<Althego>
ok nice, it would maybe survive a crash landing. but how would people open it?
<Mat2ch>
With a big wrench.
<Mat2ch>
And another power drill they brought with them
<Mat2ch>
or a cutting torch.
<Althego>
hehe big wrench hanging there tied to it with a steel chain. open in emergency
<Mat2ch>
well, if you can get to it you will have some tools with you
<Mat2ch>
so opening shouldn't be the problem
<Althego>
but werent the tools supposed to be inside?
<Mat2ch>
You land succesfully on a second space craft and you bring the necessary wrench with you
<Mat2ch>
there's more inside than just tools. And having redundancy is nothing bad
<flayer>
i can imagine the first starship carrying a deployable payload
<flayer>
deploy it as you approach the planet, let the cargo land itself as they do the rovers
<flayer>
then see if you can land the empty rocket
<Althego>
deployable payload. you dont need to build a door and crane and deploy mechanism if the deployment is crashing :)
<Althego>
and you can reuse the steel for base building too
<flayer>
its hard to have the payload survive a crash
<flayer>
and an empty rocket is easier to land, might result in more useful data
<Mat2ch>
you can bring spare tires on the first launch. The surface on Mars is really bad for them...
<Mat2ch>
and boots. :D
<flayer>
than a crash with incomplete data transfers and no data after landing
<Mat2ch>
oh, nice idea.
<flayer>
Mat2ch, i think the main issue with the tires is their lightweight, not the surface or mars
<Mat2ch>
Land the empty thing, then deorbit the cargo to land nearby and have a look how the landing wet. ;)
<Althego>
you can look from orbit
<Althego>
the starship or wreckage would be highly visible
<Mat2ch>
closeups are so much better.
<flayer>
sampling the wreckage
<Althego>
yes, you obviously have to landa camera drone first to video the whole landing :)
<Mat2ch>
btw, KSP 1.11.2: They still didn't fix the career problem that the pilots have full control over the craft?!
<Althego>
obviously
<Althego>
it was a really tiny fix
<Althego>
they didnt even bother to update the dlc versions
<Mat2ch>
there's still a whole team working on KSP, isn't it?
<Mat2ch>
Or just one single dev left?
<Althego>
cant be one person
<Althego>
programming graphics, testing, etc all require different skills
<Mat2ch>
weeelllll
<Mat2ch>
I've worked on projects where this all was my part...
<Althego>
programmer art and programmer ui. you dont want to see those
<Mat2ch>
if the customers doesn't want to pay another person they have to take what I make. :D
<Althego>
our company works fast, cheaply and precisely. you can choose 2
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<Mat2ch>
that's how it is.
<Althego>
oh no. ovelapping phoenix and raeper
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<FLHerne>
Mat2ch: Honestly, that seems a low-prio bug, because you can just choose to not click the button
<FLHerne>
The only problem is your self-restraint :p
<Mat2ch>
darsie: ah, now you are here. The new NASA space suits are made to be very flexible, so it should be possible to kneel down with them.
<Mat2ch>
FLHerne: if the game offers it, I may use it. ;)
<Althego>
or rather they are not flexible, but have rotating joints
<Mat2ch>
It should be an easy fix as well, if they are using a vcs.
<Mat2ch>
And I hope they do
<Mat2ch>
and I hope they know how to use it.
<Mat2ch>
Althego: the suit is made to be flexible. ;)
<Althego>
i am still waiting for the mechanical counterpressure suits. more than 20 years and they are still not ready
<darsie>
cool
<Mat2ch>
Counter pressure suits?
<Mat2ch>
I would like to know why nobody uses unpressurized suits.
<darsie>
lol
<Althego>
because they are bad for you skin :)
<Althego>
you know all the streching as such
<Mat2ch>
Multiple layers of fabric, some cooling/heating lines in it, just the helmet has pressure.
<darsie>
Because without counterpressure your lungs would explode.
<Mat2ch>
The counter pressure could be done by the fabric.
<Althego>
you could just pressurize your head and lungs
<darsie>
Yeah, if you do that, the lung explodes.
<Althego>
the mechanical counterpressure works like this. air only for your head. everything else is a stretching fabric that exerts force on your skin like it was air pressure
<darsie>
They're tricky to make. Have to fit very well.
<darsie>
And you lose water as it evaporates.
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<Mat2ch>
why would you lose water?
<Mat2ch>
sooo, I did a thing. I looked through the recently closed bug reports and I only saw TriggerAu and victorr being active there.
<Mat2ch>
I saw RafaHdz in one report, but this could be a random user as well
<Mat2ch>
and a year ago chris.fulton closing a lot of reports.
<Mat2ch>
Could it really be that only TriggerAu is working on the game?!
<Mat2ch>
ah, VictorR and Rafa are both QA. Or were?
<Mat2ch>
Ah, Rafa write stuff.
<Mat2ch>
yeah, I'm stalking the devs ;P
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<Mat2ch>
And when looking at the staff page of the forum... something must have happend last year around March. Since then many of the devs haven't posted anything in the forum.
<Mat2ch>
TriggerAu and RoverDude are left. But RoverDude has a lot of mods to maintain