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I've been playing Kerbal Space Program for the past few weeks, with increasing levels of addiction. I've just managed my first successful docking, and am already planning on a orbital refuelling station to help Kerbalkind boldly go where no Kerbal has gone before!

Are there are other KSP players here? If so, what have you managed to achieve, and how many Kerbals have you lost doing it?

Kerbal is massively fun and addicting.

I also find it challenging. Getting to Mun is hard. Getting to Minmus was easier and it's farther away!

It will be interesting once it is fully released. I am interested to see how you gain money to keep buying parts. I imagine it will be tied to the science points you gain.

KSP is neat in that you can just start it up anytime when you've got a few minutes on your hand, even whilst you're chatting with someone.

I'm currently thinking about putting a station into orbit myself. After wasting quite a number of rockets (and Kerbals) on just launching stuff into space, I finally managed to get a satellite into a stable orbit, so now a space station seems like the next logical step!
For the moment, I'm just having trouble getting sufficient lifting power for all that tonnage.

Think this will be enough?


Also, I'm presenting to you: the world's first spin-stabilised passenger capsule (economy version)

I have dubbed it the Transorbital Rapid Ascension Pod (aka it's a TRAP)

Impressive!

I recently mastered one of the most difficult skills in KSP docking! Once you can do that, orbital refuelling becomes a possibility, and I'm assembling a station core in a 100km orbit at the moment...

I've just tried the demo version of KSP. And while the controls are a bit cumbersome at first it's quite entertaining.

The newer full version seems to be much improved as well. I am tempted to buy it even though it's still an early access game.

Well, it doesn't cost much, and the vastly expanded range of modules makes it a lot more fun to build.

Also, can you believe I only found out yesterday how to rotate stuff in the construction hall?

*Insert shameless plug of my brother's channel here*

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrBananaCoffee