Newbie: start with Training missions or Single Player?

[Rambo]

I notice that the training missions start from building a rocket to actually flying to the Moon, which seems like a spoiler/too much. Should I complete all the training missions first? Or just start with Single Player Campaign?

[doum]

I did some training. but never made any rendez-vous in space. never need it for science. i went to duna and eve too. may be someday i will use the training to learn rendez-vous. now im doing career. so learn the basic and then enjoy and learn as you go.

[internetrules]

i would reccomend starting in science sandbox

[Matiati]

The worst thing about career mode (if you are playing in normal difficulty) is that you cannot estimate the difficulty of the mission without some experience. And cancelling a mission costs high amount of reputation point.

Also you need better parts (which should be first unlocked with research) in order to do some of the harder missions in the game. Otherwise they will be either too hard or sometimes impossible.

This issue alone caused me to restart the career within the first 3-4 hours.

So I would suggest you to do the easiest missions first until you unlock gear to do the harder ones. I was greedy so I did the mistake of trying 2 star or above missions (for higher rp, cash and reputation) right at game start.

[StinkPickle4000]

Go single player career first! Doing tutorials is good too, not too much of a spoiler you'll be sending 100t payloads to the mun at some point. Watch youtube, kill some kerbals, start over eventually you'll be playing career mode on hard with 30% science ez pz. Getting a hang of the Nav ball is key also use "interactive illustrated interplanetary guide and calculator for ksp" to do other planets.

[Docsprock]

I learned KSP before there were tutorials or 'career'. There was only sandbox and science, (called career at the time). Play the Science mode to learn how research works, and unlock parts at a reasonable rate.

Career puts too many arbitrary blocks in the way, I think. I never play it.

Sandbox is what I do now exclusively. But it can be too overwhelming for a new player.

[margalus]

Start the career mode and have fun. If you get to a spot where you don't understand, go out and do the tutorial for that.

Just be aware, a couple of the tutorials are broken.

[Darmaniac]

i did the training once.. but it sux really. i did a career now. if i need to learn the game.i want to learn it the hard way. only science. or sandbox mode is meh to me. boring,.

and i wont be happy to try something harder later. i want to learn all the ropes. not only one part first etc,... im trying to get a hold of the game.. lots of stuff i need to learn. but thats fine by me.