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Ah... Zooming needs a pilot...

Even in the ship-building thing?

As for hitting your target, your best bet is to set it as target and aim and the purple marker.

From 200m.

I hadn't noticed I could do that at the time. I actually discovered it when trying to figure out how much distance was between the Orbital Hermitage and the Hilt.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 15, 2014, 10:10:32 pm

The thing is, the "action" the humans take is one of those that lets them grow exponentially. They start with twice as many actions. They can spend twice as many actions on growth, on increasing their number of actions. They will grow (about) twice as fast. Simple math.

But that's true for everyone, at all times. They don't grow "twice as fast," they grow one or two turns faster. A Turn 10 Antman faction will not have half as many population points as a Turn 10 Human one unless the Antmen will have doubled again by Turn 11 or 12.

The thing is, growth isn't linear. So yes, that's pretty much what will happen.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 15, 2014, 10:10:32 pm

P.S. It's occurring to me that it's easier to conquer every terrain type except plains than it is to expand into them. Is this intended?

Well actually...
it's just as easy to expand into a forest as it is to conquer it, and it's easier to expand into a city (but what are the chances of that ever happening?). Also, on all terrains which are easier to conquer, building a fort will even the odds. That being said, I think difficulty of establishing a river/lake side settlement is overrated (unless the settlement is on top of the lake, in which case it's too low, and so is the defense)

I wasn't counting cities because A. it's more like an improvement and B. yeah, that ain't happening and I don't think it can.
Even if building a fortification evens the odds, isn't it a bit...odd that a fortified, defended area is easier to take than the same area with no one guarding it?

An energetic optimistic girl who is the magic girl of ignorance. Her powers revolve around her ignoring most things being impossible and thus being able to do them.

That sounds hilarious. Now to think of the opposite of Kyle.

How about a quiet, contemplative earth monk? (The religious kind, possibly sans Jehovah.) If I gave it more than 30 seconds' thought, I could probably improve it.

AntiWill is best girl.

And I claim ownership of her.

Aw. I wanted to control the Anti!Will.
I'd let her date Kyle...

So basically, that character concept is what happens should Alice get high on something? Seeing as Alice's ability imposes affects based on her perception, however flawed they may be...

The power, maybe.

Quote from: mastahcheese on February 15, 2014, 09:43:05 pm

I DON'T MISS TWICE!

Also, just for fun, I rolled a D20. If it is any indication you do indeed miss twice.

Please keep this.

I tried the To The Mun Part 1 scenario. I kinda messed up at the "change your orbit" part.

Inspired largely by a series of videos on YouTube by one Macey Dean, I designed a little space station called the Hilt of St. Kerman's Sword, intended to fire large explosive rounds as an anti-capital-ship measure. I fired the prototype into space, where it came close to the old Orbital Launcher I with Bill Kerman onboard. We were a couple hundred meters apart at our closest; Bill threw space-rocks at us. We spent the last of our fuel at apoapsis to circularize our orbit, but wound up instead with a crazy orbit about 45 degrees off the approximate plane of everything else orbiting Kerbin, with a periapsis of slightly under 538 kilometers and an apoapsis of over 7,882 kilometers! Between this and the fact that detaching the final stage ripped off the RCS tank and docking ports, I'd say that particular Hilt will not be detting a blade. I replace the Hydraulic Detachment Manifolds with smaller Radial Decouplers and hope for the best.
Meanwhile, I design a Blade for this sword. It's an impressive projectile, a good fraction of the size of many ships. It is a massive fuselage, filled with jet fuel, with a few reaction wheels and a pair of solid fuel boosters added for good measure. It is tipped with a probe brain, for reorientation during launch, although hopefully it won't be needed too much since I doubt it has much maneuverability. And no, it does not have any kind of cockpit or crew compartment (unlike the Hilt). I design a launcher for it, too, with 14 solid fuel launchers and a bunch of big orange fuel tanks powering two Mainsails. You know what it doesn't have? Stability. (Sadly, the launcher seems to be more explosive than the Sword...this is a matter I'll need to look into.) Adding two pairs of Launch Stability Enhancers doesn't help, so I toss in some structure enhancers, like girders and struts and stuff. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this caused the launcher to explode after launching, rather than before.
...Wow. This is even harder than I expected.

P.S. My zooming is either limited to the Hangar or was a fluke.

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For a second i tought you were talking about a new engine being devlopped real life or something... then i saw kerman...

What, the exploding wings didn't clue you in? Or the note about turning on thrust before flying?
Anyways, I think next time I fire up KSP I'll work on atmospheric craft.

Hm?

((I had guessed; I was mostly prompting someone to try RPing with Angel. And, with luck, getting some idea who was in the party and what we were trying to do.))