Remember the good ol' days?

[AlextheBodacious]

Remember, before the Goliath, before ISRU, before the MK3 IVA, before thermal radiators, before biomes, before the KSC was updated, before planets, before contracts, before persistence, before Map view? How one would just kinda guess at orbit, and hope they wouldn't fall back down half-way round the planet? How there were some charts on the forums as to a speed-to-height ratio, so you could tell wether or not you would fall back, and adjust accordingly?

Well, after a boring KSP session, I decided to record all the speed data from various altitudes, which I have got to the level of precision of 1km in alt and 1 meter/sec in speed. So, here is:

A Kerbin Orbital Velocity Chart

Altitude	Velocity
70 Km	2294 m/s
75 Km	2286 m/s
80 Km	2278 m/s
85 Km	2270 m/s
90 Km	2261 m/s
100 Km	2245 m/s
120 Km	2214 m/s
135 Km	2191 m/s
150 Km	2164 m/s
200 Km	2100 m/s
300 Km	1980 m/s

Bonus: 250 is 2038 m/s.

Dedicated to broken "M" keys everywhere

[Maddmatts]

I certainly remember days when there were only 7 parts total to choose from.

[steuben]

Dang. I don't think I would have kept playing with things that hard. I'm glad the map view and the rest exists.

[UmbralRaptor]

I remember running through some equations so that I could use speed at apoapsis to see if my periapsis was above the atmosphere (then at 34.5 km). Far from ideal, but it cut down on the guesswork.

[Temstar]

I remember those old days when struts, wings, fuel lines and all those small random parts had their own icon in the staging list despite lacking a staging action, and as a result your staging list was like 3 screens tall.

I also remember the bad old days when stock docking didn't exist and all missions where either direct ascent missions (even interplanetary ones) or relied upon wonky docking mods that worked by extremely strong magnetic attraction between parts rather then physically join them. When you time warp the "docked" sections will slowly drift apart until you drop out of warp, were they would either instantly teleport back together again or the whole ship would just explode.

Edited February 11, 2016 by Temstar

[Scotius]

Frankly? I'm glad i came into the fold with 0.17 - and just couple of days before 0.18 update I thoroughly suck at math, so playing without map would be hit-or-miss guesswork for me. Hooray for visual aids

[el_coyoto]

Ah, the good ol' days when you didn't have those fancy shmancy maneuver nodes, none of this "other planets" non-sense and going to the Mun procedure was "wait in LKO for Munrise then burn for it"... *mumble mumble*

Holy carp, that takes me to, what, 0.14 ? 

I also remember drawing maps on paper of the area around a certain memorial on the Mun, then rotating it and squinting at it from the side trying to visualize what the landing area should look like from the ship when coming down for a crash landing... (inspired by what I remembered reading from one of the Apollo pilots, saying that familiar terrain and forward speed are the keys to precision landing)

 

Edited February 15, 2016 by el_coyoto

[Sir_Robert]

That was before my time, but I sure as hell remember 'turn 45degrees at 10km' as being valid advise