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[Sowelu]

...A numeric readout of my angle would be most important of all though.

That's what the gyroscope on the middle-bottom is.
The green circle without the X in it is your current vector.

Granted, it's not exactly numeric, but..

Yeah, and it drives me nuts how big a pixel is compared to a degree!  Let's see, I play at 1024x768, and ten degrees is... *screenshots* about sixteen pixels.  Yeah I want at LEAST arcminute accuracy.  Trying to fuss at whether one line is above or below another line and to what degree, based on the color of the antialiasing...Bleh!

[Supercharazad]

So, anyone up for reving a dying thread while the main site is migrating?
I just got a mod that allows for a special lateral decoupler. It allows for external fuel tanks

[Stargrasper]

Does it really count as dying if it still gets multiple posts per day?

And can't we already mod any liquid fuel tank to side-mount?  Why should that require a special decoupler?

[Supercharazad]

Does it really count as dying if it still gets multiple posts per day?

And can't we already mod any liquid fuel tank to side-mount?  Why should that require a special decoupler?

External fuel tank. As in, having a main MASSIVE fuel tank, then having, say, 3 little fuel tanks attacked to this lateral decoupler, with engines on each of them. They use up thr big fuel tank first.

It's just nice being able to have external fuel tanks

[Akura]

Wouldn't it be better to use the external ones first? That way, when they empty, you can just toss them and lose weight.

[Jay]

Wouldn't it be better to use the external ones first? That way, when they empty, you can just toss them and lose weight.

But then you would also toss the engines.
That also depends on the weight ratios.
The weight of the fuel in the large tank may be more than the entire weight of the external tanks.

[Dynamic]

first time poster but have read through this whole thread. Love the game and have used this simple 3 stack of fuel cells and the 4 booster to reach space very easily don't know if its glitched but I have just let it go for the last 20 odd hours and it still is climbing (obviously ran out of fuel just as I got into orbit but the shuttle has not stopped slowing down)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/kerbalrecord.jpg/

[Akura]

Wouldn't it be better to use the external ones first? That way, when they empty, you can just toss them and lose weight.

But then you would also toss the engines.

I guess I had the wrong idea. I figured the rockets are attached tot he bottom of the big tank.

[Burnt Pies]

Dynamic, the round orange fuel tanks you're using there are hugely out of balance compared to the Vanilla parts, so that's not a bug, but the result of using superior parts.

[Dynamic]

Dynamic, the round orange fuel tanks you're using there are hugely out of balance compared to the Vanilla parts, so that's not a bug, but the result of using superior parts.

ah ok I can't wait for this game to be furthered so keen to do some missions

[Sean Mirrsen]

The big orange tanks are actually underpowered. They contain 1500 units of fuel, compared to 500 in the vanilla ones, while their size would imply at least three times that. Volume of a cylinder being PI*radius squared*height, tripling the radius increases the volume nine-fold. And these tanks are higher as well. By my estimates (and taking the possible thicker walls into account), these things should contain no less than 6000 units of fuel.

Of course, then they'd be so heavy you'd need whole clusters of solid boosters to even get them off the ground, which is obviously inefficient. How the hell to real-life rockets take off?

[Rose]

real life rockets can't leave the ground until some of the fuel is burnt.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Hard to argue with that - no rocket can take off without burning something.

[Rose]

No, I mean, it's literally too heavy to take off.

in orbiter, if you try to fly the shuttle with infinite fuel, you won't get anywhere.

[Supercharazad]

Also, by external fuel tank, I guess it would be better to say external engines The engines were attached to the fuel tank, and when all the tanks were spent, I dropped the engines and tanks together, along with the parachutes on the engines.