KSP: Making History Grand Discussion Thread

Don't be silly . Essentially everything that can be added to the game in its present form already has been done by our ingenious community of modders. I mean, for years there have been several choices of mods for doing Gemini and Soviet stuff, and any other part you can think of, actually. Same goes for gameplay features, at least to the extent that things are exposed to modders at present.

So basically, the only stuff Squad can do that modders can't either involves various under-the-hood stuff that isn't at present exposed to modding, or the creation of totally new stuff that requires an expansion of the game engine itself even to be possible. That sort of thing is hard to find, actually. I can really only think of a handful that have come along since 0.20 when I started playing KSP, and it's quite possible that there were some pre-exiting mods that did some of these at the time that I didn't notice.

asteroids

tech trees and science points

biomes

economics and contracts

Kerbal classes and experience

the up-coming mission editor

Every other gameplay feature I can think of that's been added to stock was already there in a mod, and in fact some of those mods are still going because enough folks prefer to them to the stock version. "Realistic" (cough) atmospheres, re-entry heating, resource mining/refining, communications networks, etc., even female Kerbals.

The only difference is, this time you have to buy the new gameplay feature, it's not free. But hey, they're throwing in some parts as lagniappe. And you don't HAVE to buy it if you don't want it, but you still get the update to the base game for free, which is still something.

I can see the mission editor thing appealing to a fairly large section of the community, for the challenge aspect of it. So I think it's a good business move to make that DLC. I'm pretty "meh" about that (and the parts, for that matter) myself, but I'll probably get it just out of customer loyalty. Who knows? I might actually come to appreciate it someday, anyway.KSP: Making History Grand Discussion Thread

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