Overpowered "Kodiak" engines?

[MAFman]

I've noticed that the "Kodiak" engines (the Soyuz lookalikes) are far too powerful to get a reasonable TWR when I make a kind-of-realistic-looking Sputnik, Molniya, or Soyuz vehicle. Is this intended?

[SpaceFrog]

I have found the same thing! 

In the game if you use 5 Kodiak and 4 Cub vernier (which the Soyuz has) you can deliver much more than just a couple of satellites to LKO. However, just to be fair, the Reliant is cheaper and is more powerful than Kodiak is many ways. So, further nerfing of the Kodiak would render it almost useless by comparison to the Reliant.

[king of nowhere]

On 9/5/2023 at 6:12 PM, MAFman said:

I've noticed that the "Kodiak" engines (the Soyuz lookalikes) are far too powerful to get a reasonable TWR when I make a kind-of-realistic-looking Sputnik, Molniya, or Soyuz vehicle. Is this intended?

if you try to make realistic looking stuff, everything in ksp is overpowered.

actually it's not that the parts are overpowered - they significantly underperform compared to their real life counterparts. but the reduced size means that to orbit earth you need 10 km/s, to orbit kerbin you need a third of that

[GluttonyReaper]

On 11/29/2023 at 5:12 PM, king of nowhere said:

if you try to make realistic looking stuff, everything in ksp is overpowered.

actually it's not that the parts are overpowered - they significantly underperform compared to their real life counterparts. but the reduced size means that to orbit earth you need 10 km/s, to orbit kerbin you need a third of that

Tangentially related, but this is the same reason that Apollo-style Mun landings aren't necessarily efficient in KSP - with the fairly low dV cost, the mass of the extra capsule + landing engine + docking equipment can outweigh the benefit of not lugging your return fuel up and down in a lot of cases.

Edited December 5, 2023 by GluttonyReaper