How often do you use Mechjeb?

[KleptoKat]

I use it for circulizing my orbit and rendezvous, that's just about it.

[UNSC]

Never, I have so far achieved orbit, landed on Mun and Minmus and back, and recently completed my first orbital rendevous without it. I like the challenge. But I have no problem with it as long as it's doing something routine to save time and effort. Haven't gotten around to getting it though.

[The Destroyer]

I have used it alot, however, i HAVE done manual. i just perfer to have a greater chance of survival for my kerbals

[4 IN 1]

I use it when I cannot be bother to save fuel.

[sporkafife]

I use it on a fairly regular basis. When it comes to new things and challenges (like when Minmus first arrived) I will always give it a go by hand. However, at the moment I have pretty much ran out of things to do, I have landed on all the bodies in Kerb in orbit many times in many strange and wonderful ways with weird rockets and I already have my interplanetary mission planned out.

At the moment I use mechjeb to do all the things that are pretty mundane and boring to me after doing them hundreds of times: liftoff to parking orbit, rendezvous (although mechjeb is pretty useless in that department) putting satellites around Kerbin and when I need a precision landing on Mün or Minmus where fuel isn't really an issue.

However, I never use mechjeb for the injection burn to reach Mün/Minmus. I always find that mechjeb either misses, or applies way too much thrust forcing the whole rocket to concertina in on itself (I could probably design better rockets, but that's not how I roll)

[rhn94]

i do it for redundant tasks .. i have the kethane pack and im building a mun base near a large reserve .. i did the first few landings myself .. after that i just let mechjeb do the rest .. i enjoy the challenge of landing most of the time. in the new update im going to do most of the interplanetary flights and landings by hand only use mechjeb for info and then use it again for redundant base building tasks ..

[segaprophet]

I include MechJeb in all my unmanned builds, such as rovers, satellites, kethane extractors etc.

It's very useful for deploying large amounts of support hardware for Munar bases.

[maro]

I use it most of the time of every flight.

But some things i can do better than mechjeb i will do alone.

[Guest themakut]

Mechjeb is for the weak!

But seriously, I used it once or twice, and it made the game boring.

[NovaSilisko]

Where's the "often, but only the statistics part" option?

[TheProdigy]

Mechjeb is for the weak!

But seriously, I used it once or twice, and it made the game boring.

For the weak? Oh please.

People can play the game however they want, as long as they are enjoying them selves.

[MSGundrium]

Where's the "often, but only the statistics part" option?

*Channeling the comedian Bill Cosby here* ... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

I'm sorry Nova, but that's like saying "I only have all these playboy magazines for the interesting articles."

I use the MechJeb attachment because it's not as spaztastic as the stock ASAS.

Now, something I would suggest as the next add on for the MechJeb mod would be different flight options.

For example:

'shortest time' and 'most efficient' as well as 'Least g-force demanding'

(Regular).......(Least fuel Consumption)..... (Gentlest flight characteristics)

Options that would allow a more customized experience.

[khaine]

I can see why people use MechJeb for mundane tasks, but I feel like im learning something new every time I play.

Failing makes it a more interesting experience?

except for those mun landings ....

/holds f9

[The Pilot]

@andywyndom:

You'll find it if you search for it in the forum

[EvilotionCR2]

When my rocket is too laggy

I too,i too

I don't use it too much,because everytimes KSP crash when landing on minmus or mun(even without using it).

[Moach]

i voted "sometimes" but really, most if not all my craft have it installed - the actual usage of autopilot features is drastically dependent on whether or not my ship is actually manageable by it and won't have it try to rip it apart to shreds on blastoff....

most of my exceedingly heavy vessels are well beyond what MJ can safely pilot without leading to violent oscillations and fiery death... then i usually fly the ascent manually (with SAS or ASAS to help, if manageable) and engage the AP only when i have a responsive enough vessel after shedding a few hundred tonnes of orbit insertion stages

i wish it had a flight director, you know... for orienting where to point the nose during launch so one achieves the preset gravity turn profile - that'd be quite a treat to have aboard

[A Fat Pokemon]

Never once i fly all of my insane, super unstable craft which I often build all by myself, I just don't see the fun in letting something play the game for you

[szpw]

I don't use it regularly, but sometimes I just think "Gah, I've done this a thousand times. I'll just use mechjeb to autpilot this to orbit, then take it from there."

In other words, I use it when I'm bored of doing something (Normally the launches. Those get boring.)

[Matticus88]

Sometimes.

I have the mod installed and i normally fit one on rockets, but i don't bother with MJ on aircraft or when i'm just trying something out.

[AlexL]

I only really use it for orbital rendezvous, as the data screens help make it possible to do, but never the autopilot.

[khearn]

I use it most of the time. Do you think Neil Armstrong was steering the Saturn V during launch? It was under fully automatic control until it was in orbit. Similarly, they didn't just eyeball the moon and take their best guess as to when to boost for TLI, they had computers in Houston figuring out exactly when and how long to burn, and the PNGS controlled the engines. About the only time an Apollo 11 astronaut was actually manually controlling their vessels was during transposition and docking maneuvers, nulling a few residuals, and for the last 2.5 minutes of the landing.

I figure if they had similar systems for Apollo, why shouldn't I use it?

[DeviouslyDeviant]

ALL THE TIME!! I ain't that good at getting perfect orbits...

[kerbinoid]

I use the Ascent autopilot all the freaking time. I've played this game for a long time, and I cannot be bothered piloting another launch. Plus it's not like astronauts in RL pilot their vehicles during launch, so why should I?

[John Bedlam]

Starting out, I made it a point to get to orbit and to both moons and back manually, but now I use it all the time. From time to time, I do a completely manual mission to see if I still have it, but most of the time I can't be bothered. Putting something in orbit, pointing in a certain direction and burning for a certain amount of time strike me as a computer's job. But hey, the whole point of sandbox games is that everybody can play them as they want, right?

[ramses]

Never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mechjeb,Like buying a new sports car and having a professional race car driver drive you around!

Edited September 18, 2012 by ramses