Fly dear Kerbals .. FLY !!! Sun coming up over Kerbal whilst the little green men go for orbit. Kerbals enjoying a sun bath whilst transitiong to the Mun which is above the sun
Go Kerbals GO !! (i hope they don't share the fate of their brethren )
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Definitely a fun little game with realistic physics put in.
The current version is 14.4 IIRC and it has some significant improvements and big fixes over the free version. Not to mention all the community mods are compatible with the latest version. The community are making quite some spectacular stuff !
Version 15 is currently in development and the dev log looks impressive + docking should not be too far away. Additional planets are in progress as well.
I like it because half the fun is making a ship to do what you want from it and playing with its design until it finally works.
There is community addons like "mechjeb" that can make travel quite precise. But i also like the raw aspect of it aswell without mechjeb, trying to control the craft to touchdown where you want it to. Then get back with your kerbals with hopefully enough fuel on board.
Its a great little game and i though it good value at the full price of 15usd$ (though you can have a lot of fun just with the trial version)
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I just bought the game but CANNOT download it! I payed with Paypal but get no link for download and it is also NOT in my purchased list in my KSP store profile! This sucks!!! Payed 15USD for it! I already mailed them about it with the Paypal receip, I wonder how long it takes for them to fix that!
FIXED! They helped me in a quick way and got the latest version now and still on discovery! Great fun!!
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Reading the How To section of the KSP forum will help a lot. The basic controls are very easy. Building a stable rocket and flying it to where you want to.. not so easy.
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Its pretty easy to get hang of all the controls and the map view is very intuitive for getting yourself to the Mun.
Little tricks to get to the mun.
Click to reveal..
Mun orbit is 90 degrees so taking off from space center you want to rotate in the plane of 90 to sync with mun
I usually transtition from Kerbal orbit to Mun when Mun is just about to crest the horizon of kerbin.
Periapsis is the fastest your craft will fly in any orbit and is the closest point to the object you are orbiting Apoapsis is the slowest your craft will fly in any orbit and is the farthest point to the object you are orbiting (i hope i have those two the right way round) prograde burn will extend the opposite side of the orbit retrograde burn will shrink the opposite side of the orbit. building the biggest rocket possible is mostly a deathtrap to kerbals. SRB(Solid rocket boosters) have no throttle control. Its all or nothing when lit.
Please post pics of your kerbals !!
Edited by bogusheadbox (04/20/1208:30 PM)
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