Greetings to the KSP awesomness

[Musil]

Hi, guys, this is my first post on the forum. I created an account to make a question on that section, but first I just wanted to say that, as a new player, I have found KSP to be just awesome. I started playing in .24.2 and have not stopped learning since. With .90 I started a new career, and it’s going beta than ever. The first absolutely cool thing I did was rescue Tomzer Kerman from orbit... without target indicators on the navball or closest approach on the map (hadn’t upgraded the building yet)

I had rescued previous iterations of Tomzer many times. I was in fact one of the first things I tried when I got the game: you can imagine how that went. First, I tried to do it with and orbit in the opposite direction (east to west!) and was terribly frustrated. Later it became easy, once I learned to do proper rendevouz.

But on .90 I just accepted the contract and launched. Once I was in orbit, I discovered I had no targeting, no closes approach... I almost went back empty-handed, but decided to try it by eyeballing it and not loose the contract. To my own amazement, I managed to get my capsule to 1k of him... I switched to him, wanting to EVA the remaining distance... and then I went into the dark side of Kerbin!!! I couldn’t see anything!

But now, Tomzer is my second best pilot, on level 2, and is currently in orbit around Minmus, as part of a crew that is going to build a station and harvest a crap ton of science of the little moon.

All of that was so awesome I wanted to share it. This Christmas I am going to gift KSP to my little brother.

And this community is also great. The moders, the youtubers and the forum crowd, you (and now I myself, I guess) are all awesome. And Squad is just great: It will be great to be there for the arrival of KSP 1.0.

[Xacktar]

Welcome to the game! Keep that Tomzer safe and enjoy every unplanned disassembly. ^^