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[Svampapa]

Right click on the troublesome mainsail and "lock gimbal". Provided you got some other way to steer (RCS/Winglets) that might reduce some wobble woes.

[miauw62]

I've got 4 mainsails and orange tanks attached to a center mainsail with decouplers, I fire up the outer ones first, decouple them and fire up the inner ones. I solved the middle one being smashed to pieces with some seperatrons. It caused a lot of trouble because most of the struts that kept the thing from snapping like a twig were on the outer ones. I fixed that too, tough. I now have a Kethane scanning sattelite in polar orbit, woo. (not that I'll be using Kethane anytime soon, but woo anyway)

[Anvilfolk]

I think orange tanks are still bugged - they overheat way too much. If you can replace them with two half-sized grey ones you'll be able to boost the ascent a ton more!

Also, congratulations

I actually found it easier to set up Kethane mining operations on the moon because of the lower gravity, so perhaps that's something to aim for. I simply could not get a mining thing going on Kerbin...

[miauw62]

Yeah, they I found out they still overheat. I added the smallest rockomax tanks under the orange tanks and connected them with struts. That may be the thing causing the wobble, actually, but there's too much struts to go back now.

E: Using another rocket with asparagus design now. Asparagus rockets are incredibly efficient :O

[Aseaheru]

How big of a decoupler? Also, are you using sepatrons to disconnect?

[BigFatStupidHead]

I think orange tanks are still bugged - they overheat way too much.

The trick with the orange cans is that they are so large, and their center origin so far from the attachment node, the engine underneath can't detect what it is attached to. Two big grey tanks work, but I usually stick the small grey tank above the engine. Either should deal with the overheating issue.

[Rose]

What also works, rather amusingly, is a tiny octagonal strut connector. They're strong enough to support an entire engine, and are also tiny.

[miauw62]

How big of a decoupler? Also, are you using sepatrons to disconnect?

Rockomax size over all the rocket except the payload, which is my standard unmanned probe thingie.
And yeah, it blows up without seperatrons.
I'm using a big orange tank with a half-sized one underneath on the bottom. I currently have one in orbit that I may try to send to Mun orbit.

[Rose]

So I have found an extremely promising plugin

What does it do?

It automagically adjusts the thrust output of all of your main engines to keep the center of thrust pointing through your center of gravity. This effectively makes assymetric designs possible, as well as making VTOL so much easier.

[jocan2003]

Ohhh shiney cant wait for them to support engine gimbals.

[forsaken1111]

So... Scott Manley made it to minmus and back with a 2 ton vehicle.

I am awed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbgjlZeujws

[Graknorke]

Today's XKCD is about KSP. Well, sort of.
http://xkcd.com/1244/ Link so that the future can know what I'm talking about.

[forsaken1111]

So I have found an extremely promising plugin

What does it do?

It automagically adjusts the thrust output of all of your main engines to keep the center of thrust pointing through your center of gravity. This effectively makes assymetric designs possible, as well as making VTOL so much easier.

Trying this out now. It looks very very nice!

[kaian-a-coel]

DAMMIT.
My first moho rover has nearly no fuel left and 4km/s of delta-v to do in order to achieve orbit.

I'm f*cked. Guess I have to redesign the thing, with more fuel.

And it took me so much time to put this thing there.... argh!

[miauw62]

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Progress! Not the best orbit for Kethane scanning, but good enough for me.