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Well to be blunt and put it into south park terms. Its all been done. You can get almost anything you want spaceflight wise already.
Everything? Or not.
Ok, if everything has been done, where are these?
Chinese Cargo Spaceship, Voskhod, UR-100, Echo, Minotaur, T-2000, Project 921-2, LK-3, TMK and the Space Station Freedom.
I couldn't find any of them on Orbit Hangar Mods, and I found these on Astronautix after a few minutes of browsing? :shrug:
I think that the phrase "It's all been done" is grossly inaccurate. I would say less than ten percent of the stuff on Astronautix have been 'done' in Orbiter, and I'm not even going into the thousands of MFD ideas.
It's hard to recreate most of them without proper orthographic schematics.
One of the reasons add-ons are coming at a slower pace is because they are getting more complex. A few years ago, most add-on vessels were config or SC3 based. Then Dan came out with the DGIII, etc and upped the bar.
Dan's add-ons kept getting more advanced, and other complex add-ons came around like AMSO, NASSP, etc. Later we got the XR series, and Moach's G-4200 looks to take complexity to a high level as well. These more complex add-ons take longer to create.
I'd rather have one really good add-on than a bunch of "cookie cutter" add-ons that are basically all the same - just with a different mesh slapped onto a generic module.
Not everyone has the time or talent to make (or learn how to make) high-quality add-ons. People shouldn't have expectations that high.
- There's an unnecessary negative reaction to simple addons. This puts most people off development, even as simple as converting a mesh and configuring it as sc3 vessel. This attitude prevents the creation of new add-ons for which there are publicly avaliable meshes and that could be updated in time to proper .dll versions.
- The feedback on most treads to beginner ideas or suggestions about add-ons is negative, along the lines of : "we don't need another rocket" or "code it yourself". A better approach would be to contribute to that thread and using it for research (masses, fuel, aerodynamics, sequences, etc, etc).
If people only expect high-quality add-ons, it will only discourage the people who are newcomers to add-on development.