The Fun Thread: Where we chill out about gameplay styles, modded, debugged, and otherwise

[Accelerando]

I'm sick of people pinching off a fat, smelly new thread every week or month or whatever about whether a particular feature, mod, debug tool, or anything else besides the stock game is or may be "cheating". With that in mind, I'd like to start a thread where we talk about the fun we have playing our games the way we enjoy them. I'm a mostly-stock player myself, simply because I'm not very patient with mods, but that certainly doesn't bar me from enjoying modded gameplay every now and then nor from "comprehending" how others can play with or without mods whatsoever. I admire RSS players, and I also muchly appreciate that sometimes a person can want to just go somewhere and putter about space without any messing with various challenges or obstacles. Sightseeing is just fine, too.

With this in mind, feel free to share screenshots, stories, etc. what have you, and mod/packs or techniques you use if you use them; as well as why you enjoy that playstyle if you would like to talk about that as well. I'll start off with some examples from my own library. I rarely play myself these days, but here's a vessel I made in FAR once, long ago.

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I've always liked the sleek-and-also-squat look of Phil Bono's SSTO lifters with their plug-nozzle engines and their shell of drop-tanks, and the hills-and-valleys look of the blisters on the Soviet N1, so I wanted to make a lifter using those principles and aesthetics that could do some medium-heavy lifting in KSP. Used FAR and a number of other mods, including Dani-Sang's fairings.

Although you, the reader, are by no means pressured to talk about why you enjoy certain gameplay styles, I'll also put my own thoughts in as an example. I enjoy FAR largely because I like puttering around space at times without having to worry so much about building a suitable launcher; I can light off and be bound for the stars on one stage without as much trouble. There is some engineering involved, to be sure, but it's a fine experience focusing on building stuff for operations in space, too.

I'm not expecting miracles, but perhaps having our reasons for playing the way we do, for ourselves, out in the open, we can begin to defuse at least some of the vast powder keg that people debating about whether or not someone's gameplay style is or isn't "good" because it's more or less "casual".

EDIT: whoops, critical album failure.

EDIT 2: There we go!

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Oh hi, anonymous mod.

Since I don't seem to have been clear enough, this isn't just a place for people to put up their screenshots; it's meant to be somewhere out in the open where people can safely talk about the gameplay styles they enjoy using. Just because I didn't want people to feel pressured into talking about it doesn't mean this thread ought to be moved to the proverbial graveyard, as it were. Obviously I can't change your decision, but I would very much implore you to reconsider, as I think this thread is very much relevant to KSP discussion.

I'd also like to note that the "What did you do in KSP today?" and "This Will Not End Well" threads seem to be doing just fine in KSP General Discussion. What am I supposed to change here?

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Never mind. Thanks!

Edited February 3, 2015 by Accelerando
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[problemecium]

Is that... is that the LAUNCH TOWER?!? WHERE DID YOU GET IT GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEE

[Rolanvorxariat]

Is that... is that the LAUNCH TOWER?!? WHERE DID YOU GET IT GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEE

he is doing it in a old version. i can tell by the grass color, the small glimpse of the space center, and the mun texture.

[Starwhip]

*sniff*

I can't clicky the images because of the caption...

Wait, I'm an idiot, there's a big "NEXT" button on the side... XD

Are you sure that it's an old version? The pad looks new.

[Norpo]

I tend to do one major mission at a time (see signature), and I like piloting AND careful engineering, but my favourite part might be mission planning. I enjoy mods, but nothing that makes it TOO hard, I like to move at a fast pace. (Besides, Moho is enough of a problem, especially with those heavy MKS/OKS modules, geez)

I plan on trying 6.4x scale Kerbol with casual-realism mods (Like TAC and FAR) once i'm done with Scorched Kerbin (whenever that is), just to try it out.

Also, sandbox instead of career until career is reasonably finished and less grindy.