Some good starting mods?

[rcwarfare]

I've just gotten the game and I want some mods, I was wondering what good, arcade-styled, and fun to mess around with mods there are.

[Dazpoet]

I found most of my starting mods by just scrolling around the forums but some ones I can't seem to live without are Procedural fairing, KW Rocketry (although I hear there are other packs like RLA, NovaPunch and AIES that are equally awesome, more a matter of taste it seems), SCANsat and FAR.

I'd recommend you try out CKAN for easy mod handling http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/100067-The-Comprehensive-Kerbal-Archive-Network-%28CKAN%29-Package-Manager-v1-5-0-24-Dec-2014 and there you can also easily read quick, short, descriptions of mods and it handles dependencies

[lincourtl]

Arcade styled? You were expecting powerups, maybe?

For me FAR, Deadly Reentry, Real Chute, and ScanSat are essential.

[rcwarfare]

No, I mean like easy, or just additions, nothing like Deadly Reentry.

[StrandedonEarth]

Helpful info mods are Kerbal Alarm Clock (never warp past a maneuver node again), Kerbal Engineer Redux (provides dV and TWR info on your rocket, and more) or VOID (KER lite with some more situational info, with a nice HUD), Trajectories, Chatterer (just provides radio chatter sounds and nothing else), one of the Docking Alignment Indicators (either Navball or NavyFish). Science Funding provides mo' money! That's all I use.

Happy Flying!

[SmashBrown]

Kerbal Engineer, KAS, Alarm clock, Chatterer, and if you can run it, astronomers visual pack (i can't with all the other mods i have running).

[Seeker89]

Mechjeb makes things easy