Shalashalska

Thermal rocket nozzles need to be both adjacent to a reactor and have a fuel supply, just like normal engines. However, they can use a wide variety of fuels, such as LF, LFO, MethaLOX, water, kethane, karbonite (if you have the CRP adaptation pack) and ammonia.

From what I've seen, science/rep to funds are completely useless, and funds to science/rep is insanely overpowered. You get something around 5k science if you go full science on normal just from a basic explore the mun mission.

Yes, the heat generated is a function of the power received. 18 GW is a lot of power, and you might not have upgraded radiators.

I think the plasma thruster graphics are broken.

I think magnetic engines just always have stupidly low thrust. Use thermal rocket nozzles. With a 2.5 m upgraded d-t fusion and a thermal rocket nozzle, you get 180 kn of thrust and 6500 Isp. With 3.5m upgraded, you get the same Isp and 1500 kn. And that is with pure LF. If you use LFO, you get 3.6 times the thrust and .6 times the Isp. With MethaLOX, you get 6.6 times the thrust and .34 times the Isp.

It doesn't support adding new nodes, only rearranging the stock 55. Super-late edit: This seems to work properly with TechManager

Definitely going to start using this once ATC updates. Looks absolutely awesome.

Stock engines seem to be more like Meth/LOX. Some of them hit 400s, which is too high for Kerosene, which has a theoretical maximum of 353s.

So basically, you want an AM version of the DT vista?

My point was that the majority of the DV was provided by LH2/LOX. Those two stages took the CSM all the way from 70 km at 2.3 km/s (on Earth, where the orbital velocity is ~7.5 km/s, and the total DV of the Saturn V was around 15 km/s) to a lunar intercept. It works out of the box. However, you can't unlock some of the upgraded parts in career mode. You can unlock all of them though. And either way, Fractal is modifying ATC to allow creation of new tech nodes.

The barrel types are thermal receivers; they are used for thermal rocket nozzles and thermal turbojets.

It would be nice if there was some sort of a manual converter, so you activate the part and it will drain EC and produce MJ. That way, you could have science labs powered by insanely huge solar arrays. (But seriously, why do science labs need as much power as a small town?)

Is there any way to increase the maximum fairing base diameter in career mode? I'm using the Seadragon mod and so I need 15m fairings.

You get access to all the parts with the stock tree, but you can't get their upgrades without editing the part files. Edit: The VAB Thermal Helper seems to be broken. The radiator tooltips with upgraded radiators say they are over 10 times higher than what the thermal helper says they are.

The S-II-B and S-IV-B were LH2/LOX, which provided the vast majority of the DV for the Saturn V. The hypergolics were only used for the lunar circularization, landing, and return. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V I think you may be thinking of the Soviet N1, which was entirely RP-1/LOX, with plans for a hypergolic lunar vehicle (I think it was hydrazine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)

I think you might be forgetting that you need 10 km/s to get to LEO, then another 4-5 km/s to get to the moon, then another 4 to land and get back, and another 2 to transfer back. With all that, it makes sense to use LH2, though not by a lot.

I think you forgot the part that they are both pressure fed, and that the lower stage is rp1, while the upper is lh2

You should add a parts pack that fits with B9's HL and HX parts.

Is it possible to disable physics easing during the initial load of a ship? I can not use the hangar mod very well because the physics easing is causing the parts to explode. The hangars are trying to load in ships inside the hangar to store them, and the physics easing is conflicting with that.

Also, I think this may be partially incompatible with Kerbal Joint Reinforcement. I think the joint stiffening that it does on vessel loading is causing my ships to explode when I pre-load them from the VAB.

For some odd reason, I can't store any ships containing a procedural battery in any hangars from the VAB. I've tried multiple times, and none of my ships with procedural batteries will work. However, driving them in works, but causes the game to crash after going back to the KSC. Also, when trying to add in a hangar, there is no message and the gui doesn't update, but a buggy copy of the ship appears in the VAB. It renders as if it was attached, but it's floating and you can select each part separately. Crash: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jOUuzqqfjEUkdYUU1HWFdyUVU/edit?usp=sharing

OpenGL seems mostly stable for me, with crashes about as often as 32, but there's some weird visual derps in the map view, mostly planets and stuff shifting around.

Two small bugs I have noticed: The kethane control panel doesn't work. It just shows up two green top/bottom end-caps instead of the panel. For some reason, I get a little flash of the hiring room between each scene change. Edit: And the game randomly crashes when loading certain ships. Edit2: Even going on EVA can sometimes cause a crash. Edit3: Even when EVA works, it randomly crashes.

x64 would not make a difference for physics. It would not innately multi-thread physics. And it would not effect kraken at all. In fact, even if we were to run a 64 bit version of ksp on a computer a million times as powerful as the best computer ever made, there would still be kraken attacks. Because squad is fluffybunnied and is using plain double precision floating points when they really need to be using quads. ~90% of all kraken attacks are related to floating point errors. When you have numbers in the quadrillions, floats start to lose precision and start to drop a few decimal points. If they switched to quads, then performance would go down somewhat, but physics could be vastly simplified to compensate for that, and kraken attacks would be almost nonexistent. Floating point errors are the same reason why weird things happen in minecraft near the world border, and also cause most of the spontaneous explodification in KSP.

He released an updated version of the mod about 2 months ago.