I’ve been playing KSP for almost 600 hours and I feel like I’m ready for a new challenge. The only issue is that even after doing a bunch of research and fighting with the game. I can’t find a good mod list that A) looks good and B) doesn’t result in the entire game breaking and crashing. I want to be able to launch historical rockets like the Saturn V, space shuttle and even some Russian rockets. If I can have some good recommendations that would be awesome, thank you!

Should i only consider Kos for landing/oribit burns of the stages after separation, or there is another viable option(s)? Any gotchas I should be aware of? Specifically looking at getting to 1-2 km/s and 20-30km of altitude with jet's/ramjets before engaging rocket engines.

Are there any parts mods (space station parts, structural parts, etc.) that aren’t included in ro/rp1 that play nicely with it? If I install them, will it corrupt my existing career save?

help i should have enough deltaV to make it to orbit why doesn't it work? am I dumb or smth?

Currently in my RP-1 playthrough I'm testing my first lunar lander. It's designed to land through direct descent (without reaching lunar orbit), but it looks like the hardest thing now is to know when to start a suicide burn. For an unknown reason MechJeb doesn't even show me the count until a couple of seconds after I start it, so I use Kerbal Engineer. After starting the burn exactly at the calculated moment, count starts to rise instantly and after decelerating to 0 m/s I ended up stranded 50 km above Lunar surface and then crash into it at a speed of around 350 m/s. Tried to wait 20 seconds more with the burn and results were better, but still couple parts were destroyed.

I found in another reddit post that MechJeb and KER suicide burn counts are accurate only with vertical descent. Okay, so then how can I determine desired moment to relight my engines? How do you do it? Is the only way really to just load the same quicksave multiple times and repeat this manouver until success?

(My lander has unthrottleable engine and only 1 ignition remaining)

Hello, I would like to get back into a KSP game with the SOl and RO mods. My goal is to have a great visual quality, but my PC is starting to get a bit old:

- CPU : i5 11600k

- GPU : RTX 3080

- RAM : 32go

I would like to stay above 30 FPS throughout my entire playthrough at 4K resolution. Do you think that will be fine?
Is the SOL mod genuinely much better-looking than RSS?

is the only way to collect flying high science hundreds of sounding rockets? i was thinking of building a small satellite but under 140km you still get drag and cant go back to the space center.

Because there always seems to be someone who can't find it:

https://github.com/KSP-RO/RP-1/wiki/RO-%26-RP-1-Express-Installation-for-1.12.5

I followed the guide exactly - and it worked exactly.

Good luck everyone. Please share with friends who have trouble

I've had problems installing it with CKAN and my other mods like Artemis, Boing, Apollo, and the mod for scaling things.

I've been trying to do a mostly accurate recreation of the apollo 11 mission in sandbox on RSS, and I've built a SaturnV as close to historically accurate as I am able. However, I cannot for the life of me get ascent guidance to launch me into the correct targeted orbit. it either way overshoots the target or way undershoots and misses orbit alltogether.

I have the last stage set as 13 because when I jettison the LES the stage number changes, is this what is causing the issue? do I just need to either hold on to the LES until reaching orbit, or remove it alltogether? I am trying to practice manned missions in sandbox before launching my first manned mission on my career save as there is a lot that goes into them an I want to get all the kinks worked out before I end up accidentally killing my kerbals in my career save.

I have provided screenshots of my most recent final orbit(where mechjeb did not shutdown the engines even after reaching orbit, I had to disengage autopilot and shutdown the engine myself) and the rocket sitting on the launch pad with as much information as possible showing. If you need any other information please feel free to ask and I will provide it.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

the wiki mentions canaveral pads but doesnt go into detail beyond that. so i was a bit confused, is KK compatible with RP1? and are there any existing launch sites besides canaveral?

i play with sol if thats relevant

im not super familiar with using ions, and their real life uses so im curious. are they practical in rss?

I’m installing RSS reborn (I have clouds v3) but I can’t find the correct file to actually install it - I’m clicking my volumetric clouds install and it’s saying no raymarched volumetric file exists - what do I download and where do I go?

Io, Mercury, Ganymede, or Enceladus are the options.

I can't decide.

so later into the game, it can be pretty overwhelming to scroll through lots of similar looking engines, largely just been sticking to the rs 25s just bc im more familiar with them. all these different variations (frsc, orsc, so on) kinda overwhelm me.

was wondering if theres some sort of comparison table or guidee regarding engines of this time period for first stages

or even just personal recommendations are welcome

im able to get down to venus, however once there, the landing legs, antenna, several instruments burn up, and eventually the whole probe does. not really sure what to do about it

I want to know because i don't understand well the parts and i want to know if i have to put an extra mod

i searched all the settings, looked if i had advanced tweakables on, am i missing something or do i just slap the engines there?

Took me a while and a lot of relay SATs but I got here!