Killing your Kerbals: does it make you feel bad?

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Yes, I become attached to some ones on longer missions, and if it fails, I am quite upset

But if I'm messing around, not so much

[nettcod]

Yes, every time.

My manned missions are very safety-intensive, though, so it doesn't happen that often.

[FenrirWolf]

I make sure not to lose Kerbals... the one caveat to this is testing... I do test my ships and then revert back to VAB until I have the final design I want to run... this kills "simulated" Kerbals, but once I launch a mission the danger is real... so far I don't have any Kerbals on the dead list

That's how I do it too. If my ship just falls apart while launching I revert. But once I have my design ready and I'm really going on a mission I consider it "real" and do everything in my power to keep the guys alive.

[JiWint]

When I killed the "orange crew guys"...I deleted my save.I had spacestation,visited 2 moons.Pretty much

I can't lose any single kerbal.

But if that happens,I use revert flight or f9

[benjiful9000]

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Edited July 4, 2021 by benjiful9000

[kodemunkey]

This is one of the reasons i prefer trying to build rovers and unmaned drones, i feel some empathy towards them yes. For the longest time i wouldn't make manned rockets because in the demo i had a large crewed capsule of 3 kerbals that splashed down into the ocean, they all drowned and Jeb was the last one to drown by about 3 seconds, he was looking directly into the camera and was smiling the whole time before the screen filled with static.

[allmappedout]

This is one of the reasons i prefer trying to build rovers and unmaned drones, i feel some empathy towards them yes. For the longest time i wouldn't make manned rockets because in the demo i had a large crewed capsule of 3 kerbals that splashed down into the ocean, they all drowned and Jeb was the last one to drown by about 3 seconds, he was looking directly into the camera and was smiling the whole time before the screen filled with static.

That's the saddest thing I've ever read. Jeb...heroic to the end.

[Boris_T_Roach]

This the most tragic of all my early accidents, and why I try and keep the poor little guys alive

The expressions say it all, almost as if they know they've only got 0.1 seconds left to live

Boris

"Bill, Bob, and Jeb are currently stuck testing a new rover about 30 km west of KSC"

[Tankbuster32]

I refrain from doing manned interplanetary stuff because I'm afraid I'll leave Kerbals stranded somewhere, though this is more because I'm a perfectionist and less because I feel bad for the kerbals...

[KD3]

Yes it does. I recently killed Bob and Jeb when I failed to land a spaceplane safely. And the new "lost" tab makes it worse.

[0x7be]

I'am strong propnent of automatic spacecraft and send Kerbals only a lot of automated stuff is already on place.

I also use only one trusted spaceship design for crewed launches and transfers, so all my innovations do not threaten Kerba lives much.

[HeadHunter67]

Sure it bothers me! They're people too...

Some would say "but they're not real! They only exist on your computer!" to which I can only say: "For all intents and purposes, that makes them no different from you."

[lajoswinkler]

Honestly, I think some of you people here have issues that are borderline serious. Too much KSP, lately?

[LameLefty]

It sure does bother me. It makes me fell terrible when I've screwed up a design or worse, made an operational error that kills my intrepid crew.

But it makes me plain ANGRY when the physics engine glitches and an entire, perfectly good spacecraft just randomly EXPLODES when I switch to it. I lost Jeb, Bob and Bill that way just last night on a milk run to the Mün flying a tug I've used half a dozen times to deliver fuel and extra modules to my Münar station. I know they'll respawn but that's not the point. If this kind of thing happens in Career Mode, it'll be devastating.

[Boris_T_Roach]

Honestly, I think some of you people here have issues that are borderline serious. Too much KSP, lately?

Define too much

Boris

only 14 hrs this weekend

[lajoswinkler]

I was doing it too much, but if someone is doing it so much that he starts having trouble separating KSP from reality, he brings "too much" to a new level. That's what I'm talking about.

[Platofan2]

I fell sorry then i start laughing

[Tygroux]

well, i've gone crazy at the release of the update, and recruited everyone, just for lulz.

Now, i've got too much of them, and they can't die nor be fired, but i don't want to activate permadeth and kill them.

So, there is that few kerbals that i liked, and are in stations/big ships, and there is the others whom i just don't give a caress about, and just crash them to make them MIA and free some screen space.

[Hunter12396]

I don't feel bad about killing them when testing because I can revert but I still haven't killed any in action

[thunderstar]

the last time a kerbal died, i cried for 3 days .... :C

just kidding but yeah i try my best to keep them save and return them home safely

[Spartwo]

I build death trains to get rid of kerbals whom I don't like the name of.Only killed one by accident so far(Tylo)

[Fredonia]

I try to keep from killing them, but sometimes, it's just funnier to watch the thing get all explode-y.

[Giggleplex777]

The only time I kill Kerbals is when I'm flying planes, and I kill a lot of Kerbals.

[SunJumper]

Not really. I once had a kerbal about to softly splashdown in an ocean, and he was happy to no longer be in a decaying orbit. Then I cut the 'chute. He realised one second before he died.

[HeadHunter67]

I was doing it too much, but if someone is doing it so much that he starts having trouble separating KSP from reality, he brings "too much" to a new level. That's what I'm talking about.

I'm perfectly capable of separating the two, thank you. The point is not "are Kerbals real", the issue is: are you? All anyone here knows of you are words on a screen - words which sometimes show that you don't clearly understand what others meant. We had a program like that back in the early 80s called Eliza, and they've gotten more sophisticated since then.

Because it might still be unclear, I'm not categorically stating that you're artificial - I'm saying that, for all it matters to anyone here, you're an electronic representation too. It's unlikely that you'll meet anyone here unless you already knew them, so to the rest of us, you only "exist" on a computer screen.

So let's not misuse terms like "borderline", if you'd be so kind. This is not the place for armchair psychiatrists - especially since one could as easily draw conclusions based on people who cannot in any way emotionally identify with the protagonists in the movies they watch or the games they play.