Talk:Kerbal Space Program

Can we trim some fat here?

It feels like this is being written as the fandom page instead of wiki article.

Look at this paragraph for example: "As of version 1.9.1, the major celestial bodies in the game in order of their proximity to the parent star, the Sun, are Moho, Eve, Kerbin, Duna, Dres, Jool, and Eeloo (respectively analogs of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, and Pluto). Community modifications are able to expand this planetary system to include analogs of the missing outer planets, as well as fictional bodies and faraway exoplanet systems. Moons in the system include the captured asteroid around Eve, Gilly; the two moons of Kerbin, Mun and Minmus; The singular moon of Duna, Ike; the technically unlimited "moons" of Dres (albeit with player input), being asteroids which randomly spawn in, called the Drestroid Belt by fans; and the five moons of Jool. The innermost is an ocean moon dotted with sandy islands, Laythe, the only moon to have an atmosphere and only other body in the solar system to have liquid water besides Kerbin; Vall, an ice moon; Tylo, a moon the size of Kerbin; Bop, another captured asteroid; and Pol, the outermost moon of Jool. Eeloo has no natural satellites."

The "Community modifications are able to expand this" was already stated in the previous paragraph with "Players may install mods which implement destinations...". I feel like the section on the moons of dres should be cut since it looks either outdated or just wrong (I have personally never seen dres with captured bodies nor have I seen anyone say anything about a "drestroid belt"), additionally it looks out of place since they aren't real moons. With the jool moons part it looks too in-depth.

If we implement a few changes we can skim it down to "as of version 1.9.1, the major celestial bodies in the game in order of their proximity to the parent star, the Sun, are Moho, Eve, Kerbin, Duna, Dres, Jool, and Eeloo (respectively analogs of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, and Pluto). Moons in the system include the captured asteroid around Eve, Gilly; the two moons of Kerbin, Mun and Minmus; the singular moon of Duna, Ike; and the five moons of Jool. Innermost to outmost the moons of jool are: an ocean moon dotted with islands, Laythe, (the only moon to have an atmosphere or liquid water); an ice moon, Vall; a moon the size of Kerbin, Tylo; a captured asteroid, Bop; and the outermost moon of Jool, Pol. Eeloo has no natural satellites."

These of course are just my two cents Thedumbestone (talk) 01:02, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

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Inclusion of release year in the short description.

Hello, I was wondering why the year of release isn't included in the short description of the Kerbal Space Program Wikipedia article. Release years are included in the articles for other video games such as Minecraft and Fortnite. Wouldn't including the release year in this article maintain consistency? Obi1kaboomi 17 (talk) 21:57, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Additionally with other articles on video games the genre is not stated in the short description, but it is here. therefore shouldn't the word spaceflight be excluded in the short description? Obi1kaboomi 17 (talk) 22:00, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Additionally, KSP is technically a series now (KSP 1 and KSP 2) and should also have a series page 1250metersdeep (talk) 18:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Year is unnecessary, this isn't supposed to be a summary of the article just a disambiguator. And just because it's 2 doesn't mean it needs a franchise page, there isn't enough content to warrant that. Canterbury Tail talk 18:32, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

The pictures are outdated

Should I keep them as they are or upload new screenshots? 1250metersdeep (talk) 17:27, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

It's a video game, images will frequently be outdated. They're not outdated enough to worry about. And you can't just take screenshots and upload them, there are Wp:COPYRIGHT concerns over that. Canterbury Tail talk 18:33, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

wouldn’t taking a screenshot to replace the pictures of Kerbal X and Jeb and Val be fair use? There are already pictures, I just want to update them 1250metersdeep (talk) 18:36, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Probably fine as long as they're low resolution images and comply with Wp:COPYRIGHT and WP:NFC. Canterbury Tail talk 18:43, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

done 1250metersdeep (talk) 23:44, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Information on sequel

Should information on KSP 2 be added to this article? 1250metersdeep (talk) 18:03, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

No. Information on KSP 2 should be added to the KSP 2 article. This article is about the first game. Canterbury Tail talk 18:49, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

What about the already-existing sequel section that I copied from the KSP 2 page? 1250metersdeep (talk) 20:10, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 December 2024

In the first image's caption:
A rocket (example ship "Kerbal X") sitting on the launchpad with the Vehicle Assembly Building and the Mun, Kerbin's nearest moon, in the background

Remove the line "... the Vehicle Assembly Building and..." from the caption
Terraspark4941 (talk) 02:46, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Gial Ackbar (talk) 16:02, 15 December 2024 (UTC)