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    The "Highest Honor"

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    I honestly think the biggest honor is landing on Mun. It is truly the first one where we were all going by the seat of our pants because we had no idea what to expect. No other landing has made me sweat as much as my first Mun landing did.

    Agreed, I remember the first time I landed on the Mun, it was painful, scary and hard. But this was a long time ago, when the Mun was new to the game. I was thinking to myself back then that I would never ever land something on the Mun. The feeling I've felt when I landed successfully was glorious and by far the highest honor moment in this game. Nothing can compare to that, now all my landings are easy, doesn't matter where, even boring sometimes.

    Why do you play KSP?

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    I play KSP to dream, but Squad is making it harder to dream, I already did everything you can do in the game. There is no more sense of achievement for me. I still love the game tough.

    EDIT: On a more serious note, I play the game because it's like Lego, I love Lego but I don't have them anymore. Besides as MiniMatt said, "Lego never had an orbital mechanics simulation."

    Have You Ever Made A Mission Way Too Complicated

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    Last update I decided to colonize Eeloo, which meant, have a Kethane mining base on the ground and a station capable to process the Kethane and build ships and other stuff in orbit around Eeloo. That was the plan anyway.

    To go to Eeloo and transport the first part of the station, I decided to use the Interstellar mod and build a ship assembled in the orbit of Kerbin and warp everything to Eeloo. The first part was easy, everything was in place. I warp and when I reach Eeloo, my ship happens to be going at the wrong side of the orbit, which meant that I had to invert my orbital velocity around the sun to actually be able to have decent velocity to stay in the SoI of Eeloo. It took me 6 real hours to get in stable orbit of Eeloo. I didn't design my ship to be at 100% throttle (no more than 20%) because it wasn't supposed to, so it took really long.

    I assemble my station (OAS as I call it), launch a mining ship to land on Eeloo, mine Kethane and get back to the station to process the Kethane and build more stuff, bigger station, other mining ships and crew quarters.

    In the mean time I had another ship coming from Kerbin with 25 Kerbals to the station and the soon to be Eeloo colony on the surface of the planet.

    And then the 0.23 update came and I decided to leave everything and begin a new save file.

    What planet makes you happy the most?

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    Duna. When I sent a colony there in 0.19, I drove a rover 150km (!!) from the base to visit the Face, then I drove back. In that time, the planet came to feel... homely. I've now got a re-colonisation plan in progress, because of that feeling (well, not just that feeling, but it's a significant part of it)...

    Duna for me too, same reasons as RogueMason said, the feelings and the resemblance to Mars, the redness, ... the everything that makes Mars, Mars and Duna if you know what I mean. I'm also planning of making a colony there when I'm done with the current colony on the Mun.

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