How old is your space program?

[Alephzorg]

x100000 warp gives you the ability to shrink a full year to a measly 5 minutes. How convenient for people going back and forth between Kerbin and Laythe where they are building a colony.

No need to wait hours to get to Eeloo either.

And if you do mission after mission like that, months and years soon add up.

On the other hand, with the help of Kerbal Alarm Clock for example, you can plan multiple launches and transfers and fit them in a few months of game time.

Or you might like to play it closer to home and have your fun on the Mun or Minmus.

So, my question is as follow: how old is your space program? What year is it when you look in your tracking station? How far into the future did you go?

[Captain Sierra]

Well, I have been resisting megawarp in my save but I do plan on getting KAC for a massive upcoming Lathe megamission, which I may warp through all at once. Haven't decided yet how far to push the ability to bend spacetime.

[Cydonian Monk]

My current space program? The one I've been playing since .21 was released?

Day 59. I just sent my first crew of this save to Duna.

My oldest save file? Back in a fresh .20 save I built a couple dozen long-distance probes and fired them off towards all corners of the Kerbalverse. I then let it run for about 50 years to see where they ended up.

I don't have much time to keep my space program running, and really prefer to build and test and measure, and crunch numbers from the tests, then revise, wash, rinse, repeat. And I tend to start over fresh when the new versions arrive. So I seldom get past year 3 or 4.

[Moon Goddess]

I don't like skipping over time with Time Warp, I'll leave it out there and launch another mission.

My current save is on day 20 something, I'd imagine every save I've ever had all put together don't add to 5 years. I've sent 3 different missions to Jool that never made it cuz a new version game out and I started a new save. with .22 in Experimentals I bet my current Duna mission won't make it.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

in my 0.21 space program.

1 year 173 days, I've already got 2 jool bases, and a minmus base!

My oldest one EVAH? my 0.20 one

11 YEARS

[Anton P. Nym]

Current and only save (since last June), I'm still in the first year. (Around day 180 or so.) Currently I'm running three permanent space stations (LKO, MKO, and around the Mun). I have two bases on the Mun (and a third on the way, as I don't like the location of the second one) plus one little one on Minmus, but no crewed missions to other planets yet. Thanks to how the launch windows (and my learning curve) shook out my first planetary crewed mission will be to Jool, primarily focused on Laythe for obvious reasons.

On the probe mission front:

Completed: Flyby and orbiter missions (1 each) to Duna

In progress: Flybys of Eve, Moho, & Jool, orbiters to Eve & Moho, landers to Duna & Eve (including one possible sample return to Duna)

Plus a lot more "on deck" but not executed yet. LKO parking orbits are a bit crowded at the moment...

-- Steve

[TheSaint]

My old save, before I started over a couple weeks ago, was 18 years. There were a ton of Duna missions, a couple Jool tours, and an Eeloo return mission in there.

[Lazro]

My save is from when I started 0.18...It's quite old. I had to painstakingly filter the stock parts from the mod parts when the new folder structure came out...anyway, mine is at (at least!) 22 years old.

[Jm419]

I'm on like Day 8, still. My .18.2 - .20.2 save was about three years old.

[rholtsla98]

My longest game was 1 year 183 days and then my save file became corrupt and I hwd to delete it :/

[M5000]

Hmm. I've never launched a "first mission" as a universal clock (use the MET on this craft to track total time passed.)

I've been playing since 18.2, where there was no "revert to VAB/SPH" there... And I've done several interplanetary missions, spread way out. Plus a few very slow rendezvous missions where I totally missed...

I imagine that anything pre-.21 consists of about 20 years of play, maybe?

Then if you don't consider me time-reverting when my experimental vessel fails on the pad, and actual successful missions, I'd say add another 5 years or so. 25 years maybe..?

Though, I always like to think of my space program in a more roleplay-world type manner. I imagine it started somewhere in the 60's, and rocket design has progressed very much since then...

[Spartwo]

My oldest save was 91 years half was spent warping to the end of Kerbol.

[Crown]

Well, I use the Kerbal Alarm Clock so there's so many critical mission moments that I don't even have time to fly an airplane to drop a rover somewhere on the Kerbin surface.

This means I am only on Year 1, Day 12. But I already have a Mun base and space station, two space stations orbiting Kerbin and one station and mission on the way to Minmus. And a communication satellite network around Mun and the first plane of a Kerbin navigation satellite system.

Oh, and several rovers on the Mun surface, brought down by Kerpollo missions.

[ZedNova]

18 years and 76 days, 3 hours 9 minutes and 7, no wait, 8 seconds.

In .21.

[Commander Zoom]

I've been playing since the single digits, but this is the first time I've gotten "serious". My current save actually came through .21 okay, after starting in .20. I'm currently up to day 26, with no warping outside of individual missions - after my initial orbital shots, exploration of the moons, etc, I've been filling the Kerbin system with satellites, stations and a Mun base while waiting for transfer windows to open to the other planets. The first, Moho, has about a week to go (according to KAC) ...

Once I've "broken the ice", as it were, by sending probes outside of Kerbin's SOI, I may start warping more. I've built almost everything I care to in the backyard by now, so the focus will shift to the longer interplanetary missions.

[Merinsan]

My old save had bases on Laythe, Eve, Duna and stations around all those plus Moho and Dres.

The way I built those tended to be a single launch for each part, time warp all the way there.

The station around Laythe had about 8-10 launches, which means something like 8 years there already.

The very first launch I did was a space station around Kerbin which went horribly wrong, and had an inclination of about 45 degrees, it was around 120 years old.

My current save is only about 2 years, since I've only just started going to Jool - the first ship is still in transit, while I set up a Duna station.

[RocketPilot573]

My current save is around 8 years old, dating back to the days of .19. There are over 50 flights in progress, however it is now being retired and I will start a career mode one in 0.22.

Most of the stuff in my signature ribbon is due to this save.

[merlinux]

my current save is 13yo. Ive done s*** loads of warping though...

Should make more use of kerbal alarm clock and start roleplaying more with other missions while I send a kerbal to eeloo

[Dooz]

20 years until it got CORRUPTED!so sad :<

Edited October 11, 2013 by Dooz

[Pipcard]

KASDA is over 6 years old (I only focus on one mission at a time, even with Kerbal Alarm Clock).

Sometimes, there are spacecraft which only go within the Kerbin system (hours or days).

And then there are space probes that take almost a year to get to their target.

There's also waiting for launch windows.

Edited October 11, 2013 by Pipcard

[llamatoes]

My first one.

I was performing my first munshot, back in 0.17, and I forgot to burn to slow down, so I was stuck in heliocentric orbit trying to get back.

I panicked and time warped

10 years

54 days

10 minutes

[Alephzorg]

My current save is still in year 1, day 179.

So far, I have probes (most of them IsaMap probes) and/or rovers at Moho, Eve and Duna. More are on their way to Dres, Jool and Eeloo. And I try to use every transfer window I get to send something new (thanks Kerbal Alarm Clock).

Kerbin has 3 geosynchronous satellites at 120° intervals and a probe on a polar orbit.

The Mun has 2 bases, including one at a mun arch, and a swarm of probes orbiting it.

Minmus only has 1 probe orbiting it and 1 landed.

No manned mission beyond Minmus so far (in that save at least).

[EvilotionCR2]

Few thousand years.

[Alephzorg]

Few thousand years.

For what reason did you warp so much?

[EvilotionCR2]

For what reason did you warp so much?

I send probe to Jool (100000x) and because it takes so long I minimized it and forgot about it the whole day.