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What are the best Kerbal Space Program mods?

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94 Kerbal Engineer Redux	-	Jun 18, 2018
89 Environmental Visual Enhancements	-	Apr 28, 2018
87 Active Texture Management	-	May 18, 2018
-- Chatterer	-	May 11, 2018
-- Hot Rockets	-	Jun 11, 2018

Kerbal Engineer Redux

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Shows important statistics when building crafts and in-flight

Shows important statistics when building crafts (mass, deltaV, thrust, ISP - while on Kerbin, in vacuum, or on other atmospheric bodies) and in-flight (all of the above + periapsis, apoapsis, orbital period, time to ap, time to pe and many many more). See More

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Less readable than some alternatives

The same information is presented in a more intuitive and readable way by DMagic's "Basic Delta V" and "Basic Orbit". See More

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Helps with design, flying, transfers, orbital encounters, etc

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This is not an autopilot

As opposed to MechJeb, which is considered "cheats". KER helps a ton by providing already available info in a very accessible manner. See More

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Environmental Visual Enhancements

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Allows choosing only the wanted enhancements and skipping others

All unwanted plugins can be deleted from: GameData/EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements/Plugins See More

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8K textures don't work on Macs

Macs need to use low resolution textures. See More

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Prettifies the game

Adds city lights for Kerbin and adds clouds and better atmospheres to planets. See More

Active Texture Management

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Reduces texture memory use, including mod textures

All textures can be compressed & resized to save RAM. There are two modes of compression - basic and aggressive. Both compress to DXT and generate minimaps for all non-normal map textures, with aggressive mode having a max of 256x256 and basic mode having a max of 512x512 size for normal maps that it resizes to half the size. See More

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ATM becomes ineffective as most mods texture file use .dds format

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Can save vast amounts of space

In some cases up to 50% of space is saved. See More

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Adding more system memory might be a better option now that KSP support 64 bit

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Aggressive mode eliminates the need for texture reduction packs for mods

Active Texture Management will optimize all textures to use less memory so there's no need to use separate texture reduction packs for each mod. It you choose to use texture reduction packs regardless, you might need to edit the config file at: BoulderCo/textureCompressorConfigs/textureCompressor.tcfg See More

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Slight increase in initial game load time

Chatterer

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Adds radio chatter

Hot Rockets

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Improves engine effects

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Very low memory cost

Distant Objects

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Polish game

Dmagic Orbital Science

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Adds a lot of science equipment

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Can get very confusing

Tweakscale

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Makes career mode easy

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Change Object Size

This allows you to change the size of most objects to fit the thing you are trying to build. It makes everything very versatile. See More

Infernal Robotics

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Adds mechanical parts such as pistons, hinges, flanges and rotators

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Not every part works correctly

Connected Living Space

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This has been added to the vanilla game in 0.25

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Allows moving Kerbals between connected spaces

Navyfish Docking Port Alignment

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Adds a display that assists in docking

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Most of the features are already in game

ScanSat

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Create maps

You can create detailed maps of every planet. See More

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Helps with landing the spacecraft

You can use ScanSat to determine the slope of the surface you're landing on and avoid hills and other obstacles. See More

Final Frontier

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Allows Kerbals to get awards

UAL002's Flags

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The Galactic Austrian Empire flag

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The islamic crescents USA flag

Hyper Edit

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Mechjeb

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Feels like cheating

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Has autopilot features

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Automates some tasks, while still keeping you in charge

Even if you scoff at the idea of having the computer do maneuvers for you, there's still numerous other useful tools for manual flight. See More

The Near Future Pack

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Includes 6 subpacks

Includes 6 subpacks: Propulsion, Electrical, Construction, Solar, Spacecraft and Technology. See More

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A great selection of stock-like near future parts that blend well with other stock parts

It's a pack that doesn't really change the theme of ksp but it adds some new shapes and designs. NONE OF THEM ARE OVERPOWERED See More

KSP Renaissance Pack

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Part Catalog

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Improved Part management

The best way of keeping your parts organized and is supported by many mod developers See More

Texture Replacer

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Let's you change textures

Lets you change textures for Kerbals to make them more realistic or just funner. See More

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Some bugs and issues installing textures

Sometimes it bugs and the textures are a bit hard to install. See More

Cargo Transportation Solutions

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fun and adds a new level of immersion

Adds radio chatter

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Environmental Visual Enhancements

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Prettifies the game

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Kerbal Engineer Redux

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This is not an autopilot

Helps with design, flying, transfers, orbital encounters, etc

Shows important statistics when building crafts and in-flight

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Kerbal Engineer Redux

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This is not an autopilot

Helps with design, flying, transfers, orbital encounters, etc

Shows important statistics when building crafts and in-flight

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Kerbal Engineer Redux

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Helps with design, flying, transfers, orbital encounters, etc

Shows important statistics when building crafts and in-flight

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