Key items missing at star of career/science mode.

[bjbeardse]

I really must say this.

PLEASE include one probe core and a battery at the start of the game! I really dont want to risk my kerbalnauts on untested high explosives!

Seriously I really think that starting with probes make the game more interesting, at least IMHO.

Thanks!

[r4pt0r]

I always get the local ksc and launchpad science so i can get the probe really quick without danger.

but yes, there should be a probe avalable right off the bat.

[DaveSteadman]

I believe the invention of the ladder predates the solid rocket booster, by maybe 10,000 years...

A few parts would help pioneering Kerbals get a few more soil samples.

[Kasuha]

Many players are asking for probes preceding manned pods because it's how our own space programs did evolve - automated systems were always sent first and humans only when it was considered safe.

However if we look at history of human technology, it was not always that way. First aeroplanes were not manned, for instance, because the technology was not good enough to fly automatically, a human had to sit at controls. And of course there were casualties.

I don't have any major problems imagining it's similar with Kerbals - they have just discovered fuel tanks and engines, but their electronics is not good enough to steer it - so they fly themselves until their technology is good enough to be able to steer their rockets, too.

[Canopus]

I think you should have a prive core at the beginning but bo batteries. So balancing your electricity would still be difficult.

[Francois424]

I think you should have a prive core at the beginning but bo batteries. So balancing your electricity would still be difficult.

Sputnik only had what... 3 days of internal power before it went dead ? makes sense.