So I love super complex games and have always been curious about KSP - but how much of the game is experimenting with weird stuff and how much is just copying builds from guides and stuff?
so far I have done all of this by myself without looking at any builds (you can see my rocket in the ksp thread). It just depends if you want to follow a build or not.
That depends on whether or not you use guides. If you wanted, you could download mechjeb+a rocket capable of going anywhere, tell mechjeb to fly it there*, and it would go there. Alternatively, you could not download KSP and get a similar experience.
Whether or not you use guides is up to you. I would recommend using the following:
The ingame tutorials. (I think they've been updated as of .24 and are now even more helpful)
Wikipedia's pages on rocket science/orbital mechanics**
*I think. I've never actually used mechjeb but I hear it does everything for you.
**Most of those things you can figure out on your own and it feels much better than if you looked them up (For example, I discovered bi-elliptic transfers on the way back from the mun when I didn't have the fuel for a hohmann transfer and it was glorious), but some things you should know going in, for example, the tsiolkovsky rocket equation. (Not that you'll necessarily be plugging in numbers, but it helps to have an idea of what affects your delta-v in what way)
Who said that?
Chamber. It's all a conspiracy.
Or is it?
you guys are too smart for me. I just add thrusters and bracers till the ducid thing flies. Which is the fun part. i vastly prefer the designing to the piloting.
I think the first time i landed on mun i had 16 solid fuel boosters. With 8 firing in the first stage.
And i have no idea what those words you guys are saying mean. But i made it to the mun and back. yay me. might start playing again in which case i may ask for science-y help
As the king of all cosmos remarked "is it really fun? or that it let's you forget yourself?"
aceofspades is the worst poster on site and anyone that hasn't got him on ignore is doing themselves a disservice ~N
V/LA weekends
I have a ton of unclaimed keys I might as well give to people here, PM me if you want any of these:
FLY'N
BIT.TRIP.RUNNER
KAMI
The Longest Journey
[i'm too lazy to link any steam game pages myself so look stuff up i guess.]
[and i'm not link-dumping because i'm paranoid of bots coming and stealing links.]
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So for a while me and the Fallout series have been like skew lines, but I think I want to get into it. I see they are all on Steam; how and where should I start?
There will be no kisses tonight
There will be no holding hands tonight
'Cause what is now wasn't there before and should not be
In post 1165, Chevre wrote:So for a while me and the Fallout series have been like skew lines, but I think I want to get into it. I see they are all on Steam; how and where should I start?
Fallout 1 is amazing; it's one of the best RPGs ever, IMHO.
Fallout 2 is a little weirder; the gameplay is improved, but the story is a bit more tongue in cheek, introduces a lot of the weirder elements of the franchise, and has the worst tutorial section ever.
Fallout 3 is something of a dividing line in the fandom; it's very different from the first two in story and playstyle- I think the gameplay is fine (though it's basically Oblivion with guns), but the story is the weakest of the series.
Fallout: New Vegas is great; it's an improvement on Fallout 3's gameplay and has a much improved story line- as an RPG, I'd say it's second in the series, behind only the original.
The spinoff games you shouldn't really bother with at all.
One time, back in 'nam, Sudo was set upon by an entire squadron of charlies. He challenged them all to a game of Pictionary, which he won resoundingly. The charlies were forced to not only surrender the skirmish, but also their world-famous chili recipe, which Sudo sold to Texas for a hefty profit. Sudo is a master of diplomacy.
I've been thinking about trying to put together a Team Scum streaming group on Hitbox... might be cool to do regular streams/schedules of different games with different personalities.