/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9209818
So how good is that game? It looks like a generic rocket/spaceship building simulator. Are there actual objectives? Is there a lot of /sci/ there? I see a lot of people praising it, but I fail to understand the appeal.

>>9209825
I dont have the time to play it. I am trying to involve myself with actually reality more as computers dont give off real sensations... yet. What I can tell you is it takes weight, force, and balance into consideration so you must carefully put together pieces of the rocket to deliver payloads.

>>9209818
That's a neat-looking ship, OP.

>>9209825
>So how good is that game?
It's gr8

>It looks like a generic rocket/spaceship building simulator.
That is pretty much what it is, yes.

>Are there actual objectives?
Some, but they are secondary to the open sandbox fucking-around appeal. The real objectives are the ones you feel like, like "complete a trip to that planet and live to tell the tale".

>Is there a lot of /sci/ there?
The orbital mechanics, and mechanics in general, are pretty accurate. Not perfect, but accurate enough that most of the fundamental engineering challenges of spaceflight (rocket equation, thrust to weight ratio, careful trajectory planning, etc) are accurately represented and form the primary challenge of the game.

>I see a lot of people praising it, but I fail to understand the appeal.
It's autism bait, and scientifically respectable. It's pretty neat if you like that sort of thing

>>9209818
What's your smallest rocket to orbit?
>tfw you cannot into docking

>>9209818
bacteria are 3d mate

>>9210037
Docking is easy and fun. Seriously, once I figured it out I spent so many hours just stringing together a ton of spaceships until the game crashed.

>>9210151
I JUST DID IT

>>9210151
>>9210166
I failed so many times, I have like 16 spacecraft in the same orbit. I think I gained some intuition now

>tfw you git too gud at KSP and need to install 9000 mods to make it somewhat challenging again
>then some patch is released that adds practically no content but breaks all your mods
>then months later you finally get all your mods updated only to have another patch release 2 days after and break them all again

>>9210184
>What is Hohmann transfer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit
I can't believe I needed to link this, anyone with two brain cells to rub together could of figured it out.

You don't belong on /sci/ bud best go back to /r/reddit.

>>9209818
This game doesn't support spiral orbits so it's not as fun as it could be.

>>9211107
>could of

>>9211107
knowing what a circular transfer is doesn't mean it's suddenly trivial to use one for docking

>>9209818

>all that mono propellant

lol nigger what are you doing

>>9210236
Don't update the game, I'm still in 1.1.3 and everything work almost perfectly

>daily reminder that this was going to be a part of the main game but then the entire original team left the project so it's never going to happen

>daily reminder that we will never get Gas Planet 2 and 3

>daily reminder that Duna looked better before they 'fixed' the terrain and turned it into a ball of mud

>daily reminder that the golden age of Ksp ended a long time ago and so far nothing new has even come close to replicating the style

>>9211370
>ywn relive /kspg/ in its golden era
>the resource flowchart will never be implemented
>based slav will never make more sweet parts for the game
>maxmaps was just an awful dude

Man ksp is such a broken memory for me of a game that was great and shit at once, and then the devs just started grasping for $$$$$ and making decisions to drive everything else into the ground

>>9209825
>>9209871
>>9210037
>>9210236
>>9211107
>>9211370
>>9211403
>Daily reminder that there are enough mods to make it bearable 1/h times over
(I recommend The New Horizons Planet... thingy)
>Daily reminder that they're jewing out and making an """Expansion pack"""
>Daily reminer that Remotetech is best-tech

Imma go play KSP nao