I personally think this game is going to be awesome in a year or 2 when it's finished. This guide is not to say KV sucks. It's simply to give you ideas to play around in KV until more content is added.

Obviously your ship is going to have a name. But what is that ship you made really?

Who made the ship? Was it government issued? Is it sold on the open market? Was it hand crafted?

When was it made? Where was it made?

What is it's purpose? Is it a planetary blockader? Deep space interceptor? Intergalactic freighter? Or is it just a adventuring ship with lots of living space?

Who used the ship? How effective was it?

Was the ship technologically advanced? Or was it as archaic as that old J98*?

This description of the ship you made fleshes out details on it, and the story around the galaxy.


*For you newbies reading this the J98 was a stock light fighter with weak engines and a single light gun, courtesy of Badland Studios. A few updates later they took out all the stock ships due to incompatibilities in the files.

Federated Planets of Vantiak
FederatedPlanetsofVantiak
Banker
Diplomat

That is the entire official story about one faction. This is like just reading the first couple details about something in a library dedicated to that book you're reading. I have 5 words for that.

GIVE IT MORE STORY!

The thing I love about KV is that it allows you to create your own story, your own background, your own theories, your own beginnings, your own events, your own timeline. This gives you the freedom to set the stage at a galactic level.

Here's an example=

'The Vantiak Agression War changed the style of warfare for generations to come. Instead of the classic battleship to battleship with fighters combating bombers, the Vantiaks used their legions of J99 fighters to overrun the Federated Galactic Union fleets. The FGU was desperate, so they contracted a company called Campbell Industries to create a fighter to outmatch their opponents.'

I could go on and on with this. You use the story to also connect to the ship descriptions.

'The Raider fighter was commisioned by Campbell for the FGU during the Vantiak Aggression War...'

Again, make up your own story to tell.

Kinetic Void has great graphics. One way to appreciate this even more is to avoid combat, just look at the space beauty.

I reccommend making a cockpit with a powerful engine to launch.

MWD to fronts of planets. The textures on them are pretty awesome.

Fly through a ring of asteroids. For a challenge, fly in the ring and never come out.

Fly by your ships, the larger the better. Currently KV has it set up so you can't fly through the ship parts anymore (It's one spherical collision box) so it ain't as fun as it was.

Try landing on the moon.

Ect. ect. ect.

Who knows, the storytelling may be officially supported within KV itself!

Right now, the descriptions are only availible if you artwork the ship pic and upload it to steam (I think), but storytelling is great.

I hope this keeps you entertained enough.

EDIT: With the addition of Workshop, it you can also describe your ship if you upload it on Steam thet way, also.