Fuel drains too quickly?

[Dizzle]

Seems in the new version, fuel drains way too quickly. I mean, I knew low throttle gave a bit too much bang for your buck in the old version, but this just seems ridiculous. My Revital-5 three-kerbal lander, previously being able to return from Minmus with like half a tank left, and having ditched two stages that could have plenty of fuel left, currently can't even fully return from the Mun.

I do have a single-kerbal orbiter that seems to be capable of interplanetary missions, but if this is the new norm for fuel consumption, then this game just got much, much harder...

[tk5800thesecond]

Unless you were thrusting at %100 your rockets probably wont work in .17, but, there are other factors that I am not aware of and fuel does seem to drain slightly more quickly than usual

[UNSC]

Yep, the fuel bug is gone, the engines are burning the correct amount of fuel now.

[bsalis]

As I have posted before elsewhere, I think the fuel bug caused under-consumption in certain cross flow situations. It wasn't just a throttle thing.

For example I have an SSTO that used full thrust all the way to orbit (jets to 11km, then rockets to 100km). In 0.16 it had 668 units of fuel left. Now in 0.17 it has 245 units.

IMO i played the game as-is with the fuel bug in 0.16 and now i'm playing it as-is in 0.17. If it's an over-consumption bug now or not I don't care. I just built it bigger.

[spikeyhat09]

odds are, you were exploiting more fuel than you realized. Even if there is a bug (which it probably isn't), I'd MUCH rather it be that fuel drains to quickly than too slowly.

secondly, why aren't you using the nuclear engine? unless you're disgusted by how ludicrously efficient it is (which no doubt some people are), It's sort of a no-brainer. vacuum impulse of 800?!?!?

thirdly, what are you doing going to mun and min? they added entire new planets! kerbin moons are for 0.16ers!

[Ziff]

As I have posted before elsewhere, I think the fuel bug caused under-consumption in certain cross flow situations. It wasn't just a throttle thing.

For example I have an SSTO that used full thrust all the way to orbit (jets to 11km, then rockets to 100km). In 0.16 it had 668 units of fuel left. Now in 0.17 it has 245 units.

IMO i played the game as-is with the fuel bug in 0.16 and now i'm playing it as-is in 0.17. If it's an over-consumption bug now or not I don't care. I just built it bigger.

There was a fuel bug in the way fuel crossfeed worked with fuel lines and lateral fuel tanks. So you've been hit with that as well.