The moment the game mechanics click for you?

[Rocket Farmer]

For me it was this weekend. I have pretty much put kerbal boots and rovers on most planets/moons (excluding eve.). I have also got a SSTO that can land on the mun, minmas and maybe next weekend Duna... All of this was accomplished through trial an error, and error and further error.

But this weekend I had my best feat. I had a SSTO parked by a rover on minmas and I thought it looked like a nice place for my 1st off world base.

30 minutes later I lifted 7 hitch hikers, 1 cupola, 8 Kerbals with 4 return vehicles capable of making minmas surface to kerbal. It made it to orbit on the 1st launch without error. I then manually flew it to minmas and touched down at 1m/s at a mere 159m from my parked Spaceplane. All without saving in under an hour built from scratch totally stock.

Its amazing how one can learn the mechanics if one blows up enough things.

[User Unrelated]

I was having a really hard time with rendezvous at first

but one day, I was just messing around, and BLAM... now it's a simple as can be.

I used my kerbin orbit rendezvous approach to reach eve yesterday, too... not the most effective planetary transfer, and it took a bit more than 800 kerban days, but hey, it's a step in the right direction!

My kerbin station is getting a bit large but it still needs a kethane tank and some other little knick-knacks.

the funniest "EUREKA!" moment I've had was with docking.

The first couple of days that I had the game, I didn't know about translational RCS thrusting

so as you could imagine, docking was IMPOSSIBLE.

I was getting so frustrated trying to dock something after attempt after attempt at rendezvous, and about 3 hours in, I just had enough, and smashed my hands on the keyboard

and the ship bumped off smoothly to the right...

WUT. WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE!?!?!?

but now I know, hahaha.

Edited August 19, 2013 by User Unrelated

[roosterr]

Rendezvous: realizing that selecting the target and then getting relative motion ticks in relation to the target object (similar as you would for a celestial body) to rendezvous with made rendezvous and docking much much easier.

[EvilotionCR2]

I've never had problems flying to other planets,but I'm just too lazy to land a Kerbal on them.

[leax256]

the funniest "EUREKA!" moment I've had was with docking.

The first couple of days that I had the game, I didn't know about translational RCS thrusting

so as you could imagine, docking was IMPOSSIBLE.

Not quite. this happened today

to the OP, I thought this was a "the game clicked the mouse and caused my stuff to mess up thread". there was a thread I read where someone mentioned it would be anoying if the game automatically clicked for you.

anyway great to see you are doing well.

[The Jedi Master]

One of the times I was landing on Minmus. I used target mode, then realized: "Hey, I can use this for interplanetary transfers!" I put a probe in orbit around Eve the next day.

[CheftonUTD]

Finally becoming proficient at using the EVA packs, which is a huge step since a lot of my ships rely on KAS connectors instead of docking ports.