Inline advanced Stabilzer and the Inline Reaction Wheel

[LostElement]

Whats with those two part? They only look different. They both provide the same amount of torque. Is the Stabilizer just a useless part? Or does it have some advantages statistically?

[sal_vager]

The parts used to be very different, but now serve the same purpose, and unfortunately the same stats aside from mass.

Ideally the stabilizer would be more potent, and the reaction wheel would not have SAS.

Squad devs need some friendly prodding to rebalance those parts

[Awaras]

The advanced stabilizer USED to provide SAS functionality to ships. This functionality is now provided by command pods. My understanding is that they simply left the part in the game for backwards compatibility so people's persistence files wouldn't get corrupted because that part didn't exist anymore...

[Pecan]

More chat about these parts is in: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/69428-Spin-Stabilization-Question. TL;DR - use the IRW as it masses less.

[Noticeably FAT]

The advanced stabilizer USED to provide SAS functionality to ships. This functionality is now provided by command pods.

So I don't need to be adding ASAS to all my ships anymore? That's what I get for leaving for six months then hopping back in with no research.

[DMagic]

So I don't need to be adding ASAS to all my ships anymore? That's what I get for leaving for six months then hopping back in with no research.

Check here if you want more about all of the changes to the SAS system since 0.21: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/41941-New-SAS-functionality-and-You%21-0-23-Update

It's a fairly major change in the way that vessels are built and controlled.