Gaming Kerbal Space Program 2 (currently in Early Access)

[jedidia]

Cats in 0-g is just not going to work

Why? It's basically falling. Cats are well-known for their falling abilities.

 

[Arvil]

They are well known to get their feet under them to land, but, they’re confused as to which way is under them, and they are drifting in the direction they perceive as something other than ‘down’.

 

[Urwumpe]

They are well known to get their feet under them to land, but, they’re confused as to which way is under them, and they are drifting in the direction they perceive as something other than ‘down’.

Humans are not better in that context. Without training, we are just as helpless.

 

[Linguofreak]

Humans are not better in that context. Without training, we are just as helpless.

Except that humans that find themselves in zero-g are generally familiar with the concept and are subjected to it as the result of conscious choices on their own part, so even if they can't figure out how to move effectively in zero g, there's usually less flailing panic than with animals.

 

[Urwumpe]

Except that humans that find themselves in zero-g are generally familiar with the concept and are subjected to it as the result of conscious choices on their own part, so even if they can't figure out how to move effectively in zero g, there's usually less flailing panic than with animals.

Who was in microgravity so far? Except people who knew that microgravity will happen?

 

[MaxBuzz]

Who was in microgravity so far? Except people who knew that microgravity will happen?

Fish tolerate microgravity best (in fact, nothing has changed for them)

https://www.roscosmos.ru/20652/

 

[Linguofreak]

Who was in microgravity so far? Except people who knew that microgravity will happen?

Exactly

 

[N_Molson]

 

[Urwumpe]

This video sounds more like somebody was starting enthusiatic and until today never realized, how much they were actually overwhelmed with the task to deliver what they sketched out. At least he sounds like he must still mentally recover from it and I don't mean the end of it. And that Take-Two was actually giving them more chances than they would have gotten elsewhere. I can understand why its easy to hate Take-Two there, but for me (from my engineering software developer perspective) it sounds like they just used their possibilities to help get the game development back on track. And did not even pick very harsh actions there. Just think about it: How long would the early-access phase have taken until it not only reached a fair set of 1.0 goals, but also was substantially better than the original KSP? Which is still a great game to buy, but nothing that could earn the money for a bigger development project (version update / DLC).

 

[Linguofreak]

This video sounds more like somebody was starting enthusiatic and until today never realized, how much they were actually overwhelmed with the task to deliver what they sketched out. At least he sounds like he must still mentally recover from it and I don't mean the end of it. And that Take-Two was actually giving them more chances than they would have gotten elsewhere. I can understand why its easy to hate Take-Two there, but for me (from my engineering software developer perspective) it sounds like they just used their possibilities to help get the game development back on track.

Where Take 2 seems to have screwed up was in market research and project scope and in deciding what resources to devote to the project. From previous coverage from ShadowZone, they basically scoped the project as not much more than a ground-up redo of KSP1, which I frankly doubt would have captured the interest of the community, and weren't willing to fund anything more.

Nate knew what the community wanted and pitched his dream project internally at Star Theory, and ST then told T2 that they could do Nate's dream project within the budget and timeframe T2 had already specified. Whether they were that naive, or whether they were intending to go overdue/overbudget in the first place to bamboozle T2 into producing the product the community wanted, I'm not sure, but T2 bungled the scoping phase, then ST overpromised what they could do.

 

[Urwumpe]

Where Take 2 seems to have screwed up was in market research and project scope and in deciding what resources to devote to the project. From previous coverage from ShadowZone, they basically scoped the project as not much more than a ground-up redo of KSP1, which I frankly doubt would have captured the interest of the community, and weren't willing to fund anything more.

Well, being able to do, what KSP already does is at least the minimum needed for the new one. It makes sense to expect not much more from a complete overhaul (Just think about Civilization). Its just bad that more was promised to the community.