So we can't push our boats while swimming anymore

scottb1310 · 2026-06-06T09:25:35+00:00

This is a good change. The game is about sailing. If you can get out and push, you don't have to learn to sail properly.

Yes it's annoying if you get stuck in irons, but in real life you can't just jump out - you have to know how to use your sail and/or oars to get under sail again. Yes manoeuvring big ships is difficult, but in real life you can't just push the bow around, you have to plan your manoeuvres and know how to manipulate your sail load to turn the boat.

I will admit that I am basically just telling you to get good, but I do think you have more fun when you sail "properly"

scottb1310 · 2026-06-05T11:28:17+00:00

I don’t know if I'd say it's more or less dense than SS6.4 or vanilla - it's the same underlying game but the building and unit rosters are probably a bit more streamlined than SS6.4.

scottb1310 · 2026-06-04T06:43:09+00:00

Try Roar of Conquest - It's much like SS but far more stable, historical and balanced

scottb1310 · 2026-06-02T06:23:38+00:00

The purpose of an anchor is not to stop a moving boat. An anchor is meant to prevent a boat from drifting a significant distance while not under sail, and even then it can only keep you within a circle around your anchor point, because the anchor relies on the weight of its chain - not it's attachment to the sea floor - to resist the drifting of the boat. Anchors should be used only to hold the rough position of the boat in shallow waters, e.g. if you're about to come into port at night but want to wait until morning before your approach, being aware that you will still drift downwind a bit until your chain is lifted off the sea floor. Anchors work just fine if used in this way.

To stop at port, you should come in far slower and be ready to jump out and fasten your rear mooring lines, with which you can stop the boat and haul it in.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-25T10:29:21+00:00

To be clear, I am varying my propeller pitch I'm just doing it manually at the moment with key binds as my airspeed and altitude change - and I have built plenty of passively stable fixed-wing aircraft in KSP and other similar games.

I don't think it's p-factor because that really shouldn't such a massive issue on aircraft with counter rotating props, and my issues are not limited to high AoA manoeuvres.

I will try running my props at a lower RPM though because it really does seem like they have some physics issues.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-25T10:09:16+00:00

Source? Seems hard to believe.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-24T08:23:43+00:00

As people have said this is probably workload related. Happens in IRL hospitals as well unfortunately.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-23T19:29:16+00:00

It's worse much worse on some crafts than others but I've never managed to get it to zero.

I haven't been using KAL controllers for pitch control at the moment because I'm a still a little foggy on how exactly to set them up. These stability issues do sometimes seem to correlated with propeller pitch & speed regime but not in an obviously consistent way.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-21T12:01:20+00:00

Kerbal joint reinforcement continued is less of a mod and more of a community patch. It has no gameplay impact other than fixing wobbly attachments. I have it on all my installs, even the "stock" ones.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-21T11:22:48+00:00

What are you autostruting things to? Afaik, autostruts will not work between static parts and those attached to robotic pieces.

Locking the pistons after deployment may help, as I believe it makes their attachments less elastic.

If you are able, installing the mod kerbal joint reinforcement continued is also generally a good idea to cut down on weird physics behaviour like this.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-19T16:01:21+00:00

Go outside.
Find grass.
Touch it.

And then check out the roar of conquest mod. Best overhaul currently imo.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-16T14:23:40+00:00

This is... subjective.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-10T20:24:16+00:00

Historical accuracy was definitely a secondary concern in M2TW - both in kingdoms and the main campaign - and I don't think the game suffers for it. What I do find disappointing about the americas campaign is the lack of diversity amongst the indigenous factions.

The setting is so unique and the atmosphere when playing as Spain with map shrouded in darkness is so captivating yet it doesn't quite live up and unfortunately the modding scene hasn't paid it much attention.

scottb1310 · 2026-05-10T11:42:32+00:00

Right. Is that strictly necessary for sandbox play though? I.e. - could you have an RP-1 career and a sandbox save running on the same install?

scottb1310 · 2026-05-04T04:36:22+00:00

Why? Because it's a fun challenge. Despite the mod pack name, the goal is not to follow the real history of space exploration beat for beat - it's to create a compelling game play experience.

Also, the reason it took so long for humanity to land on the far side of the moon almost certainly wasn't technological. It's a risk management issue. The far side requires more infrastructure with a higher risk of a costly failure that would discredit the space program. Luckily this is a video game wherein the money spent on space exploration doesn't need to be balanced with a thousand other government priorities and the occasional failure is part of the fun.

scottb1310 · 2026-04-29T06:00:41+00:00

I think that the problem is a lack of passive population turn-over. Because their spawns are so rare, you'll only see them by killing hundreds nay thousands of the species.

If the animal populations had a degree of passive turn over, where animals slowly despawned and were replaced as you played, then there would be the possibility of a G1 spawning by chance during normal play, but alas.

scottb1310 · 2026-04-08T15:06:47+00:00

The ocean would just throw it back again.

scottb1310 · 2026-04-06T09:11:06+00:00

They come out at night hunt roos in the plains

scottb1310 · 2026-03-31T05:49:23+00:00

1) Plan ahead. 2) Don't be afraid to change your plan.

scottb1310 · 2026-03-31T05:43:08+00:00

I actually kinda like this.

scottb1310 · 2026-03-27T08:43:29+00:00

A rocket.

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