The ROUND8 memorial thread - UPDATE: It's alive!

[GoSlash27]

The avatars for "Save the Lifesaver" are a hilarious way to demonstrate your support. Thanks, KSP Forum, for brightening my day.

We heart the lifesaver!

The main reason I'm supporting it is in my sig. Far from "redundant"; it's the only tank available that can share space in the stack with an engine. This makes for more compact staged designs than can be achieved with cylindrical tanks, and that's important in landers.

I'm cool with cloning it or retasking something else... but I use the round-8 and there's nothing else that can do what it does.

Best,

-Slashy

[timandy1]

I Vote to save the LFO donut!

[KN_Namida]

Count me in as well. The Round8 should stay an LFO tank. Yup.

[ThatGuyWithALongUsername]

Instead of removing it, why not make a clone of it, re-texture it, and fill it with xenon? I would also like the KSPX ion tank, and maybe the engine too.

[KotDemopan]

I'll just take the pre-1.0 Round-8, put it in instead of the new one, and pretend the new one never exists.

[sgt_flyer]

That lander was from my old 0.21.1 earwig Transport Erector Launcher it wouldn't be as compact without those round-8 droptanks - which would have resulted in a radically different launcher design (there was a battery and a 0.625m decoupler in the middle of those round-8 - and a fuel line attached from the battery to the spacecraft core fuel tanks)

thanks to this droptank design, it was able to circularize and make a mün landing from a free return trajectory - and by letting the round-8 droptanks & legs on the surface, could make it's way back to kerbin

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/51652-Earwig-Transport-Erector-Launcher-with-mün-rocket

Also, those round-8 perfectly fit inside the 1.25m decoupler ! - allowing for some classy escape systems entirely contained inside a decoupler (enough to guve a capsule emergency delta-V )

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Edited April 16, 2015 by sgt_flyer

[tg626]

That is all. (reworked Lifesavers ad circa 1954)

[Kozak]

IDEA! SQUAD! Make another round8-like tank! Make it a dark green color, and have it be an xenon tank, then, we could keep both and all will be well!

[Alshain]

http://i.imgur.com/SyG6o4A.jpg

That is all. (reworked Lifesavers ad circa 1954)

Wow, that's pretty good.

[problemecium]

It's being removed?!?

...good thing I never use it anyway xP The slightly improper fuel ratios always bothered me.

[Solarapple]

Why not both? We keep this tank, and they add another one which looks like this except it hold xenon.

[RobotsAndSpaceships]

rip the only stock tank I ever used.

[Thomas988]

I don't really use this tank, but I do think we should get a new xenon tank instead of repurposing the current one. C'mon, Squad!

[Mister Kerman]

But I love the Toroidal tank. Don't do it SQUAD!

[n.b.z.]

(made for Kuzzter's thread - Album here)

Edited April 16, 2015 by n.b.z.

[nightingale]

I'm throwing in my support for the ROUND-8 with a new set of contracts in Contract Pack: Save the ROUND-8! Get it now, because this mod won't be available once KSP 1.0 hits!

[Alshain]

I'm throwing in my support for the ROUND-8 with a new set of contracts in Contract Pack: Save the ROUND-8! Get it now, because this mod won't be available once KSP 1.0 hits!

That made me laugh. Have some rep.

[Frybert]

Good bye, small round tank. We miss you.

[Wjolcz]

I liked how people used it in their lander designs, but never really found it useful myself.

[robopilot99]

Knowing the community, there will be a whole mod-pack on toroidal tanks...

There already is http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/30673-0-23-5-Spherical-and-Toroidal-Tank-Pack-(Updated-05-02-14)-(New-download-link)

[Sidereus]

Why not both? We keep this tank, and they add another one which looks like this except it hold xenon.

Because that would be too simple...

[GigaG]

I used the Round-8 to put the 48-7S and other tiny parts on larger tanks, usually 1.25m tanks (otherwise the 48-7s or whatever other tiny part seems to "float", but with the toroidal tank it is nicely tucked into the hole.) I think we should keep the Round-8 and make a new grey and yellow toroidal tank for xenon (going with the theme of other xenon tanks.)

[sdj64]

There's no reason at all that Squad couldn't just add another part for the new Xenon tank. Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of bigger Xenon tanks, but the Round-8 has a certain aesthetic quality and is good at adding extra bits of fuel to landers without increasing their size, or for being the main fuel tank for satellites. The Oscar-B is too small for most satellites anyway, the Round-8 was just the right size and made it look good as well.

I think that one more part clogging up the catalog is more than reasonable price to pay for the best of both worlds.

[Norpo]

I think that one more part clogging up the catalog is more than reasonable price to pay for the best of both worlds.

I agree. While a 1.25 Xenon tank is desperately needed, the Round-8 fills a certain aesthetic niche in a lot of craft, it'd be a shame to see it only be usable in Ion probes, where you can't really use a lot for aesthetics anyways if you want to keep your TWR reasonably high.

[Mister Dilsby]

I haven't seen this much passion around here since that time they were going to limit all Forum posts to 140 characters.