What did you do in KSP1 today?

[Squish2867]

I am a new member of KSP so today I did a lot of tutorials!

[Vanamonde]

1 hour ago, Squish2867 said:

I am a new member of KSP so today I did a lot of tutorials!

Did they help? 

[Scarecrow71]

So as I'm working through the Nebuchadnezzar space station, I got a couple of contracts for those investor dudes.  I figured "What the heck; it's easy Reputation and could help in the long run".  Ended up completing those, which triggered the game to give me those contracts to build a space hotel and a space casino.  I looked at those, and man do they give out the funds for completing them.  I thought "Maybe" and went back to do the space station.  I keep getting contracts to shuttle tourists up to the space station, and after a bit I realized that the space station needs some upgrades.  Newer parts, and I gotta finish building it and all.  Money isn't the issue here - science points are.  As in, I don't have enough of them.  So I figured I'd do a contract or two to gain some science and do some stuff on the tech tree and then add to the space station.  And when I went into Mission Control, the game just knew what I needed and handed out a boatload of contracts involving Duna and Ike.

2 of these contracts I already had - map comets and map asteroids.  I have a satellite in orbit doing the mapping for these, so I didn't pick them up here.  But I got the rest of them, and thought "I wonder if I can pull off completing all 8 of those in one shot".  A couple of these were one-shots like "Land on Ike" or "Gather remaining science data near Duna".  Easy stuff.  But to effectively do a Kerpollo of Duna/Ike and throw in dropping a satellite in orbit PLUS get both a Duna Stone and Blueberries?  Challenge accepted!  So I set off building and launching Horus I.

It took a few days to get the window to Duna, but I eventually got one and set off.  And I planned the burn so that I'd get an Ike encounter without having to even get to Duna Pe!  So I come into Ike, set my orbit up, and drop off a satellite.

Now that I've got the satellite in orbit, it's time to put this thing down on Ike and collect some science.  And I'll say that the below image is probably my favorite one I've ever taken in this game.  Gives me chills seeing it.

On Ike, near dawn, sun coming up, Duna in the sky.  Wow.  And, ladies and gentleman, that is stock.  No visual mods here whatsoever.  Anyhow, time to get to Duna and collect the science there.

Bob Kerman, in Duna's Midlands, with Ike high in the sky overhead.  I got really lucky with shots today.

Part of the mission here was to collect both Blueberries and a Duna Stone.  I actually landed several feet away from a mound of Blueberries, so they were easy to collect.  I had to walk, however, several kilometers to gather the stone.  Those things are hard to see in the Dunatian mid-day!  But I found one, and made my way back to the lander...where I ran into the ladder issue.  I had to use RCS to jump high enough to get back into the command pod as the ladders acted as if they were all independent objects separated by several star systems.  But I got Bob back into the pod and rendezvoused with the mothership.  And while onboard there, I did some EVA construction with Bill - I brought Bill, Bob, and Kerdock the pilot - to take one of the large parachutes from the lander and attach it to the mothership command pod.  I figured I may need it, and an extra chute never hurts.

I got a return trip for ~600 dV, and I eventually made my way back to Kerbin's oceans.  I started this mission with ~275 science points and ~1.1 million in funds, and I ended with 4276 science points and 4.6 million funds.  This is the single-largest mission I've ever undertaken in the game, and boy did it ever pay off.  I am going to unlock a few nodes on the tech tree (at 550 science points each, so about 7 or 8 of them), and then I'll continue working on the space station.  Or maybe switch gears to the space casino; the Las Kerbas Space Agency did just approve LKO gambling...

[SpacestationDog]

Huh... Playing KSP on our class's computer.  (

[king of nowhere]

I completed the new Jool 5 science record. I got all experiments from all biomes, in quadruple copy because some experiments will give extra science if collected more than once. quintuple copy for infrared spectroscopy, because it's the one where multiple copies are worth more. And because I had a convenient place to store them, while only carrying 4 containers in all my landers. For Laythe, I took both landed and splashed down science (it's 2 different sets of science reports) for 8 biomes. I landed the exploration plane on an aircraft carrier to trick the game into giving the landed condition for all water biomes. Only now I think a submarine could have achieved the same, and it would have been a lot easier to fly than an aircraft carrier. that thing was a huge aerodinamic problem to launch and a huge center of mass problem from the moment I docked it to the mothership to the moment I dropped it on Laythe.

I circumnavigated all moons. I visited all anomalies.

I forgot a reentry vehicle. Fortunately, the only lander I did not discard, the plane I used for Laythe, is capable of ssto on kerbin; so I can land it, drop the pilot, send the plane back to orbit, dock with the mothership, refuel, get another crewmember, carry it to the ground, go orbit again... repeat for 9 crewmembers. so, technically it's not finished. I could also just launch a capsule, the rules allow it, but it's less nice.

I also have to finish writing the report. A few more days.

However, this is a momentous moment for me. After four years and many thousands of hours, I find myself without any ongoing project for this game. I've done everything. At least, everything I was interested in doing.

3 grand tours of the stock system with kerbalism; once including the outer planets mod. A grand tour of the real solar system, one of the whirligig world mod. More jool 5 than I can recall, always with some additional condition. A nanodiamond caveman. at least 18 planets circumnavigated with a rover, many of those planets from mods. I visited all anomalies (ok, i didn't bother with all of them on the mun and kerbin). found 21 green monoliths.

Now, whenever I think of something about this game, I've either done it already, or i'm not interested. I'll probably stop playing ksp, after all this time. Maybe i'll get ksp2 eventually.

As a science nerd, this game struck me in all the right places. Only the civilization saga has left a similar mark on me. Likely, even 10 years from now, even if I never pick it up again, I will still name ksp as one of my favourite games.

Or maybe I will I find some other long term challenge to waste my time tackle after all.

Edited 21 hours ago by king of nowhere

[Hotel26]

1 hour ago, king of nowhere said:

find some other long term challenge

Have you ever looked at MKS?  ...Kolonisation

Congratulations on your achievements and all the enjoyment and entertainment you gained from KSP!!

Edited 20 hours ago by Hotel26