Anyone else not really care for the career stuff?

[hansen]

I see your point and do not want to offend you in any regard. The game you are making is awesome. I am looking forward to the ongoing expansion and finetuning of the kerbal universe.

[Wjolcz]

Will this be a necro if I say that I'm really not satisfied with how the career mode works and it's the main reason I am constantly avoiding playing the game because of the lack of sense of achievement in career?

And I guess I could just play sandbox, but the only thing I do in sandbox is build airplanes. I have no motivation to go anywhere beyond LKO, simply because I've been to most of the places. And it's not the "burnt out" syndrome people talk about from time to time. The career mode feels like sanbox with restrains, a linear tech tree and random quests. It's not like you can choose your path and decide what you want do next. I want to do what I've done in sanbox many times, but can't, simply because I have to grind for science in order to finish the tree. The contracts are also too random and most of the strategies useless.

Call it a necro, a rant, a whine or feedback. Just want to let know that I am not satisfied with the career mode after all this time and all the "tweaks" made to it. It needs a re-write IMO.

Edited July 18, 2016 by Veeltch

[adsii1970]

@Veeltch: Now I am not a mod so my opinion counts for very little, but I agree with you about career mode (and from what I gather from the various mods' commenting here and there, as long as it is relevant to the original thread and adds to the discussion, then no, it is not necro'ing. Necro'ing is something akin to simply creating a post for the sake of resurrecting the thread...)

And to join you in your necro-rant, I absolutely hate career mode as well. The stock contracts leave a lot to be desired and there's no rhyme or reason for the order they appear at times. The rants against career mode seem to go back awhile, and as we both can see, nothing was ever done to address the concerns.

I, too, play sandbox and have since .22 when that was the demo version and I bought .24 on Steam. I recently added OPM to give me more places to travel, I still make a lot of planes, and lately, I have this freaking desire to place space stations in orbit of nearly anything I can... still plenty enough things to do for me...

On a separate note, what is the hashtag thing about in your sig?

[Van Disaster]

I've almost finished my first career playthrough ( I've been playing since 0.18 I think ) and... I don't actually have any motivation to "finish" if you can define "complete the tech tree" as finishing. I'm going to have another go at some point with a different tree and any contract stuff I've missed ( can't be much left ) but other than it giving me a reason to fly aircraft and build some strange contraptions I probably wouldn't have done otherwise, there isn't much motivation to keep doing it. I do suspect the rather bizarre tree might be partly responsible, I suppose I'll find out when I've finished upgrading the install...

[pandaman]

Much as I really like the idea of career mode, every time I try it out I just find the way its done uninspiring and give up.  Maybe it's partly because I started playing when sandbox was the only option so I got too used to that.

[Provisional Name 12]

There are like a million mods that address a lot of your complaints including some really cool mission mod packs. Have you tried the realism overhaul or USI with LS or remote tech?

[Wjolcz]

14 hours ago, adsii1970 said:

On a separate note, what is the hashtag thing about in your sig?

About bringing @bac9 back, so he could use his magical powers and create more of this instead of what we have now.

Just look at that R&D and its particle accelerator! Why can't we have it? whyyyyyyyyyy ;_;

Edited July 19, 2016 by Veeltch

[Tyko]

8 hours ago, SpaceCommunism said:

There are like a million mods that address a lot of your complaints including some really cool mission mod packs.

I would love to see more in Stock, but the game designers (wisely) built the game to be extensible and there are many great contract mods out there. Stations and Bases + Tourism Plus has really added flavor to my base building work. I'm regularly getting contracts to fly up mission specialists, rotate crew and take up tourists. These do a great job of making it feel like the kind of work the Russians have been doing for years with the ISS. I don't do them all the time, because they can get a little repetitive, but IRL that's how running a base feels and they give me opportunities to run other types of missions to my station and get the trips paid for by tourists

[adsii1970]

2 hours ago, Veeltch said:

About bringing @bac9 back, so he could use his magical powers and create more of this instead of what we have now.

Just look at that R&D and its particle accelerator! Why can't we have it? whyyyyyyyyyy ;_;

Wow, some great images and concepts. I bet that it would also be possible to create other space centers on KSP using that same method... There is simply so much potential...

[Van Disaster]

Bac9 is kinda busy working on another game, though, so chance of that is only slightly more than zero.

Telling multi-year vets that there's mods ... thanks! I'd never have noticed. And no, they *don't* address the complaints of this year's complainees.