When you first began KSP what gave you the most difficulty?

[JackBush]

When you first began KSP what gave you the most difficulty?

Edited August 16, 2015 by Vanamonde

[moogoob]

Figuring how the navball and its markings. Once I figured that out, the game was much more playable.

[Motokid600]

Interplanetary maneuver nodes. Then I found precise node and patch conics. Then MechJeb...

[Forty21112]

Building Rockets.

I mean, I just put moar SRBs in the acsent and be puzzled why are they exploding?

I then used LF engines and I still do today.

[Zoidos]

Orbital rendezvous. Scott manley's tutorial vid helped with that one.

[Mitchz95]

Landing on the Mun in the demo was the first big challenge I faced. Once I mastered that (without having discovered quicksaves, so it cost me a LOT of Kerbals) I slammed my head on the keyboard for a few days trying to master orbital rendezvous. When I finally got that to work semi-reliably, I decided that I liked the game enough to buy the full version. No regrets.

[Starwhip]

When you first began KSP wheat gave you the most difficulty?

Erm, no, "wheat" did not give me the most difficulty. That would be Minecraft.

What gave me the most difficulty was learning to fly with the Navball. I managed to land and return from Mun without using it, but once I'd learned how to use it most things were a piece of cake.

[martinborgen]

To find the SAS button. Everything since has been piece of cake.

[Noname117]

I don't think I had many at the beginning. Maybe associating qweasd with the direction they would rotate the rocket, but that was never that hard. Of course, I started playing back in .13.3, so there wasn't really that much to worry about. The things which gave me the most difficulty came far later.

[qromodynmc]

when I started to ksp, i didnt even know how to orbit.

[JackBush]

Figuring how the navball and its markings. Once I figured that out, the game was much more playable.

That's good to know. Thanks!

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Thanks everyone. Very helpful.

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Erm, no, "wheat" did not give me the most difficulty. That would be Minecraft.

What gave me the most difficulty was learning to fly with the Navball. I managed to land and return from Mun without using it, but once I'd learned how to use it most things were a piece of cake.

"Wheat". Yes, sorry about the mis-type. I pride myself on my accurazy.

[Thegamer211]

No, wheat was not difficult. I made a tractor to harvest it. by the way you can edit your title

I had no idea how to get in Mun orbit, and how to escape it.

[MaverickSawyer]

The hard part for me was dealing with Wobbly Rocket Syndrome. After all, there was a limit to what struts could do for you in 0.13.2 when the ASAS was doing full deflection pitch and has commands... then switching sides half a second later.

[problemecium]

Yeah, wheat still gives me a lot of difficulty.

[harrierjack]

funnily enough, I managed to get something in a (obviously) highly elliptical orbit after many, many attempts (this was before I realised there was an orbital tutorial or something called 'youtube videos' or the awesome mr Manley).

I soon realized, if you don't know the basics, the hardest part is actually de-orbiting

'Ahyeah freaking space' I thought, made a few orbits, then decided to try re-entry... however, pointing your ship towards Kerbin and going full throttle doesn't really work,.... hehehe

Thus, my hardest part.. deorbiting after you force/luck your way into orbit

PS: as soon as I realized, I wan't even getting close to returning home, I watched a few vids and boy were those eye openers

Now everything about space, gravity, thrust, etc, all makes sense. and as many before me on this forum have said, I cringe whenever I play something space related where all goes from A to B and just 'sits' there

[Pecan]

when I started to ksp, i didnt even know how to orbit.

Seconded

[SkyRender]

The wheat was never an issue. The rye, on the other hand, always got in the way.

[lukethecoder64]

Learning ALL the key bindings. Once you know those, everything else is MUCH easier. (And that way you can abort properly, not just mash the spacebar ).

Luke

[Tazin]

In general, the most difficult part was figuring the whole twr/dv deal. I was building stuff that was excessively overthrusted, and/or severely short ranged, or stuff that wouldn't even lift off, and couldn't figure out why. Then came a lot of reading, and later KER.

Other noobness: once i clicked the iva button, and couldn't come out of iva. I didn't know what struts were for. Same for fuel lines. Until last week i didn't know i could limit SRB thrust. That made me fall in love with them all over again.

[Scarecrow88]

Rendezvous and docking for me. Once I figured out why my target kept zooming by at closest approach, it became a whole lot easier.

[AlphaAsh]

I'm gluten-intolerant, so yeah wheat gives me trouble. I'm also lactose intolerant. Which is problematic since I dropped a saw on my foot and cut off a couple of digits a few years back. I also can't eat dairy.

But more seriously, docking. Did it once myself. Now MechJeb does it.

[PB666]

Gluten free no problem, my kerbals don't eat as far as I know, they have chlorophyll in their skin.

[Vanamonde]

Okay, amusing typo in the OP fixed. Please stop with the jokes and get on with discussing the thread topic.

[Xeldrak]

Rendezvous an docking where really problematic in the beginning. But after constructing my first Space station with 5 rather large parts it was not a problem anymore.

[dbmorpher]

It took me like an hour to find out that spacebar started your rocket