Disasters and safety survey

[Hudson633]

Link to survey.

Link to results.

Feedback appreciated.

[Wallygator]

Great idea. Not sure if the multiple choice structure will make it easy to deduce any findings - as a participant can basically select nearly every option. Regardless, let's see what happens.

[worir4]

If you lost a kerbal deliberately, how do you feel about it?

Unhappy

Indifferent

Happy -----Tick

Is it bad that i tick almost every disaster and crash related tick box?

EDIT:

It seems i am the only one so far that has ticked happy!

Happy 1 4%

Edited October 2, 2014 by worir4

[dryer_lint]

Nice survey! It's interesting how many people have never deliberately killed a Kerbal, but the people that have usually do it more than once

[SkyRender]

Oh my results for this are going to look terrible... 3 years of playing KSP and having no mishaps at all would be something of a miracle, especially given how many hours I've logged. Only rarely do I embrace my inner Danny2462 and purposely torment Kerbals, at least.

[DisarmingBaton5]

This survey made me feel like a horrible person...

[airelibre]

Nice survey! Plus I'm number 100

Makes me feel better that most people are like me and don't like screwing up missions or losing Kerbals. I do really enjoy watching people's failures, intentional nonsense and tormenting of Kerbals on YouTube (in particular Danny!) but I always wondered why I get so pissed off/upset at my own mission failures when these guys thrive off it.

[Thomas988]

Hey! This is a great survey! It is always a lot of fun to look back at my history and evaluate my over-cautious behaviour. I play it safe, sometimes so much so it worries me. It's the very reason why I haven't been to Duna legitimately! And losing Kerbals? I might as well throw a funeral! I really hate losing my Kerbonauts, especially in my serious-business save. I'm going for a minimal-death kind of play-through, and even when a Kerbal is stranded somewhere I always come back to rescue them.

Am I healthy?

[James_Eh]

I left my son in charge of walking/jetpacking Bill a couple of km on Minmus while I went to stir stuff for supper. Somehow he killed him. I had to breathe deeply and remember that getting him in trouble would be stupid. (Despite the fact that I ONLY LEFT FOR A MINUTE AND YOU KILLED BILL!!!!!!!) In-out-in-out...

[Giggleplex777]

I've been very careful with the safety my Kerbals during space missions, but I can't say the same about planes...

[Duke23]

Thinking back over a lot of missions to answer those questions. I feel kind of dirty now. Semi-related, I think I'd like to try the no quicksaves and no reverts option in .25. Not saying I'll stick with it, but I think certain aspects might be fun. As it stands I have developed a bad habit of jamming F9 for the slightest thing, botching an aerobrake maneuver or landing too far from a target... Then again you can generally read "botching an aerobrake maneuver" as "accidentally deorbiting a ship without landing capabilities"

[Madrias]

Though I try to be safe, this brings to mind a sharp clarity that despite my best intentions... my "safe" space program is about as safe as walking across a busy freeway... with sunglasses on... at night... while wearing light-absorbant clothing. Then again, I tend to have a lot of structural mishaps, boosters through the wings of my shuttle, randomly exploding engines causing massive changes in center of mass vs. center of lift, shattered solar panels leading to a loss of control of the rover, running over my Kerbals with a jet plane, engine backblast proving to be rather fatal to Kerbals, and an antimatter explosion when I accidentally staged my reactor and generator away due to a mild (okay, just barely short of catastrophic) overheating issue.

And that's even before we start encountering worlds other than Kerbin... Add the "Permanent Colony" on Minmus (created from the shattered remains of many ships...) and my Mun Base (where, despite my intents of sending a dozen rovers, not a one runs anymore. Smashed solar panels, wheels broken clean off the frame, one that's in about 30 pieces in a crater, and several that were tipped...) and we start getting into the meat of the damage.

Then there's that Eve-plane I lost due to a violent separation of the left wing from the fuselage. Had plenty of parachutes for a Kerbin landing, but Eve smashed the ejection seat into an ocean at lethal velocity.

I've had Kerbals fall out of command seats, seats break off of probe cores, the Kraken decide to tear a ship apart mid-air and scatter the debris over a 10 km circle, and accidentally hitting EVA instead of IVA... I've staged boosters through wings and dropped engines on rovers.

So yeah, I've made a mess, but I'm proud of it.

[Malokin]

I think it needs an option for "Unbalanced Weight Distribution". Not necessarily on launch but once in space this can be crippling and it is nigh impossible to make small accurate adjustments to fuel loads on small vessels.

Also, am I the only one who has stranded a kerbal outside of a lander that he was unable to climb back into? I've learned not to forget about ladders and keep the area around your hatches clear. No idea if it is possible to refill jetpack RCS outside of a lander.

[Xacktar]

I fear that if I took the survey it may skew the results.

[SkyRender]

I fear that if I took the survey it may skew the results.

Didn't stop me. Go for it!

[Yukon0009]

It seems, I have ticked almost all of the options.........