birky

Thanks for all of the useful tips. After playing around off and on for a few days, I think I've mostly gotten past the issue with the trajectory just through trial and error. I did, however, realize that I was using either the SAS or ASAS and not both and that my rockets were probably too long.

I just bought the game on Friday over steam and am enjoying it so far. I've watched a ton of videos, and get the concepts of how to get the ship into orbit (and back), asparagus staging, etc. But I'm having a terrible time designing rockets that will actually hold their trajectory after lift-off. Even with very, very basic rocket designs and with SAS on. I get a few thousand meters off the ground and before I know it the nose of my ship is pointing back towards the ground. I'm guessing it has something to do with my CoM & CoL, but I've recreated several designs that I've seen on the forums or in videos and am having the same issue. Even having the issue with the Kerbal X stock ship. I'm having to turn off the SAS and manually make corrections the entire ascent, most of the time ending in disaster. Any help?