I never like to kill the Kerbals

[Bradvh97]

In my latest flight to the mun with 3 Kerbals I immediately knew that there was not enough fuel to return to Kerbin after I landed on the munar surface. I sent out a rescue ship but after so long of waiting for sunlight to hit the rescue spot I tried to land. I landed about 88km away from the rescue site. I luckily had installed 3 seats on my 2 rovers I took to the mun. After several quicksaves and loading back up again the furthest I'd traveled from my original spot was 5km, the surface was just to hilly and I kept crashing. After careful consideration I decided to terminate the flight and return home with the 1 Kerbal aboard the rescue ship I had sent to save the other 3.

Moral of the story is, I don't like killing Kerbals.

[Bigcheecho]

I try to avoid it, but sometimes, you have to deal with the inevitable. Especially with Ioncross, and I haven't sent a manned mission with Ioncross yet.

[Skorpychan]

I'd rather just leave them there. As a tribute to the fallen who couldn't be saved from explosions.

[lammatt]

88km...thats a long way

u should hv just hovered the lander to where the kerbals are

mun has low gravity...it wouldnt be hard

[Bradvh97]

Sometimes you have to face the facts, the Kerbal's are stranded but they're too stupid to know that sometimes, so it's not that bad on my part.

[regex]

I don't ever intentionally try to kill Kerbals, but this is a video game so I don't sweat it when it happens.

[justadude]

All Kerbals, sooner or later, regardless of their fate return to their point of origin...the KSC. It is their way.

[Apollo1391]

I don't ever intentionally try to kill Kerbals, but this is a video game so I don't sweat it when it happens.

yep that's what I do

[The Jedi Master]

I pride myself in that I have not killed a single Kerbal in my main save since 0.20. I tend to strand them a lot, though...

[Nexustrimean]

I Have killed one Kerbal since .20 in a Rover incedent. i do my best not to strand or kill kerbals.

[justadude]

I tend to strand them a lot, though...

You did not strand them. You got them to their new home.

[Fleb]

I killed two Kerbals yesterday. Miscalculated how much fuel I needed to land a base structure on the Mun, and they impacted at 250m/s. Felt so guilty.

[Blue]

I consider Kerbals trapped in space without adequate fuel to get them home as much as a failure as killing them.

[Sof]

I consider Kerbals trapped in space without adequate fuel to get them home as much as a failure as killing them.

The only place I can forgive myself when that happens is Laythe.

At least they can breathe and fish for food.

[SRV Ron]

To keep the mortality rate low, send probes until you get good at completing the mission. Eventually, Career Mode is going to make it difficult for you to recruit Kerbals for missions if they become afraid of being killed on a mission. But, for now, just keep building, testing, and flying.

You can always send supply ships to the stranded ones until you can send them a rescue ship.

[Levelord]

I don't have Kerbals 'die' on me often. But when that happens, I'd like to pretend that they got 'fired' instead of being killed for their bad piloting skills and that's why I don't see them in the roster anymore.

[Camelotking524]

"Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily. Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not one of us stood up and said, 'Dammit, stop!' I don't know what Thompson's committee will find as the cause, but I know what I find. We are the cause! We were not ready! We did not do our job. We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a miracle. We were pushing the schedule and betting that the Cape would slip before we did. From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent.' Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write 'Tough and Competent' on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control."

Gene Kranz

All one needs to remember if you wish to save Kermen lives.

Edited August 9, 2013 by Camelotking524

[EvilotionCR2]

I never kill my Kerbals.

[Danerdygeek]

How much fuel did you have left in your lander? It is definitely easier in my experience to dock craft or at least eva between the two than to land within a 10 k radius, much more fuel efficient also.

[Free Trader Beowulf]

Gene Kranz knew a thing or two about spaceflight. Learned the hard way though.

Personally, I try very hard to never kill my boys. Everything can fly unmanned and everything gets tested before a Kerbal sets foot in it.

Stranded Kerbals will be rescued, no question.

[RocketPilot573]

The only MIA Kerbal I have right now is Jeb. Let's just say he drove of a cliff... literally...

[CheftonUTD]

I'm just about to go rescue two of my Kerbals, I put my docking port on backwards, and now they don't have one... Hoping I can EVA them to their rescue ship.

I have another one 'stranded' on a small base at Minmus, but I figure he has enough resources to wait for a while until I go get him haha.

[Sapphire]

Since 0.21 came out, I've only killed one Kerbal, and it was today. You see, all was well. Jeb was descending with one of those Vanguard parachutes. The parachute opened, and I did the usual force time accelerate to get to the ground faster, then I alt-tabbed, which is what I usually do. Problem is I forgot what I was doing, so while I was alt-tabbed, the accelerated physic killed Jeb when he touched down.

[Skyrunner27]

Sometimes you need to whip out your Mun Disaster Speech(It happens all you can do is make better decisions next time.

Fun Fact:US President Richard Nixon had a second speech prepared in case Neil and Buzz were trapped.

[Whatshtisthis]

I remember one Mun landing I did when IVA was released..

I underestimated the amount of fuel needed, and was in IVA view as the lander impacted the surface of the Mun.