You know you're a noob in KSP when...

[PatPL]

When your Mun lander has a parachute.

My first try

[InterCity]

When you put your wings ahead of CoM on a spaceplane.

When you attempt a Jool landing. Powered by nukes and with no parachutes.

[Destroyer713]

When you're just starting Career Mode and doing the Altitude Record contracts, you build a rocket that's just a pod, a half-full SRB, and a parachute, and you forget to put the SRB in a different stage as the parachute.

[Herbin]

Same reason why no one knows the difference between Grindcore and Semisynthetic Pseudoindustrial Death Whinecore: no one really cares.

Bull for my valentine tries to fit the latter. Bunch of whining emo turds.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

When this is your first mun lander:

P.S.

This was my first mun lander.

Edited March 16, 2015 by Mad Rocket Scientist

[quasarrgames]

When you get into your first orbit, but then when you get to your awesome apoapsis of 30km, you wonder why you can't time warp, and hear a whooshing sound. You look at the map view and think "Hey! where did my orbit go?"

literally me.

[impyre]

1) When you finally get to the mun, but can't make it back because you hadn't noticed that the lv-909 has no alternator.

2) When you spend almost as much time on the forums and wikipedia learning as you do playing.

3) When you think this game couldn't possibly get any more awesome. (IE: pre-mod phase)

4) When you still pack on three times the fuel you actually needed.

5) When you think the Mun will be a much easier mission than Minmus.

6) When you use the fewest stages possible to reduce the chances for things to go wrong.

7) When your rescue ship has to be rescued.

8) When you try to get to Duna and end up on Dres. (I did that lol)

In all fairness though, I'm always learning and getting better. I've played with Remotetech for quite a long time, and only figured out how to use the flight computer a few days ago.

[Rath]

You know you are a noob at KSP when your girlfriend hasnt left you because of KSP.

I found the perfect way around this: get your girlfriend to play KSP!

[Varsi]

In all fairness though, I'm always learning and getting better. I've played with Remotetech for quite a long time, and only figured out how to use the flight computer a few days ago.

I had system wide network of communication satellites and then started wondering what that calculator looking button does... Think I'll have to start trying probes with signal delay now.

Edited March 16, 2015 by Varsi

[mrclucks]

When you attempt to dock and succeed at reandevous, except the other craft is going 300m/s in relation to your craft, and through it, and proceeds to smash both crafts into dozens of 'probes'

When you successfully launch a perfectly keostationary satellite (it was beautiful, 5m difference from apoapsis and periapsis, 0°inclination, directly over KSC) and while sending the manned craft that accompanied the satellite, your forget parachutes . . . and that jebidiah, bill and Bob were in it

[Bev7787]

When you used infinite fuel for the first 6 months of playing KSP.

[SmashingKirby148]

You know you're a noob in KSP when you have to rescue a rescue team.

[Randazzo]

[Ozzallos]

You know you're a noob when you forget to check the staging order before launch.

You especially know you're a noob because you didn't check it after adding those launch towers.

Happens. Every. Goddamn. Time.

[Francois424]

1- Don't understanding how to stage (man that took me forever)

2- Trying to land on moon but keep crashing... Then seeing this 4200isp engine and thinking : that's the power I need, for sure it'll work this time !

3- Thinking the game is frozen and restarting over and over... you had no electricity you noob.

4- Having an inverted probe core

5- Trying to land in orbital mode and slamming the ground with way to much lateral speed.

6- Quicksaving in atmo before trying an EVA just in case. Dosen't work so Quick-reload... Yeah, no chutes now, so you die and you saved a sec ago, so no matter what you do, everyone will die horrifically every time you reload...

[ColourOfFire]

When you blindly obey your maneuver node and are totally lost without it.

[Overland]

...when you seriously thought anyone who said lithobraking ment they crashed into a rock

[Red Iron Crown]

I found the perfect way around this: get your girlfriend to play KSP!

KSP-playing girlfriend? Marriage material.

[Bonafire]

When your at first clever looking designs become asymmetrically balanced through staging and/or propellant consumption.

When you think that covering about 15km on Mun's surface to get to all four surface sample sites, in a tiny rover, will be "a fun trip".

When you timewarp through your supposed aerobrake and end up orbiting Kerbol again.

Guilty of all.

[Vashts]

when you strand bob on Tylo?

[Overland]

When you goto hit the brakes on a train.... and the headlights turn on...

Accidently reassigning the brake action to headlights...

yes this happened recently

[Gaurdsman111]

When you finally get into duna's sphere of influence (albeit in a polar orbit) with Jeb, Bob and Bill on a craft that took you 3 hours to build in orbit, and you realise your on a direct collission course with Ike.

I Rage quit for the first time in my life.

[michaelsteele3]

When you go on this thread to try to feel better.

[Neil1993]

You know you're a n00b when you can't help your crewed Mun missions from being one-way

Edited April 6, 2015 by Neil1993

[Rath]

When you put your wings ahead of CoM on a spaceplane.

This is usable, however active instability is soooooooooooooooooooö hard to get right that it may as well not be possible.