I_do_robots

Somewhat new here, but, noting some things while building, testing, failing, winning, and especially selecting crew. It occurred to me last night, maybe someone already asked...Do the Kerbals, regardless of starting stats, get better with every mission that gets successfully completed or do the stats just stay the same regardless?

I'm fairly well versed in all things PC, a little less with Windows 8. I have found several mods I would really like to include in the ways I cna get things done nicely (Or fail miserably!) with all the extra cool new bells & whistles to take away excuses. People have worked so hard and given of their time to make some great looking mods...I only hope there is a method I cna take advantage of them despite the Windows 8 platform. Thank you for any assistance you can throw my way even though it's probably already been posted and replied to somewhere. Thanks

Hello, I'm 50 yrs old, a fledgling "Kerbal sacrificing for the sake of science" average joe...Ex-Navy too. Maybe one thing that helps me here is I passed the private and instrument flight exams during high school ( A Vocational high school with ground school in the programs.). My dad was an airline pilot for years. I also apprenticed for a few years right out of high school in an avionics shop at a Cessna, King Air oriented airport, so, understanding telemetry (Somewhat), avionics, and flight in general, thrust ot weight ratios, CG, and so forth maybe helps in my build projects, thinking all that out front. I'm amazed at the level of sophistication in this game, despite the cheesy first impression. I am automation engineer by trade, robots, PLCS, Vision systems, Sensors, CNC programming, that sort of thing. Dabbled in Visual Basic, C and C++ some in college. I sped through the "Training" and got on with building my first rocket (I admit I scouted some of the designs here first.). Using a standard capsule (Parachute too), some ring fuel tanks with thrusters and stabilizer ring (Think "Press "R" and "T" at launch"!), followed by some Rt-800s clustered in triplicate and the 215 HP engines.). First manual flight, having no idea until later what 10K, 70K meters and so forth meant, I just went until the sky was dark and starry, lol...I managed to get my 3 Kerbals into 2 consecutive orbits, watching everything SLOWLY (Afraid to use the time keys), started heating the capsule nose something fierce on reentry, did a nice rotation staying on the mark, got the butt end heating up, slowed it way down and about 2K meters out from the splash down marker, popped the chute, slowed to 8 meters per sec or so and touched down...No Navy, No parades, but that's okay... Great game guys, keep the new stuff coming...I look forward to spending long hours finding my way throughout the universe, lol... See you all...Out there...maybe!