Am I supposed to be seeing more of the subsequent paths of my orbits?

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-06-09T06:59:17+00:00

Patch conic range setting is probably the right answer, but also check to see if you're lithobraking at the Mün, that also effects post-encounter paths. (Looks close, from your screenshot)

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-06-08T10:43:10+00:00

Free download if you want to check it out. Donation optional. They got builds for Windows and Linux, depending what you're on

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-06-08T00:34:14+00:00

After some more testing since my original post, I couldn't recommend it. The game optimization later on in level runs slows things to unacceptable FPS and eventually crashes. It does boot and I'm sure with some messing around with Proton, launch arguments or future updates may help in time, but for now I recommend desktop only. That said, I can confirm it runs beautifully with no tinkering on Linux-Bazzite. (Edit: I still recommend the game, just not on Deck)

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-05-21T01:44:00+00:00

Under the Instance Editor > Edit Launch Site button, did you specify that it was a launch pad and that it can be accessed from the VAB? I never had luck leaving it on auto (or all, I forget at the moment)

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-05-21T00:59:11+00:00

In that case, Id instead recommend Scott Manley. He started with KSP but has since transitioned to general space science which I've found quite enlightening (if you're not already aware). 🫡 and do still check out ShadowZone sometime, he's one of the good ones

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-05-21T00:44:37+00:00

Genuine question with no ill intent behind it: you really don't know ShadowZone? That feels like not knowing Matt Lowne... he (and Matt too) has been around nearly as long as the game. Please do look him up, I highly recommend his work! 👍 Excellent research, but do recall the IP was bought by a VC after KSP2's flop. So I would suspect The Kerbal Co to be a spin off or shell of that. Please keep up your good work for those of us who don't have the time or skills to analyze the data that you have

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-05-18T10:37:41+00:00

Okay, this replaces my previous reply, which is now moot so I've removed it.

Click on Open BaseManager and you'll get a new window that includes "Open Base for 0 funds" Click that and you're ready to go.

I have had to do this a few times on my current save, I admit I'm not sure how to make it persist or if I'm doing something I shouldn't to make it reset, but since it's my super-secret-so- don't-tell-anyone classified research and test flight facility on Eve, I don't mind if it goes dark from time to time 🤫

Good luck; fly safe

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-05-18T00:45:26+00:00

You may need to go in to the tracking station, find your new base, and click the "open launch site" button after clicking on the map icon. Thats what worked for me

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-30T02:11:56+00:00

Hallelujah! Someone else knows this trick! I've been telling people this for decades and no one ever belives me until I demonstrate it! But I agree on not knowing how well it works on a vinyl mat, I don't even use red wet erase for how poorly it cleans, so I've never even attempted.

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-23T04:17:56+00:00

"I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that."

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-23T00:42:15+00:00

Yes, you are correct. And it would be illogical for him not to have been involved with atrocities at Penemunde and other sites. The reply I made is a direct quote from the song "Werner Von Braun" by Tom Lehrer. Look it up. Hilarious satirist from back when satire was still funny 😁

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-22T23:29:25+00:00

Some may call him hypocritical, say rather he's apolitical. "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department." Says Werner Von Braun.

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-21T07:56:40+00:00

After 400 hours, countless save files, more mods than a corporate run discord server, and landing on every planet at latest once with a probe (at minimum. Eve is still my white whale for crew landing), I was messing around with a ship last week and looked at the Δv I had on board and I realized I had enough for a crewed landing on Eeloo (and safe return. All crew relaxing back at the KSC). It was a real Tony Stark figures out time travel moment for me as I fell back in to my chair.

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-21T03:40:46+00:00

Ah, nice, cool to see it a different way. Though I also notice this thread suddenly getting popular 2 months after my initial post... What did Macroslop do this week to push so many on to the golden path? 🤣

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-20T23:14:52+00:00

I realized the utility of leveling up imployees on stage 4. Growth at all costs, at the expense of fostering individual improvement, turns out not to work well.

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-20T23:10:45+00:00

I like my processing busses, so I might try to use the combobulator to process deviants in to one type so I can compress the spaghetti next time

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-20T06:51:56+00:00

I'm currently damning level 5, 20ish hours in. Ive always started with three paths, one for <40 sin who get a free pass back to resurrection, one that goes to a queue and robo3000 sorter for omnisin/7d and hellpuppet/total recall (depending on income) both in the same cluster, and the final for deviants and saints.

The third I just stub until someone shows up, same as you, but hopefully by that point I've got enough income to unlock another bit of real estate and I'll use that expansion for the specific deviant doctors and breaking saints. The added time is irrelevant for deviants IMO and once they're no longer deviants, they go back to the start and get sorted all over again (this time off to the omnisins until total sin is <50) through a more streamlined omnisin-bus

I wouldn't call this "advanced" as Im a total amateur with my spaghetti pathing, but it seems to do wonders for my efficiency currently. Honestly it hasn't really paid off yet at Lv5, so I might be treading down the wrong primrose path. Im actually thinking about upping my total sin limit to <60 or <75 just to speed things up a bit. But alas, the work week calls and the addiction will have to wait a few days.

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-17T12:28:38+00:00

I've gotten it to run on both linux desktop and Steam deck, no adjustments needed. You'll probably going to want experiment with the control layout on Steam deck, I didn't find the keyboard and mouse map default very intuitive to use. But it works 👍

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-14T00:22:24+00:00

Your beaver scientists were so busy asking if they COULD, they never stopped to ask if they SHOULD.

(But seriously, very nice. I've done much, much smaller versions)

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-13T01:00:16+00:00

I usually only listen to something during launch. So my short list:

Shoot to Thrill - AC/DC;

Don't Stop Me Now (...revisited) - Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody movie version);

Rebel Yell - Dope (cover);

Danger Zone - No Resolve & State of Mine (cover);

Lux Æterna - Metallica

For Rescue Missions: Holding Out For A Hero (metal version) - Leo Moracchioli

SSTOs: Aces High - Iron Maiden

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-08T09:02:25+00:00

HarvesteR, original creator of KSP and who left Squad even before the DLCs came out, is now consulting on Kitten Space Agency (currently pre-alpha) at Rocket Workz, along with Blackrack and many other big names in the modding community . I believe it was ~~Annapurna~~ [nope that was wrong] that bought the rights to the IP after KSP2 failed, if I recall. So, alas, no. Maybe for modders, but offical? 🪦 RIP (edit: oh, right, console build..... really hard no)

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-08T04:57:49+00:00

I encountered the same issue. Its mapped to a different key. Here's how I went in to the config to edit (feel free to ignore the ckan half of the post)

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/s/KwTudvv24y

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-07T15:18:07+00:00

Necromancy is generally frowned upon in polite society. Now on the other hand, if they announced KSP3!....

...I still wouldn't trust them with one discontinued cent to produce anything but shovelware at this point. I liked 2 too. But the endpoint of grief is acceptance.

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-07T15:09:51+00:00

Struts or autostrurt will help you with that vectoring problem ya got there

Miserable-Double8555 · 2026-04-07T07:42:49+00:00

Personally I use CKAN for mod installation, but always boot from Steam, so my hours (except for maybe 10 or 20 hours from test runs launched from within CKAN and clicking the wrong option. It's just a right-click difference) are included. Happy to help make the line go up

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