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You\'re doing a great and very important work here, guys! I beleive that your researches should become some sort of canonical thing in nearest future. But maybe it\'s too early to mess with costs of parts? We have some behavioral & unmeasurable characteristics, like \'overall coolness\', \'design\' and \'non-red-texture\' for example. Also, it somewhat hard for me to include simultaneously \'drag\', \'tolerance\', \'heat proof or-whatever-it-named\' and all listed above fuel-capacities et cetera in one big formula/equation. I mean, it\'s great to have coefficient of vanility, and model balanced parts depending on it, but don\'t you think that computing cost depending on it is too complicated and, er, not needed at all? Good point! To split equations it\'s a good way to achieve flexibility and still have objective values, which measures how much part is well-balanced. I find it hard to express my thoughts in english without knowledge both in equations and language at all. Sincerely, your poorly-speaking russian comrade.

Ok, you just RUINED my idea. :\'( Maybe some more complicated flight task can save it?

Looking forward onto future release, I thought it might be useful to learn how to build cheapest spacecraft, nor mightiest or fastest. Maybe some of you find joyful to model cheap craft instead of Jeb-style 'I had whole 80km/s at 90 kilometers!'-craft. Or maybe not. Anyway, we have here parts with prices on them. Why can\'t we count it as a potetial challenge? So, your total prices for a spacejunk able to get into orbit and for a escape-ish piece o\' cheap junk. Vanilla parts and no comebacks, trash is not needed on Kerbin(Kearth, or wharever you like).

Jeb!

So if you look at ecliptics frome above (from the side of north pole of Earth or even Sun) which spin solar system will behave? I mean, in which side planets will go on their orbits? Question is absolutley obivous to people, who know arstronomy just a little above school program, but I\'m interested to see, how much of you, guys, have to know this. Poll expires in 7 days, then results showed.

May I spoil right answer?

Huge is a common word that fails to describe any of Kerbal spaceships. Colossal suits well. Gigantic may suit too. I like it, this thing catches The Kerbal Spirit, i think.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46794938/weight.zip It\'s just a very simple xls sheet, allowing you to calculate weight of each stage of your rocket, sum weigths of stage+stages above it and total weight of ship. Only thing you need to do is to fill table with quantity of specific parts your stages consists of. This info may (and may not) be helpful in figuring needed thrust to lift your ship into space. This file is incomplete, I planning to add column of thrust provided of each stage and maybe a graph, illustrating thrust by time (and maybe even speed). Please, use this file as you wish and modify, publish etc as much as you wish, and if you have some suggestions by improving it\'s functionality - post it right here and now. Sorry for my bad english, blah blah.