Lazarus78

How about you upload the ship so others can mess with it?

Hopefully an SQSA. I made come custom (Copy-pasta) wheels, but they are a bit too slow. Is there any way I can speed up their acceleration and traction?

Because the planet is orbiting around the sun too, so the position of the sun is not a constant. If you waited half a year, the sun would be behind you from where you positioned yourself. The same effect you experience as you orbit the planet applies to the planet orbiting the sun, and the sun orbiting around the galaxy. This very principle was used to prove that the galaxy was actually moving. They used the most accurate gyros ever created and put them in orbit for several months (Or years, i forget) and had them pointing at a known galaxy. After a while, they checked them to see if they were pointing at it still. If we were standing still, they should be pointing at the same exact spot. Turns out they weren't and were actually shifted ever so slightly to the side.

I made a separate part that does the generation to negate the gas usage.

ok, i got it sorted out. thanks a lot!

So lowing the isp will lower the fuel consumption?

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. The forums don't seem to really have a section fitting for this type of question. Anyhoo, I made a custom engine, and by custom, I mean I duplicated an existing part and started messing with the settings. The engine in question is an "ion" engine which I am trying to make with greater thrust and lower resource usage, unfortunately its not a matter of changing the thrust, as it seems the higher the thrust, proportionately so does the resource usage go up. So my "ion" engine with a thrust of 256 will drain all my ships 12000 electrical charge in a matter of seconds. This is not idea. I don't might high energy usage, but i don't want it draining faster then is usable. Also, I would much prefer the engine to use ONLY electrical charge, but setting or removing the Xenon resource makes the engine not work at all. Is there a way to remove the gas requirement? Relevant information: // --- standard part parameters --- mass = 2 dragModelType = default maximum_drag = 0.2 minimum_drag = 0.2 angularDrag = 2 crashTolerance = 7 maxTemp = 3600 MODULE { name = ModuleEngines thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform exhaustDamage = False ignitionThreshold = 0.1 minThrust = 0 maxThrust = 256 heatProduction = 0 PROPELLANT { name = ElectricCharge ratio = 1.0 DrawGauge = True } PROPELLANT { name = XenonGas ratio = 0.05 } atmosphereCurve { key = 0 256 } }