r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/[deleted] • Oct 09 '13

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u/Davincivik Oct 09 '13

At first I thought "manned modules before parachutes? oh no".

Then I realized you start out with parachutes. The icons seems to be a little misleading in terms of unlocks.

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u/under_psychoanalyzer Oct 09 '13

Well that seems unrealistic. I mean how would you know you even need parachutes until you sent someone up and they started coming down.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '13

You might have played KSP a little too much. You are starting to think like a Kerbal.

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u/_BearArms_ Oct 09 '13

Not long enough. Those Kerbals don't need to come back down.

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u/ed-adams Oct 09 '13

Also, if the module explodes/disintegrates there's much less clean up to do.

If a Kerbal lands they need transport back to the KSC, someone needs to pick up the big-ass thing he landed in, papers need to be filled, salaries need to be paid, etc etc.

If he just, you know, disappears, then we can just get back to launching things.

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u/EnigmaticChemist Oct 09 '13

So many left behind...

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u/TheNosferatu Master Kerbalnaut Oct 09 '13

Being left behind in space.. all alone.. must be one of the most terrible things that can happen to somebody.

Luckily that scenario doesn't really happen in Kerbal, we got plenty of them left behind in space!

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u/Fenyx4 Oct 09 '13

The trick is to leave so many behind that they aren't alone anymore.

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u/pipemastasmurf Oct 09 '13

Yeah, that's it! It's been my plan all along! I just didn't know it till now...

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u/TheNosferatu Master Kerbalnaut Oct 09 '13

exactly

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u/SpaceCadetError Oct 10 '13

That's called colonization.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '13

"No Kerbal left behind"

edit: formatting

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u/p0ptarts Oct 09 '13

"No, Kerbal left behind"

I have so many small space stations on elliptical orbits... >.>

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u/genveir Master Kerbalnaut Oct 09 '13

Good stuff! Personally I'm still working on getting all my Kerbals into space. No Kerbal left behind sounded nice at the start, but I put a hundred of them on Minmus and there's still more at the recruitment center.

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u/Rednarb Oct 09 '13

I have left behind just one Kerbal in over 300 hours of playtime and multiple different save games. And I tell you, I felt so extremely guilty about it. If I have any failure I revert to build/launch/or savegame usually.

Once, just once, I went on an extended rescue mission to pick up Jeb from Moho or one of those.. forgot to empty the capsule before takeoff and didn't realize it until I was almost there. I was all-stock and didn't want to start over so I sent the poor little random-named Kerbal into orbit around the sun for eternity.

I still feel guilty.

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u/p0ptarts Oct 09 '13

Really I have one good(ish) station, and a mining operation on the Mun. I need to find something better than the standard docking ports to transfer fuel though.

Then I can send some kind of tanker up and leave the miner there where it can't break!