The more things change the more they stay the same!

[CeeBod]

I've been coming to these forums for a while and playing since Alpha was first available on Steam - always content to just be a lurker, but today I felt like posting this in case it amuses anyone even a fraction as much as it amused me!

Today my 1.0 career progressed to the point where I could start putting together large(ish) rockets, and start doing the over-engineered beasts that I like, as they allow visiting multiple biomes, lots of spare fuel to do multiple survey contracts and lots to cover my inevitable mistakes!

I had zero expectation that I'd actually be able to get this half-assed construction into orbit, given all of the outcry I've noticed over the aerodynamic and thermal changes made in 1.0, but it launched absolutely perfectly, the ascent profile was pretty much perfect, and my first stage still had enough fuel after circularizing the orbit to do half of the burn to get me to the Mun! "This is awesome" thinks I. "What on earth are people complaining about?". "1.0 is easy!".... and then I noticed that I'd forgotten to put any landing gear on my landing stage.....

One quick revert and 3 bolted on legs later and my second launch pitched over way too much on ascent, flipped and went boom. My third try went up much too straight to start with and then I over-compensated and flipped it again. My fourth got into orbit but having used up way more fuel than my first try as I'd had to fight it all the way up to keep it semi-stable. So the take-away lesson for me of all of this was that whatever changes get made to the way stock parts handle is always less of a hazard to my missions than my own ability to forget essential parts!

[timsfitz]

I'm having a blast with 1.0. So many things to like and I'm not worried about the bugs. One cool thing I did notice is that the rescue Kerbal missions are more varied. I rescued a girl from minmus orbit and she even had a hitchhiker she was waiting in. Nice touch.

[justidutch]

I'm having a blast with 1.0. So many things to like and I'm not worried about the bugs. One cool thing I did notice is that the rescue Kerbal missions are more varied. I rescued a girl from minmus orbit and she even had a hitchhiker she was waiting in. Nice touch.

Did she have her towel with her?

I, for the record, am also having a blast. Sure there's a few bugs and oddities. I call them engineering challenges (which = FUN)!