Are your original 3 still alive in your 0.90 career?

[zarakon]

I'm playing on hard, so progress is a bit slow. First Mun mission should be soon.

I lost Jeb on what was supposed to be a simple single-stage rocket to do an aerial survey. Parachutes were in the wrong stage, they opened at launch, and the wrong end started pointing up.

Bill and Bob are still alive, just because they aren't pilots and I only have 1-man capsules so far, so I never use them.

[Felsmak]

My Kerbal world ends with every update. It's Kermageddon all the time.

[Jovus]

So far. I have a pretty good track record of keeping them alive.

[xub313]

Bob died landing on Minmus. I had a probe core providing stability assist but, while Bob was transmitting some science, the batteries ran dry. The probe core didn't have enough electricity to activate and it took me by surprise. By the time I go Bob pointed the right way it was too late.

I really like how this can happen. The new features bring a bunch of emergent behavior to the game. I didn't really like Bob anyway.

[Prendy]

Bob died on splash down into the sea I have a habit of opening the chute at 50m when it is only the one man capsule, and it works (most of the time). However this time I left 4x on by accident then BOOOM, one less Kerbal

[RW-1]

My Kerbal world ends with every update. It's Kermageddon all the time.

This this this this this ....

[lordmuffin]

Jeb, Bill and Bob all died on my first docking attempt EVER.

[Xavven]

I must confess I killed Jeb by underestimating how much control authority I would need on a pure solid rocket first stage. I'm on Hard mode with no reverts.

I was so heartbroken by this that I actually restarted my entire career on a new save. Lost about 1.5 hours of gameplay for the little guy. Yes, that's insane. Yes, I love Jebediah that much.

Now, I only send newbie Kerbals on part test missions. Jeb is too valuable to risk on anything but fully tested and proven designs.

[DepletedUraniumPenetrator]

Not yet, but mostly because I activated reversing (quicksave is disabled). I just can't get anything done without it, I often need a few test flies for my contraptions to work. In my old .25 save, all three (and even some more) died horrible deaths though.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Nope - Bob died on the very first flight because I forgot the chute...

[Cuky]

I did 3 flights so far, all with Jeb in command and he is still alive and eager to fly again

[Slam_Jones]

I typically consider my career a failure if I lose one of the OG Three... the other Kerbals, well, not so much.

[Ziff]

Everyone is still alive, Jeb, Bill, and Bob are about to make their first moon landing together.

[Merv DeGriff]

I'm of the mindset of Gene Kranz when I play Kerbal Space Program. I have gone to a lot of effort to avoid killing Kerbals in career mode.

" ... From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent.' Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write 'Tough and Competent' on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control."

The Kranz Dictum is the way I see it. I may over engineer my ships and spend a few extra funds, but damn it my kerbals come home. No compromises, no regrets, failure is not an option.

[Silvermane]

My Bob died due to a bug. He exited a capsule then just... exploded.

These days I've been trying to make more probes, but there's so much that they can't do.

[RocketPilot573]

I have a self enforced rule the the original 3 CANT die, I'll just revert. But the non-originals on the other hand- *evil laugh*

[h3nryum]

I tend to revert a flight to the launch pad if I have a catastrophic failure. I guess thst can take a bit of fun out of it tho, but so do less strict rules and giving double rewards, but its less overall time thst has to be dedicated to the game to be able to progress.

im lazy when it comes to grinding to progress...

[Madrias]

I had an oops and sent Jeb flying into the side of the VAB. Under full acceleration from a RT-10 solid booster.

[Craeshen]

Jeb is currently mia after a game crash ate my stol craft as I was loading it for a test. So not technically gone but currently fighting his way out of a kraken.

[Hamstah]

I treasure my original 3 for no real sane reason, but if a mission is likely to be dangerous, I test with a probe first, and then I always try to build abort functionality into my rockets incase of launch failures. If a mission is too dangerous, but I need a Kerbal there anyway, I send red shirts (well... "grey suits" I guess)

In 0.25 I did lose Jeb once, and I restarted quite a long way in, because I just couldn't handle Jeb not being there...

So far so good in 0.90.0

[Janos1986]

I have reverts enabled, you can't take me into account.

[Bloody_looser]

Bill crashlanded on the Mun, otherwise all three are fine so far.

[montyben101]

Don't play career, only sandbox but yes they are alive

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Well... what should I say...

Kuriosity kills the Kerbal

[Epthelyn]

I left Jeb in orbit because I didn't give him a parachute to return from the first Mun mission. Apparently he was too close to the Mun's orbit and crashed into it.

Bill and Bob are still alive, though, both in a station around Duna currently.