What is your favorite stock engine?

[moogoob]

Hmm... I've already picked one, but you know I've got good things to say about just about any engine. Even the Thud!

909: I use this all the time. Small, light, more thrust than the Spark, fits evenly with other size 1 parts.

Skipper: My favourite medium-lifter second stage/munar transfer stage.

Aerospike: Even with its downsides, it's a great-looking and performing shuttle/spaceplane/lander engine, especially after the weight went down.

Mainsail: TWR out the ying-yang, only beaten by the LFB at it's size.

Ant/spider: Weighs next to nothing, just enough thrust for a probe or low-gravity moon probe lander.

Flea: It's like a big separatron! Great for sudden little boosts.

Thud: Surprisingly powerful, especially if used in symmetry. Almost made it onto my Tylo lander, lost out to the poodle.

I could go on...

[RA3236]

The MAMMOTH. It is so much thrust and more boosters is better.

I have to agree with you there, I use the KS-25x4 in all my rockets.which is probably why I always have almost 10km/s of delta v in every rocket I make

[NFUN]

Wow, so many respected, experienced players are saying Skipper. I finally feel vindicated for my love of the Skipper after having seen so many people say that in any instance that a Skipper might look favorable that the rocket should be modified to either use a Poodle or Mainsail. Thanks

[Pixel of Life]

O-10 "Puff", anyone? I like the fact that I can use the same fuel for RCS and main engines. It's got terrible ISP so it's bad at interplanetary stuff but it works great for in-orbit maneuvering.

[Francois424]

#1- M55 thud.

Not the most efficient, not the most powerful, but very good for flatter landers and looks very good. It's one of the engines I use the most until Nerva and even in some cases even afterwards.

It's probably going to be outclassed by the new shuttle engine when it gets published (1.0.5 I think). If I am to believe Wikipedia and apply the 1/6th scale of KSP... A max thrust of 350 with ISP of 462(vac)/366(asl).

#2- Nerva.

I am just frustrated there is no 2.5m of this.

#3 - Dawn (Ion engine)

Same as Nerva, no 2.5m of this. But with the new 5k xenon reservoir you can make pretty small and efficient probes with this.

I wish it would have an engine sound (I cant describe it, but the best one I am thinking of would be the Ultravision sound from Neverwinter Nights one. Feels like light powder being consumed or something... not a musician here cant name it sorry).

[Camaron]

Where's the love for the Nerva and the IX-6315 Dawn? I just love those Xenon powered ships. They'll take you to the edge of the solar system and back again without trouble.

[RA3236]

Where's the love for the Nerva and the IX-6315 Dawn? I just love those Xenon powered ships. They'll take you to the edge of the solar system and back again without trouble.

I just can't use both of them properly; the fuel required to go good distances makes it harder to launch with the NERVA and the Dawn allways makes the xenon tank usage too high for my liking.

[FungusForge]

Stock, hmmm. Ehh the Mainsail has always been a favorite. The Rhino's taken over for the big jobs recently, but the Mainsail is a classic. The first true monster AFAIK.

[Dat_Spy_44]

Mainsail for LIFE!

[viktor19]

Terrier.

2nd stage engine? Check.

Transfer stage engine? Check.

Small lander? Check.

You get my point.

It even beats Nerv in some cases!

[Whovian]

Either the 48-7S (seriously, this thing can get you way more dV than its stats suggest) or the Skipper.

EDIT: The rhino's also pretty good for vacuum use.

[-DDD-]

Poddle <3

[Kuansenhama]

Where's the love for the Nerva and the IX-6315 Dawn? I just love those Xenon powered ships. They'll take you to the edge of the solar system and back again without trouble.

I love making ion powered probes. Its just that I play on career mode and it sometimes takes me a long time to tech up enough to get the ion engine.

[A35K]

LV-N. So much Dv, without having a thrust equivalent to using a hairdryer as a jet engine (I'm referring to the Ion engine...)

[Dispatcher]

Aerospike!

[SpaceplaneAddict]

The Ramjet.

[Dfthu]

The skipper is great use it on almost every rocket I make

[ROXunreal]

Terrier by far, but note that I haven't really done much outside Kerbin's SOI.

[Spacetraindriver]

Because I'm a plane guy, and my practe trains run on jets to make electricity, without the high blast of rockets, I choose the Wheesley jet!

[Climentina]

ion engine of course

[LaytheDragon]

My favorite stock engine has to be the Nerv. If you care about the aesthetics of your interplanetary ships, they are easy to fit in aesthetically-pleasing configurations.

Here are just two examples of this:

Ignore the Aerodynamic Forces Overlay message on the last screenshot. That picture was taken prior to the fixing of the issue through the downloading of mods.

Edited November 6, 2015 by LaytheDragon

[Slam_Jones]

Probably the Rhino (single-nozzle 3.75m engine). Looks great, plenty of power, awesome ISP. Easy to make chemical SSTOs with

[hazard-ish]

Definitely the RAPIER Couldn't make SSTOs without them!

[mythic_fci]

Hmmm... I'd have to say the Mainsail. It powers the 1st stage of 90% of my rockets (besides the 3m ones). For 2nd/3rd stage engines, the Skipper takes the cake, while the Poodle wins in the OMS engine category.

[randomness5555]

The ordinary jet engine-I forget what it's called, but it's just been so usefull generally, especially now the turbo uses so much fuel