I strongly staunchly disagree. I am going to use myself as an example to demonstrate why its absolutely a must have mod for some and why it absolutely be made stock (also gonna say it now: kerbal engineer got partially made stock when some of what it offers became stock, so precedent and all).
There are players who cannot learn how to do certain things like rendezvous and docking by reading a wiki article or a thread here or even watching countless youtube videos. I am one such player. I watched Scott Manley, Das Valdez and countless others do countless dockings. I read absolutely everything I could find. I considered myself educated enough to try. I failed. Over and over. Again and again. No matter how hard I tried I never could nail it. Id either come in way too hot and careen by or I would get painfully close and run out of monoprop. No matter what I did, no matter how many hours Id spend trying, Id fail. Know why? For all the text I could read or videos I could watch they all missed something so basic it was always ignored. How does MY ship perform!
Mechjeb was an absolute godsend to me. I strapped that lil bugger onto my ship and let autopilot guide me. I would watch as it would take MY SHIP and show me how it flew. I watched and I learned as it made my ships waltz gracefully (usually lol) to each other.
If not for mechjeb I would have quit KSP before the end of 2013. Do not, I beg you denigrate a mod that rightfully deserves to be stock simply because of your sentiments in the quoted portion above.
I want to leave you now with a few lines from Star Trek The Next Generation, Season 2 Episode 9 The Measure of a Man. I leave you this quote as it frankly aptly puts my point into perspective.
“DATA: Reduced to the mere facts of the events. The substance, the flavour of the moment, could be lost. Take games of chance.
MADDOX: Games of chance?
DATA: Yes, I had read and absorbed every treatise and textbook on the subject, and felt myself well prepared for the experience. Yet, when I finally played poker, I discovered that the reality bore little resemblance to the rules.”
Commander Maddox wanted to try to duplicate Data and could not be certain the process would not harm Data. This exchange occurred in Datas quarters. I use this quote to say: the threads and videos on docking bore little resemblance to the reality of docking. It is not a matter of “get good.”
Also, just because it needs be said: if kerbal engineer can be made stock (some of its functions are stock now) and there are players who hate the mod and think that it has no place in ksp (im in that camp but not so far as to try to decry it becoming stock) then why not mechjeb?
my opinion, heres a bowl of salt for disagreeing positions.
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