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⟨Damien⟩ Kashada have you played with principia in stock or even RSS without RP-1? Trust me, it makes learning how to use principia million times easier
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⟨Damien⟩ +a
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⟨Kashada⟩ Ha I've barely even played RSS, I've been playing P/LC for about a week and have done Luna impact/orbit. I kind of like the deep end though so it being hard to learn will likely just get me more invested.
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⟨Damien⟩ ⟪Kashada⟫ Ha I've barely even played RSS, I've […] ⮪ I learned principia after already being familiar with RSS/RP0 (this was before it became RP1) and even then, I got a massive leap in ability by taking a break to speedrun all the major milestones (orbit, landing, rendezvous etc) in stock and regular RSS before going back to doing it the hard way
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⟨Damien⟩ like learn how to do all the tricky stuff and how the UI works without having limited ignitions, ullage etc etc
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⟨Zeusbeer⟩ That is the way
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⟨Zeusbeer⟩ Full stock or RSS with Smurf only
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⟨Damien⟩ yeah RSS/SMURFF is the pro play
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⟨Damien⟩ that's what I did. set up RSS/SMURFF to practice all the cool principia tricks
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⟨Damien⟩ playing with L-points and precessing orbits and all that
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⟨Damien⟩ otherwise you're messing around with build times and launch failures etc instead of actually learning
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⟨egg⟩ (or if you are really familiar with RO, RO sandbox from Kourou could be viable)
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⟨egg⟩ (but career from Florida is asking for nasty surprises down the line)
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⟨Damien⟩ yeah true. but I find that if you're just wanting to learn the UI it's better to take advantage of infinite ignitions and infinitely throttleable engines as per stock
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⟨Damien⟩ instead of trying to mess with a fractional dv maneuver with an engine that can't deep throttle