Does anyone else play KSP like this?

[dudester28]

I personally like to do a little roleplaying if I am doing stock KSP. Here's what I mean. To make things a little interesting (for me), I tend to launch missions in a logical order:

General mission order:

1. Get into an orbit and back

2. Get 2 small crafts to dock in orbit

3. Launch communication satellites orbiting kerbin and mun

4. Build a space station

5. Land on the mun and get back

6. Consider interplanetary travel

And the list goes on.

Can anyone relate or am I just weird like this?

[lincourtl]

I don't think you're weird. I think that's the power of KSP's sandbox mode -- it allows you to use your imagination to do things you couldn't in real life.

[RSwordsman]

Seeing as I pretty much didn't know how to play the game at all at first, this was an unintentional path of advancement. I first figured out SRB-only rockets, then realized you only had to throttle up to use liquid fuel. After that was figuring out staging so my "max altitude" kept getting higher and higher until I could reach Kerbin escape velocity. Once my delta-v was good enough I had to figure out a gravity turn technique to get into orbit (*and figure it out again after downloading FAR lol). Etc. for every little tidbit of gameplay learned and mastered; most recently I achieved docking for my 100km fueling station.

If I were to restart, I don't think I'd repeat the progression of space travel history. The only reason the first flight of the real space race wasn't Apollo 11 was because we had to discover and practice all that advanced methodology first. Now that we have it, we can build on THAT and set our sights on Mars. And now that I'm halfway decent at Kerbal, I can look farther out as well.

[manatee321]

yup, i do similar things my list was:

SAT's in orbit

first orbit manned

probe to mun

2 sats around mun

land on mun

practice first manned docking

next is minimus or interplanetary probes

[Guest]

In the beginning it's very useful for learning the ropes, but at this point in my gameplay it's terribly boring to do the same launches over and over during every save. I suspect, though, that I will do a little of that when 0.22 comes out.

Right now I have a "campaign" save that will probably get renamed in 0.22 to "****ing around" (because that's what I do with it...) and individual saves for any specific projects. For instance, I started a Grand Tour save (and then found out that the concept of a Grand Tour kind of bores me) and a "Moho" save (where all the missions involve Moho).

[little square dot]

I find such an ordered approach to be less interesting, although to a certain extent I follow a similar-ish progression, simply as a requirement. (I use RemoteTech)

My first orders of business tend to be the creation of an LKO CommSat constellation, followed by a GeoSync constellation.

[roosterr]

I dont use your particular order or all objectives, but YES, I do have a methodology of when and why I do my missions.

For example, I like to send small probes to other planets or moons, run a mapsat, regardless if I saw a spoiler or not, and use the probe to provide me with an objective for a manned mission. Then that manned mission may (and usually does) require an orbital rendezvous approach to make the mission successful. Otherwise, I dont take it much farther than that.