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Not sure if its a KA bug or systemheat. But on the Liberator and the Emancipator when you go to shut down the reactor the engine turns off, thats fine but you lose the ability to turn it back on.

My bad, completely missed that one. Thanks for all the work you do Nertea!

So small bug I've run across. All lox augmented modes don't seem to have there waterfall effects.

Honestly A and C are the same thing.

In the book they use 'tea-kettle' so steam from using water heated by the reactor for RCS and for planetary landing. The Epstein drive could work in atmo, but it would melt the landing site and landing into lava would be bad. The Epstein drive is just a improved fusion torch drive to help with the story.

Im having some odd behavior with KA and SH with the patch. On ascent having the reactor cooling loop heat up to thousands of degrees and melt the core even with everything shut down and in a faring. The other bug ive encounter is with the trimodal KA engines, if you shut down the reactor you can not restart the engine after and now that we cant control reactor power output the core life does not seem to change on power output auto lowering.

Tip for using the NFE reactors is to go in and set the power level to 0 in the reactor controls or very low if its a trimodal reactor to let it make power. When you throttle up the engines it will automatically max the power lvl and then drop it back down to what you had set before when you throttle down.

Just to add a few things, the engines in the Expanse are super fusion rockets. They have higher ISP to let the story they wanted to tell work. They use water as reaction mass. If you want to learn more about fusion torch ships this is the best place to go. http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php Time to read up on Brachistochrone trajectories!

Those are sparks to burn off Hydrogen. Nothing to do with engine start.

Biggest thing for me would be better gravity assists. There a big part space travel, and how the SOI system works now makes them very strange to use. As for ships drifting over time, let controled/powerd craft use RCS for station keeping. Lagrange points would not need to use these. I'm guessing we will already have some sort of timewarp auto pilot?, since torch ships and interstellar ships fire there engines for the whole trip/months at a time. There has to be some way to control them why you work on other things. I dont think it would add much to the performance, particularly if they keep planets on rails. Orbiter runs just fine with n-body and has since 2005? At the least it would be a nice difficulty setting, along with persistent rotation.

Got it fixed, may want to put on there that ATM does not play nice with clouds.

Any idea why my clouds look like this? Its nothing like the video/screenshots.

With RD here and from what it sounds like cost coming next update, why not just make them better? Put them later in the RD tree and have them cost more. Sounds balanced to me.

Thanks for the update! And love the mod.

If you want to look at it yourself, 'Kerbal Space Program\GameData\Squad\Parts\Engine\nuclearEngine' And read the part.cfg. "// Yes, I know this is wrong. NTRs don't actually burn fuel and oxidizer, but we don't want to jump into making separate tanks for the two yet." They talked about tweakables to fix that just after the NTR came out. Maybe this is the first pass on tweaks and better fuel handing is coming later. Would be nice to hear something on it from the dev's. With the duel mode engines we could even have Bimodal or Trimodal NTR's,