TMFromMidnight

Well in all likelihood it looks like this is something im doing but outside Bluedog/KSRSS and their dependencies I just have VABOrganizer and some Mechjeb stuff so I'm really lost at this point regarding what it could be. Thanks for replying and trying to help.

Utilizing the "Titan II GLV" craft file from the mods zip folder in KRSS I get a total Delta-V of 3864 among all stages and this checks out with the few screenshots I can see. Mechjeb breaks total Delta to 3864 in atmosphere and 5738 in vacuum. Flights were done by hand and by mechjeb using various ascent curves and PVG settings and attempting to reach a 100x100 orbit. None of these flights had enough Delta-V to circularize after expending all fuel onboard the rocket and its spacecraft.

So with the balancing.. After launching Explorer-I into deep space I went and read that the mod is balanced for a ~2.5x solar system and that KSRSS/JNSQ would lead to a better experience. Now I'm sitting here with a Titan II that has just enough Delta-V to reach orbit in stock Kerbin and is woefully inadequate for the ~2.5x solar systems I was under the impression it'd be balanced for. Is there a fix for this that doesn't involve swapping out KSRSS/JNSQ when trying to use certain platforms? I'd like to keep my save and am frankly desperate. I've searched nearly a decade of forum posts and it seems like I'm the only one with this problem somehow despite screenshots clearly showing similarly low Delta-V's in other peoples playthroughs.