StarSeeker2096

It's like Squad designed Duna to mimic the "Mars Curse": That been said, Mars (along with Saturn, Titan and Europa) are my favourite orbital bodies in the Solar System - outside of the Earth of course - so I'm quite fond of Duna.

Did you find an alternative or figure out how to use MechJeb ok? If you still want to try something other than MechJeb you could check out GravityTurn, although It only does ascent guidence. Supposedly it does this much better than MechJeb too. I've installed it though have been flying spaceplanes lately and haven't used it yet.

Interest here I've only recently come back since 0.19 and am loving career mode apart from the lame contracts.