Is your pride talking or are you really that good? (Sentimental questions)

[Tiakatt]

Started playing maybe about 6 weeks ago. I've only really understood the navball for about 3 That was seriously the most disorienting and confusing thing about the game to me while first learning.

I make a lot of bonehead mistakes, like the Engine-Adapter-Decoupler instead of Engine-Decoupler-Adapter mistake I made last night. Luckily I'd also put a little too much fuel on my middle stage nuclear engine

I'm really still learning. I only just built my first items with docking ports (a science rover and a lab for it to drive under and dock with). I haven't even thought about plans for a space station or the like yet, I've not yet docked anything from orbit, etc. But I've had fun with things like precision hovering over low-gravity surfaces (maximum thrust capping for better control at lower thrust levels is my favorite ship control feature), and testing my science rover's stability by gunning it at 20 m/s across Grasslands (44 mph isn't bad for offroad ) and successfully climbing to a mountain biome on Kerbin, which often required moving somewhat sideways (and thus leaning to the side a little) instead of just straight up, and frequent braking for recharge, really testing the rover's stability. That stupid little rover is the thing I've built which I am most proud of.

I try to build as small as I can get away with. I could probably build even smaller if I didn't eyeball my transfers. That may be something I move to doing later, possibly picking up my first mod at some point to make those calculations.

I've done some spaceplane experimentation, but I really want to unlock some more science before I go too nuts on that. I understand the basics, but need more practical...uh...practice.

I'm by no means an amazing player. I really consider myself to still be a bit of a n00b, I've only visited Duna and Eve outside of the Kerbin system and I've yet to return from either (though I've come very close on a Duna mission). I've established one science base on Minmus, and one pseudo-base - two ships on Duna that I eventually moved right next to eachother when I realized neither could quite return home. I plan to rescue them eventually.

I make a lot of really silly mistakes. But I'm learning and I'm having a blast!