Spaceplane Asymmetric Thrust?

[rotorwashed]

I need help troubleshooting this vtol spaceplane. I have plenty of intake air and yet one of my engines always gets stuck at 214.4kn of thrust. Weirdly, it had always been the left engine until the time I took these screenshots, then it was the right one. Anyone know whats going on here?

Edited May 28, 2015 by rotorwashed

[Orbital Vagabond]

Lazy coding is what's going on. The resource flow rules in the current game are still a mess, tho better than they've been in the past. The general advice is still to place half of the intakes, then place one engine, and then the other half of the intakes, and the opposite engine.

Have you tried that? It may be that your engines are consuming the air from the previous frame first, then the intakes are taking in air, which is what's being displayed, which could cause an apparent air shortage despite the meter staying full. Did you place the engines BEFORE placing the intakes? (Yes, it's absurd that the ORDER in which you placed the parts matters).

Edited May 28, 2015 by TestPilotTheta

[rotorwashed]

After fiddling around with what you suggested I got it to work! Thanks Theta!

[cybersol]

If you make a lot of planes, especially bigger ones, then the Intake Build Aid mod can automatically re-order the engines and intakes for you.