Click B whilst hovering over the Command Pod to bring out the menu and choose "Crew Report" then "Keep Report" From here you can collect the science and click on "Keep Report" (Big Green button with symbol of clipboard)Ĭrew Reports. Attach 2 of these to your Command Pod and when your in a certain area use the cursor to hover over it and Click B to open up the parts menu. To collect science in the beginning you have two methods These are the missions you need to be accepting early on! This way you save the rocket and not waste money) or escaping the atmosphere etc.
At the beginning you should have simple missions available (Note you can only activate 2 until you upgrade your facility!) like Testing the Flea rocket on the launch pad (Tip: Flip the rocket upside down using the D-pad or Triggers or lower it's thrust and Fuel by clicking B during assembly. Missions are your main source of money in the game. So your finally going to start playing, what's the first thing you should do?įirst thing you should do is visit Mission Control (it's the small building beside the Rocket Hangar). To have a fully functional and profitable Space Centre. In essence you want your career mode to end up being like sandbox mode, that in my books is a career win. Reputation give you better mission as you progress Money is used for building rockets and upgrading your buildings. Your aim however is to gain as much money, science and lastly reputation as possible In career mode there is no real end goal (that I know of, apart from unlocking all parts and upgrading all facilities). This is amazing for experienced players but for new players like you and I it's a bit overwhelming and can leave you feeling lost.
The first thing you need to know about career is that you're free to play however you like (it is a sandbox game after all) so there is no set path. Well if you're like me you will go into the hangar and waste all your money launching rockets into the atmosphere with no plan at all but hopefully you aren't.
When you start you will get some info text popping up showing you how to navigate the Space Centre and explaining what each building is (if you click on it) etc and that's it, after that you are left to fend for yourself. So you've done some training, done some studying and your ready to start your KSP career. Career mode will not hold your hand! It will chuck you into the deep end assuming you know how to play so playing through the first few tutorials is absolutely vital! It shows you stuff from basic building to flying, stuff you should know before embarking on career. Is your text too small or being squashed? You can scale it up!īefore you embark on your career you should really do the first 2 or 3 in game tutorials. If you have any further questions about controls feel free to ask! Study them! The control layout in Kerbal is a mess, I know, there are things I hope they change (for example LB and RB switching planets in Map Mode when LB and RB are the modifier buttons which have to be used constantly). (apologies, I couldn't find a Google Doc) So I thought I would make life easier for anyone who's looking for a bit of help in getting their career started by sharing the little knowledge I have of the game so far! Great, sounds perfect except like in true KSP fashion it does very little to explain to new comers what it is you have to do to progress. I thought the best solution would be to play career, you have to progress and unlock stuff as you go along which gives you time to familiarise yourself and build up towards the bigger, cooler stuff later on and not be overwhelmed by the 100's of parts you find in Sandbox. (Please keep in mind this was my first encounter ever with the game, never even seen videos of it until then). I, like many of you got the game this past week (Thursday 28th to be exact) and asoon as I started it up I was quite frankly lost. Do you want to be the next Neil Armstrong? Well you can't because this is not a cloning Facility.