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Howdy folks Just thought I'd share my experience with this game and my first successful missions I've recently had. Back when I first got KSP (maybe a bit less than a year ago, I think it was .21? Whatever was before career mode came out), all I was able to do then, and for many months after career mode came out, was play in sandbox. Even then I struggled building things that had enough juice and stability to get me to the Mun and Minmus (don't even think about other planets!) After having used Mechjeb a few times, I had a really good idea what needed to happen to get me to the Mun, and land there and such but I struggled a lot with insufficient builds and/or insufficient piloting skills. I would play in Career mode but it would only last a few hours before I would not be able to progress any further. Two weeks ago or so I started watching Scott Manley's Interstellar Quest series and paying a whole lot more attention to what he was doing as he was doing it and all the sudden things clicked. I started a new Career save. As of last night I have now launched (w/o Mechjeb!) successful missions to both the Mun (1 manned, 1 probe) and Minmus (twice manned, 1 probe), have launched a 'satellite' on a polar orbit around Kerbin and another around the Mun... I even built my first successful (though a little unstable) plane, that I actually flew and was able to land. And finally, have started to assemble a space station at roughly 500km. So far I have two launches to it, one to put my 'habitation' module in orbit and a second run with the 3 person pod to deliver Jeb to his new temporary home and to try my hands at an unassisted rendezvous and docking. It took me a long time to meet with and dock the pod to the station, but I got it done! Next up are some escape pods, a science processing module and fueling stations. I am using Kerbal Engineer, Chatterer, Kerbal Alarm Clock, Vanguard Parachute, Procedural Fairings and one of the Atmosphere enhancement mods to make Kerbin look better (Forget the name off hand)
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The Wrong Brothers - career mode done differently (pic heavy)
Sig replied to katateochi's topic in KSP1 Mission Reports
This is just awesome! Thanks for the story, am really enjoying it! -
Is there a bigger copy of this image available?
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Here I am, struggling to get a simple lander to the Mun (don't even suggest trying to get back!) Awesome stuff!
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Cool blog! I love how you made the pics b/w and added noise... they look great! Blogging is an addition of mine, almost as bad as gaming. Keep at it!
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I think this is one of the great parts of this game, at least in its current form; you play by your own ruleset. You devise your own missions/quests. You define what is and is not good for your own space program.
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I made my first successful landing on the Mun last night. Did an EVA just over the ridge and into the next crater and I discovered it was wide enough and flat enough that it appeared the bulk of KSC could have probably fit in it. I think they got the Mun just right.
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I decided to go ahead and start fresh, now that I have a better idea of what is going on and set myself a few goals. Once again I have a few Kerbals stranded in space but this time they are stranded on purpose, in an orbit around Kerbin (instead of some crazy huge orbit around the sun) on a space station I made (and took about 6 hours to successfully get it into space!) I had a goal to get some kerbonauts out there and not be able to get them back with out a followup mission including some docking or at least a rendezvous. (Edit: it gives me another goal, something to learn) I wrote up a little bit of a mission log here, if anyone is interested: http://cruciblegaming.com/ksp/kerbals-stranded-in-space/
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Been wanting to try this game for a while, but was hesitant for some reason. Noticed there was a demo available on Steam last night and downloaded it. Bought the full version within about 20 minutes. I'm absolutely having a blast (punny!) Messing around last night I managed to get a pod with three Kerman in it to escape planetary orbit and dummy me, not only did I have no idea how to get them home, but once I read up enough I realized it'd be a fairly easy process...had I sent some fuel and engines up with them attached to their pod! lol :cool: