Kerbal Space Program: Hardware Rich Combustion

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nvm no cake: Feb 27, 2011

Pagan posted:

One of the most annoying things about this game is trying to get the landing gear right on spaceplanes. I know the answer is "keep them straight," but even when things are straight, it's a coin toss. Is there any mod that just hacks the drat wheels? I appreciate all the physics modeling, but I feel like I'm spending more time getting the wheels right than I am working on the plane.

I've also got a question : What's "good" for altitude on a jet plane? And speed? I can get up to around 1600 m/s, I think above 22,000 meters, but I have trouble keeping the nose up and accelerating. Is that "good," and should I plan on firing rockets then? What kind of delta-v will I need to burn at that point to get in orbit?

That's pretty good for a jet. The biggest part of getting to orbit is getting the velocity needed to stay in orbit, which is around 2200+ I believe. So at 1600, you're already most of the way there, so you probably won't need a whole lot more to make it to a stable orbit. 22km and 1600 m/s is a good time to turn your rockets on and punch your AP to 70k. Then from there it's just a short burn at AP to make it a successful orbit.

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:11

nvm no cake: Feb 27, 2011

EightBit posted:

Can any goons tell me why this rover doesn't rove with a kerbal in the seat?

No electricity for the wheels would be my guess.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 03:30

nvm no cake: Feb 27, 2011

I get tons of random crashes when using 64 bit that force me to restart my computer. Seems to happen after a few scene changes, along with the right-click becoming mostly unresponsive.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2014 22:05

nvm no cake: Feb 27, 2011

Splode posted:

R.A.D. as an acronym is to put us off! Max has had the devs put in radiation, so now random solar flares will kill your crew rapidly.

This is kind of what I was thinking. Solar radiation or some other form of radiation that affects your kerbals somehow if you leave them floating around in space too long.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 07:07

nvm no cake: Feb 27, 2011

zxqv8 posted:

I've taken what steps are available for memory management, though I'll have to try the opengl thing.

I'm mainly hoping that at some point down the line there's a plan to streamline the way the game loads assets in order to reduce the amount of time spent staring at the load screen when a random crash happens.

And it really does seem random. Mostly during scene changes, but I can sometimes launch and play for hours, and other times it will crash the first time I try to change scenes. Having a streamlined load process would mean that my efforts to isolate crash causes would take less than 5 minutes a launch. It's not a big deal to wait a few minutes for a few hours of play, but it gets tiring when the game just crashed twice at two different points in the process.

I still love the game

_{(first world problems)}

-force-opengl fixed the random crashing for the most part for me.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 06:51

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