Is perfectionism driving you crazy in 0.24?

[Jade Falcon]

Perfectionist no because I'm not good enough in the first place to do things perfectly. However 0.24 has turned me into a cheapskate and I no longer bolt on everything including the kitchen sink. I guess you could say I've become sensibly cost effective to the point where as long as I'm making a profit I'm happy.

[Torham234]

Not really. Money is there to be spent, just like its a weird idea to hoard science points. There is enough lucrative contracts out there so that you do not have to be perfectionist. I have been playing a conservative and efficient game from the very beginning of KSP, so I just continue playing as I was playing before.

Its actually very easy to earn Roots. This Eve Mission vehicle (EME) (land on Gilly, unmanned probe to land on Eve) cost a grand total of 110,799 Roots to put into orbit. I have just accepted a single contract to test a mainsail engine in orbit for 336,995 + 72,123 advance.

[Hidden Gunman]

KSP has always been an unforgiving game (/sim), but at least with 0.24 there is now much more of a point to it than an exercise in self-imposed perfectionism. I've always enjoyed the 'one mistake and it's all over' aspect, but now there are consequences beyond kicking the dog and redoing several or more hours work.

[AlexanderB]

Hmm, hardly any problems with perfectionism, I take most contracts, unless they're really silly, and I just find a way to make them work, usually I just pile them up untill I can complete multiple at a time.

In the beginning, I just made it work by strapping the part to the side of a booster stage, the fact that I might lose a few 100 kerbux worth of material is easily compensated by the science points you get.

The last couple of missions I finally had a proper plane with a turbojet, an excellent and nearly cost-free way of filling in in-atmosphere contracts.

Swap a mk1 fuse to a Fl-T400 for some oxidiser and add some Rockomax 24-77's and you got a small SSTO, so testing smaller bits in LKO and suborbital flight becomes near-free too.

And landing it back on the runway is easy enough with a well-made plane. One thing I will be doing is leaving around a vessel or a flag near the end of the runway, so its easier to spot at night, the runway lights are only visible from a couple of kilometers, not from space.

[Pyromartian]

I don't necessarily want to be perfect but I want to take every contract available and do them in one launch, inefficient or not.

Test a part in the water, rescue a kerbal, and land on the Mun and bring back science?

Ok.