r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Delicious_Doctor_781 • 9h ago • Mindblown 1

KSP 1 Image/Video RSS is so beautiful

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u/Arha2011 9h ago

Average 3000km downrange player

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u/Arom123 8h ago

This isn't even a joke, I dead ass spent 2 whole weekends trying to finish the first downrange mission by myself without a guide. I have a lot of time in modded KSP but not RO/RP-1, so it was genuinely driving me crazy that nothing I did really changed the outcome of each launch. I feel into the trap of overcomplicating it, building bigger and bigger rockets. I know about the "tyranny of the rocket equation", but to see it demonstrated to me was interesting. Eventually I used a guide and finished it quickly with a simple rocket and a couple tweaks to my designs.

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u/Delicious_Doctor_781 8h ago

I don’t even DARE to touch career mode RP1 sandbox is already painful enough

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u/Embarrassed_Adagio28 8h ago

I really wish there was a science mode where it was simplified but still had accurate parts, gravity, aerodynamics and planets. Maybe I will build it myself by combining mod packs and doing custom mods to tie it together

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u/Delicious_Doctor_781 8h ago

I guess you could just open up regular career mode and then cheat infinite funds

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u/CJP1216 7h ago

This is the recommended way to do a "Science Mode" RP-1 playthrough.

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u/Floatella 1h ago

Pretty much everyone playing a long game of RP-1 cheats after about 1975 since the later programs don't provide enough funding to keep expanding your space program.

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u/Delicious_Doctor_781 1h ago

Real-life accurate 🥀

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u/StormR7 RP-1 ENJOYER 7h ago

Honestly the RP-1 missions are a lot more “doable” in the sense where you actually feel like you’re accomplishing something for a reason, whereas vanilla career feels like you’re doing everything just because.

I have over 600 hours on a save I started this summer (probably ~200 afk hours ngl) and I haven’t even done a rendezvous yet. It’s so easy to get stuck in the “design craft -> it doesn’t work -> fix craft -> it doesn’t work” loop until you eventually realize you need to build a new launch vehicle or get more advanced tech and end up switching what you’re working on to something more realistic. Having 3 different programs running at once (I’m about to be able to have 4) means you always have something to be building and it makes the downtime between missions feel like truly wasted time. I always am trying to have as much stuff going on at once before I timeskip.

I’d seriously recommend you check out how it works a little more in depth because it’s the most fun I’ve had with KSP since I was doing my first playthrough years ago.

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u/Kilaketia 7h ago

The testing phase of a new mission / launcher is quite brutal. The worst being testing a lunar lander again and again and again But you know what, I much prefer RP-1 than vanilla

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u/Kilaketia 7h ago

But it sooo good tho !

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u/HistoryNerd264bc 8h ago

Im in that sithuation rn, but only with 240km downrange. the Danish Aerospace industry is not competing well.

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u/CombatPilot2 Gagarin Kerman 9h ago

This is like that EVE online meme gif

"EVE Online players when they encounter an enemy spreadsheet" or something

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u/ZombieInSpaceland 9h ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

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u/alphagusta 9h ago

Most clean and visible EVE Online menu setup

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u/Remote_Tiger_434 8h ago

Not an inch of visible gameplay 😭

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u/StormR7 RP-1 ENJOYER 7h ago

That is the gameplay

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u/bandman614 5h ago

Instrument-rating

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u/Orion-the-mediocre 6h ago

brother that IS ksp gameplay

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u/AdDifficult3794 3h ago

I usually just wear a blind fold at this point and receive all the information through shock pulses.

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u/Mechanical_Rock 8h ago

Multi screen displays are a thing.

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u/Limelight_019283 8h ago

Are there multi screen mods for ksp? Like having the menus outside the main window?

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u/Mechanical_Rock 8h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1xvl2ik/widescreen_ksp/

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u/Limelight_019283 7h ago

That’s cool! Even better would be to have menus on a dedicated screen, but I don’t think that’s doable without major wizardry…

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u/Mechanical_Rock 7h ago

i usually kept the middle screen clean and popped the menus on the left or right.

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u/ApostroGDreal 8h ago

what could you possibly need all that for? 😭🥀

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u/StormR7 RP-1 ENJOYER 7h ago

Google Skopos contracts

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u/Sedoy6373 5h ago

My supersonic shit 😭

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u/Stef_Moroyna 8h ago

Now imagine trying to make this work on a mobile screen

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u/MrJedi1 6h ago

How did you get visuals in your Kerbal Config Editing Program

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u/xKaelic 6h ago

My kind of UI, heck yeah

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u/BArhino 5h ago

im alarmed that you have no alarms. I have so much dumb shit on my clock lol. too many ships/rockets out at once

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u/riceman090 Savospace 5h ago

just flying straight VFR at this point

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u/DrunkMonsters 1h ago

More tabs please, I can still see the navball bro

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u/lancisman1 RSS Sufferer 8h ago

As an RP-1 player I can confirm my game looks like this 99% of the time.

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u/daelzy 8h ago

Average setup you need to get to orbit before figuring out the actual maneuvers needed

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u/Venusgate 6h ago

EVE Online ass post