Anyone (else) play Kerbal Space Program?

[leopard]

...


Well, do ya?

[Wave]

Tealstone, myself, and a few others have it. I don't play it that often lately, tho.

[Jaxter]

I play it sometimes, not reacently though

[leopard]

I've been (re)playing .23 since the career mode came out.
I keep wondering if/when someone will make a decent multiplayer mod!

I'll probably add on Interstellar and Kethane once I've finished the regular tech progression.

The hardest thing in the game as bee getting back from the surface of Eve (at sea level). Phew.

[Tealstone]

It's fun to play, but I'm kind of stupid, so I really need to watch more tutorials on how to shift between orbits once you're out in space.

[Ragman33]

I play it frequently. Not very good at it. But I can make a great plane.

[jive]

I love KSP! I've got a heavily modded space program going on right now with hardmode type stuff like RemoteTech, Deadly Reentry, Life Support, and stuff like that. I love building satellite networks, space stations (especially in the Joolian system), and SSTO spaceplanes.

Leopard, they're actually baking in multiplayer to the vanilla game right now. It won't be in .24, but maybe .25 or .26.

Teal, if you're looking for good tutorials, Scott Manley is probably the best. He has a series up right now about how to get through career mode and it gives you step-by-step basics about the game, including orbital manoevers: http://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg/videos

Edit:

I've been thinking about adding RasterPropMonitor mod to my game too, so I can do some IVA docking and landing. Anything to make the game harder gives me an opportunity to learn more cool stuff!

I almost feel a little bored in the game now. I was showing it to my girlfriend and talking about how hard it is, and I made a spacecraft and docked it to a space station I had in LKO in like 10 minutes, and she said "Well, that didn't look that hard" =( But... but...

[leopard]

I've made so many planes...

I have one which is now my favorite: It is an SSTO that is fairly light (11.88 tons) and simple (~40 parts including RCS tanks, nozzles, docking ring, etc): it can get to Minimus orbit and back again (barely), and it is nearly impossible to lose control of.

I've never had another spaceplane that was so easy to fly-- most are quite happy to flat-spin or have other annoying handling characteristics.

I have a VTOL SSTO, but I find the VTOL part is basically never worthwhile, at least on Kerbin. Tail-first VTOL is pretty useful for landing on moons.


@Tealstone:
As jive has said, Scott Manley's videos are really great!

I (also) suggest you add the 'MechJeb" add-on and play in sandbox mode with it. It does a good job of teaching you how to do various things so long as you watch the maneuver nodes that it creates. I admit I picked up a fair bit by doing that.
Mechjeb also does a good job of removing much of the tedium of the game.

@jive: Cool! It will be great to do multiplayer KSP.

[EchoSeven]

So is it worth it? I've been considering it, but an pretty deep into XCOM Enemy Within right now..

[leopard]

I think so!