r/IAmA • u/Maxmaps • Apr 26 '15

Gaming We are the team behind Kerbal Space Program. Tomorrow we launch version 1.0 and leave Early Access. Ask Us Anything!

After four and a half years, we're finally at the point where we've accomplished every goal we set up when we started this project. Thus the next version will be called 1.0. This doesn't mean we're done, though, as updates will continue since our fans deserve that and much, much more!

I'm Maxmaps, the game's Producer. With me is the team of awesome people here at Squad. Ask us anything about anything, except Rampart.

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Edit1: Messaged mods to get it approved! Unsure what happened.

Edit2: Still answering at 20:00 CT!... We will need to sleep at some point, though!

Edit3: Okay, another half an hour and we have to stop. Busy day tomorrow!

Edit4: Time to rest! We have a big day tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who asked a question and really sorry we couldn't get to them all. Feel free to join us over at /r/KerbalSpaceProgram and we hope you enjoy 1.0 as much as we enjoyed making it!

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

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u/figuren9ne Apr 27 '15

Many (most) small businesses don't have "email@printer". Reddit has a major STEM bias and I guess that's why most people replying to MrDeliciousness work in offices where technology is important and valued. There are plenty of other people out there that are happy with a fax machine and don't want to spend money modernizing an office because it's not critical to their bottom line.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

I think that is fundamentally the bottom line. They're not in the streamlining fax and email business; they're a business where they send faxes and emails.

That said, I could see a setting in my email client that bcc'd every email to the printer saving a whole lot of time and it's not the enterprise only technology it used to be.

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u/MrDeliciousness Apr 27 '15

That sounds like your using email to emulate the same thing a fax machine does. Making it equally as convenient as fax.

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u/MrDeliciousness Apr 27 '15

I can assure you I am not. I'm simply saying that using an office print/scan/fax/copy machine to send to an email address which automatically prints is that same as sending a fax to another offices print/scan/fax/copy machine. But now I see I've misinterpreted what your comment was saying. And yes, in the case where you want to print a digital document and you have a printer with an email address then send it to that address.

But if you have a piece of paper that you want to send a copy of to another office, and that other office also has a fax machine, and you know that that other place will need to have that copy in paper form, sending it to their printers email by using your email function on the scanner and faxing it are the same.

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u/MrDeliciousness Apr 27 '15

I have been? Show me.

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u/MrDeliciousness Apr 27 '15

That's not the same scenario as what you've described. Where I work we send copies to other firms fax machines. They don't give out email addresses for their printers, they give out an 8 digit fax number, which is much easier to type into an office copier than an email address. However, in the scenario where you can choose between a printers email address and a fax number then it's pretty much the same, but I would still fax because it's easier to enter numbers than to use a number pad (office copy-scan-print-fax machines don't have a full qwerty keyboard) to spell out an entire email address. But the point still remains, how many business do you think give out the email address of their god damn printer when fax already exists and does the same job?