Your least used part

[AmpsterMan]

I love absurd designs.

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Even absurd tiny designs. I wish there were more smaller radii parts.

It's funny how I am the polar opposite. Very utilitarian.

[Lazro]

Does anyone even remember the radiator anymore?

[lajoswinkler]

Whackjob, I totally agree. People tend to think you can't go anywhere with tiny stuff, but they forget that if the payload is tiny, you can do tons of stuff with it.

Speaking of tiny, has anyone ever attempted to visit Eeloo using RCS?

[Tangle]

My least-used parts are the one-port rcs ports.

[minerman30]

This. Just... this.

[Whackjob]

This. Just... this.

Whaaa? Those are great! Particular for RCS "Quad Bikes".

[Lazro]

Whackjob, you have a use for everything.

[FlamedSteak]

This has consistently been the most useless piece of trash to ever grace the parts menu.

I'm actually quite fond of that one, it's an essential piece of kit if you want a docking port at the ass end of your space craft.

[Weegee]

This. Just... this.

With this part, I made a RCS lander capable of landing on Minmus and returning with 3 crew. I'm too lazy to post all the stuff over here, so just click the link in my signature if you want to see it.

But it's not very useful for it's intended purpose, which is providing fine control for rockets. It's much more useful when screwing around with low-gravity inventions.

I agree with most of the rest of the parts in this thread though.

[Whackjob]

... I think, tonight... I might make me a minature RCS starship and go visit Jool. Hrm. I got some ideas. Pictures later, if I do it. Promise!

[dudester28]

This has consistently been the most useless piece of trash to ever grace the parts menu.

Well, The description says that the creator failed miserably. Still, I have never used it before and probably won't until it's buffed.

I might have said small hardpoint but I just used them today to mount the landing gear on a lander which I found to be a bit tall.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

Those rockomax multi-part adapters. All they do is introduce instability to the rocket in my experience. Much better to go with girder parts to attach multiple rockets

[Francesco]

Now that's an interesting design. What benefits does it have, versus something that just hooks on in the back and pushes?

I think it's meant to be something like this

[SunJumper]

You don't use RCS or reaction wheels (I doubt you turn off your SAS function)... how to you even... go around the space and stuff?

I use the reaction wheels of the probe body(ies) and pod(s), but not the dedicated SAS parts. And I find that RCS just adds unnecessary dead weight, as I never use it (I don't dock anyway). Just about all of my launchers involve probes, so the launch mass is no more than about 100t (The probe, on an optional small transfer stage, on a larger LV-T45 stage, between two LV-T45 stages, and possibly between another pair if the probe is especially big).

I aim to use chemical rockets to get my probes at least nearly Kerbin Escape.

[FlamedSteak]

I used to hate the multi part adapters, but their stability improved considerably in .21

I'm using the 3 way adapter regularly in (early) career mode in my first stage booster.

Tied up with 3 large SRB's, they're actually proving to be a really reliable way of getting low weight payloads into LKO.

[jeti140973]

I never use seperators. They seem redundant by using decouplers and/or docking ports.

[Torham234]

This. Just... this.

These are vital to any good SSTO planes. You need a bunch at the far ends of the craft and wings to steady the plane as you power through the very thin atmosphere above 35 km.

[WeirdCulture]

Nearly all of the planes-tab.... I'm here to build rocktes and going to space (and find out if Minimus is realy made of Roquefort).. planes are for the Wright brothers

[Spyritdragon]

For me, probably the weird little gray 6-way connector. It has never been on any spacecraft I built.

[possum]

I was going to say the rt-10 srb, but then remembered how useful it is at the start of the tech tree. I have never used or needed this

[Death Engineering]

I'm fairly sure I've never used this thing. Incidentally, I've come to love the small hardpoint for my smallish landers. It's just the right size for sticking a pair of side fuel tanks on them while keeping the lander's form factor nice and compact.

Wowjustwow. Having formed my opinion on the "Structural Pylon" you referenced, I mistaken believed the "Small Hardpoint" was a smaller version of the pylon. So glad I read this! I've wanted something like this for attaching radial engines to "Structural Fuselage". Quite hilarious I had this part and didn't realize it's value.

[Death Engineering]

You don't use RCS or reaction wheels (I doubt you turn off your SAS function)... how to you even... go around the space and stuff?

Literally, rofl. I'm often amazed how creatively other people play KSP.

Edited October 21, 2013 by Death Engineering