/K S P G/ shitposting general

>Harnessing The Butterfly Effect
edition

>Can the game be considered a full release?
No, for all intents and purposes, KSP should be considered still in early access state. The game is nowhere near being able to stand on its own legs both from a gameplay perspective (career mode is definitely not ready and balanced) and a stability perspective. There are still major bugs and memory leaks that shouldn't exist on a finished game.

>Are there big issues with the game?
Bugs and instability are still real and frequent problems, as with every product still in beta. Ask in thread for details.

>What are the devs doing?
Modified versions of popular mods are being included in the stock game while the game engine is being upgraded to its latest version. The most recent update (1.1) was supposedly going to bring a complete overhaul of the GUI, be 64bit friendly, have a refined physics/heating/aero model and generally perform better. While achieving some of these goals, the game is now more unstable than ever, with many users being unable to use the game at all. An external team with heavily questionable experience (Flying Tiger Entertainment) is being tasked with porting the game to PS4, XboxOne and Wii U, with a release deadline that seems to keep slipping.

>Should I buy the game?
KSP is very enjoyable at first, then it usually needs to be modded to retain some sort of longevity, but doing so may dramatically increase the instability of the game. You will be very familiar with the word "Oops!". The Developers, Squad, have shown many times that they can't handle the project and are trying to squeeze all the money they can with the least amount of effort and with controversial PR tactics. The general consensus at /kspg/ is that you should torrent the game, not because the game itself is unplayable, but because most of us agree that Squad does not deserve your money.

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youtube.com/watch?v=VhsMGDuU8tA
youtube.com/watch?v=lhVA84YNO14
pastebin.com/11ESnTdE
kerbalspaceprogram.com/
dontdothisto.me/games/iamabadperson/
dropbox.com/s/atzhizfw7pxjdoa/RLA_ProbeParts.zip?dl=0
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/50701-c
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/forum/4-add-ons/
spacedock.info/
imgur.com/a/lIHNS#0
imgur.com/a/S3Qxf
i.imgur.com/PBuWyVx.jpg
ksp.olex.biz/
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/87463-1
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/
pastebin.com/vLmE1QbY
i.imgur.com/dJQEXBX.png
fanfiction.net/s/10607988/1/Structural-Failure
pastebin.com/HK7Qd6if
spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/
raceintospace.org
abandonia.com/en/games/183/Buzz Aldrins Race into Space.html
web.archive.org/web/20121117065817/http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/licenseagreement.php
pcgamer.com/kerbal-space-program-devs-hope-to-add-budgets-reputation-in-2014
thepathofsplitness.com/The Path of Splitness.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Mujahedin_of_Iran
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafte_Tir_bombing
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

Previous thread:

>Trailer:
youtube.com/watch?v=VhsMGDuU8tA

>Dev Stream:
youtube.com/watch?v=lhVA84YNO14

>FAQ
pastebin.com/11ESnTdE

>Game site
kerbalspaceprogram.com/
dontdothisto.me/games/iamabadperson/

>KSP mods
dropbox.com/s/atzhizfw7pxjdoa/RLA_ProbeParts.zip?dl=0 (RLA probe parts, /kspg/ exclusive)
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/50701-c (forum mod list)
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/forum/4-add-ons/ (mod subforums)
spacedock.info/ (community mod repository)

>Flags
imgur.com/a/lIHNS#0

>Party-approved rendezvous and docking tutorials
imgur.com/a/S3Qxf
i.imgur.com/PBuWyVx.jpg

>Some useful calculators
ksp.olex.biz/ (phase angle calculator, for planning trips to other planets)
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/87463-1 (deltaV map)

>Official forum
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/

>Hotkeys for operating your craft that are never mentioned anywhere else.
pastebin.com/vLmE1QbY
i.imgur.com/dJQEXBX.png

>Official /kspg/ fan fiction
fanfiction.net/s/10607988/1/Structural-Failure
pastebin.com/HK7Qd6if

>List of IRL launches.
spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html

>View from the ISS:
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/

>Race Into Space
raceintospace.org

>Original BARIS for DOSBox scaling and filters and shit
abandonia.com/en/games/183/Buzz Aldrins Race into Space.html

BARIS, Orbiter, Space Engine, OpenTTD, Take On Mars, Project CARS, ULA posting, Aurora, TRUMP 2016, and planes are also welcome ITT.

kspg.sytes.net

NOTE: "kerbal" anywhere in the OP as well as "kspg" in the subject cause the thread to autosage. Please use [REDACTED] in place of these terms when making a new thread.

it's just summer, we'll come back to life in the fall

Don't give up the ship

>with a release deadline that seems to keep slipping.
this should be changed to Angry user's proposal ( ) desu

Forgot about that. Agree. Let's let this thread be a forum to express opinions on the change. If no meaningful* dissent appears, hopefully the new OP will implement the changes.

*as defined by the general, not any one poster

So, who's this angry user guy (girl?) anyway?

Most of us regulars are pretty open about our contributions to conversation, and then there's Angry user.

He's the one trying to do everything he can to seem like multiple people, spread an atmosphere of hatred, and "loosen the shitposters grip on this general", to quote him. He singles out individuals and tries to discourage them from posting. And other suspicious shit I can't talk about happens. If you catch my drift.

Every day we learn more about him. I think he's Sal_Vayger

That's too long, it sends it over 2000 characters

You know, that sounds a lot like MAN
Are they be the same person?

MAN please

Good evening Turkish Handjobs. I like your Could -> Are edit. Definitely makes you seem more like someone else, who is genuinely asking the question, Angry user.

Is that a yes?

false parallelograms everyone

*Gypsy handjobs. Turkish handjobs are a step above these two.

>who is genuinely asking the question, Angry user.
roxobox desu

hullo?

Friendly reminder that until MAN proves Squad broke the EULA he accepted at purchase, all of his comments are void and should definitely be ignored. Unless you want him to kill the general again, that is.

>Angry user is literally hitler! He's working for SQUAD and he's trying to push the regular userbase out of the general! It's the ANGRY user's reason I'm not popular!

Meanwhile in reality

>Angry user even qualifies proposed changes to the OP ("something along the lines of", "possibly...") which are entirely benign in order to avoid controversy, and more critical of SQUAD than the original wording.

Hi Angry user, why are you even bringing it up?

Double Anger! How many devices DOES he have?

>Angry user is using multiple devices!
>It's pure coincidence there are only 9 unique IPs in the thread!

How many braincells do you have?

Take your hands away from the keyboard before he unleashes another multi-post behemoth, you utter idiot.

Don't care. He causes as much damage with small posts as he does with large ones.

If he's going to piss away substantial effort to reply to my own

Enough to know sitting there and counting IPs is a waste of time because it is a meaningless metric

Source: Check out my new IP

>because it is a meaningless metric
On the upper bound, not the lower.
The lower the number of IPs, the lower the odds are that it's a single person using multiple devices.

On the other hand, multiple new IPs in short succession agreeing with the same post would be evidence of someone using multiple devices.

Fucks sake user there is a reason he has his own name

He is a L O S T C A U S E

Where can I actually find KSP's EULA before changes?

I can't believe I'm doing this stupid nigger's work for him.

>On the other hand, multiple new IPs in short succession agreeing with the same post would be evidence of someone using multiple devices.

You really shouldn't have told him that. He's going to try spamming pro-Angry responses from a bunch of devices now to make it look like Angie-amon is samefagging hard.

Newfag here, tell me about the paradigm.

Oh boy here we go.

@150247965
Just don't give him any responses.

web.archive.org/web/20121117065817/http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/licenseagreement.php
AHA

Now go ahead. Point to the part where it says "We promise to use your pre-order money to the best of our ability" :^)
Find the part where it qualifies "This software is provided as-is" with "But we're going to keep updating it"

No, seriously.
/r/ing all information about this paradigm.

>pcgamer.com/kerbal-space-program-devs-hope-to-add-budgets-reputation-in-2014

In 2013, Maxmaps took the wheel, pretending to be a marketer / CM / dev to the fanbase, when in reality he was placed in charge of making sure the final product did not scale beyond the $5mil of our money Adrian and Ezequiel were actually allowing to be spent on the development of KSP.

So, with the cancelling of resources and DLCgate, we saw the future drastically narrow down to a point. This shift was embodied by Maxmaps' continually repeated statement that "sandbox is scope complete." What did he mean by this?

What is important is that in this moment a paradigm was created. A paradigm that suggested "sandbox" was a complete iteration of the game and therefore a major milestone. When in fact it was an arbitrary and artificial line in the sand designed to limit expenditure so that the majority of the invested money could be fraudulently embezzled.

By "moving on" to career mode, they created a false equivalency suggesting career and sandbox were two facets of an overall thing. When they failed to deliver career in a timely manner, science mode was added. Another one of Max's failed promises leading to a compromised feature in the game.

After resourcegate and the declaration that Sandbox was "scope complete," we saw all development begin to pace itself based on business deals rather than development capacity. Every update after this took 6 months, and failures to move the NASA deal along quickly enough led to completely mutilating .23 through .24, which would have been fantastic updates chock full of content if half the content didn’t need to be removed to satisfy an NDA.

And then of course, begins the true Max regime of .25 on.

Ending the false paradigm means returning to the mindset of 2013, reopening Sandbox’s scope, and, if the fanbase cares enough, scrapping and redoing career.

>But we're going to keep updating it"
Let me be more rigid:
"We're going to keep updating it until it meets all possible aspirations of the community"
There is a rather obvious part that makes reference to providing support, but only within the context of "and that's under this agreement too"

Considering MAN came here 2 years ago, I doubt he bought it in 2012, probably one of the Steam billies

If you weren't a retard, "False Paradigm" would actually be a valuable phrase to describe career.

Unfortunately for everyone, you are, and you pile it into "The path of splitness" tier screeds.

>thepathofsplitness.com/The Path of Splitness.pdf

What did lions teach our ancestors? How to be dominant: sour and cruel. How to attack using the advantage of night and surprise. How to attack at night using stealth. How to hide, how to use
camouflage to hide. How to kill by using deception, cunning and cowardice. How being more savage, more brutal, more cruel, more full of hate, more violent, more bloodthirsty, more warlike, more
combative, more unhappy, more miserable: is worth a few fleeting years of territorial and social dominance as King of beasts. How to be as beastly as possible. All kings are beasts: they are not humans. They act like beasts. How to be macho pigs: treating the breadwinners and workers: their own females as badly as possible. How to be as glutinous and as greedy as possible. How to always claim the lion’s share even though they do not earn it. How to be as selfish as possible: fighting off other predators from a carcass. Even though you can’t eat all of it. Refusing to let others eat while you gorge yourself. How to rule the mass by terror. How to single out and pull down any herd animal that shows signs of not fearing them. How to keep blood feuds going for thousands of years between prides and clans and species of your own class. How to hate. How to keep grudges. How to preserve and perpetuate hate. How to instill and create fear. How to perpetuate and preserve the fear of the masses. How to control and subjugate masses of animals by making sure they are kept as stupid and as ignorant as possible.

>get flash flood warning
>skies open up 30 seconds later
woah
>raining harder than it has it all year
>coming down as a solid wall
comfy

No matter how it turns out, this is going to be one hell of an election

Vote Hillary Clinton for US president

If I were to bother registering at all, I'd vote for Trump just for the memes

Push the red button and it'd be the same.

Should I lay with my qt husband or play call of duty

That is also true of Trump, of course.

>being this mad about replying to old posts

Trump is the white guy of economical progress and job creation. Hillary will just throw money at minorities and shit, making a Nation of lazy people that live off of the state's money.

Trump has zero diplomatic and governmental experience whatsoever, and has frequently bankrupted his companies. His solution to the national debt amounts to "print more dollars".

>Has frequently bankrupted his companies
I ain't seeing his ass on the street though. Hillary seems like the worst candidate if you're going to start mentioning diplomatic and governmental experience.

>the guy who got his wealth from scamming everyone is going to save the country
not that hillary will, but cmon

>he doesn't even know russia annexed part of ukraine
by the time he's up to speed russia will have successfully invaded the baltics

Shes been a politician for 40 years.

He's gonna scam the whole world and make America great again.

Nice

Yet she's still as stupid as ever, Clintons aren't doing shit.

If she's so stupid then why isn't trump secretary of state?

Can you even give a single valid complaint of Hillary?

Not enough connections. :^)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Mujahedin_of_Iran
>The European Union, Canada and the United States formerly listed the MEK as a terrorist organization, but this designation has since been lifted, first by the Council of the European Union in January 26, 2009 (following what the group called a "seven-year-long legal and political battle"),[13][14][15] then by a decision by U.S. Secretary of State *Hillary Clinton*[10] on September 21, 2012 and lastly by a decision by the Canadian government on December 20, 2012.[16]
>In January 2009 the Council of the European Union removed the terrorist designation. This followed the 2008 Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg censure of France for failing to disclose alleged new evidence of MEK's terrorist threat.[13] Delisting allowed MEK to pursue tens of millions of dollars of frozen assets[15] and lobby in Europe for more funds. It also removed the terrorist label from MEK members at their Iraqi Camp Ashraf.[14]
>On September 28, 2012 The U.S. State Department formally removed MEK from its official list of terrorist organizations, beating an October 1 deadline in a MEK lawsuit.[10][112] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement the decision was made because MEK had """""renounced violence""""" and had cooperated in closing their Iraqi paramilitary base. An official denied that lobbying by well-known figures influenced the decision to remove the designation.[113][114]

this is the same terrorist group that did en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafte_Tir_bombing (which my cousin died in) and are literally fucking commies

fuck hillary

That is standard diplomatic pragmatism...
Trump would've done it, McCain would've done it, Romney would've done it.

Your cousin was an islamist?

>frequently bankrupted his companies

I wouldn't call 4 failed companies out of 483 frequent 2bh fampai, that's still a >99% success rate. Also it should be said all four establishments were Trump trying to gain foot in the casino business repeatedly, and therefore not completely independent cases from each other.

>Shillary reporting truth posts.

What about him suing people for giving him minor insults?

Should a person with such thin skin really be the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world?

>Nitpicking now
Tick tock tick tock
Sorry, your time's up, and you're running out of actual complaints.

How did you get out of the waiting room, user? Please go have a seat.

But you didnt post any legitimate Hillary complaints :^)

You haven't either, so what's your point ese?

It seems that it's that neither of you have any idea what the fuck you're talking about

Breaking confidentiality agreements, extremist right-wing allegations and a false rape accusation aren't what I'd call 'minor insults', user. These very things would get you faster into prison than the time needed to overthrow governments simply because they don't want to be tied down to the USD when trading with black gold.

It's not like I give a fuck.

>another hilldog supporter itt

Nice.

Are snakes eatable?

Obviously.

So, how would one precisely go about eating a snake?

Well I agree the OP should be updated to reflect the console release, at least. It's basically unplayable. Visitors should be told.

Impale it, and put in on fire. Alternatively you can find fine dishes online.

if PDtv died at the hands of cartels, would we even know?

if /kspg/ died at the hands of ded, would we even know?

Eventually someone would notice the interestingly shaped charred bones and bring them to the police who would dispose of them properly

boop

Evens, Orbiter
Odds, KSP
0, Bust a nut
Prime, Sleep

Alright! Let's get this party started.

Still not a huge fan of the graphics, but the 32bpp is a huge improvement, just wish that the FIRS mod that was recommended looked good with it.

>Party

Hint: if you want a nice and steady income without having to loan all the money, go for fishing, it is one of the highest paying industry in the game and ships are relatively cheap to maintain compared to trains or even trucks

>tfw no planetary consciousness to join minds with

Okay. So am I missing something here? It seems that the fishing ground isn't producing? I've fast forwarded several months like this and nothing happened.

I'm not familiar with that mod, but I don't think that's a boat for fish

It's the standard cargo ship. Says "All but passengers, alcohol, chemicals, and milk."

Never mind, I'm just stupid. Didn't realize I had to refit the ship to carry a certain cargo.

On another note, while looking through some addons I guess I noticed that the default look of the game isn't really all that bad. My main gripe is that the GUI is so small on my monitor and the only other option is way too big. Huh...kinda like the ksp 1.1 update.

You have to refit the boat for the right cargo.
Send it back to the depot, click the refit button that appears on the boat window once it's in the depot, select fish and send it on it's way.

Industries won't produce anything if you don't "prime" them with a vehicle fitted for the right cargo.

Have you tried the bigUI add-on? I had the same problem and that mod solved it.
You can also set it to different dimensions IIRC

See I figured it out. Felt stupid.

I haven't tried that yet, I'll look it up, I also have the resolution set to my screen resolution in settings so that should be fine.

If that fixes the gui I may very well go with the default look, if for no other reason than so things are consistent.

Try it with a quick new game and see for yourself, it's better to restart now that you have almost nothing in place yet than having to restart after hours because you can't stand the UI anymore.

that's why I told you to read all the add-on list before starting, once a game has started, you can't add anymore mods

Right, tight. I know what you mean. There's a lot of cool stuff too so I've already been restarting several times.

The ui is much more bearable now, still kinda small but I'll just have to adjust, still would like a 1.5 size or something though.

Btw, what year would you recommend starting at? 1950 feels too late for my liking, I also love the look of dirt roads upgrading as time goes by but 1925 leaves almost nothing to start with except boats, not even trains.

Sal_Vager? Based on which clues user?

I usually start in the late 19th century, there are a few mods with old vehicles, I don't really remember the names, but I got them by perusing the add-on list and reading their description. There are sailboats, horse carriages instead of trucks, steam trains and trams and stuff like that.

Considering how fast the stock game time goes (1day = ~2seconds), the sooner you start and the longer you play. There also seems to be a trend in the addons where a lot of them focus on early stuff and a a few of them focus on future stuff (dozens of vehicles in the early 900s vs a handful of vehicles in the late 2000s), so there is no real point on going too much in the future IMO.

1925 seems a good start for a first time, the stock game is fast enough that it won't take much to get to the 2000s anyway, but make sure to get at least a ship and train addon that has vehicles in that period.

false parallelism guise

Another hint: it's better to use one medium boat and have it pick up fish from more than one place, than use a small boat for each fishing ground.
You have to find a good compromise between the time it takes for the ship to complete it's route (the longer the cargo stays in a ship, the less you are paid) and the money you save by having less boats.
Unless you make a long ass route with fishing grounds that are hundreds of tiles apart that takes forever to complete, you will generally get more money like this.

Don't set boats to "full load" orders, just have them complete a small circle so that it fills up as it goes.

The "don't set to full load" rule only applies to boats and buses, for train and trucks you should always use full load orders as that maximises your profits. There are special cases where this is not true even for trains, but you are still a long way from those.

Cool. I think I just found said mod. Looks comfy.

I'll keep that in mind.

Yep, that's it.
There is also a mod to make train tracks look old too somewhere.

Another hint: don't start dealing with perishables (fruit, dairies, livestock and so on) until you have an already established network with a strong profit unless you want to make your life miserable.

Did you disable inflation?

Yup.

I think I've got enough to start to commit to a full game now without adding anything else. However, it's now 5am and I am absolutely exhausted, so it's bedtime.

I'll play when I wake up and post updates if you'd like.

Goodnight for now though.