RCS Engines...

[AlamoVampire]

I do apologize if yall already knew this, but, I just learned something peculiar. IF you have RCS Blocks <only know atm this works with STOCK RCS> and RCS fuel and your main engine goes empty, you can control the RCS in the forward <forward here meaning same direction the main engine would push if it were running> direction with the main engines THROTTLE control! been playing a year and just NOW noticed this!

[Dreadthrone]

yeah.... ksp needs more training sessions for the players there are SO MANY keys that you don't know about untell you watch a scott manly video and hear him say "spin using the q key" or " move forward with rcs by pressing the h key" quotes from some episode from eve explorers and a moment in " having fun with the demo"

[Dreadthrone]

and no i did not know that..... ( i have been using mechjeb since the start of time )

[Deathsoul097]

Umm, do you have MJ installed Alamo? Because I'm pretty sure that's a MechJeb function. (Correct me if I'm wrong of course, but that was my understanding.)

yeah.... ksp needs more training sessions for the players there are SO MANY keys that you don't know about untell you watch a scott manly video and hear him say "spin using the q key" or " move forward with rcs by pressing the h key" quotes from some episode from eve explorers and a moment in " having fun with the demo"

Umm, look at the controls/key bindings? That did it for me.

[Deathsoul097]

Oops, double post. Ignore ples.

[Epthelyn]

yeah.... ksp needs more training sessions for the players there are SO MANY keys that you don't know about untell you watch a scott manly video and hear him say "spin using the q key" or " move forward with rcs by pressing the h key" quotes from some episode from eve explorers and a moment in " having fun with the demo"

Both those examples are in Options -> Controls

The topic of this thread however, isn't. I had no idea this happened, probably through a combination of rarely running out of fuel and rarely actually including RCS on anything important

EDIT: Unless, as above, it's part of MechJeb.

[AlamoVampire]

i do have mechjeb installed on the machine and it WAS on the craft. ill go whack something together with RCS launch it up into space run it out of LO2 and see what happens with RCS non mechjeb on rocket reporting back shortly

post test edit: would seem this IS a mechjeb quirk. i like it, seeing as most my missions have mechjeb on them, yet another perk to my missions XD

Edited June 21, 2014 by AlamoVampire

[LethalDose]

I don't think this works without MJ installed. However, with the recent announcement of the OMS engines, I think we may see something similar in stock soon.

[Comrade Jenkens]

I've been playing since 0.17 and I didn't have a clue about this!

[AlamoVampire]

I've been playing since 0.17 and I didn't have a clue about this!

Its a mechjeb only quirk but it seems useful