Kerbal Space Program

I finally got out of the atmosphere recently. My angle is pretty retarded though. I need to pitch around before I run out of thrust to achieve orbit. As it is I have a sharp arc that puts me planetside eventually.

I did go for a spacewalk though. That was...dull.

I'm like, multi-stage now, which is awesome. I have a bunch of solid boosters that I kick off and start the main engine, then that releases and I have another. I think the last is overkill, but the vessel is stable, so I may as well keep it. I have no idea how I'm going to build a lander. I guess I'll look into it once I can swing past the moon.

I discovered my 6-pack of solid fuel rockets as my first stage just blows up in a glorious fireball 2/3 of the time. Shooting that poor guy into solar orbit seems to be a bit of a fluke.

I'm experimenting with liquid-fuel now which is interesting but still in eary stages. Doesn't feel as awesome as strapping lots of solid rockets to something.

I got into orbit, almost. I had an orbit, but I didn't quite manage to fix my arc and I came into around 33k elevation at the low point (after swinging around the planet about 90%). As I entered atmosphere I lost a LOT of speed and fell in the water. So with a few minor corrections I could be stable.

I'm going to break down and watch a few videos for infoz. I want really basic mechanics info like, if I lower my throttle, am I saving fuel? I can't tell, but I haven't experimented much. The gulf of ignorance I have as I sacrifice dozens of kerbals is really irritating me.

It seems like lower throttle saves fuel to me. Dropping back to 3/4 seems to show a pretty substantial economy increase from 100%. But of course you need to maintain enough thrust to move you the direction you need.

Liquid fuel is what I use most of the time. It's definitely not as entertaining, but they seem more efficient to me.

Thanks for the links Phoenix. Learned a few things about the UI so far. My immediate goal is ~80k orbit at ~2300 speed. I didn't really have a numerical goalpost before, more of a "make the blue line go around the planet" one.

I r want career mode. Having no monetary boundaries irks me. I like structure.

This is up on Steam now!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...lable-on-Steam

Q: If I've already bought the game on the KSPStore, can I switch over to Steam?
A: The answer to that is Yes, but not right now. We are going to set up a system on our store where you'll be able to get a Steam key for KSP provided you already have purchased the game. However, we are still working on the exact details of this feature, so it'll likely be a while until that's set up. We'll of course let you know when that becomes available

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Just picked this up over the weekend. It is way more addicting then I thought it would be at first glance. Getting into orbit, and hell, getting to Mun or Minmus orbit wasn't that hard after poking around on youtube a bit, but fuck me if I can actually land without making a glorious explosion.

Russians playing this shit in real life:

For the first day or so after that happened, the top comment on the various videos of it were something like "Needs more struts", "Mechjeb bugged?" and so on.

And in other news: Everybody get up, it's time to slam now

Haven't played, but a bunch of my buddies are addicted and it's hilarious watching them kill the little guys who just smile unknowingly.

Did they ever add a "campaign" mode with resource spending? IIRC last I checked everything had "cost" labels but no resource/currency was actually implemented. Not sure if they ever really planned to flesh that out.

Campaign mode is still not added.

I want a game like Minecraft where you gather resources, with a tech tree like Civilization with a space race and planet colonization using Kerbal Space Program.

Make it happen, someone.

That would be one hell of a mmo and not hard to pull off with minecraftian graphics (more like cubeworld actually). Not sure if this is the right place to continue this but my armchairdev inner self is already full of ideas.