advanced tweakables enabled.

hm I think the service bays don't allow crossfeed though

so you can just turn off that difficulty option

[high fractal]

Damn, aight, ty

I'll also bring one of those hoses next time

[high fractal]

lmao I cant open Epic, it keeps crashing, rip ksp 😔

[tropic shuttle]

find you .exe and run ksp directly

[high fractal]

kk

it workedddd tyy

[analog valve]

I can't create maneuver nodes without pilots when Im far away from ksc but in sandbox scientists with max lvl could make nodes too no?

[tropic shuttle]

you have to upgrade your buildsings for that

[waxen comet]

in sandbox I believe some of those restrictions are disabled by default

scientists and engineers cannot make nodes any any level

[high fractal]

Ehhhh, still can't transfer fuel from "ship 1" (right) to "ship 2" (left), only able to transfer between fuel tanks of the same ship, not able to send into the other one, tried with the docking port and the fuel pipes, none of those work

[frank silo]

career mode I'm assuming right?

You need to enable crossfeed in settings and then enable it on the docking port

for some reason the ability to transfer fuel between ports (even with fuel lines like you've done) only unlocks when you get the larger port size

[high fractal]

Yes, career mode

damn

[frank silo]

don't know if I'm going crazy or what, but to answer u you should be able to enable it under difficulty settings in "advanced" iirc

[high fractal]

aight ty, I deleted cuz I found out i can click the part where it shows the difficulty-

it worked, ty ty

I've used this channel a lot lmao

[frank silo]

ah yeah, if it's already enabled you still have to manually enable/disable the crossfeed on the part respectively

[high fractal]

Aighty

[dire plume]

anyone know why the lighting doesnt work? im in orbit around the binary system in Kcalbeloh, nothing is eclipsing
the solar panels still get electricity

the lighting seems to fix itself when in another SOI

[gritty frigate]

are there mods that help boost fps

unfortunately, im using a 4k monitor instead of a 1080

but still i get 30 fps on the latter

[frank silo]

I have found that turning off anti ailasing really helps for some reason

I went from running at like, 15 fps to 35

[tall acorn]

which one of these mods is removing this little info thingy

[gritty frigate]

I have done everything in the stock game itself

[dire plume]

is there a way to turn off parts overheating form being close to stars, but not other types of heating? i want to have to deal with parts overheating (like reactors or drills) but not every part exploding due to trying to visit Kcalbeloh's good few planets very close to stars

[tropic shuttle]

nope

[dire plume]

:[

[hybrid frost]

https://youtu.be/JTsr3PmIfI8

[dire plume]

seems to be working in some way
currently testing to see the limits of how far i can get parts out and what parts work when out

[dire plume]

unfortunately seems to be pretty limited
if something extends past the engine plate it'll explode instantly due to the heat, meaning this is still pretty useless for craft construction

i could turn off radiation in the cheat menu, but that also turns off the good radiation that cools crafts
:[

[dire plume]

not really sure how to get to planets like Onrefni and Anneheg that are really close and most parts explode when that hot

[dire plume]

after some testing, only Anneheg is the issue
even this couldn't survive that kind of heat, and its just a bunch of radiators

maybe bigger radiators

if anyone has mod suggestions for comically large radiators it'd be appreciated

[high fractal]

Is there a way to avoid landers, rovers, bases and basically anything in contact with the ground from bouncing and exploding when I load a save or warp?

Not even clamp o trons work by now, those things appear like half a meter higher than where they were, so each time I load the game, they raise half a meter

[dire plume]

I think you might want to validate your game files with steam
otherwise there’s probably a mod that fixes it

[gusty lance]

KSP community fixes might help, but I think it can’t fix any craft already in flight

[high fractal]

I downloaded the game through Epic, and I have the KSP community fixes mod already

Things either go boom, or bounce

[tropic shuttle]

you can also validate with epic

[high fractal]

I'll do that and see what happens

[gusty lance]

hm, there's also the worldstabilizer mod

[high fractal]

It kinda got better I think, it took less other 4 save loads to make it explode, still bounce, results tend to vary

[gusty lance]

are you using an excessive amount of autostruts? that can also cause issues

[high fractal]

It could be that

Most likely

[dire plume]

whats the purpose of NFP Hall Effect thrusters? they seem to be worse than Xe ion drives in every way, is it that theyre cheaper, like IRL?

[tropic shuttle]

Hall thrusters needs less ec. So less weight for pannels, reactors and batterys. But I personaly don't like that patch.

[dire plume]

i see. i assumed they needed more because the first one you get uses more than the Dawn

but i see now they are a bit cheaper

[frank silo]

anyone know the name of the mod that scales up the kerbin system by 2.5?

[midnight bane]

Why 2.5?

[tropic shuttle]

without chaning the planets?

[queen fractal]

2.5x roughly maps the stock rocket performance to real life rocket performance.

[queen fractal]

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/195569-181-191-rescale-continued-v100/

[tropic shuttle]

nah. that is not the best way. eighter sigma dimantions or jnsq

[midnight bane]

So why not RSS and a mod to change the performance of rockets? Kerbalism maybe?

[tropic shuttle]

becasue rss is 10 times bigger. and for changed performance are allways configs needded

[balmy sapphire]

That mod is sigma dimanrion config

[gritty frigate]

what is the speed ofa panthner

what is the top speed of a panther

[tropic shuttle]

You can not tell that so easy. Its the same question as what is the top speed of a V8 (car engine)

[gusty lance]

The answer will depend on the drag of the ship. When the thrust of the engine equals the force of drag, you are at your max speed

[sharp pecan]

Does someone know why parts won't properly snap to other parts? I haven't played in a while and this keeps happening

[dire plume]

hit C, you dont have angle snap on

[sharp pecan]

Damn

Thanks haha

[kindred hamlet]

How do I convince KSP to treat my analog dualshock 3 as an analog input, rather then a digital one?

is there a mod that does this?

[tropic shuttle]

i preffer the keyboard by a lot but are you on steam

[kindred hamlet]

Yes, I am

[tropic shuttle]

then use the steam controler configuration option

[kindred hamlet]

that only allows discrete controls

it doesn't do analog

[gusty lance]

There's a mod called advanced fly by wire which might help

[gritty frigate]

Na man whats the terminal velocity of a V8 (soda/juice/liquid?)

[kindred hamlet]

i did try using that... unfortunately, the UI for that is blank and broken

[gusty lance]

hm, I haven't used it myself but I've heard that it works for other people

[balmy sapphire]

dunno try this https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/175359-112x-afbw-revived-joystick-controller-mod/

[tame stump]

Ksp with a controller is hell to me

[austere cloak]

Is there an easy way to get my vehicles orbit paralell to a body's rotation axis?

[silk glacier]

anyone know what mod can cause the camera to make things invisible when coming too close?

[broken gyro]

So... How to keep a Minmus base powered through the night?

I have Planetary Base System, and I'm planning to build a base with a lab, 2 green houses, and produce fertilizer locally.

Calculated that I will need 15 ec/s.

[tropic shuttle]

reactors or fuel cells

[broken gyro]

And that I will need 150+ PBS batteries in order to stay powered through half a Minmus day/night cycle. 😢

Yeah, probably leaning towards nuclear reactor. But haven't found a nice way to integrate it in a PBS base?

Maybe put it on that flat base?

[tropic shuttle]

kpbs has a reactor

[broken gyro]

Really? I must have missed it.

https://github.com/Nils277/KerbalPlanetaryBaseSystems/blob/master/FOR_RELEASE/GameData/PlanetaryBaseInc/BaseSystem/Parts/Electrical/Reactor.cfg

Cool. Need to see if I can find it in the tech tree...

TechRequired = veryHeavyRocketry

Very interesting place to put a nuclear reactor...

[austere cloak]

Does anyone know if lander legs can fit on a Wolfhound-equipped craft?

[dire plume]

they can (ive used a lot of wolfhound-based landers)
if they dont you can move them lower down using any thin, long structural part like the girders
and if you have Breaking Ground you can use hinges and make landing struts (albeit without suspension) as large as you need them

[broken gyro]

Okay, it seems I have it unlocked, but for some reason I can't find it in the SPH. 😦

[broken gyro]

Hmm, it seems the same module (K&K Nuclear Reactor) is also in another, later node in the tech tree. o.O

[broken gyro]

Aaand it seems PBS maintainer Nils277 is aware of the problem:

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/133606-112x-kerbal-planetary-base-systems-v1615-28-april-2022/&do=findComment&comment=2950657

[drifting escarp]

how to space relay satellites? I have a fully upgraded tracking center but can't get to duna bc my comms shit out

[dire plume]

you need a stronger antenna most likely
which one are you using?

[drifting escarp]

I have 1 ra-2 and 2 surface mount communotron 16's

best i got playing career but could shove more on

[waxen comet]

the C16S is not combinable and useless in this scenario

[drifting escarp]

good to know!

[dire plume]

an RA-2 should be able to get to Duna

[drifting escarp]

should i go for more RA-2's?

kerbin is on the other side of the sun

[waxen comet]

the RA-2 only has enough power to communicate with Duna for part of its orbit when it's close to Kerbin

you need minimum of three for year-round contact

[drifting escarp]

3 is doable

will my rover be able to link up to my orbiting sat?

[waxen comet]

Yes, but it's moot if your satellite cannot contact kerbin

[drifting escarp]

cool cool

gonna send another

thanks!

[waxen comet]

as for spacing relay satellites, you can release them all together and then reduce or increase their orbital period by a fraction to space them out leading or trailing. E.g. if you had three satellites, then increasing the orbital period of one of them by a third and then recircularising after one orbit will move its position to trail the others by a third of an orbit.

[drifting escarp]

thanks! will keep that in mind for some mid system relays

[waxen comet]

you can also save on hardware by having one of them be a powerful communication amp for interplanetary legs while the others are small units for coverage's sake

[drifting escarp]

that makes sense, I think i've been too conservative with my probe deployments - time to litter the system

[waxen comet]

Scattering relays on solar orbit is of limited usefulness, it's usually better to install repeaters at key destinations

[gritty frigate]

What does it mean when an antenna is combinable

[dire plume]

means you can put multiple on the same vessel and their antenna power combines
although minus the communotron-16 (not the surface mount one) you get diminishing returns with each antenna added until adding more doesnt really do much

[turbid locust]

So i've landed a roving base on Eve, but whenever I decouple this heat shield the back of it (convertotron et al.) smashes into the ground and snaps off...

any ideas?

[formal thorn]

decouple on descent

[turbid locust]

it just explodes without the added lithobraking lmao

[dire plume]

there’s a mod that allows you to deflate the heatshield, Deflatable Heat Shield, I think?

[turbid locust]

oh I'll look into it, thanks

but would there be any solutions with stock ksp

or am I pretty much screwed without mods

[dire plume]

you could try using the "jettison" option in the heat shield's right click menu

heat shields have a decoupler built in

they have very low decoupling force iirc so it might not violently snap

[formal thorn]

add parachutes on the rover mayber

and building on jimmy joe's idea, maybe add separation motors on the heatshield

[austere cloak]

Do Science Labs stack

[dire plume]

the Mobile Processing Lab? honestly its overpowered
since it quintuples your science, just needs a scientist or two in the lab and some experiment data

[austere cloak]

Doesn't answer my question.

[dire plume]

oh STACK
i misread that as suck

sorry my brain

they'd give the same amount of science to my knowledge but you could get it faster with more labs

[austere cloak]

Good.

[tropic shuttle]

You have to dumb expirements in it. A lab can process only one time the same expiremt (like the R&d) but every lab has its own list

[austere cloak]

So they don't pool stuff together

[tropic shuttle]

They don't interact each other

[austere cloak]

Oof

[tropic shuttle]

Yes. That is why they are overpowerd

[gritty frigate]

whats the difference between a decoupler and a stack decoupler

[balmy sapphire]

Decoupler will still stick to a part after decouple
Stack separator doesn’t stick

[broken gyro]

Pro tip, you can build a stack separator from two stack decouplers.

[silver cloud]

How to make a nuclear warhead using only vanilla parts (i only have breaking ground dlc)

[formal thorn]

well you cant make a nuclear warhead but you can make missiles using just kinetic impacts to destroy stuff

[silver cloud]

Yeah how do i get a big explosion into a tiny package

Or i could make a scatter bomb but that's boring

[dire plume]

i mean assuming your are using the weapon in space one part being broken usually means the ship is pretty useless
ive made guidable missiles before and only two or three made a very large piece of debris into many smaller ones

[balmy sapphire]

Over clock firework with kal that it fires all within few seconds

[silver cloud]

I want damage

[balmy sapphire]

then overclock it to has 69420 fireworks

[azure crescent]

you can oc the fireworks to at most 1M force and velocity (shooting 2 in opposition to counter act the recoil)
but that means nth as you can't aim a 2m size target 200m apart

does anyone have the idea how to stop blade as being control surface

I have a propeller aircraft which the blades will be turned 90 by hinges and enclosed in a service bay when not in use (to reduce drag)
however inside the service bay the blades still function as control surface which destabe my craft
I hv already disable the pitch row and yal

[rocky cloak]

scuffed suits, any idea on how to fix? (this only happens when I don't select a suit before a flight, but I would've assumed you get a default one that isn't just a random texture)

[gritty frigate]

how to overclock a firework?

[balmy sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ksp+firework+overclock

[azure crescent]

push

[rancid lion]

hello my rocket keeps rolling for some reason in lko and it stops whenever i turn reaction wheels on the capsule to sas only and i dont really know why

[dire plume]

you accidentally set a trim. Do alt + x to clear it

[rancid lion]

ohhhh

what are trims for anyway

[dire plume]

keeping certain planes level without having to constantly tap the pitch button

I did the exact same thing on a Mun mission a while ago, I also didn’t know that function even existed
it’s odd because you can’t visually see them in the bottom left, I had to get a mod for that

[rancid lion]

i see

[late lantern]

My scroll to zoom seems to be broken both in flight and in editor. What's weird is that I can still use the scroll to scroll on the menus.

[noble urchin]

if i set a parachute to deploy on a SRB and then i decouple it, will the chute still deploy?

[tropic shuttle]

yes. but without a probe core it will be not recoverable

[noble urchin]

so if i strap a stayputnik to it can i recover it

[tropic shuttle]

Yes and no. After 2.3km ksp stops rendering

[noble urchin]

is it worth investing in planes

or should you skip it

[gusty lance]

planes are kinda fun, but not particularly useful in career mode until you get to laythe

[noble urchin]

what 90 science node is the most useful in early game

[gusty lance]

Miniaturization for the eva experiment kit

[noble urchin]

that was what i was thinking too

[lyric lodge]

what is a phasing burn

[broken gyro]

Broken how?

[late lantern]

Dw, It was fixed after I reset my settings. It was a pain though.

Basically, I just can't use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out; that's mildly frustrating especially in the editor.

[noble urchin]

what 90 science node would help me the most with reaching the mun

[tropic shuttle]

i personaly go with the fuel duct for a lander with drop tanks

[noble urchin]

what node is that

[tropic shuttle]

Fuel Systems

[dire plume]

why can’t you just use a decoupler with fuel crossfeed enabled

[tropic shuttle]

after unlocking the duct, simmilar to unlocking autostruts with struts

[dire plume]

really? I swear that was always there
huh, never noticed that

[tropic shuttle]

i can be wrong, but i am pretty sure

[dire plume]

"Crossfeed however is always possible." wiki quote

[tropic shuttle]

also in radial decoupler?

[dire plume]

i mean i can't seem to find it mentioned anywhere that you can't set crossfeed before the fuel duct is unlocked

[gusty lance]

wiki's not necessarily correct. in science/career mode, you can't use crossfeed until unlocking the fuel duct. Same with struts and autostrut

[gritty frigate]

Yo how does one access the flight info at the end when you crash without crashing

[dire plume]

f3

[dire plume]

any suggestions for more science parts? im using CTT and i'd like to have a few more science experiments (rather than just using the DPL), and i'd like to find a mod or two that add a few more unique ways of getting science, like the DLC seismometer or a orbital telescope.

[tropic shuttle]

dmagic Orbital science, scan sat and BDB/Tantares

[dire plume]

i have SCANsat, although i forgot it had a science experimets
i'll look into dmagic orbital science since i think getting BDB just for the science experiments is a slightly questionable idea

[tropic shuttle]

you can get Tantares SP, which is actually a small pack which featuers all the sciene which BDB brings

[dire plume]

oh, ok
i forgot tantares was split into a few mods

[drifting escarp]

the game really hates one of my ships, which is a large one I've made to go to duna. anytime I try and load in onto the ship, the game will be stuck in loading mode, but will show me a broken craft if I press escape

gonna just try not to use it but wondering if thats a common glitch

[tropic shuttle]

hwo big is your ship?, like how many parts?

[drifting escarp]

checking for you rn

244 parts in 6 stages

[tropic shuttle]

and the ship is directly broken after loading

[drifting escarp]

it will launch just fine, but when i put it in orbit and try to go do something else and come back to it, it breaks

[gusty lance]

any errors in the log?

[drifting escarp]

when I say it breaks, the ship itself doesn't actually blow up, but when I try to load in it stays in the loading screen forever

I actually made it past the loading screen now by pressing escape and then resume game, but the ship is blinding in and out of existence

uploading a screenshot rn

needless to say, the ship doesn't look like that before the glitch (large external tanks appear on the left, whereas the middle seems to be a fairing)

am making a new rocket with similar proportions just to figure out if its a this rocket thing or a general thing

[tropic shuttle]

do you have the 250 parts because you need them? or can you cut off stuff

[drifting escarp]

I can cut stuff, do you think thats whats causing it

[tropic shuttle]

high parts crafts are unstable. good placed autostruts can help

[bright drift]

in either vanilla KSP, (1.12.4) , this version was in 2018 to be specific, or RSS the mod, does atmosphere (when you are under the atmosphere of a planet) play a part into reducing power generation from solar panels?

and is this also just a vanilla feature if it is

and if it is a vanilla feature, does RSS intensify this effect?

[austere cloak]

Safe altitude for kerbin aerocapture?

[dire plume]

get the Trajectories mod or around 40km

[austere cloak]

ty

[bright drift]

for RSS
what is the minimum safe orbit distance from earth
where you dont have to make thrust adjustments

like would this be safe to use in RSS

even 250km orbit from earth on RSS i feel like is dangerous tho

[dire plume]

im pretty sure RSS doesnt simulate the fact that earth's atmosphere technically is 10,000km tall

[bright drift]

so basically just dont play around with low earth orbit at all

unless you want to die

[dire plume]

i dont know how tall Earth's atmosphere is in RSS, but i know its not much higher than Kerbin's
for some reason my brain is saying 140KM, but i have no idea why

[bright drift]

yeah even mechjob is just like no

[dire plume]

you could just go look in Earth's kopernicus config or something

it'll look something like this in the atmosphere section, the last number on this table is the height

[gusty lance]

You can also see atmosphere height in game in map mode or tracking station. Focus on the planet and click the buttons along the side.

[dire plume]

oh yeah
I have no idea why I didn’t think about that

[late lantern]

Quick question, at least for Kerbin, how much dV is usually needed to perform rendezvous and have enough left to deorbit?

[tropic shuttle]

depends on your taget orbit and your starting orbit

[coarse field]

Is there a way to get my satellite always facing the sun?

[azure crescent]

radial in?

[umbral hound]

My plane is constantly rolling as long as SAS is off. Can someone explain why?

Wings are at a 1 tick AOA, and the nose fins are, as well, in order to try to balance pitch forces.

They are mirrored, though, so I don't think that should cause a roll

[azure crescent]

use F12 to check aerodynamic force

[tropic shuttle]

Only in solar orbits. Or with real gravity mods (principa)

[umbral hound]

@azure crescent

[tawdry cape]

my KSP isn't loading when i revert. how do i fix this?

i this has happened since i put hullcamvds on my KSP via ckan

[tropic shuttle]

You have to get back to the normal camera before reverting

[tawdry cape]

how?

[tropic shuttle]

Backspace iirc

[tawdry cape]

k

[tawdry cape]

how do i scroll through cameras?

[tropic shuttle]

look the keybinds in the settings.cfg of hullcam

[tawdry cape]

also when i press backspace and exit out of camera mode, my camera stays in the exact same position as it was before i exited the camera and it does the same glitch i mentioned

how do i fix that?

[late lantern]

Can you suggest a tutorial or series where I can learn how to use Principia from scratch?

[tropic shuttle]

If you don't findr something, you can look up irl maneuvering to understand the trajectorys

[late lantern]

Like, NASA lectures?

[tropic shuttle]

not especially lectures. you most likly find something totrajectory planing on youtube or so

[dire plume]

im having an issue where my rover on the surface is trying to connect directly to the KSC instead of using the relay (which would give more connection %)
is there a way i can force it to use the relay?

[waxen comet]

How's the relay's connection to KSC?

it's been automatically tagged as a probe and not a relay which suggests it does not have a relay dish

[dire plume]

it has a dish, i did get it figured out eventually
i just had to force the rover's connection to be blocked so the ONLY way to communicate would be through the relay

relay's connection was like 70%, though that is indirect as it has to go through another relay with higher power than the KSC to even reach it

[gusty lance]

vessels always prefer a direct connection if one is available

[umbral hound]

What's the benefit of "swept wings"? They have a lower lifting surface than "swept wing type b" for about the same weight

[waxen comet]

None in stock, they just look snazzy provide smooth geometry

[shy shell]

In real life (and maybe FAR) it helps you go faster by reducing screwy aerodynamics at high speeds. It also allows you to change your center of lift given the same attachment - ie if you can’t move the wings backwards but need a CoL a bit behind, use swept wings

[late lantern]

In stock, the only use case it has is moving the CoL. For example, my replica of the F-14 turns supermanuevereable when the wings are swept forward (and engine gimbals turned on), and becomes stable on the pitch when swept back.

[midnight bane]

I’m experiencing a weird AF bug

I have a craft with 2 nuclear engines and 6 mk1 liquid fuel tanks (the kind with no oxidizer)

And also a structural tank that I removed the oxidizer from

With those 7 tanks, I have 1222 DV on that stage

But when I add 4 more tanks… it goes down to 904?????

And weirder yet, removing 4 of the tanks takes me up to 1883???????

Are the fuel tanks not connecting for some reason? They’re radially attached to the structural tank

It’s the C7 2.5 to 1.25 adapter

I just tried attaching fuel tanks to the first few, and they work

And draining the fuel from the C7 adapter increases my DV

OHHHHHH fuck I think I got it, there’s an engine plate that I had for structural reasons between the engines and the C7

So they must not allow fuel flow

Added some fuel pipes and it’s fixed

[midnight bane]

What altitude should my eve periapsis be for an aerobrake interplanetary capture?

From kerbin

[gusty lance]

Really depends on the shape and heat tolerance of your ship. Best bet is to quicksave en route or just after entering the SOI and try a few different altitudes. It’s probably not less than 75km

[midnight bane]

It’s really fucking big and I’m planning on using the inflatable heat shield

Ok, I have a weird craft and the game isn’t calculating the burn time correctly

Shutting down and igniting the engines doesn’t change the burn time

How to I get the game to recalculate my craft?

Oh it works if I manually set the thrust of the engines to 0

But for some reason the game doesn’t think that a shut down engine has no power

Gah I’ll just validate game files again

Oh great, now right clicking un-highlights all the map things I had highlighted

Yeah I need a validation soon

[ivory edge]

how to balance this so it doesnt fall

[tropic shuttle]

Should that be a shuttle?

[ivory edge]

yeah, i want to use the huge engine to get to the location

and record the temp of the site

[tropic shuttle]

Don't use srb for the shuttle it selfe

[ivory edge]

can you please give me a good early game plane for these types of contracts? i fail to make ones myself

[tropic shuttle]

Build a normal plane. If you want to use a Rocket engine then stack it above the engine and tanks, like the Hermes

[spiral plover]

what type of contract?

i havent seen a contract about spaceplanes

[ember isle]

whats a good amount of dv for a general purpose lander?

[gusty lance]

depends on where it's landing..?

[idle wharf]

no matter what i do my rover never lands on it's wheels

i've given up at this point but i'd appreciate help

[gusty lance]

A reaction wheel would help

[idle wharf]

Probably, but I forgot one.

I left it there and collected what science I had, I'll fix it in a future mission

also my first rover on duna in campeign 🥳

or "probe"

[spiral plover]

maybe its a bit back heavy, combined with a bad landing angle?

[spark prism]

How to do high altitude flight?

[waxen comet]

big wings, high speed, low drag, ramjet engines

[warped tulip]

what mod should i use in ksp 1 for habitation rings

[tropic shuttle]

Stockalike station parts

[tawdry cape]

How long does it take a kerbal to respawn?

i'm on normal mode

[dire plume]

2 hours iirc

[tawdry cape]

iirc?

what does that mean?

[dire plume]

if i recall correctly

[tawdry cape]

oh

ok

[ember isle]

how would i make this signal stronger (it only has limited probe control rn) without making it look ugly

[fair bison]

• Relay satellites
• Different antenna
• Straight up disabling commnet via difficulty settings

Best option seems to be relay sats

so like just a probe, solar panel, relay sat all around munar orbit so that the whole mun gets coverage and that should be good

[ember isle]

i tried different antenna, and it didn't work. so I'm probably gonna do one of the other two

[fair bison]

different antenna with higher power

you probably chose one of the shitty antennas

[ember isle]

you can change the amount of power..?

[fair bison]

no

[ember isle]

i chose the umbrella one, forgot what it's called but it's the one i usually use because so far it's worked across the solar system (and yet here, its not working at all)

[fair bison]

you can put together a mess of 80 different antennas to stack power (i did that once for early game jool (it was disgusting))

[fair bison]

thats weird

oh

ohhhh

that side of the mun

isnt facing kerbin

iff thats the issue im gonna slam my head against a wall

[ember isle]

cant remember

mightve been so, though

[fair bison]

relay sats can fix that

they can connect to each other until one gets a line to kerbin

[ember isle]

(in my defense, the antenna ((at least for me)) has had a history of.. working through planets? it recently stopped doing that, though)

[fair bison]

maybe they were connecting to other satellites or stuff that had a connection to kerbin

but it can clip into a bit of the surface

(at least for me)

[ember isle]

no i dont mean a bit

i mean like through the entire planet

[fair bison]

most likely just connecting to another satellite

[ember isle]

i also didn't really have any satellites around kerbin then. Their lines seemed to all connect to the KSC

clearly they were just magic

[fair bison]

the kraken

[forest sky]

since today ive been encountering a bug with some of my laythe planes,for some reason the fuel isnt feeding correctly anymore,some engines just seem to randomly no longer get fuel even though they worked perfectly before,this is making all my planes unusable,does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

[azure crescent]

reinstall mods

[fair bison]

what does clamshell deploy do on fairings (ping me if you know because i'll probably forget that i asked this)

[tropic shuttle]

your fairing deploys like a irl fairing and not chatter in million pieces

[fair bison]

thank you

[ember isle]

how do i give an unmanned rocket a connection to the KSC? slapping an antenna on the outside doesn't work, because of aero forces.

[dire plume]

when you are launching you are close enough to the KSC it doesnt matter, just put an antenna on the inside of the fairing
after leaving the atmosphere deploy the fairing and then the antenna

[ember isle]

thats the thing. I tried to launch and.. it said no connection to the KSC

[dire plume]

it should have connection since all stock probe cores have built in antennas

[ember isle]

whats the difference between a remote guidance unit and a probe core, because i used a remote guidance unit

[dire plume]

the remote guidance unit is a probe core

[ember isle]

well, i had no connection when i used it

its fine though, i just switched to something else and it worked

[dire plume]

odd
never had an issue with the RGU

[dire plume]

im considering starting a Other Worlds playthrough, and i have two questions about it:
Is there a setting to set the homeworld to one of the cercani planets?
and if so, what propulsion mods should i need? (is stock enough? is KA/NFP needed? etc)

[lyric lodge]

do spent stages stay in orbit forever?

[waxen comet]

yes, just like real life*

[dire plume]

they will disappear eventually once a specific number of debris craft are reached

[lyric lodge]

can i increase the number

[waxen comet]

in the settings screen

you can also make it infinite by setting it to -1 in settings.cfg

[lyric lodge]

im making it infinite

you cant stop me

[waxen comet]

by default the slider goes up to I think 10,000

[lyric lodge]

too little

also does that include fairings

[waxen comet]

no, they are not parts

[lyric lodge]

or do they despawn when i switch scenes

[waxen comet]

fairing debris will despawn if you switch away or enter timewarp

[lyric lodge]

😥

thanks

what is the thing called

is it max vessels budget

[waxen comet]

yes

[lyric lodge]

infinite debris and risk of a spent upper stage colliding with my future space stations here i come
thanks man

[tame stump]

Kestla syndrome

[primal wigeon]

I haven’t played ksp for about a month and came back today only to notice that my auto strut isn’t there anymore

I know my older vehicles had it

and they are stable

but I can’t turn on auto strut anymore

can anyone direct me on where to turn it back on?

[dire plume]

first, do you have the normal strut part unlocked? you cant use it until it is.
second, do you have the "advanced tweakables" setting enabled?

[primal wigeon]

cant get on ksp atm but a screenshot of where it is in settings would be helpful

thank you

[primal wigeon]

thank you!

[primal wigeon]

it was on before no idea why it would turn off… but I’ll try! TYSM

[midnight bane]

Can I do these two contracts at once?

One wants an unmanned orbital probe, the other wants a station, both in orbit of kerbin

Can I build the probe with the same rocket as the station and decouple it in orbit?

Or would that not satisfy the BS about building it for one corporation and having it fully assembled at launch?

[gusty lance]

That should be possible

[midnight bane]

It worked, but I needed to do a refueling mission because I wanted my station to orbit normally but the satellite wanted to orbit backwards.

Ok next question

I have some robotics parts attached to each other, and the stress of launching has deformed them

Like they aren’t connected straight to their parent parts

[gusty lance]

If you’re inserting stuff into different orbits you can decouple them just after entering the SOI and burn radial/normal to select different inclinations

[midnight bane]

And time warp and quick saving don’t fix it

[midnight bane]

Staying in kerbin for this

*stayed

[gusty lance]

Install KSP community fixes, though I don’t think it will help any craft already launched

[midnight bane]

Eh I can live with it

It’s basically an octopus

So I can build my space station, and more importantly, so I can use grapple claws to dock new parts to the station and then use the arms to actually manipulate them into the proper places.

Or better yet, attach grapple claws to the octopus arms

I realized too late that I launched an old version of the rocket that didn’t have the claws, but I can just put them in the cargo of the next mission to grow the station

I’m basically planning on having a toggle to switch all the joints on one of the arms between powered and loose, that way I can have an RCS drone with a claw on the front to catch the nearby payload, and then switch on the damping to synchronize the orbits.

But uhh anyway

I want the connections to parent parts to be straight again

Not technically necessary

But definitely a major desire

[lyric lodge]

can i jet engine on jool

[dire plume]

no oxygen
there’s a mod (Explodium Breathing Engines) that adds jet engines that work on Eve and another set for Jool

[jade dagger]

is the "intermediate construction" tutorial broken?

it tells me to add science even though theres some on and in the inventory it isnt letting me progress

[dire plume]

I’m pretty sure you aren’t meant to put it inside the capsule
I can’t remember if it’s this one or a different tutorial but one of them is strangely worded and says to look at a specific science part, but you aren’t supposed to put it on

[jade dagger]

ive right clicked the actual part in the menu several times

it still brings nothing, the next button is greyed out

ok well restarting the entire thing for the third time worked i guess, i feel like this game is full of janky shit like that isnt it

[gusty lance]

I think you have to be on the science tab. It doesn’t say anything about adding one to your vessel

[fair bison]

IVA screens seem to be incredily low res

[gusty lance]

Post logs. Are you sure you’re on the latest rpm version?

[fair bison]

latest ckan has to offer

my textures are at 1/8th but even if i change them it still looks like im playing KSP in a PSP

[gusty lance]

Post logs

[fair bison]

do i need to quit the game for logs?

[gusty lance]

Nope

[gusty lance]

yeah you're not on latest RPM by a long shot

[fair bison]

man i sure do love ckan

just like my operating system, everything's outdated

[gusty lance]

so there is a bug in ckan where sometimes it wont' show you the latest versions of stuff, you might have hit that...try hitting refresh and see what it says. otherwise I can show you how to fix the bug

[fair bison]

i havent gotten any updates in ages so that may be it

holy shit thats a lot of updates

[gusty lance]

you probably told ckan not to check for updates on launch

[fair bison]

i did

[gusty lance]

hm

[fair bison]

just to verify is 1:v0.31.13.2 the latest RPM versioon

thats what ckan's upgrading me to

okay it is

still, i've had the low res screens bug for quite a while

[gusty lance]

Yeah it’s because of the texture resolution setting. I only recently figured out how to override it for the specific mfd screen textures

And you generally need to restart the game to see changes in texture resolution setting. Might also need to clear the KSPCF texture cache if you have that

[fair bison]

i think i got it, my texture res (1/8) is linked to RPM but you've figured a way to override it (tell me how to please) and make them full res

Also, quick question, precursors planet pack recommends that i get scatterer, but my lame ass laptop cant run it, is me not having scatterer that makes the planet look like this

daytime pic as well

due to the RPM thing being a bit complex i'll do a separate thred for it

thread

[hardy arrow]

can hitchhiker containers command a rocket or no?

[dire plume]

no, neither can the crew cabins
you can include a probe core, however

[hardy arrow]

how do I turn off radial mount for docking ports?

and make them connect to other parts normally?

[dire plume]

hold left alt when attaching

[hardy arrow]

and are shielded docking ports the same size as jr docking ports or normal ones?

[dire plume]

shielded and both in-line ones are the normal port, the airlock is the jr port

[thick plaza]

my game crashes whenever i click anything, even in the menus, how can i fix?

[tropic shuttle]

do you have mods

[thick plaza]

no

i only have breaking ground dlc and base game

[tropic shuttle]

verify your file integrety

[thick plaza]

197 files failed to validate

still doesnt work

[tropic shuttle]

what specs do you have

[thick plaza]

gtx 1060 3gb, ryzen 5 1500x, 16gb ddr4, game is installed on ssd

upgrading to 5800x3d in about 4 days when it arrives

started ksp from the exe as administrator and it started working i guess

[tropic shuttle]

ok that is not the problem are your driver uptodate

[thick plaza]

they should be, lemme check

guess not, downloading driver update

[thick plaza]

updated drivers, didnt fix anything

[tropic shuttle]

do you know where your ksp folder is located?

[thick plaza]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program

[jade dagger]

is there fucking wind in this game??????

my rockets all have centered everything in the editor but just go flying spinning off in a direction every flight and i cant get anything done

[fickle drift]

No wind in this game

[tropic shuttle]

not without some mods. send a screenshot of your rocket

[tropic shuttle]

that is very aerodynamic instable. also you have a hight twr and your engine dont have gimble

[jade dagger]

its all mirrored perfectly though and they go in different directions every flight

[tropic shuttle]

your rocket creates a lot of drag. the radiators dont reduce it. that mean the air get very dense so your rocket tends to flip. reduce also the thrust of the srb to lower the thtust to weight ratio. also your engine dont have gimble, which is the main way to controll a rocket while ascent. use the sviwle instead

[jade dagger]

thanks, i replaced the engine with the one you said and removed the radiators, ill see how it goes

[tropic shuttle]

you also dont need the sciece container

[jade dagger]

youre right that was from something i wanted to try earlier

[hardy arrow]

what angle from the launchpad should the space station be for an easy intercept?

[tropic shuttle]

Depends on the inclination of your space station