Hi, I've started a career on hard with all comms settings on most difficult, no respawn etc, etc. I've been lucky enough early game and picked up rainbow dash (kerbal space ponies) as an extra pilot/victim but now I've gotta do mùn and have had a few swimming lessons with rainbow dash out in the sea after initial launch failure (about 150,000 spesos so far!)and deciding to decouple everything and play it safe with the parachute.
For my first munshot on hard what twr at which stage would you go for, I'm a confident pilot but I wouldn't say proficient and need say a 20%(vague?, thought so) safety margin.