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[BigD145]

There are underwater rovers that operate out of a land facility that just go running around on their own.

You can turn mechjeb screens on and off at will. There are a lot of LPers that have Kerbal Engineer taking up permanent screen real estate.

[IronTomato]

Ugh, building big rockets is hard. I'm building a massive beast that I will probably use to take my prized Chadory Kerman to Duna and back. I've tested the return phase, and it can orbit Kerbin by itself with what I hope will be enough fuel for the atomic engines to take it back.

However, I added what will be the launch phase and the stuff that will get it to Duna, and while I'm confident it'll have enough fuel and that the staging is correct, it falls apart easily. I haven't been able to take the whole thing to LKO yet. I've put an additional 50 space tapes on the bottom asparagusses, but they still fall apart. Everything else is perfectly sturdy. Halp.

[GreatWyrmGold]

More struts?

You seem to be falling prey to the Square/Cube Law. Which doesn't help, but now you know what your problem is called!

[BigD145]

It all depends on how you put it together and where you space taped. I've seen and used some huge stages and every one used part clipping, right down to taping inline tank stacks.

[miauw62]

I use mechjeb extensively (basically everything but takeoff, landing and docking) and I think that saying "just use mechjeb lol" is terrible advice.

I wasn't saying that he should just use mechjeb, just that it has neat features.

[Siquo]

I use mechjeb extensively (basically everything but takeoff, landing and docking) and I think that saying "just use mechjeb lol" is terrible advice.

I don't use it anymore, but I learned a lot while using it. So yes, it's a crutch, but one that can teach you how to walk.

[Dutchling]

MechJeb is also fun if you don't care about operating space crafts, and just want to build space stations and mining outposts.

[BigD145]

Mechjeb is also nice for half hour+ burns. Just walk away. Do something else. Quicksave and come back minutes before it finishes to make sure everything goes as planned.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Mechjeb is also nice for half hour+ burns. Just walk away. Do something else. Quicksave and come back minutes before it finishes to make sure everything goes as planned.

Sounds good, but when would you need a half-hour burn?

[Dutchling]

I take it you never use ion engines?

[BigD145]

GWG hasn't gotten there yet. Just wait until those multi hour burns... I try to avoid those because they are boring!

[Aseaheru]

NERVAs can result in them too.

[IronTomato]

Oops wrong thread

[GreatWyrmGold]

I take it you never use ion engines?

Not successfully!

NERVAs can result in them too.

Please don't acronym. If you do, the abbr key is nice.

[Eric Blank]

I've never been able to pack the desired science into a spacecraft light enough to make ion engines a practical propulsion method. Nuclear engines are efficient enough for me to be content, though.