'Bug'fix / Feature improvement related to maneuver nodes and thrust predictions.

[Frostiken]

This isn't really a 'suggestion' in so much as it's a feature that's rather underdeveloped.

Simply put, it's frustrating as hell to have the maneuver node time predictions be nearly 100% completely bunk and unreliable.

Can we please get this 'feature' fixed to actually be somewhat plausible? Sometimes the burn time it gives you is totally wrong and I have no idea where it actually gets these times from.

As an example, I just did a TMI transfer. I used my engine to burn around Kerbin, and when I got to the Mun, I set up a maneuver node to circularize. The time it gave me said 1m and something seconds. However, when I started the burn the time rapidly dropped to 20-something seconds, simply because at the very end of my maneuver around Kerbin, I had throttled down the engine to make final adjustments. As such, the maneuver node around the Mun figured I was going to, I don't know, thrust at minimumal power to circularize.

This feature is nearly useless as-is since the times are completely unpredictable. There is no capability to adjust the times to consider 100% power without obviously altering your current orbit and wasting fuel (via throttling up and pressing X). I'd rather have *NO* consideration for less-than-100%-power-burns and have it totally reliable for 100% power, than I would to have it currently have very little practical use due to sheer uncertainty in the method of calculation.

[stupid_chris]

Yeah that one's annoying. Would be worth seeing if it's on the bugtracker. But yeah, it would be much easier if the game took in maximum thrust with the current active engines.