Kerbal Nostalgia, part 1: The KSP vs Orbiter Arguments

[Grand Ship Builder]

A very long time ago, there was the KSP vs Orbiter arguments.

These were fights about the rather young KSP and Orbiter, on which was better. Eventually, these arguments ended for good, and KSP and Orbiter players seems to be on good terms, albeit with a bit less knowledge about eachother.

 

Do you remember these?

[Ty Tan Tu]

I still think SOI is a cop out, but I really like building rockets, which is not that easy to do in Orbiter. I started playing Orbiter with the very first version, and I do remember that discussion, but I always try to avoid what I consider meta. I only switched to KSP in 2016. Maybe it comes down to a physics vs. engineering?  My degree is in anthropology, I am neither. I miss the physics realism or Orbiter, but only because of the weird anomalies and halo orbits around Lagrangian points, but for now, I am having fun building my own space ships.

Right now I am into my 'probable-impossible' retro-future stage where I am building 1950's Sci-Fi Rocket Ships to the Moon! I just landed a spaceship on Mun on it's fins.

It is not easy to do...

[Rocket In My Pocket]

Vaguely?

I remember hearing it referenced around here and even heard people claiming it was superior to KSP in whatever way for whatever reason when I first signed up here.

I must have just caught the end of it though, because I've never really heard it mentioned since. Not to be a GFX monger but just looking at screenshots of it and boy is it ugly lol! Plus I'm really more of an engineer than an astronaut like @Ty Tan Tu said. Building is my passion, flying is a close second.

Edited October 25, 2017 by Rocket In My Pocket

[NSEP]

Wait that happend? Is it still going on?

[Archgeek]

I knew KSP and Orbiter were connected, what with Harvester having that thread about KSP and its development on the Orbiter forums, and I remember some :hailprobe: and discussion of the games' respective niches... but not a single argument about one being demonstrably better than the other.

That said, I wonder how well one can approximate that probe in stock KSP, and what it might take to get a :hailprobe: emote on the Twuntch...

[razark]

I kind of remember such discussions.

They were quite silly.  KSP and Orbiter are different paradigms for different reasons.

Spoiler

Besides, everyone knows that Lunar Lander is the best space game ever!

 

[Guest]

I don't recall any specific KSP vs. Orbiter arguments, but I do remember a lot of people who would tell someone to "go play Orbiter" when they asked about more realistic features in KSP.

Which always struck me as stupid and ill-informed since one of the big attractions of KSP is the VAB/SPH.

[Ultimate Steve]

Don't really remember them. I do remember that HarvestR first unveiled KSP on the Orbiter forums, though (I wasn't there, but I heard about it).