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This is the most fun single-player experience I have ever had, bar none. It should be a mandatory part of the curriculum for high school physics courses, as I w
by keithwhor 14y ago
This is the most fun single-player experience I have ever had, bar none. It should be a mandatory part of the curriculum for high school physics courses, as I wish I had been able to experience something like this when I was that age. Orbital mechanics can be a little bit counterintuitive on first glance, but the sense of reward this game provides for, well, understanding physics, is just phenomenal.
In an earlier build the sun (Sol) was just a single point gravity well, and I spent hours trying to figure out how to manipulate the simulator and the gravity well to accelerate my Kerbals to breakneck speeds. Think the best I got was 0.1c (and completely flung out of the solar system).
I'm glad to see they've added plenty more planets and other celestial objects to interact with. Highly recommend this.
- AUmrysh 14y agoI agree that kerbal should be part of a High School education. I also think that Garry's Mod with WireMod should be part of trigonometry and electronics/programming. I honed my trig by building tracking bots that followed a specified player. Without trig it still would have been possible, but it's so much easier to do it the trig way. Fun and play should be a part of learning, without them learning becomes a rather dull and boring task of spewing back the memorized rules/formulas without a deep understanding of why or how to use them.