Has Scott Manley helped you?

[Devland99]

Its all in the title folks, has he helped you get to the Mun or made you laugh. He helped me a lot when I first got the game .

[Sbowyer28]

I don't think Scott Manley was around when I started playing, If he was he certainly wasn't well advertised. Well when I started there was about 500 to 1000 players at most, hell there was probably less.

[SuperWeegee4000]

Without him, I would never have invented a decent rocket design.

[Omicron314]

Scott Manley helped me dock! All hail Manley!

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Ok, I'll say it. He didn't help me at all. I watch his videos because they are very entertaining, but as far as tutorial goes... well, I don't like them.

There, said it. You can burn me at the stake.

[Brotoro]

Indeed he did. That's why I have four islands named after him on Laythe.

[regex]

I've watched maybe one of his videos, can't stand his voice but the video was informative and well-done. I personally learned most of what I know of how to build and fly rockets from Chickenkeeper24 and these forums.

[Patupi]

Most of rocket design I got figured out before I found a Scott Manley video, but he did get me onto RLVs. Hadn't thought of sticking jets on a rocket till then. I even DLed his versions. Haven't bested them in my own designs yet!

[Ralathon]

I like his reusable space program since it gives me some great ideas/shameless ripoffs to build. But in technical terms he helped me very little. I figured those out on my own long before I ever started to look for KSP on youtube.

[boa3532]

Scott and pebblegarden's vids I credit with helping me learn how to dock.

Still not sure how I now manage to dock on a regular basis though!

[warzone2455]

Learned how to make a Delta V filled rocket that works, which got me interplanetary for the first time. I learned how to rondevous and dock from just plainly watching his and other random KSP videos.

[Kosmo-not]

Scott Manley might be good to listen to if you want to know more about astrophysics, since he was an astrophysicist. As far as learning how to be a good pilot, I suggest you look elsewhere.

I watched his tutorial on docking and got frustrated (telling him to "dock already" through my screen). He's not a great pilot, but at least he admits it.

I learned rocket science myself through my knowledge of physics.

[Sid]

I've found his tutorials very helpful. Not so much from the orbital mechanics point of view ( I've been using Orbiter for years and have that stuff down fairly well ) but as to how to get stuff done in KSP specific terms.

Every time my wife hears " Helllloooooo, Scott Manley here " coming from the computer speakers she cracks up laughing....

[AustralianFries]

Yes, he has helped me. More in an inspirational since, then actually in one specific thing. I was like "Holy cow he's super good at this game, I wanna be as good as him" Like I never really watched any of his tutorials, but I sometimes learn a thing or two.

PurpleTargets has probably taught me the most, if anyone.

Edited July 9, 2013 by AustralianFries

[Apollo1391]

scott manley really helped me as I a ksp noob would only explode without him I <3 Scott Manley

[llamatoes]

I pretty much learned via stephen Baxter an amazing author, and the forums, by the time Scott was doing comprehensible tutorials I was flying orbitally assembled spacecraft to Moho.

[astropapi1]

Thanks to Scott I knew how to dock and do interplanetary burns before even buying the game. Every Newb to the game should watch his videos.

[DisarmingBaton5]

YES.

I think Danny has taught me more, though.

[Scarecrow88]

I've watched videos from a few different people, each of which have helped in their own ways. For Scott in particular, some of his videos have been very helpful i.e. when I was a complete noob, I found his 'Getting to Minmus' useful, both from a rocket design point of view, and the actual process of how to get there and land successfully.

Probably the most difficult thing I found to get my head around was rendezvousing and docking. I found Scott's video slightly less helpful on this topic as whilst he showed you what he was doing, he didn't always tell you why he was doing it, which personally I would have found helpful. I have developed my own technique for doing this now, which probably incorporates ideas from a few different tutorials on this particular subject. It's probably not the most efficient method possible, but it works for me.

[Levelord]

I haven't used any of Manley's tutorial. I'm sure as a former astrophysicist he knows his stuff, but his delivery of this knowledge is incredibly patronizing.

However, I have learned docking from this fellow here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-FVywr8m8&feature=share&list=FLArmdg1vvWUtU2-7_TL-sQw

[Jon Tash]

I don't think Scott Manley was around when I started playing, If he was he certainly wasn't well advertised. Well when I started there was about 500 to 1000 players at most, hell there was probably less.

I guess this applies to me too, even if his videos didn't help me play KSP, I sure learned a lot from his science/space stories. Always fun to watch and listen to him.

[Sof]

His were among the many that I used to learn how to dock.

Other than that, I guess just helpful tips such as how to throttle when launching rockets.

[Joshington]

No, but that was because I didn't discover him until I had the mechanics of the game down.

[Devland99]

Its nice to see everyone responding to this, and to see how people found his videos keep them coming

[Mustangrande]

He's only helped me with just about every aspect of the game.