POLL: When did you start playing KSP?

[Pickelhaube808]

Have been wondering lately as to when the majority of people here started playing, so I created a poll.

POLL

 

 

i gave you guys one chance to use the "other" option...

[IncongruousGoat]

The forum supports polls, you know.

[HansonKerman]

Ahh... back in 0.23... simpler times. I don't document my favorite glitches, but I remember so much.

1. Unrealistic Areodynamics, no need for fairings, in fact, farings didn't exist.
2. No 3.75m size.
3. Pages instead of scrollbars, I preferred pages.
4. No "Electrical", "Communication", or "Thermal" tab... no need for the latter two, those came in 1.2 and 1.0 respectively, and batteries + panels were with Utility.
5. No "Coupling" Tab, decouplers bundled with "Structural" and docking ports were in Utility. .23.5's Klaw went into Utility
6. No contracts or upgrades: speed running was much simpler. Revisit this in Science mode!
7. Pixellated text
8. Old skybox
9. No MH expansion
10. Old suit
11. Pretty sure no "warp here" button
12. And so much more!

Ah, I remember those times.

[Superfluous J]

3 hours ago, HansonKerman said:

and batteries + panels were with Utility.

Along with every other thing ever made forever. That's one thing I'll never miss.

 

[Skyentist]

There wasn't a mun yet.

[Jimmidii]

Not exactly sure, but it was before a search for "KSP" would bring up anything related to Kerbal Space Program.

[Pickelhaube808]

SAS vs. ASAS and infinity gliders, too!

[ThatGuyWithALongUsername]

0.21 veteran here... well, technically I had the 0.18 demo before then. I remember when the science parts didn't really do anything, and there were only the few of them that actually gave measurements (like the thermometer, the negative gravioli detector, etc...). I remember science being added to begin with.

 

I also downloaded mods from Kerbal Spaceport, which was so long ago someone correct me if it was actually called something else. Still don't really use curse.

 

(I also lurked on these forums for, like, forever before actually making an account for some reason)

[Vakarian]

I started 4 days ago, but bought the game probably around 2 years qgo but my pc back then didn't work well enough for this game. Then I forgot I bought it and saw a youtube recommendation last week and I was like, this looks cool. Wait, I HAVE this game. Been playing it ever since.

[klgraham1013]

When 0.18 released.  Back when I was full of hopes and dreams.

[Johnster_Space_Program]

Im pretty sure I started around 1.1 or 1.2, a few years ago

[Sky Vagrant]

I started playing in Sep 2018 on my Xbox so I don’t know what version that’s equivalent to. I know we are a couple versions behind (just got Making History last month, yay!) but it’s great to play on my big screen.

[Pickelhaube808]

Forgot to mention that I started playing back in 0.20 when I had a excrementsty laptop that could barely handle it. I've known about the forums for years but haven't really had any interest in using them until now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recently started downloading all of the older versions I can... Here's 0.13.3 - 

[OrbitalBuzzsaw]

0.20 is when I bought it, but I started seriously playing around 1.0.4

[KerbolExplorer]

1.2.2

I still remember how i killed my first kerbals

[Ultimate Steve]

0.19. Back when rover wheels, aerodynamic effects, and structural parts were new. The first release to not have the launch tower. 

Also, I noticed three people chose 0.6.5... Unless I missed something, the earliest public release was 0.7.3. There was an 0.6.5 zip file found a while back, but I don't think it would have been available to anyone.

[RealKerbal3x]

1.3.1. The last version with the horrible old Rockomax tank textures that looked like oil drums.

[VoidCosmos]

1.3 I was really excited to check out the game as many youtubers were playing it. I really enjoy it till date.......... 

[bigdad84]

0.15. [snip] I was instantly hook. I remember buying it right after that and sinking hours and hours and hours in to it. Honestly to me, 0.18 was the pinnacle of the game. We finally got the long awaited docking feature, Nova did the entire rework of the stock parts. Everything was just better. The games still fun, but its just not the same anymore.

Edited April 24, 2019 by Gargamel
Portions Redacted By Moderator.

[Bill Phil]

Don't know the version, but it was early 2012.

[Geonovast]

1.3, as a result of xkcd comics.

 

The pie chart is unreadable.  Simply too many options.

[Ratwerke_Actual]

0.13.... Son gave me his old laptop before going off to college, found it on there.

After that it was the demo, then 1.0.5, then 1.4.5-current.

I kinda liked the old Mun texture.

Edited April 23, 2019 by Ratwerke_Actual
more thoughts

[Epicdreamer]

That'll be on version 1.1.2. How unstable it was then, and I didn't care less about restarting KSP once twice three times per hour. This was gold! And it still is, but I do care about stability nowaday's.

[pandaman]

v0.18.3. (March 2013 iirc).

My kids and work colleagues talked about it quite a bit, but I resisted trying it knowing I would probably get hooked, eventually I caved in...  and got hooked.

[razark]

Coworkers were talking about it, so I downloaded the 0.13.3 demo.  0.15 was out at the time.

I bought it when 0.16 was released.