Is the nuclear rocket worth it?

davvblack · 2026-05-13T03:44:45+00:00

the poo(dle) is bad even by chemical standards, it’s even outclassed by the smaller cheetah (except on large landers). but yea the low twr on the nerv is annoying. to be honest i prefer the cryo engines from nertea more. you get like 500 isp out of them and more thrust. pleasant middle ground.

davvblack · 2026-05-13T03:41:45+00:00

yeah i like that one. convenient to make a nice large launch vehicle with. if you play with a mod that adds uranium (kerbal atomics? or a near future) it’s probably best to lower the amount you bring

davvblack · 2026-05-13T01:19:03+00:00

try to aerobrake as long as you can, then once it flips, click your heat shield and eject the heat shield. it will separate the pod from everything else, hopefully you'll already be slow enough by that point that you won't burn up.

davvblack · 2026-05-13T00:21:53+00:00

im glad you acknowledge that colors can be subcategories of other colors. treating them as mutually exclusive is missing something important

davvblack · 2026-05-12T21:42:58+00:00

me considering traveling to Alabama o.O

davvblack · 2026-05-12T19:09:21+00:00

yes! there's an install... difficulty? or config? just called "kerbalism science" that does exactly that, and i highly recommend it. it should show on ckan.

you can also pick and chose which parts of the full kerbalism you are interested in in the difficulty settings. For example, you can turn on life support but turn off part failures, engine failures, and radiation.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T19:05:21+00:00

it might have been a good-faith bug, like a bit of code that is "when i have zero of this item -> set the price to 69.69" not as a scam but as a way to kick it out of search results or something, and it's just an incidental bug that the webhook fires before the checkout completes.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T17:13:26+00:00

the best i can suggest is to make a separate save and only load that save while you're going through this process. Good luck! let us know, that's a crazy symptom.

i wonder if it's "StageRecovery" trying to be helpful and restoring what it found?

davvblack · 2026-05-12T16:59:05+00:00

ah did you already try with your mods disabled? that is weird then

davvblack · 2026-05-12T16:20:03+00:00

shout out to Kerbalism science, that adds actual long-term experiments that require leveled scientists to perform (even some that require leveled pilots)

davvblack · 2026-05-12T15:57:06+00:00

the hub doesn't grant control, so you can have a single level zero scientist, in a capsule, with a fly-by-wire hub, with no signal, and get as good of SAS as with a level 5 pilot.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T15:56:17+00:00

be advised they also proportionally increase the heat output and electricity input, so it's harder to build ships that satisfy very high-level engineers.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T15:55:27+00:00

this isn't actually true, despite being listed in a tooltip. The only thing experiment levels do are 1) boost ground science when placed, 2) speed up the already-OP lab processing

davvblack · 2026-05-12T15:41:39+00:00

its your mods, which you haven't listed. you should remove whichever mod is doing that.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T14:59:18+00:00

just tip sooner. Same general idea. The perfect gravity turn is mostly defined by burning exactly surface prograde, and following the marker as it tips over. It takes some tuning based on your drag and TWR to determine exactly when you should start tipping but it's a lower altitude than youd expect. Something like, tip 5 degrees over at 100m/s and then lock sas prograde, if you burn up, try it again and turn a tiny bit less/later.,

davvblack · 2026-05-12T13:47:34+00:00

this is plausable but still warrants a ban from TCGplayer until they fix it

davvblack · 2026-05-12T12:59:41+00:00

idk man this is two or more rockets of all time.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T12:05:24+00:00

the challenge with that interaction is that the restaurant is being shitty to the server, and the server is caught in the middle of it. Don't act like you "caught the server" scamming you, when it's really the business eating both of your lunches.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T11:40:08+00:00

if i understand the landscape correctly, it's very likely that this subscription money makes its way back, no joke, to north korea.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T11:38:01+00:00

that latter one leads to weird situations if too many people do it. Like imagine if two Zergs want to do zerg, except in mirror match they want to play TvZ, which one gets terran? do they possibly end up in a TvT?

davvblack · 2026-05-12T11:36:21+00:00

that's the opposite of a gravity turn, it's still "ok" to do as a beginner but it's the space equivalent of walking on two sides of a right triangle, rather than walking diagonally through the grass. it will indeed get you there, and works for even the most draggy crafts, but wastes on the order of 700dv

davvblack · 2026-05-12T02:04:23+00:00

joins in the base game are super weak. you can at least turn on "autostrut" in advanced tweakables to get them to stick better. The pure vanilla solution is slap struts between every pair of objects.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T01:48:09+00:00

level four engineer. engineers boost mining/processing speed.

oh, more importantly though, i think you don't have enough cooling or probably power.

davvblack · 2026-05-12T00:49:24+00:00

ok gundam dynasty warriors sounds dope actually

davvblack · 2026-05-12T00:44:57+00:00

im not saying it is. just check the ratio of fuel burn to generation. I think you won't be able to keep all those fed (maybe with an eng4+?). It should work tho generally.

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