• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    57
    ·
    1 day ago

    Ugh. I fought stages so hard in kerbal, that everyone I showed my rockets to recoiled in disgust. It’s not my fault, guys! I have a pathological repulsion of ‘wasting’ items!

    • vithigar@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      30
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Does the extra fuel you used hauling around your entire launch vehicle not count as waste?

      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 day ago

        Yes, but I don’t think I’ve ever gotten past the 90 research cost mark, so I was always a little gimped in my approaches. One day I’ll buckle down and really get into it. I’ll need to find that research mod that makes it not so painful though.

        • Gladaed@feddit.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          1 day ago

          The base research is trivial. Just do the random missions. They give so much in return, it’s ridiculous.

          • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            23 hours ago

            I just like building my initial crawler with like eight of every sensor to go around the space complex. I always thought that was a great bit of game planning on their part.

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 day ago

      Ok, did you ever feel regret when realizing how many items you wasted going for that approach? Just use a reusable booster stage.

      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        1 day ago

        Well, see, that’s the thing! I put enough parachutes on, AND made sure I could hit the atmo enough to slowly drag my velocity down to an entry arc, AND had enough fuel to keep my velocity low enough at that point, that I never lost any parts, landed them all and recovered!

        I was a horrible designer.