Confessions of a Kerbonaut

[kball]

Recently, @Red Shirt asked us if there was anything that KSP let us do that we won't.

In the spirit of that thread, I offer all my fellow Kerbonauts a chance to confess the things that they DO do, but feel a little bit bad about.

Forgive me father for I have sinned:

• I sometimes time warp to kill rotation of a vessel I'm trying to capture or a large ship whose rotation would take me a long time to kill
• I grab cockpits with Kerbals inside, and that claw looks like it could be decapitating them
• I get World First credit when my insertion burn debris escapes a planet's gravity =(
• I sometimes drop Kerbals from heights because I'm too lazy to use the ladder and I'm not quick enough on the RCS button
• I collect science from so many research labs
• I terminate debris, imagining that Kerbalkind, while struggling sometimes to get a large rocket to fly, has invented an interplanetary missile system with pinpoint accuracy.
• All those unrescued Kerbals.

[IncongruousGoat]

I use time warp rotation kill on just about every craft I fly, because I can't be bothered to properly fly things with the attitude control abilities of an inebriated whale.

I've sent far too many Kerbals on years-long missions in cramped command pods.

I go to extreme lengths to never lose or strand a Kerbal, even going as far as save editing, because A: I don't like rescue missions and B: I can't stand losing any member of my crew. I get too attached.

I obsessively make named quicksaves in order no not lose anything to my own stupidity.

 

...I think that's it.

[Guest]

Using Vector engines. I usually go with the inefficient SpaceY Moa instead for something so powerful that can fit on a 1.25m node, but it's not a given.

Edited December 26, 2016 by Guest

[Ultimate Steve]

1 hour ago, IncongruousGoat said:

I've sent far too many Kerbals on years-long missions in cramped command pods.

If it makes you feel any better, a year on Kerbin is only 106.5 Earth days, meaning it takes about 3.5 Kerbin years to match an Earth year.

[KevinW42]

From the other thread:

On 12/14/2016 at 1:55 PM, KevinW42 said:

I don't use any life support mods, instead I use the self-imposed restriction that for any extended mission the mothership has to have twice as many seats as crew members instead of just jamming three kerbals in a Mk1-2 command pod for a 6 year mission and calling it a day.

About half the time I forget to actually do this and don't bother going back to redesign my craft.

[Terwin]

All those rescue missions.

Early on, I'll take all of the ones that do not require recovering landed debris, but after I get around 30 in the astronaut complex, I'll make a choice to stop taking them.  

Then I feel bad for not taking all those other rescue contracts that come up...

 

[Sharpy]

A vengeful alt-F12 or save file edit, going beyond "undoing the evil". Like, recently, ISRU drained the class E I was hauling dry during time warp, and so, instead of half-depleted 1300-ton asteroid in LKO now I have an untouched 2300ton one. A bittersweet taste of disproportionate revenge.

[Guest]

10 hours ago, kball said:

In the spirit of that thread, I offer all my fellow Kerbonauts a chance to confess the things that they DO do, but feel a little bit bad about.

Nothing. If I felt bad about something I wouldn't do it in the first place.

[kball]

1 hour ago, regex said:

Nothing. If I felt bad about something I wouldn't do it in the first place.

Outta here with your shameless perfectionism!

[MinimalMinmus]

I was visiting the "canyon" biome of the mun for fun and profit, and I landed close to the rim. So, I decided to plant flags at the bottom to squeeze some XP. It went without too many problems for the first kerbal, even though I made her lithobrake in the canyon to save on fuel.

The second kerbal, however...

I tried to go for x5 acceleration, and he died when he collided a surface. Dang rail physics.

#FEELSBADMAN

[Lindy]

If I had a 40 acre field it wouldn't be big enough for my Kerbal cemetery...