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after that, your craft) Shift + Tab Reverse Cycle (so Kerbin, to your craft. The central piece of the Career mode is the science system. then to each planet by orbit distance to Kerbol. Over time, youâll accept contracts from various organizations that want you to achieve certain goals, such as collecting data from a particular spot on a planet, or rescuing a Kerbal whoâs stuck in orbit. On top of this, your rockets are no longer free: youâll need to pay for them. When youâre playing in Career mode, you start with a very basic Kerbal Space Center and a very limited selection of rocket parts, and your crew is limited in what it can do. In this chapter, weâll focus on Career mode, because both Science and Sandbox mode are just simpler versions of Career mode and can be played the same way.
KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM CHANGE FOCUS UPGRADE
In Career mode, you need to manage your finances, pay for parts, hire astronauts, and upgrade your facilities, in addition to unlocking new parts for your vessels by gathering science. In Science mode, you need to gather science points, which you spend at the Research and Development building to unlock parts for your rockets. Sandbox mode gives you a free-play environment for going to space. In Sandbox mode, all parts are unlocked, and you donât have to pay for them. You canât change a gameâs mode once it starts, but you can have multiple different games going at the same time: When you start a new game, youâll be asked which mode you want to play in. There are three different modes that you can play the game in: Career, Science, and Sandbox.
