Hi Everyone!

[Rufledt]

Hello! I didn't just buy the game (I've had it for a couple months now) but I haven't been on this forum yet. Right now i'm waiting for .24, literally checking every hour or so. Admittedly that's stupid, since it's Sunday right now, but I can't help it.

I don't really have any newbie type questions at the moment, so I guess I'll post some pics?

An interplanetary ship with ion engines and rockets.

Mun science rover. I may have 'borrowed' much of that design from Kurtjmac's youtube series, but I added a built in jack. When the tires pop, I use the struts to raise the thing up off the ground like a race car's built in airjack thing, and I can repair the tire without it flipping the rover over in the low gravity. another shot:

This is a more advanced Jool mission ship:

That had a lander for each one of jool's moons. They all worked (barely) except for the Tylo one, which was a miserable failure. The back end of the ship has detachable ion engine 'boosters'. I used those to nearly get to a jool encounter and save rocket fuel. Then, I just release them and carry on with less weight and part count to reduce lag. I guess that won't work now that career mode will have parts cost now...

Airbraking:

I suppose that was a bad idea with deadly reentry installed, but it worked out.

[XinCasa]

'Sup Rufledt. Your pics are awesomely professional. I'm a true blue long time PC SciFi gamer who came across this game when browsing the SpaceSims Central web site. I downloaded the demo earlier today and am impressed with the story idea & script, graphics and gameplay. It appears that I'll purchase the full boat in the near future. Tell me Rufledt, since you've been playing this game for a cupla months now, do you know the origin of the name "Kerbal"? I read the Credits, and none of the developers or crew have that first or surname. You'd think that there would be a reference to it in the web site. Just curious. I'm looking forward to meeting you ingame if/when circumstances allow. Stay strong buddy.

[sumghai]

do you know the origin of the name "Kerbal"? I read the Credits, and none of the developers or crew have that first or surname. You'd think that there would be a reference to it in the web site. Just curious.

The origin of the "Kerbal" name is explained in a response from an Ask Us Anything session on reddit:

It all started when HarvesteR was a young guy in Brazil playing with fireworks and turning them into rockets by taking out the explosive payload and placing little tinfoil figures inside which he called Kerbals. Ironically, the current game involves more explosive payloads than those fireworks ever did.

Further proof is presented in drawings made by HarvesteR himself:

I'm looking forward to meeting you ingame if/when circumstances allow.

As of the time of writing, KSP isn't a multiplayer game, nor is it an MMORPG, so there is no way for players to "meet" with each other in-game in the manner you have described.

That said, I'm sure the forums would suffice.