Philoman Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I've been playing KSP for quite some time. With stock parts I managed to build rockets that flew nearly perfect during ascent, and i managed to reach Eve, Duna, Jool and other planets and moons.Recently I decided to upgrade my KSP experience by downloading som part packs (You gotta start somewhere ). With these packs (primarily KW) there follows, of course, bigger engines and this stability problem occured again. Only this time I couldn't help it even though I used the extra strong struts, which was also included. I am fairly experienced in this game and therefore it frustrates when I find it difficult to find threads with this topic. Btw I can't explain to you how much I hate struts. They are ugly and you don't see the on rockets anyway!Now I know some, if not many of you will think that "I just have to try and build it a bit stronger", but just try and hear me out. I agree that you shouldn't be able to a rocket that is more wide than it's tall, and I believe in good and not to mention good-looking rocket designs. And because of the forum I know, that a lot of people in the KSP community just can't get enough realism in this game. Every day there are new discussions about realism vs. gameplay over numerous ideas.So here is my idea: How many times have you, in real life, seen at rocket dancing from side to side, parhaps breaking at some point during the launch? You don't see struts either on real rockets. We see them "arcing straight through the sky". Yes it would be potentially much easier to liftoff a rocket, but it would undoubtably also be more inviting to new players. Oh yes and did I mention it would be much more realistic?!I know it would remove pretty much all the challenges we as engineers are currently facing when we design our rockets. So realisticly it should perhaps be implemented together with some sort of optimization of the aerodynamics. That would reward more traditional rockets and it would therefore still be challenging to send up odd sized payloads, but as long as the aerodynamics of the rocket are fine it should in most cases be stable - without the use of the ugly struts.PS I know that struts was used to connect for instance the external fueltank with the shuttle itself, but when did you ever see struts connecting two segments of the Apollo rocket?I hope someone shares my views Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest3.14 Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 The Apollo rockets have plenty of struts. They're just inside the fairings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexx32 Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Thread locked; duplicate Discussion thread already exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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