1500 posts and 5 dots!

[p1t1o]

Its been a good run, next stop: rep grand!

(Is that what the dots are? Do you get one dot per 300 posts?)

I think I started in version 0.19 or maybe 0.20. I immediately threw myself into mods, hitting that RAM limit hard, though it took me several weeks to become familiar with what was going on and exactly what *was* causing all these crashes?

I have always had the idea in my head for what I want my ideal KSP career to look like. I want to explore the bodies expanding out from Kerbin starting with Mun+Minmus of course, next stop Duna and Moho, each time sending an unmanned mission followed by a manned one. Then mining and supply operations to enable longer-range missions to the outer planets and the exploration of Jools moons. I know you dont need a station+supply infrastructure to do this but I wanted to anyway, it would make things more exciting and I could launch more elaborate missions. Spaceplanes would be used to refuel my near-kerbin poutposts just to mix things up. Then with the advent of the outer-planets mod, my mission edxpanded to include the ultra-long-term goal of a heavily equipped, manned mission to a nearby star (which even though is kerbally-scaled, still represents an incredibly daunting mission.)

As you can imagine, that represents a career of at least 6 real months, or possibly a year.

I have never gotten past the manned Duna mission phase.

Every time, a new update would come along (or in some cases, merely be threatened) and as the type of person who cannot let a feature go ignored, a new version always means a new career for me. I could never, for example, have continued my career to completion when research and science have just been released. Neither could I continue playing with my build knowing that 64-bit was just around the corner, unlocking the terrible pressure oft he hard RAM limit. Then the trials and tribulations of release and v.1.1, 1.2 etc...

Even when a new version borks some things, I cannot ignore new features, fixes and other things, I just do not have it in me.

So my career as yet goes unfulfilled.

But I am still hopeful!

Having not played a proper career attempt since around v1.0, I am still awaiting the point where I can jump back in. I cannot do so yet - Not only are there still some severe issues here and there, the mod list is still recovering from the release of 1.2 and hotfixes are still being produced. I do not predict a new career until at least spring of 2017, perhaps later.

But one day....one day soon...my build will be complete....there will be no groundbreaking new features for a forseeable 6months or so....and the modding community will have had ample time to absorb the changes wrought by various hotfixes. All the mods I want will be inter-compatible. I will have the right mix of realism mods, visual mods, extra parts and extra features.

I am not impatient. I could wait another year. Or another 2 years or more. There are other great games to play in the meantime. But one day. One day it will be perfect.

I am thinking I probably should have saved this speech for rep grand...

Edited December 13, 2016 by p1t1o

[monstah]

What? Hey, look, I got 5 dots too. Hadn't noticed that before.

Yeah, it's been a good long run, right? And I don't suppose either of us is going to stop playing this game so soon, so I figure the run will still be longer.

Cheers, man!

[kerbiloid]

Five black dots?...

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[p1t1o]

15 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Five black dots?...

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Plink-plink!

[Bill Phil]

Just be glad it isn't three seashells.

[Red Iron Crown]

There...are...four...dots!