Confess your KSP sins

[Frozen_Heart]

I'm a very bad pilot: I spend most of my time in the VAB/SPH tweaking and inventing.

I never finish things: My KSP garage is a huge mess of started but never finished contraptions.

I've never landed kerbals on another planet: Not strictly true... They landed on Duna but they sure won't be coming back. :/

[cantab]

Having crash-landed on Duna and killed Bob Kerman, I fully intend to send another example of the same lander design, just to see if it can come down safely with better piloting (ie a shallower entry).

[MiscGuy]

I rely on Mech Jeb to do pretty much all my flying. I can build great rockets that do as they're designed. I simply can not for the life of me, or my Kerbals, fly them.

That said, i've never been past Minmus with the exception of one Duna probe. Every time i start branching out, i get bored and put the game down for a few months. When i come back its to a new version, and start over.

I use part clipping on everything, not so much for "cheating", but for looks.

[Tweety]

I learnt everything from MJ. Because I didnt know scott manley existed!

I still use MJ for VERY routine manoeuvres because I'm lazy. I can do them all if I set the nodes up but hey, I don't mind being lazy, and I regularly 'prove' to myself I can still execute them all every now and then.

I have only landed on Eve and Duna outside Kerbins SOI. All because I plan and build it all and then get distracted by the SPH.

Edited August 18, 2014 by Tweety
Damn those grammars!

[KerbMav]

Again, but excusable I think, I used infini-fuel.

During the third try to hit an island on Laythe I burned some fuel, but it did nothing as my parachutes had already opened.

So, during the ascent this fuel was missing to circularize my orbit - but I saw no fun in repeating the landing/watering and doing all my science again.

[Roskerbos]

Since career mode kicked in, I've been known to build "lolrockets" simply to complete the "landed at Kerbin" contracts, when I need another 30, or so, science points, that I need to research some new part I want for my next mission. "Test a Mainsail landed at kerbin? Sure!" Staputnik - click. Mainsail - click. Stick it on the pad. Stage it. Recover it.

100% recovery, no fuel used, and 45 lovely science points. Thankyouverymuch. Now, about that "clampotron jr", I wanted to research...

I even have this weird 6-wheel thing I call the "loltrolley", for doing the "splashed down at Kerbin" tests. I periodically have to clear up the little puddle of staged decouplers and other assorted crap, that accumulates on the shores just north of the runway because of this.

[Coccalime]

I've never landed a manned mission any distance further than minmus, and never a probe further than duna.

I quicksave before almost every burn. Even though i generally dont have to reload them i really wish i could just handle the consequences for screwing up.

[tekzilla]

I launched a ship into sub orbit with 16 command seats attached to parachutes and tried to scatter kerbals across the far continent. I however forgot to attach probe cores and...scattered my kerbals.

When I get excited about a screenshot online, I try to click and rotate it before I know what I'm doing.

I keep thinking I know a thing or two about KSP, then I realize I dont know half the acronyms people are throwing around... Whats FAR?

[Commissioner Tadpole]

I cannot accept losing, so whenever I fail on something in KSP, I automatically revert it and keep doing so until I suceed. This might seem like a noble thing, but here's the catch: If I cannot revert to the point of making it possible OR I just cannot suceed in a manuever, I just use HyperEdit and teleport the pod to the Launch Pad back on Kerbin so I can recover it and just forget about the launch altogether.

[Red Iron Crown]

I keep thinking I know a thing or two about KSP, then I realize I dont know half the acronyms people are throwing around... Whats FAR?

FAR = Ferram Aerospace Research, a popular mod that improves the aerodynamic model in KSP.

Useful thread for those who've only just begun to sin in KSP.

[Renegrade]

I occasionally do that "get out and push" thing, despite hating the infinite fuel exploity nature of it.

Sometimes I can control that urge, but every once in a while, it's just overpowering. :/

[Norcurion]

I sometimes watch TV/read something while Mechjeb does all the boring standart work

Leading to:

Revert -> Relaunch, because until i recon that he's done the batteries are dead

Leading to:

I sometimes watch TV/read something while Mechjeb does all the boring standart work

Leading to:

Well i think you get it.

Once had to relaunch a vessel 8 times (and that is in no way an exaggeration -.-) and still oftentimes don't install a isotope battery,

because: Well, i won't forget to unfold the solar panel this time. I promise!

[Cirocco]

I have never built or used a rover, a base or anything else ground-related.

I'll do spaceplanes, docking, SSTO's, spacestations, ... but anything ground-related just does not seem to come naturally to me. The only thing I ever put on the soil of kerbin or any other celestial ody that did not go up again is a flag.

[Toshogu]

I discard missions until I get "landed" ones so I can get science quicker

[Loligoat]

I hate to admit it, but every once in a while, VERY rarely, if I'm really not in the mood for rescue missions, I'll turn on infinite fuel for a few seconds then forget it ever happened.

[Red Iron Crown]

Hey, page 50! When I started this thread I was a bit concerned that no one would want to share their wrongdoings, but I was happily wrong. Apparently none of us will be casting the first stone.

[Cirocco]

Hey, page 50! When I started this thread I was a bit concerned that no one would want to share their wrongdoings, but I was happily wrong. Apparently none of us will be casting the first stone.

maybe not the first, but since 0.24 I'm pretty sure we've tossed a LOT of spacerocks around.

or do those not count?

[cantab]

.23.5 even.

[Curveball Anders]

Apparently none of us will be casting the first stone.

We're busy calculating the deltaV we would gain based on the stone's mass and velocity ...

[ChrisWill]

I enjoy when an unexpected disaster happens and a kerbal dies, I don't kill them on purpose though.

[SunChaser]

Jeb is stuck in polar orbit around the Mun and I haven't gone back for him. It's been like 3 years.

I use huge asparagus boosters to lift anything, regardless of how small it is. As a result I have gotten used to making really inefficient maneuvers.

Worst of all, I'm an awful pilot. I sometimes force physical time acceleration to increase intake air.

[Trann]

I've made many mistakes but I think I would distill it down to one "sin"...

I've relied *way* too much on quicksaving -- make orbit, QS; touchdown, QS, reach orbit, QS -- so that any mistakes -- accidental firing of next stage, burning the wrong way because I was controlling from the wrong port, forgetting to deploy solar panels (I could go on, obviously) -- were conveniently undone.

I've never watched a Scott Manley video.

What are the membership fees in your club, sir?

[Red Iron Crown]

What are the membership fees in your club, sir?

Free! However, I must admit that I watched his 0.24 preview vid to get the specs on the new parts. Then they changed them before release!

[Trann]

Free! However, I must admit that I watched his 0.24 preview vid to get the specs on the new parts. Then they changed them before release!

Does that mean I'm the new club president?

[Red Iron Crown]

Does that mean I'm the new club president?

You'll have to take that up with the council, I'm not allowed in anymore.