KSP Nostalgia.

[Mars90000000]

So I've been playing KSP since version 0.11 (or 0.13, I forget), and thoroughly enjoy the beta version now, but, I was going through pictures I had and found some screenshots for older versions of the game and thought I'd share some of the relics I found.

Sorry if this is the wrong section to post this, but to make this in to a discussion... What are your fondest memories of KSP (extra points for screenshots)?

When there were no other fancy buildings:

Trying to land on a gas planet... because why not.

Well that didn't work...

Edited December 26, 2014 by Mars90000000

[The Destroyer]

God, those old engines! I've been here since 0.14.3, from the FreeAllegiance forums! Heh, good old times

[TMS]

Ah... the DEMV mod. Man, they were ace!

[Stratzenblitz75]

So I wasn't the only one who tried to land on Jool lol.

No seriously, when this picture was taken, I genuinely thought Jool was a giant green desert planet.

[The Destroyer]

Ah... the DEMV mod. Man, they were ace!

Bobcat? Ah yes, I worked as a tester, remember me?

[Dizzle]

Ah, the old KSC.

[HafCoJoe]

THOSE ENGINES!!!!!!!!!!! I first started playing in v0.13 and I searched up "KSP mods" on the internet (mind you this was well before any major mod hosting site was around). I downloaded that engine (which was also red for me) as well as some other pieces which I learned how to edit config files from. When I joined, the jet engine wasn't a stock part yet and the only planetary body there was was the Mun... Good old days indeed.

[LordFerret]

Looking at those pictures, all I can say is Wow. KSP has come a long, long way.

I started with v0.23.5 ... so I'm still a noob lol.

[SkyRender]

Anyone remember the old BFE-6000 mod?

Now that was an engine! Scarily enough, the NASA engines aren't that much smaller than it...

[foamyesque]

Oh hey, we're doing the old screenshots thing?

Well, there's my obligatory first orbital sunrise:

My first designs, not having access to struts nor to symmetry, had some flaws:

But I optimized rapidly. Here's the time I figured out parachutes were unnecessary and built my first SSTO:

New features led to new abuses of those features, and also glitches:

Later, I discovered the uses of C7's wing mods:

and the abuses:

and then filed the first bug report on infiniglide:

Some old-school rocketboating:

Texture editing used to be very easy. I don't think NovaSilisko ever forgave me:

EDIT:

And back when we didn't have a lot of stuff to do in KSP, there was a competition on the forums known as "drag racing"; fastest to 100km won.

This is where the competition eventually led:

Edited December 27, 2014 by foamyesque

[Mars90000000]

Speaking of old stuff... I had made a 30 second altitude challenge. High score hasn't been beaten yet!

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/27751-Stock-30-sec-Altitude-Challenge!

[Wjolcz]

My first rendezvous in something pre-0.14 when there was no manouver nodes or other fancy indicators. And then lasering the s*** out of the other vessel, because why the hell not!

Also abusing cheaty mods and building aircraft SSTOs looking like whales with C7 parts. The times when there was only one type of fuel and jet engines with insane vac ISP...

[Mars90000000]

My first rendezvous in something pre-0.14 when there was no manouver nodes or other fancy indicators. And then lasering the s*** out of the other vessel, because why the hell not!

Also abusing cheaty mods and building aircraft SSTOs looking like whales with C7 parts. The times when there was only one type of fuel and jet engines with insane vac ISP...

I remember my first successful rendezvous. It was by accident. I wanted to approach it fast to hit it and see everything explode but I noticed I was slightly off course and would not hit it dead centre so I decided to slow down and try approaching again to aim better. As I was getting slower and slower and finally started to head back where I came from, I was slow enough and close enough to the docking port that it just snapped right on to the vessel

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Yup.... seems like a fun game although I just found out about KSP when it reached .20

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

I joined in 0.15.2, I think the old KSC should be re-introduced as a 2.5 tier KSC, just for a giggle.

I still remember the first time I got a kerbal on the Mün, the pod fell of and bill was left stranded, but the feeling of achievement for getting to the Mün has not yet been matched by something in game (except maybe getting to Minmus, an even more mysterious and unreachable body) or even real life.

[Janos1986]

Candy cane engines, yum.

[Red Iron Crown]

Anyone remember the old BFE-6000 mod?

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VvqHmucNr1Y/maxresdefault.jpg

Now that was an engine! Scarily enough, the NASA engines aren't that much smaller than it...

Now that's a blast from the past (almost literally). Funny how it doesn't look as absurdly big now that we're in the age of tweakscale and procedural parts.

[Boris_T_Roach]

Oh hey, we're doing the old screenshots thing?

And back when we didn't have a lot of stuff to do in KSP, there was a competition on the forums known as "drag racing"; fastest to 100km won.

This is where the competition eventually led:

http://awesome.redial.net/KSP%20-%20More%20boosters.png

I tried that... without struts

[Merinsan]

I have some nostalgia for that old launch tower. I remember having to carefully rotate big rockets so the arm sticking out would fit between stacks. It often led to comical explosions.

[Thomas988]

I landed on the Mun before I knew how to press F1, guys. I'm so sorry. But I took this on September 25, 2013, and it was my first ever landing beyond Kerbin. I think it was in 0.21, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

[Lhathron the Elf]

Looking at those pictures, all I can say is Wow. KSP has come a long, long way.

I started with v0.23.5 ... so I'm still a noob lol.

I was sort of a ghost all the way back in v0.14.4 when I sort of kept up on the development and what the game was like while I debated on buying it, but I didn't buy the game until (not kidding) the week before 0.23.5 came out. I was so glad I bought it. I had no idea how much I didn't understand about the game before buying it. I thought it was so much simpler.

Edited December 29, 2014 by Lhathron the Elf

[Rune]

I've got a couple of "no idea what I was doing here, probably hit F1 by accident" in 0.16, but the first install with a juicy screenshot folder I have saved is from 0.18. Those were the day, man, this is the SSTO MK II.

Rune. And it looks almost decent now!

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Scott's almost Reusable Spaceprogram ... well it was almost 100% reusable until his entire Moon-Base exploded... got me thinking about buying KSP.

Well, I did and I started learning, reproducing and making up my mind.

2000hours in, I went back and rewatched his series and his way of designing his missions got way more inspiring after I figured everything out.

Not that I needed 2000 hours of gametime for this

[Xacktar]

I already miss the old explosions. I think I liked them a bit better.

[Mars90000000]

The explosions were quite spectacular back them. I know because i could hardly play since my laptop overheated every time i exploded anything.