Does building replicas affect your creativity?

[karolus10]

I guess I would compare KSP replicas more to model-making, trying to recreate details with parts available require similar amount of thought and creativity as making completely new designs on your own.

I didn't made much of replicas myself but I enjoyed making (bit stubby TBH) Saturn I block II back in the day.

[Yukon0009]

No, in fact it forces you to be more creative in usage of parts, e.g. the new radiator parts have great potential as spacecraft panels aside being what Squad made them as.

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I find you can never make a nice looking "replica" out of stock parts, they all end up looking like a jumble of things clipped together. I find personal craft tend to look much better on the whole. As for performance, well, I mean, you can say you're replicating performance but you're really not.

I agree with this, but there is another possibility in using replicas to do a personal mission, e.g. Space Shuttle-launched missions combined with Apollo hardware to Duna.

[VR_Dev]

I find you can never make a nice looking "replica" out of stock parts, they all end up looking like a jumble of things clipped together. I find personal craft tend to look much better on the whole. As for performance, well, I mean, you can say you're replicating performance but you're really not.

Ow. And it turns on a dime, and will hit mach 1 below 2000m.

Edited June 27, 2015 by clown_baby