The tutorials are pretty bad to be honest. The best way of learning the game is to muck around in sandbox mode and watch videos from scott manley on youtube. Seriously this is the best way of doing things, muck around and explode untill you get it right haha.

1. Kerbal Space Program Tutorial Stuck

And if you need help with getting things done and scott manley cant help you post of here and we can explain things as best we can. Also, when posting with issues etc make sure you include a pic as well. You could also try going to ksp properties and verifying the cashe, that fixes a few things.

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I've seen a few videos here and there on youtube, but I've never seriously played it in any capacity. I installed it last week on a whim, booted it up, and decided to have a go at it.

So I started with the tutorial 'training' missions, so I could actually learn how to play the damn thing before I went for career mode.I got through the first few fairly quickly. A few graphical glitches or confusing descriptions mixed in, but for the most part nothing I couldn't handle.Then came the evil training mission. The one that has left me stuck doing tutotials all of last week because it's so poorly outlined than I have no clue what the game actually wants from me, so I can't advance.I'm talking, of course, about the docking training mission.Let me explain what I'm talking about. Basically, the mission has you matching an orbit with another object. I can handle it.

Kerbal Space Program Tutorial Stuck

Altering your orbit to be coplaner with the other one? I've done it a million times. Transfer orbit?

That's where you start to lose me.I've restarted this tutorial 10 times now because I am unable to interpret what it wants me to do and what my point of success is.I've tried where I match up both the orange and the purple intersect icons with their counterparts, in such a way that the distance is. What you want to do at this point is to pull the prograde vector until the opposite side of your orbit is tangeant to the target orbit.

Microelectronics jacob milliman graebel moving company. You do not want to cross it like on your screenshots. If you are crossing it at a high angle, you will need a lot of fuel to match the actual orbit when you reach that intercept.If you do not get an intercept right away, change the timing of the maneuver by sliding it around your orbit (drag the white circle at the center). You can even timewarp a few orbits and see how the intersect distance changes. You should notice that since you're in a smaller orbit, your orbital period is shorter. So while your ship goes around the planet once, the target might only have time to go halfway around, for example.

Knowing this, you should be able to find a proper timing for an intercept maneuver.Also, I see you have 2 maneuvers on your screenshots, but you can do this part with a single maneuver. Actually, the 2 nodes might be the reason why the game doesn't recognize your maneuver as 'valid'. The first thing I see is that your intercept angle is too steep, this means your delta v between target and your ship are too high when the intercept happens.What you want to do is pull in your new orbit, in this case your apoapsis, so it just kisses the target orbit.

Then move the maneuver node around your current orbit until you get an intercept. If you can't find an intercept then just wait for a full orbit and try again.When you get an intercept close you can then tweak the orbit to make it closer. Doesn't matter if your orbit crosses then target orbit a little, you just want your intercept angle as small as possible and your intercept distance below about 10km.Basically you want a.This puts you close to your target with a low delta v that you can easily bring down to near 0 by burning or prograde to your orbit.

You can then keep your relative velocity low as you slowly approach the target. The trick here is to keep tweaking it as you get closer - I did this one fairly recently and actually found it annoying to do (I don't really struggle with rendezvous, I'm fairly experienced), it requires you to get within just a couple kilometers with the intercept (maybe even under 1km?)It's not too bad to do if you tweak it as you go, but don't do what you've done there (you've got two maneuver nodes), I think it only counts the first one. This might mean you have to make a change to where you need to be, then do your maneuver node.Please don't hesitate to let me know if you still struggle and I'll run through it again, see if I can identify where it is you're getting hung up better. 'I've tried this where I match up both the orange and the purple intersect icons with their counterparts'That's it, in that picture, where the two purple markers are close together.

That's an intercept. A better one than the tutorial is asking for.

You have been successful, but not realised it, for that is all the game is asking you to do. You now need to press the 'Next' button, where the game will presumably tell you the next step in making a rendezvous, which is likely how to make that intercept better.