Confess your KSP sins

[Red Iron Crown]

Do i have to post another sin?

Only if your conscience is still troubled. Come, share your burden. Jeb was launched for our sins, he can carry yours to Kerbol escape, too.

[cantab]

I fully intend on using Hyperedit to replace the descent stage of my Mun lander that got deleted by debris cleanup because it didn't have a probe core.

[NASAFanboy]

> I use hyper edit to replace vessels that were destroyed on a glitch.

> I have never deorbited anything.

> I prefer to launch my stations skylab style.

> I have never watched a youtube video.

[r4pt0r]

i post my honest opinions knowing i will most likely receive negative feedback. sorry fellow forumers.

[Caelib]

I never let Jeb die if possible -- meaning I revert the mission if the option is still available.

[Red Iron Crown]

> I have never watched a youtube video.

At all? Or just about KSP?

[Liowen]

i post my honest opinions knowing i will most likely receive negative feedback. sorry fellow forumers.

I believe I am guilty of this as well, although I do not count it as a sin. Brutally honest maybe, but not a sin by any means.

[EuSouONumero345]

I just realized my game is cursed by the Kraken.

Random and scary bugs just started happening all of sudden...

Like the "uncontrollable Kerbal with the flashlights on" bug, it just terrifies me...

[SkyRender]

Hmmm I see more KER cluttering more screen shots, yet that mod gets no hate? Just a thought is all.

I hate it when KER clutters up the flight scene too, make no mistake. But it doesn't get on my nerves quite as much since it hogs around a quarter to a third of the screen real estate, whereas MechJeb consistently robs almost all of it in shots featuring it.

[Bigun]

I made a trip to Eve and sorely underestimated the gravity. I took an SSTO jet to the surface and didn't have enough fuel to get back out... the sin? Using [Alt+F12] to get back into orbit, and in career mode too.

The shame...

[Red Iron Crown]

I made a trip to Eve and sorely underestimated the gravity. I took an SSTO jet to the surface and didn't have enough fuel to get back out... the sin? Using [Alt+F12] to get back into orbit, and in career mode too.

The shame...

It's ok, Jeb forgives those who repent. Go forth and cheat no more!

[Iforgotthis]

This is my worst - when I run out of electricity on a ship by accident, I just go into the quicksave file and add enough to let me open the solar panels. I feel bad for it, but I'm not willing to relaunch just because of one small mistake...

Oh, and turning off gravity when my rovers fall over. I never leave enough room for a mechanism to push the rover the right way up again, so it's either leave it to its doom or cheat my way out of the problem.

Why must I be so sinful?!?

[Red Iron Crown]

A trick I shamelessly stole (that's a sin, right?) to avoid electrical problems:

Something that always works for me ( i make that mistake a LOT) use your main battery and have a small backup battery. Disable the current flow in the backup battery. If your main runs out of power the ship will go dead... but you can still re-open the backup battery`s current flow, giving you a full, albeit small, battery to get things deployed/oriented.

[Iforgotthis]

A trick I shamelessly stole (that's a sin, right?) to avoid electrical problems:

I have never even thought about doing that, but it is such a good idea I'm going to start now. How could I have not thought of that sooner???

[Darth_Kerb]

I started my 0.23.5 career just today, and as i was trying to rush through the rahter boring first tiers of the tech tree, i discovered a real problem career brings to me:

I am impatient as hell - idk how many vessels i lost by timewarping to much, getting distracted, not clicking the right timewarp-arrow in time or something else. My first mission to minmus was going to be a success on the first try, i just got bored watching the map screen while doing 34 m/s on the encounter, warped, and smashed my ship into the surface of the huge Mentos.

Also, being over-ethusiastic: When said Minmus mission finally succeeded, my lander fell over and came to a rest on its side, and instead of aborting the mission and send a ship to rescue the science, i tried to start the vessel by scratching over the surface, eventually making everything go BOOM and waste all the time spent.

[NecroBones]

A trick I shamelessly stole (that's a sin, right?) to avoid electrical problems:

I do something similar, but with fuel on orbital/transfer stages. I add small reserve tanks that are shut off in the VAB during construction, plus a probe core and a couple of RTGs. It's enough to de-orbit the stage when I'm done with it.

[fenderzilla]

I was playing with TAC life support and Deadly reentry once, and I almost let one guy die in orbit around the mun. I went to go save him, then switched him with bill and pushed it into a free return, but I had to accellerate really fast to get there before bill ran out of life support. He died of G forces.

I also built a crappy FTL ship using interstellar, but it didn't work once I got it into orbit, and I couldn't get it back down. I just left the poor kerbals up there and deleted the file...

[Red Iron Crown]

I do something similar, but with fuel on orbital/transfer stages. I add small reserve tanks that are shut off in the VAB during construction, plus a probe core and a couple of RTGs. It's enough to de-orbit the stage when I'm done with it.

That's a similar trick, but with a different flavor. You're planning to use that tank as part of the mission, it's meant to be used. The backup battery is there in case I screw up, if the mission goes according to plan I will never use it.

[jfull]

A long time ago, I marooned Bob on Gilly for over a year. He didn't even have a capsule, just an RCS propelled contraption with a command seat on it.

[Universe]

I too, suffer from impatience.

In literally every mission, I pop the parachutes at less than one hundred metres altitude. Those poor kerbals pull somewhere around 19 g's as they go from 150 m/s to 7 m/s in under a second!!!

And yes, I do feel bad about it. But it sure beats waiting for the capsule to slowly drift down and land!

Universe

[airbus a320]

A pair of weeks ago i started a station... the core module was manned, then i sent two unmanned fuel-o-plenty modules... the manned module was settled by Jeb, when i noticed it: "oh noes, Jeb is locked up there, in the sky, i have to bring him back down!!", so i sent a rocket to the station, but i forgot to leave Bill on kerbin... i swapped Bill and Jeb. Bill is returned yesterday, 16 in-game-years after!!

[Liowen]

In future episodes I am going to use Permadeath and purposely kill Jeb, for no reason at all other than to see him off my list.

[Sophistry]

I liberally use Quicksaving and Revert - in career mode If I'm prototyping designs, I feel better about Reverting, because in my head it's not an actual launch, it's a computer model used in the design process. But I'm willing to use things like Q-save and Revert to save missions when they meet catastrophic problems that would scrub the mission and/or result in a fatality. So despite the fact I have made fatal mistakes, I've not actually technically ever lost a Kerbonaut. My only excuse is that I don't have much time to play, and I'd rather spend it doing interesting things rather than starting missions from scratch. Although I feel I'm missing out on part of the experience by avoiding failure >:

[Blind Dead McJones]

I use quicksave and quickload too much. I know I'm not the only one but still.

I've never sent a Kerbal farther than Minmus. Though right now I'm building infrastructure for fueling stations using the Kethane mod. I'm still having trouble building a surface base.

I use rockets exclusively. I can't control spaceplanes. I've never even got to orbit with a stock design. Once I have access to my joystick I wanna try working with them though.

I once accidentally made it impossible to reverse a crash when I quicksaved instead of quickloaded. I went back there and planted a flag in memorial, and then I saw those Kerbals back at the Astronaut Complex... and I deleted the flag.

I'm super tempted to install MechJeb. Mainly because I suck at landing, and putting stuff into orbit gets kinda tedious after a while.

I've been doing a lot of unmanned stuff lately and right now 13 of my 15 Kerbals are just waiting for a mission at the Astronaut Complex. The mission I'm currently trying to do is too risky to put Kerbals on it.

I use two rocket designs for 90% of my missions. I have one for medium loads and one for heavy loads, and most of the time I just stick the payload on top of one of those. Sometimes I'll add to that part, but not often.

Edited April 30, 2014 by Blind Dead McJones

[Kersplattle]

I confess to not being able to use Hohmann transfers and I make all my interplanetary missions by going into solar orbit and then burning to get an intercept from there. Uses a lot more fuel so I compensate by building bigger ships.

I do get frustrated at the slow acceleration when using efficient but underpowered ships with nuke engines to go to distant destinations like Jool.

I also use F5/F9 to get the right descent to a planet or moon and still consider the mission a success !

And this one is not really a KSP sin, but my answer to most launch problems is...MORE BOOSTERS ! Love them "trash cans of boom". Though every now and then they become "trash cans of doom" !