Help! My craft keeps clipping on Eve

[the_beholden_one]

So I built this ship based on Matt Lowne's Eve Lander from Youtube. I made a couple of tweaks, mostly with the number and placement of small science equipments. The largest change I made by far is that I added six solid rocket boosters to the external tanks as a "stage one" to give the craft a little more oomph getting back into orbit. I've tried it several times with only the external tanks and it just doesn't have enough juice. Even when I take off from near Olympus, in the peaks region of the planet, I can't even make it halfway around before falling back into atmosphere.

So anyway, I added the boosters. Only now, when I land, the legs keep clipping into the surface (I landed in the shallows this time) and then blasting out again so my craft keeps shaking violently back and forth as first one side, and then the other clip into and bounce back out of the surface. I didn't have this issue without the boosters, but I am reluctant to believe that's the only reason this is happening, since they don't interact with the ground or the landing struts at all.

Has anyone else had this happen before, and how did you fix it?

Also, I've tried to add the craft file but I can't get it to work. I'm not sure if the file is too big (seems less likely?) or if I'm just doing it wrong (seems more likely).

 

[peteletroll]

Moved to Gameplay Questions.

[king of nowhere]

try either with more or with less landing legs. those are usually the culprit when your craft bounces on the surface

[jimmymcgoochie]

I suspect that the extra mass of those boosters, combined with Eve’s high gravity (1.7g I think) is overloading the landing legs and causing the suspension to become unstable. Crank up the spring and damper settings or add more landing legs, preferably to the boosters themselves so you can drop the extra weight as you ascend. Or try with no landing legs at all and just land on the boosters/engines, they can take it 

[the_beholden_one]

6 hours ago, jimmymcgoochie said:

I suspect that the extra mass of those boosters, combined with Eve’s high gravity (1.7g I think) is overloading the landing legs and causing the suspension to become unstable. Crank up the spring and damper settings or add more landing legs, preferably to the boosters themselves so you can drop the extra weight as you ascend. Or try with no landing legs at all and just land on the boosters/engines, they can take it 

Good to know! How do you turn up the dampers? I only see the "deploy shielded" and "start extended" options when I right click on them

[RealKerbal3x]

41 minutes ago, the_beholden_one said:

Good to know! How do you turn up the dampers? I only see the "deploy shielded" and "start extended" options when I right click on them

Have you got advanced tweakables turned on in the main game settings?

[the_beholden_one]

2 hours ago, RealKerbal3x said:

Have you got advanced tweakables turned on in the main game settings?

I don't think I do. Probably the first step is to do that I guess hahaha