What dumb mistake made you really good at something?

[aftershockzap]

My dumb mistake was not realizing there was a front to docking ports.

However, I found out that I have gotten EXTREMELY good at orbital rendezvous AND lining up docking ports. Seriously, after hearing how hard docking was, I just thought I didn't have it lined up right every time I bumped ships together, ran out of mono fuel from bumping ships together, and then re did it all.

Just... wish I could have posted the look on my face when I fixed the docking ports and saw how easy it suddenly was to dock. Seriously just O_O That was it!?

Really, really trucking good at orbital rendezvous and aligning ships.

What silly mistake caused you to get REALLY good at something else?

[kenbobo]

Clipping wings to far into eachother and breaking the game and then i got good at control surface placement

[skykooler]

Not knowing there was a map mode got me really good at eyeballing an orbit.

[lammatt]

- flew a kethane drill and found out i forgot to put a docking port or Kerbal Attachment or Lazor or anything that allows resources transfer after it landed

and now i am good at EVA-ing because i had to go back and forth a lot of times to attach/detach/plug/unplug the detachable connector port on the drill.

Edited July 19, 2013 by lammatt