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[Frigidman™]

Good lord how does one play Kerbal Space Program???

I was testing the game out shortly from our build on MGS (to see if it did in fact run ok on 10.6.8 as advertised), and thought 'well I'll give it a shot for an hour'... uh. Holy crap.

If I buy this for my game rig (PC), I kind of want to know what I would be getting into, and ... well ... "how do you play this?!" Maybe I should stick with what I know, and not venture into something like this? Or, is there a more fun side of this serious physics teachers tool?

[ipickert55]

Youtube Tutorials.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Ppft.. Manuals. Were you born around year 2000?

[Frigidman™]

Well, those are all fine and good, but, is the game actually any real FUN to play? Or is it just a physics geek fiddle widget?

[macdude22]

I managed to get into space once.

Only once.

[nick68k]

It's been a while since I played, but the trick is to incorporate an automatic stabiliser thingy (not the correct name) when you build your stack.

I found it tremendous fun, although I never got further than low Kerbal orbit and back again.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Frigidman™, on 05 June 2015 - 05:43 AM, said:

Well, those are all fine and good, but, is the game actually any real FUN to play? Or is it just a physics geek fiddle widget?

But physics *are* the fun part....

[Cougar]

Scott Manley has some great tutorials on YouTube. He's an astronomer so you get to learn Cool Space Facts while learning the game. He also has a great Scottish accent.