What was the first thing you did when you bought KSP?

[KerbolExplorer]

 

Me?I did the esiest thing a newbie could ever do!

Build a space shuttle.....Yeah you can imagine what happened......Ohhh i thought rocket science was easy...

 

So how about you what was the first thing you did when you bought the game?

[Geonovast]

Launched a bunch of stupid looking rockets straight up.  I didn't care if it was right, I thought it was cool and it was really fun staging stuff away.

Eventually I got brazen enough to crash into the Mun at a couple km/s.

 

Then I found the map mode, and things started to make the tiniest bit of sense.

[TheTripleAce3]

First thing I did was make a 2.5m bloated rocket powered plane now known as the "Museum Piece 1"

 

It flew for just enough time to pull a 180 and land about 3km from the runway 

[RealKerbal3x]

Built a rocket, didn’t check staging and blew up my engine on the launchpad.

[razark]

6 hours ago, KerbolExplorer said:

So how about you what was the first thing you did when you bought the game?

Downloaded it and unzipped it.

 

Beyond that, I'm not sure.  It was nearly seven years ago, and I had been playing the demo before.

[EchoLima]

Attempted to make a rocket without knowing what engines or decouplers were. It didn't go very well.

[Pi_]

Hmm, when I bought the game it was much different than it is today (version 0.16).  I remember the connection joints were a lot weaker, which meant you had to use a lot of struts.  So I was trying to build a rocket that did not shake itself apart after launching.

[Frank_G]

The first thing? I failed miserably but with a loud laugh... ( that parachute staging thing, we all did  )

[Bottle Rocketeer 500]

I built an airplane and landed it back on the runway after a very short flight.

[NorthernDevo]

I first got the demo - I can't recall the version - and played it for about three years until I could afford both the Internet and the game. 

My most common activity was carpet-bombing KSC with fuel tanks when my wobbly assemblage ripped itself apart 10 kms up.

[Gargamel]

3 hours ago, razark said:

Downloaded it and unzipped it.

And then promptly crashed into the launch tower. 

[Chel]

[snip]

Anyways, I first just flew around in the Aeris, and just tried making my own planes. I remember my first career game, it didn't go so well.

I just love this game because of everything you can do in it.

Edited March 15, 2019 by Gargamel
Portions Redacted By Moderator.

[KerballingSmasher]

I went into Sandbox mode (big mistake) built a huge rocket, and promptly crashed my computer, plus I had no idea of even what the controls were!

[razark]

26 minutes ago, Gargamel said:

And then promptly crashed into the launch tower. 

Nah.  By that point, I'd been playing long enough to know better.

(Said the guy who still screws up staging on simple crafts.)

[Superfluous J]

I have no idea.

I do remember the last thing I did before buying it, which was landing on Mun in the demo.

[Gargamel]

2 minutes ago, razark said:

Nah.  By that point, I'd been playing long enough to know better.

(Said the guy who still screws up staging on simple crafts.)

Oh, no, that's what I did. Unzip, get running, build a wobbly rocket, poof into the tower. 

[razark]

1 minute ago, Gargamel said:

Oh, no, that's what I did. Unzip, get running, build a wobbly rocket, poof into the tower. 

Ah.

Should have practiced more.

[adsii1970]

I downloaded it. 

[Just Jim]

8 minutes ago, adsii1970 said:

I downloaded it. 

 

[Ultimate Steve]

Four part rocket. Mk1 pod, parachute, decoupler, solid rocket booster. I named it "Baby Steps I." It worked, somehow.

In retrospect, I watched way too many KSP videos before buying it. It was the first game I ever bought and I was a bit nervous to ask my dad, so I researched every little thing about it, including every single tutorial, spoiler, etc.

It definitely prepared me for playing, but if I could back, I would almost go in with no knowledge at all. I say almost, because with that brick of a computer I'd never have gotten far without already knowing how to play... The "Baby Steps" mission took like 10 to 15 minutes with all the lag.

[klgraham1013]

Launched a multi-stage noodle rocket straight up achieving absolutely nothing.  I then went on YouTube to learn how to play the game.

[ARS]

I jumped in the game completely blind, with no knowledge whatsoever about rocketry. Built an aircraft (without mirror symmetry and radial snap) The wings are misaligned, and on top of that, with no control surface whatsoever. Predictably, it never leaves the ground, and the unbalanced wings caused it to careen straight into hangar building before it blew up

[overkill13]

I'm a little surprised that the obligatory, played through the tutorials and watched Scott Manley videos isn't on here yet.  So I guess I'll just leave this.

Afterwards I started a science mode playthrough.

[Blasty McBlastblast]

I would pay a lot of money to see my first craft files again (for nostalgia reasons), and then pay a whole bunch more money to hide those craft forever (for noobish-shame reasons!)

I do recall playing the free demo-game though, and furiously scribbling altitude results on a notepad after each launch as I attempted to "science the potatoes" out of this game and improve my rockets!  

[Tyko]

I installed KER