Hello Fellow Kerbonauts

[Fzzt]

I've had my eye on KSP for awhile now and finally picked it up during the Steam Winter Sale.   Lately I've been complaining that everything is being made simple to work on consoles/gamepad controllers with nothing really approaching the complexity of say Falcon 3.0 which came with a couple 300 page books, after a couple hours with KSP I'll quit asking for something more complex!  Quite the learning curve but it sure feeds the inner space geek in me.

Thank the Gods of Kerbol for the modding community, these forums and those who put up great youtube vids.  After watching mechjeb do it's thing and a few video's, I can get my Kerbals up to space and back in mostly one piece everytime now, even without MJ!  

I'm finding it a little frustrating not being able to bolt ships together in space (ie probe > lander > transport ship) as trying to launch everything as a huge monstrosity usually turns into a big pile of debris.

In sandbox mode, I can only seem to get 3 pilots while I have nearly 25 scientists/engineers.  Tried filling ships with scientists/Eng. but my space center doesn't seem to spawn pilots often, known bug or just random luck?

Anyway, having a lot of fun and just placed a HUGE fuel station in Eve orbit for the day when I send some Kerbonauts to explore the inner planets.

Fzzt.

[Vanamonde]

Why are you not assembling ships in space with docking parts? Or are you talking about something else? 

Anyway, welcome to the forum.

[Starhawk]

Hello Fzzt, and welcome to the forum!

As Vanamonde mentioned, you can use docking ports to stick ships together in space.

It certainly sounds like you are well on your way along the amazing journey offered by KSP.  The ratio of pilots/engineers/scientists is very random and the proportions can sometimes be very out of whack.

Glad to have you aboard our fine community.

Happy landings!

[Evanitis]

Welcome around!

3 hours ago, Fzzt said:

In sandbox mode, I can only seem to get 3 pilots while I have nearly 25 scientists/engineers.  Tried filling ships with scientists/Eng. but my space center doesn't seem to spawn pilots often, known bug or just random luck?

Just wanted to add that that pilots know nothing that can't be done by adding an extra cheap, light probe-core to the design. Most of those have SAS (right click the part on the list to double-check).

[Fzzt]

Thanks for the welcome!

Yeah, I wasn't thinking modular enough.  Finding docking ports tricky to build with though and it was easier to learn to park a capsule in orbit!

Did the hire a few/fire a few thing and finally got two more pilots.