What was the First thing you did when you got KSP?

[michaelsteele3]

I think mine was looking at one tutorial, then purposely crashed for the fun of it.

[Tex]

I launched a rocket to see what it would do, THEN I learned how to play the game

[JimmyAgent007]

Well I played the demo for a bit and then threw my monies at the screen. Once that was done I kept burning straight up when the mun was overhead because thats how orbits work, you burn directly at your target as fast as you can. Lots of crashing along the way because it wouldnt let me stay in space once I finally got up there.

[Renegrade]

I went straight to launching rockets, no tutorials for me. Took me a little while to figure out the 'tree' organization of rockets and proper strut usage.. was always trying to double up decouplers or such to no avail, heh.

[RainDreamer]

I do the tutorial like a sensible person. Then I messed up the munar landing a few times and I was like, screw this, gonna figure it out later. Then I start launching kerbals to space.

...I don't think I will have a career as mission director.

[KN_Namida]

First thing I ever did in KSP as soon as it launched?

Mk1 pod + SRB + spacebar. That's what I did. And that's more or less how the first week went experimenting a bit with the SRBs before moving on to the liquid fuel ones.

[michaelsteele3]

First thing I ever did in KSP as soon as it launched?

Mk1 pod + SRB + spacebar. That's what I did. And that's more or less how the first week went experimenting a bit with the SRBs before moving on to the liquid fuel ones.

A whole week with nothing but SRB's? I can hardly imagine...

[pincushionman]

Launched. Realized my chutes were on the same stage as my engine as my rocket flipped out just off the pad. Crashed.

[worir4]

I got to the Mun using only SRBs and RCS fuel to land it. I didn't know how to throttle up liquid fuel engines.

[Geredis]

Blew something up. Mostly unintentionally. Killed Jeb, then launched a second mission, only to again have Jeb in the pod.

I was confused.

[FleetAdmiralJ]

I'm pretty sure I built a nice rocket, press space, and found my parachute flailing in the wind, crashing me immediately

[Randazzo]

I'm pretty sure I built a nice rocket, press space, and found my parachute flailing in the wind, crashing me immediately

[klgraham1013]

I think I built the biggest rocket I've built to date. It didn't get past 10km. Then I went on YouTube to learn how to play.

[michaelsteele3]

I'm pretty sure I built a nice rocket, press space, and found my parachute flailing in the wind, crashing me immediately

But really, that happens to me even today.

[Pseudo Gold]

A whole week with nothing but SRB's? I can hardly imagine...

Well there was a plan to put a man on the moon back in the 30's using nothing but solid rockets, but they couldn't go ahead as it was in Britain during WW2.

Scott Manley did a video explaining this and demonstrating it in KSP:

OT: I'd watched a bunch of tutorials before I go the full version. Prior to that (when I played the demo a lot) I couldn't get into orbit, but couldn't figure out why. When I got the full game, I think I tried a Mun mission and failed incredibly.

Then again, I have tried to land on the Mun with ion engines before now.

Edited February 12, 2015 by Pseudo Gold

[vixr]

Yeah, I spent a few hours learning about KSP thru the scenarios, then watched a few (all of them) Scott Manley vids...Built a rocket, roared into the heavens...didnt look back.

[Xaver]

I had built an enormus rocket with solid booster as engines and wonder why it stop burning after a 60 sec :-D

aah these 0.15 days...

[justidutch]

The first thing I did when I got KSP was install it.

The next thing I did was realize, numerous times, that this game is not easy. Like some of the other dudes posting here, it took more than one effort to discover that placing a pod on top of an SRB is not necessarily going to get you into orbit, let alone to mün.

The exploderisms were quite enjoyable though. For me, maybe not so much for Jeb and Bill and Bob and...

[michaelsteele3]

Well there was a plan to put a man on the moon back in the 30's using nothing but solid rockets

...

Hmm... Somebody should actually make a challenge out of this! Land on the Mun with nothing but SRB's

[aleis]

I built a giant monstrosity then found out I didn't know how to throttle up. This being before 50% power at spawn

- - - Updated - - -

...

Hmm... Somebody should actually make a challenge out of this! Land on the Mun with nothing but SRB's

The ubiquitous Scott Manly did the Munn_minmus-return all with the small srbs....

[PB666]

I do not remember what i did first, the rocket stuff was easy, and i think I ran a few orbital transfers.

However on my first day I clearly remember trying to get Jeb back into a space craft that kept running away from me.

"Come here little space craft, be a good little space craft and stop spinning" The music was starting to get on my nerves

and I was thinking, there is not sound in space, so why is this $#@& music. No matter what I did it would quickly go the opposite direction.

I remember being incredibly disoriented, and eventually ran out of EVA fuel a couple of times, Jeb lost hopelessly floating in the blackness of space.

I knew nothing about the "[" and "]" keys the light function . . . . .

EVAs are still get the pulse rate up, the second I'm off the ship I am thinking....

- do I have the right angle is the ingame rotation limits going to interfere with landing

- what is dTheta/T of the orbit how much time do I have before I am going the wrong direction?

- do I need to rotate my ship (and did I place a remote control unit on the ship)?

- are there obstructions that can interfere with grabbing

I also remember the lander thinking, what an overengineered lander for the Mun, that was until I tried to land. lol. Poof.

My epic and quality posts will be quickly forgotten by everyone except N. Korea, Spammers and the NSA.

[samiamthelaw]

Hmm... Somebody should actually make a challenge out of this! Land on the Mun with nothing but SRB's

It pops up on the Challenges board now and again.

[dryer_lint]

I drove around the KSC using rover parts.

Yeah.

[Denks]

I killed like 4 Kermans at once in a rocket. Then I had to restart in a new one because one of them was Jeb.

[espenrik]

I built a rocket and crashed it.

It was back in 0.8 or so.

The crashes are more spectacular now, but not so frequent.