Control delay? Fuck. That. Noise.
Signal range, I can deal with. Control delay, I cannot.
Probes would need a massive buff to compensate because that would make them almost entirely unusable. I already need a super high-end one to provide the same functionality as even a complete novice pilot.
edited 30th Dec '15 8:34:11 PM by Balmung
i like having to bounce signals for transferring science. also the use for probes against kerbals is the fact that kerbals gain experience, and you don't necessarily want them stuck on million year voyages or at the risk of crashing in unknown territory.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." TwitterI would be much more okay with life support than delayed actions. Not that probes don't already have a "life support" of sorts, so they get both at once. I can hurl more shit into space just fine.
Hmm... I wonder how long-lasting of a probe I could launch with only battery power and no power generation capabilities beyond maybe engines, and ideally not even that.
I bet I could launch enough batteries to power it all the way out of the Kerbol System, even with scientific transmissions along the way.
edited 30th Dec '15 11:20:40 PM by Balmung
Honestly, why dont probe cores function as antena already.....
There what you use to control a probe, and given that there adding singals they can no longer be handwaved as robots, meaning they must have built in transmitters/recivers.
Especialy the stayputnik the reason for that kind of shape is anteana...
Funny. Kerbalstuff went down permanently the same day I discovered CKAN is a thing. Fortunately, I was able to get all the mods I consider essential as well as the more substantial of the new mods I wanted to try. All that's left are some "prettifying" mods and Infernal Robotics, the latter of which I'm not sure I even want.
The big change I made was the addition of Kerbal Attachment System. I got it because I'm fed up with the way that bases and surface EV As don't really mean anything. I'm bored of missions that are nothing more than "Land, get science, recover science, EVA to plant flag and get surface sample, leave."
Poor physics coding, there's a mod for that
Or you can follow the pre-mod advice of "use more struts" if your some kind of anti-mod purist.

Oh, they're making it stock? Oh boy, I wanna see the shitstorm over this!
Famous last words of many a kerbal: MOAR BOOSTERS!!!