Hello everyone and Hello KSA!

[moeggz]

Hi all! I'm happy to introduce myself to this brand new community, I have been a fan of spaceflight as long as I can remember. I didn't watch too many shuttle launches live but i did follow the program. It was really with the first Falcon Heavy launch (and landing) that my spaceflight interest became an obsession as I began to feel hope to see humans advance spaceflight beyond LEO within my lifetime. I had been playing KSP since 2014 so it was fun to explain some of orbital mechanics and booster landing to my friends and family.

Go is another one of my big interests. I first heard about it during Alpha Go's games against Lee Sedol. I highly recommend it to fans of chess or abstract strategy games. I'm usually either deep into a Go obsession or into one of a handful of video games. I'll rotate through these interests and occasionally pick up a new videogame that lasts, while most I'll only play once. Currently I'm playing Silksong, and while I love the game I won't return to it after I beat it, Satisfactory, Minecraft, The Long Dark, Civ V, and of course KSP are games that I frequently return to.

Outside of videogames I enjoy mountainbiking, snowboarding, and hikes. I love nonfiction reading as well, usually on a topic I've not even thought about before and just losing myself in the entire worlds of thought, making, and learning that I would otherwise never encounter. In fiction I like scifi or classic fantasy. I've worked a variety of roles like at a ski resort on the slopes, in HVAC, as a tour guide, as a scheduler in the medical field (where i was promoted to a new position, optimized and automated 90% of it and then promptly demoted back down, lesson learned lol) but currenly am setttled down for the last 6 years working at a small business in sales as I have children to provide for.

I'm really excited for KSA and hope it opens up many more people to spaceflight and engeneering. Forums are easier for me to read and understand that the torrent of conversations that is Discord, and I hope that this site (that will appear in google searches unlike Discord) helps many people not just in their upcoming KSA journeys, but in their education and learning about spaceflight as well. Thank you RocketWerkz for carrying the baton from KSP and for hosting this site.

 

[Leo]

Woo! I cant wait for KSA either.

 

[Gigfiz]

I agree about forums over discord, and am so glad they made a new, official forum.

Been meaning to sign up here for while, ever since it opened, but finally got around to it today, and randomly seeing your name, which I remembered from the old ksp forum, as I went to register, is what inspired me to use the same name that I did back there.

I hope, as time goes on, we'll see more old faces (I'm blanking on some names but, for example, I would love to see K^2 show up here. Their programming and dev knowledge and experience was always really interesting and informative) showing up here

 

[moeggz]

Looks like we commented on each other posts simultaneously! yeah familiar names are slowly moving over here. I’m hoping we can get all the best people from that community over here, and I’m hoping as the game progresses and shows reason for optimism more will be convinced.

Glad to see you over here as well and here’s to hoping 2026 is the best year for this genre of game in a long time!

 

[Gigfiz]

Hard agree to all of that!

Ok, yeah, that's hilarious. I actually got confused, briefly, because it seemed like you had replied basically instantly; took me a second to figure out that it was because you replied to my post right as I was writing something on yours.

 

[Spaceman3d]

Hello new Memb... wait that guy insn't new here.
Totally agree with Forums beeing better than Discord, its like a VERY crouded place over there, you loose track very quickly. Here its a more quiet place.. maybee too quiet

 

[Gigfiz]

Yeah, I made my own introduction post, but also wrote something here around the same time, just to bump it and confuse people .

It'll pick up here, I have no doubt, just give it time. The forum is only a couple months old, while the subreddit and (I assume) the Discord have been around more than a year, since the beginning. I think the forum will also more come into its own as the game gets further along. With the primary activity still being just watching development and following along, the discord and the sub function can cover most of what you need for that, so the incentive to sign up here, besides getting in early, isn't super high.

Eventually, though, it will get far enough along that the modding side will really start to crank up, and this will be the best place to follow mod dev, and people will be posting all their crazy builds once there are enough parts, and then you'll get people posting crazy challenges and whatnot, etc. Those sorts of things are where discord and reddit become rather inadequate, and where a true forum really shines. So my guess is that it'll probably stay pretty quiet for a good while still, until we hit that point where a forum becomes not just nice to have, but straight up necessary for a lot of things, and then it will blow up, fast.

 

[Terra Incognita]

It'll pick up here, I have no doubt, just give it time. The forum is only a couple months old, while the subreddit and (I assume) the Discord have been around more than a year, since the beginning. I think the forum will also more come into its own as the game gets further along. With the primary activity still being just watching development and following along, the discord and the sub function can cover most of what you need for that, so the incentive to sign up here, besides getting in early, isn't super high.

Eventually, though, it will get far enough along that the modding side will really start to crank up, and this will be the best place to follow mod dev, and people will be posting all their crazy builds once there are enough parts, and then you'll get people posting crazy challenges and whatnot, etc. Those sorts of things are where discord and reddit become rather inadequate, and where a true forum really shines. So my guess is that it'll probably stay pretty quiet for a good while still, until we hit that point where a forum becomes not just nice to have, but straight up necessary for a lot of things, and then it will blow up, fast.

I agree.

Reminder too, if there's ever anything that comes to mind about improving things, please don't hesitate to start a conversation with your suggestion.