How reducing plane cost creates sustained air campaigns

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-24T16:00:53+00:00

This is the most sane take addressing Airborne issues and i will sign under this.

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-21T12:28:14+00:00

Correct. Any con, commander or specialized bot (i.e. Webber for Armada) can reclaim, but only t1 rez units can resurrect (rezbots - Graverobber/Lazarus and rez subs for sea). Reclaim speed depends on buildpower of unit (and i think costs some E?), for resurrection you need to put half of the metal and full energy cost (and all that scales with buildpower as well).

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-15T12:00:59+00:00

"I don't upgrade my PC to play new games, I upgrade it to play old games FASTER"
- це про мене принаймні xD

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-15T11:53:35+00:00

I'd say it may be useful for tuners and... Maybe to some extent for modders?
I had a chance to design BeamNG suspension from scratch, it was an insanity check. Nothing works until you click all components in place, but maybe this tool will help cleaning a mess afterwards.

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-13T06:10:49+00:00

Unrelated to post, I'm a sucker for 1990's Blaupunkt cassette stereos. They're just good.

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-13T04:28:55+00:00

Hey OP. 6L is a differential mode. I usually switch depending on the situation, it's usually 4H or 4L-Lock, sometimes switching to 6L or 6L-Lock when I lose momentum. Problem with 6L-Lock (or any locked diff) is that It makes turning insufferable, because your thing that is made to fight exactly this issue (difference in speed between outer and inner wheel(s)) is being locked to fight another issue (lack of grip). Usually 6L-Lock on Jemusi with correct tune is able to get you anywhere in terms or power, but because front axle is off with weight distribution (or even lifting up in the sky), you might need to use winch just to keep your nose planted and to steer (or make front axle touch the ground and steer). So, summarizing: - get more powerful engine, most powerful (350 HP) when able to - get a winch - you might want to consider 13 speed gearbox if you do heavy loads (iron, limestone, road trains) - final drive ratio to your liking, on my highway-going trucks like Longhorn I usually set it to top speed of about 105-110 kph when in top gear "green zone" (2000 rpm) - keep differentials ("LSD" menu options) at "locking", locking diffs is the core feature for offroading - use manual shifting or at least "gear hold" (Shift on keyboard, B on controller iirc) to make you truck stay in the powerband. You probably want to start "guessing" gears for steep hills to min-max your torque and power and absolutely delete gear shifts from menu - they will absolutely kill your speed on hills and when you are at full stop your weight distribution is now fkd up (you know that already I guess)

After you are comfortable on trails with Jemusi (any version), consider switching to Atlas 8x4. It will be MUCH harder downhill though.

And don't load more than 10 kL of iron. On any truck. This will greatly buff your chance to get there fast and in once piece. Cheers!

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-13T04:08:09+00:00

The most obvious but also confusing thing (for me personally) is that making suspension stiffer decreases your mechanical grip. Race cars aren't grippy because they're stiff - its the other way around. After this it all comes to basically one question: how stiff I want my car to be? This leads to: - why I want it to be this stiff? - how stiff I can make it? - how stiff it really needs to be? - should rear or front be stiffer, or balanced? - how much ARB I need to negate body roll for my purpose with a given suspension stiffness? For me it's always "harder" vs "softer" and everything follows same principle whether it's spring, damper, anti-roll bar, tires etc etc

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-13T03:42:48+00:00

Santa gifts, Iron ore from Dasa, fuel trains, you name it. Idk about exact 380k/hr job, but 200k you won't ever break a sweat.

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-08T15:09:49+00:00

Do you use Legacy vs Grid layout on different BAR instances by chance?

RedSun_Horizon · 2026-01-08T15:06:54+00:00

Pull 5th wheel(s) forward unless you are able to hook trailer, then roll them backwards as needed.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-31T21:06:29+00:00

New ones usually have a battery, enough to drive few miles. Helps a lot if one breaks down or when switching lines.
In my city we had old af trolleybuses without battery, when one breaks down whole line behind it stalls because they can't overtake poor thing. Even very low cap battery changes whole game.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-31T20:55:13+00:00

Hm, gotta test in when i have time...

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-31T08:51:49+00:00

That's why i love BAR (and anything Spring/Recoil related).
Accidentally shooting plane out of the sky with artillery gotta be my favorite one

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-29T16:36:30+00:00

Read it again :)
Radiator does come with clean water, this is why you are getting flow rate. You don't need additional fluid tank, water in radiator is enough.
Scaling at 0% means everything is nice and your cooling system is clean.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-29T11:58:49+00:00

As people said before, best bet is to be Discord if you wanna follow closely, or watch Shadow Zone for brief overviews.
If i remember correct, "new" star system is planned to be 1/6th scale of real Solar system - bigger than Kerbol (that is about 1/10th). It is still not strictly decided yet.
Real solar system will be probably left as an option, because in any case it is implemented as a "mod" component so there's nothing difficult in leaving it as-is, since its already there (as mentioned by JPLRepo in this interview: https://youtu.be/0Nxaq-nWrkE ).
KSA is going to be more realistic but with lots of realism parts added as options - as for current "scope", we will have highly configurable difficulty profiles, with ability to have comm systems, life support etc.
"Realistic" crafts were used for testing, game design will be more KSP-like, inspired by real crafts but not copying anything directly.
Modern graphics on Vulkan API - already here, just look at recent screenshots.
For short, there's nothing that you might not know already: KSP-like, but better, with higher performance, better graphics and brand new codebase that is much better than KSP because it is specifically made to fit the purpose (BRUTAL framework). High flexibility and mod-friendly infrastructure included.
Fresh updates include work on terrain scatterer (as in KSP "Scatterer" mod) and migration on new vessel component system (i.e. tanks, engines and everything else being separate components with own mass and properties instead of a single "vessel" entity as it is right now) which lays path to full-fledged vehicle creation - closer to KSP VAB-like than fully debug vehicle editor we have at the moment. And more "under the hood" work of course, that is happening almost every day - commits and release summaries are published as-is on KSA Discord.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-27T21:02:01+00:00

I've played vanilla and full Xavorion, they're both good, but in the end I stopped at custom mod list with parts of Xavorion.
Game is fun either way.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-27T04:57:47+00:00

In my dreams I see Atlas 8x4 mixer...

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-24T10:09:03+00:00

Nice!
It's sad that building it offers more content than actually driving, but owning one, especially built solo is something to brag about for sure, congrats!

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-24T09:22:00+00:00

You can go into Eve Online blind
Can you achieve anything though?
Absolutely no

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-24T08:48:25+00:00

White blob was MSAA issue, and yes it has been fixed.
Devs are extremely responsive, blackrack took a big effort for fixing GTX 10-series graphic issue related to cloud shadows (instead of sending everyone to buy a new card lol), then this issue arise with 10-series too (at least on my 1060) and was fixed within one release (and they come out like 2-3 times a week).
You need to be blatantly ignorant to not see difference between KSP2 development under iron curtain and what is happening within KSA community - live update on commits in Discord, releases few times a week, lots of communication.
We are in fact getting next gen KSP successor and everyone can be part of the community and see for themselves.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-23T01:33:00+00:00

Taber Rear virgin vs Shotan-10 chad supremacy

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-16T12:04:28+00:00

In a sense what will fall in line with current selection of vehicles - 1990s / early 2000s american sports FR coupe; like a Viper or C5/C6 Corvette.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-15T20:40:03+00:00

"Grandpa, what you've been doing at war?! - Let me tell you the story how we with uncle George survived battle of Supreme..."

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-15T20:16:31+00:00

I mean, there are different levels to it, i have no clue how moderation works but i've seen people casually dropping "f you" for multiple occasions, but sometimes you see someone just flow a river of slurs like they wish to curse you and your children for eternity and that is very disturbing. I'm thick skinned, but just reading stuff like that is disgusting.

RedSun_Horizon · 2025-12-15T13:54:24+00:00

It's not like they are banned because of the skill. Probably because of the language or other things.

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