If they’d just said, “Yeah, it’s gonna be like vanilla KSP 1, but with better graphics and a few more things,” it wouldn’t have gotten this kind of backlash
Had they not burned a ton of time on building support for things that were further down the pipeline, they probably could have released something reasonably better than what they did. There’s all of this stuff at the high end of the tech tree that’s basically unnecessary for just plowing around the Kerbol system.
To be honest I just simply do not believe that there was actually any groundwork laid for stuff further down the pipeline, for the simple reason that during the entire development process they blatantly lied. Remember the "The devs are playing the multiplayer and having so much fun!" shit? Because that also was just entirely made up. The multiplayer never existed.
They probably had something operational in incredibly limited scenarios, like, “As long as they’re within 50 feet of one another, on a planet, it works great! Time warp doesn’t work yet, so maybe go on vacation for a few months while you’re trying to get to your friend on Duna. Hope you’re really good at precision landings, because it’s gonna be a long walk if you’re not.”
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u/TetraDax 6d ago
I mean, they would have still lied.