[1.12.1] JNSQ [0.10.0] [23 Sept 2021] (2024)

Of the French phrase"Je Ne Sais Quoi,"meaning"Something (such as an appealing quality) that cannot be adequately described or expressed,"JNSQ seeks to be a finely crafted and freshly challenging planet pack. "Galileo's Planet Pack (GPP)" as many have come to know, has broken many conventions and raised the bar very high for high-quality, challenging, career-friendly, and long-term thrilling planet packs. But now it is regarded as only a stepping stone next to this. Everything that Team Galileo has done for and learned from GPP, has been or is being put into practice here.

Unlike GPP, JNSQ does not remove the stock planets but rather, does reimagine and reinvent them, destroying what you think you know about some of them, and answering the KSP community's cry for a true stock planet visual overhaul and the cry for the planets to be larger. JNSQ also fills out the local planetary system, providing several all new worlds to discover, with a total body count of 31, the amount in GPP.

Logic

Many KSP modders have considered that while the stock parts (namely, engines) are overpowered for stock scale, they are tuned just right for 2.5x scale. With this in mind, JNSQ is built in natively "1/4 real-life scale" (about 2.7x stock scale) which is modestly larger than 2.5x. Because of this change in scale, the length of the Kerbin day is now 12 hours.

Notes

• Sigma DimensionsandRescale!are not required for JNSQ to function, and are discouraged from use alongside JNSQ.
• When starting new saves under JNSQ, we advise that you enter Difficulty Settings and raise the DSN modifier to 4x. JNSQ applies a patch to increase antenna range by 4x, so leave the range modifier at 1 (changing it triggers a bug that may prevent science transmission).
• The Making History LV-TX87 and LV-T91 engines have had their thrust, mass and cost increased 25% and 20% respectively. This change was deemed necessary to assure they can lift a Mk2 command pod and service module to low orbit at JNSQ's larger scale.
• JNSQ retains the stockalike Kerbin-Mun-Minmus system to conform to game elements outside or our control, such as the built-in contract system. Be advised, however, this configuration is unstable. For users of the mod Principia, the orbit of Minmus is moved inside that of Mun to provide orbital stability.
• JNSQ raises the SCANsat scan altitudes by 3x in order to allow reasonable scan speeds at 2.7x scale, and viable scan work at all but the smallest bodies.
• JNSQ provides at least 14 facilities powered by Kerbal Konstructs and requiresOmega's Stockalike Stuctures. Most of these facilities have gameplay features within them for making use of spare kerbals, launching and refueling ships, farming funds or science, expanding DSN coverage, recovering for funds in career. Most of these facilities are hidden by default and must be found.
  • 9 of these are airports.
  • 2 of these directly replace the MH launch sites (Woomera2 for Woomerang, and Darude for Dessert).
  • 2 of these are mountain-top observatories with science farming and full DSN capabilities.

Disclaimer / Barrier to Entry

⚠️The target audience for JNSQ is the same as, if not narrower, than that of GPP. This mod is made not for the player-base at large, but for seasoned players: who greatly respect rocketry, realism and physics; who do not hold much regard for maintaining "stockalike" and "stock scale;" who are willing and able to mod their way to a great or greater game and who are able to troubleshoot a damaged install for themselves and help us to help them.

JNSQ introduces and bundles a new utility mod that depends on the Community Resource Pack and makes Ore even more scarce and challenging than GPP does. This mod is appropriately calledRational Resources, whose purpose is to purge the random resource configurations generated by CRP, grant increased compatibility between planet packs and mods that use certain resources, and encourage the use of mods that use advanced resources.

Compatibility for mods that expect the stock planets with default topology, biomes, order or radii is not to be expected and will not be provided by us.

JNSQ is not recommended for use with other planet packs. Questions regarding other planet pack compatibility will be ignored.

Provided Compatibility

• Distant Object Enhancement
• Environmental Visual Enhancements
• Kerbal Health
• Kerbal Konstructs: We roll our own extra launch sites
• Kerbalism
• Kopernicus Expansion: Footprints
• MechJeb
• Planetshine
• Rational Resources
• ResearchBodies
• Scatterer (very specifically 0.05x or newer, for KSP 1.6.1 or newer)
• Skybox via Sigma Replacements, DiRT, TextureReplacer
• Strategia
• Waypoint Manager

Requirements

• Kopernicus (latest version for your specific version of KSP, or latest backport release for older KSP versions)
• ModuleManager 4 or newer
• Minimum Hardware: 3 GHz quad-core CPU, 16GB of system RAM and 2GB of video memory

Recommended Mods

Parts

• Eve Optimized Engines. An engine pack tailored for Eve ascent vehicles.
• JX2 Antenna, late-game antennae made to reduce the need to spam RA-15 and RA-100 and preclude the need to install Custom Barn Kit.

Utilities

• Antenna Helperadequately and easily shows the power and ranges of combined antenna in VAB, flight and the Tracking Station.
• Better SRBs: Although a small engine pack, it is primarily a utility. This mod adds very much needed behavior and appropriate rebalances to SRBs in stock and in a handful of popular large parts packs.
• CommNet Antennas Infoexpands the panel info for antennae in the VAB.
• Kerbal Alarm Clocknow works with Kronometer; lets you easily mark the times for maneuvers and encounters in many flights.
• SCANsat: A tiny mod that adds a few parts but is critical to an exploration or ISRU game. Highly recommended for discovering anomalies including most of JNSQ's KK facilities and identifying atypical resource placements by Rational Resources.
• Sigma Replacements: A suite of tiny Sigma mods for changing things such as the main menu scene, kerbal suits, and the skybox.

Licensing

• JNSQ is licensed by Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
• Rational Resources, bundled, is licensed MIT.

0.10.0Change log

• Added dark modedVmap.
• Added one biome each to Dres and Edna.
• Added Optional Mods: JNSQ_Rescale for 1x and 10x versions of JNSQ.
• Changed Eeloo's rotational period to 8 hours.
• Changed game start time to 6:00 UT--sunrise atKSC(requires Kronometer).
• Converted celestial body icons to .png (thanks to @yalov cn GitHub). This fixes issues with Strategia and Waypoint Manager.
• Fixed Bop's rotation to retrograde for Principia users.
• Included RemoteTech in antenna range multiplier (thanks to @armegeddon cn GitHub).
• Included part upgradesin antenna range multiplier (thanks to @jsolson cn GitHub).
• Revised atmospheres (surface pressure unchanged, heights may be different).
• Revised CelestialBodies.pdf (atmosphere changes).
• Revised flying altitude thresholds.
• Revised NavBall switch radius multipliers.
• Revised asteroids so that they better populate the desired fields.
• Reduced Minmus' science values for Principia users.
• Reduced SCANsat altitude multipliers from 3x to 1.5x.
• Removed KerbalHealth config. KerbalHealth has chosen to host all JNSQ configs in itself.
• Removed Kronometer from JNSQ (must now be downloaded and installed separately).
• Removed MyRocksAreBiggerThanYours plugin (now part of Kopernicus).
• Removed Rational Resources bundle.
• Updated TweakChutes to hopefully properly respond toFAR/RealChute.
• Updated KK:
  • Added three more space centers. (Hidden)
  • Added runway section to S. Musgrave.
  • Added barracks to all bases that were missing them, including observatories.
  • Buffed barracks capacities at astronaut complexes.
  • Fixed duplicate launch site names for helipads and rovers.
  • Fixed orientation or offset of some bases.
  • Fixed west vs east runways.

This update includes many important updates, bug fixes, and improvements.

This update is certified to work only with KSP 1.12.1 or newer. It may work with older KSP versions, though it has not been tested and support will not be provided.

Atmospheres have been redone to provideconformity across all Team Galileo products.

This update adds an extra 1/2 rotation to Kerbin's initial rotation. This could break existing geostationary satellites if they are strategically placed over specific landmarks. This change can be reverted bydeleting the file JNSQ_Configs/OffsetTime.cfg.

Adding JNSQ_Rescale to an existing save is not recommended.

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Edited September 25, 2021 by Galileo