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The 1.25m engines suck... Bad.

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On 4/3/2016 at 10:16 PM, max_creative said:

1.25 meter engines suck. Mostly. The vector has really high thrust and gimbal and the LV-N has really good isp (but terrible thrust) but other than that, they suck. 3.75 are awesome though. Really high thrust and who cares about efficiency FTW!!!

 *IF* you don't care about mass efficiency or cost effectiveness. Which generally applies to sandbox play. If the criteria is merely "let's make a really 'uge rocket", then yeah, 3.75m engines are the way to go.

 But if you design for efficiency, it's a different story. When you scale back your payloads and design lifters to get them into space for cheap, the little 1.25m engines start to shine. Especially the Reliant. There aren't many engines that can put a payload into orbit cheaper than the LV-T30, and it's literally the lowest tech LF&O engine in the game.

Best,
-Slashy

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19 minutes ago, GoSlash27 said:

 *IF* you don't care about mass efficiency or cost effectiveness. Which generally applies to sandbox play. If the criteria is merely "let's make a really 'uge rocket", then yeah, 3.75m engines are the way to go.

 But if you design for efficiency, it's a different story. When you scale back your payloads and design lifters to get them into space for cheap, the little 1.25m engines start to shine. Especially the Reliant. There aren't many engines that can put a payload into orbit cheaper than the LV-T30, and it's literally the lowest tech LF&O engine in the game.

Best,
-Slashy

I play sandbox. So I build giant rockets. Really giant rockets. 

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