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Thank you for posting your findings. What you say seems to be true and a very good thing to keep in mind when building rockets.

First of all, thanks for the many replies. This community is amazing. With your help I have solved the problem with my craft. After that I did a little bit of testing. After reading your replies I tried a couple of things and discovered that the height of the connection can make a difference. It can result in strange discrepancies with the fuel drainage in your entire asparagus setup. However this only occurs when you're working with stacked fuel tanks. In my case I had three grey medium sized rockomax tanks on top of each other to avoid overheating problems. I had consistently been placing a single fuel line on one side of the asparagus between the middle fuel tank on stage 2 to the bottom fuel tank on stage 1. I messed up the camera angles, making it hard to see. Somehow that uneven connection left that side of the asparagus with a little less fuel than the other side, wobbling my rocket and killing my kerbal friends. I'm still not quite sure what's best; connecting the fuel lines on top, middle or bottom of your stack. If I've got time to do some more experimenting I'll let you guys know. Cheers again for your replies.

Hello everyone, I've been using the Asparagus staging method for my rockets in KSP for quite some time and it has always served me well. However, after getting back to KSP yesterday after a pretty long break, I keep running in to a strange occurrence. Currently my rocket has four stacks of fuel-tanks+engines symmetrically placed around the center stack. Attached to each of those are two more symmetrical stacks. Totaling four stacks in the first ring, eight stacks in the second ring. Below I have posted a picture of how I hooked up my fuel lines. The red lines are where I connected the decouplers. Now, I double checked this about 20 times, there's no loops or double fuel lines. Also I rebuilt the entire rig from scratch about four times so far. The setup is as it shows in the picture. All stacks have the same amount of fueltanks and the same engines. The problem is that when I launch my rocket, one side of the asparagus drains slightly faster. Resulting in a massive wobble and a deadly crash. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm going crazy quadruple-checking every fuel line. Is there perhaps a problem with this specific asparagus setup? What could cause one side of the asparagus to drain half a second faster? Paint picture made by me to indicate my asparagus setup. I really hope you can help me, thanks in advance!