So we all know videogames rot your brain, but does anyone here have any experience with kerbal space program?
I've been thinking of picking it up but I'm wondering if it actually teaches you anything about spaceflight, orbital mechanics, aerodynamics, etc. or if it's just another "sim" game with watered down physics to appeal to normies.
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Normies play COD not Kerbal
Video games do not "rot your brain"
If you don't want "watered down physics" read a text book you fucking faggot
Videogames doesn't rot your brain at all...
I've been playing ksp for more than 100 hours and I recommend it to everyone interesting in space flights, orbital maneuvers etc... It's relatively easy to play and there is a lot of mods (realistic, new parts of real rockets, real solar system etc...)
A really good game I can only recommend
I've already read all the textbooks
If it's good enough for the researchers of Merlin it should be good enough for anyone
>if it actually teaches you anything about spaceflight, orbital mechanics,
It absolutely does.
>aerodynamics, etc
I think the aerodynamics in KSP *are* watered down to the point where it's just about interesting but by no means realistic. It's an accurate spaceflight sim, but only a rough simplified atmospheric flight sim.
>it's just another "sim" game with watered down physics
It does have watered down physics. But it's still meaty enough, and accurate enough, to contain the bulk of the physics challenges of spaceflight. (The engineering challenges, not so much.)
that's awesome
I'm glad to hear it's pretty true to the physics, and that there is an active mod community.
Do you know how accurate communications in the game are? i.e radio delay, doppler effect, etc.?
>Do you know how accurate communications in the game are? i.e radio delay, doppler effect, etc.?
None of that applies. You are assumed to be controlling things from onboard the ship with no real ground help.
I'll be sure to notify the animal molesters there's a ksp thread.
There is no communication with the ground, you're on your own.
But new updates have implemented an information system. Meaning that your informations (let's say Mars lander informations) will need to be relayed by satellites when you're deep in the solar system.
Just buy it man, you'll spend a lot of hours on it I guarantee you
Note that there is mods that enhance the aerodynamics and all physics related things
>So we all know videogames rot your brain
We all know sage goes in all fields.
Torrent it, the "developers" are absolutely incompetent and only ever make things worse. They don't deserve money. For better aerodynamics, use a mod called Ferram Aerospace.
They're heeeere...
>"developers" are absolutely incompetent
Without which there would be no game...
The ones who actually made it what it is all left.
if you want a physics simulator that handles like a video game, pirate Solidworks and do the tutorials.
So is this the new KSP general? They're banned from Veeky Forums
>They're banned from Veeky Forums
How'd you pull that off? Too much Kerbal porn?
Post mods. I've installed Principia for multibody physics, is there any other I'd want?
No your not. The most recent update added communications that require line-of-sight. I'm not sure if it handles light speed delay, but I do know that there are mods for that.
>Orbital mechanics
>Aerodynamics
>Spaceflight
This game just reinforces the delusion that space exists, spend more time in church kid.
All the good ones got fired.
It became a handful of people's personal blog that they refused to take to /soc/. It was good while it lasted, but it got ruined by those people.
As far as I know: nope. If you want a realistic simulation then use Orbiter. orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk
There is also this addon for orbiter:
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who do religious people even come on Veeky Forums ?
It's disappointing they didn't just ban those people instead of banning discussion of the game.
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The people got banned repeatedly and kept evading. It didn't help that they were egged on by the usual people who latch onto attention whores because le fuck the mods xddd hotpocket.
European mirror works for me, user.
>le religious ppl are dumb unlike me XD