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So me and Danny experimented a bit, also tried to get lowest acarii drive mass and area.
He showed me his drive which could lift about 20-25 tons.
We tried to make it as small as we could but we couldn't really get much smaller than his original design.
Although I got this which has one less port and no structs.
I forgot if he made a smaller or lighter one. Then I tried to do it without a probe and it comes down to this. You need atleast 8 ports to have a twr of over 1. But it will be unstable the less ports you have.
Some things Danny found was the port ranges (horizontal, vertical, and both), vertical ports are stronger when using the 0% force ports, and that the wider your drive is, the less powerful it is.
He showed me his drive which could lift about 20-25 tons.
We tried to make it as small as we could but we couldn't really get much smaller than his original design.
Although I got this which has one less port and no structs.
I forgot if he made a smaller or lighter one. Then I tried to do it without a probe and it comes down to this. You need atleast 8 ports to have a twr of over 1. But it will be unstable the less ports you have.
Some things Danny found was the port ranges (horizontal, vertical, and both), vertical ports are stronger when using the 0% force ports, and that the wider your drive is, the less powerful it is.
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Although Danny's drives were pretty damn strong they lacked reusability. Something I want to incorporate along with the compactness that he taught me. But I suppose his are very for LEO and Venus environments.
Something Danny mentioned is who the hell is really gonna use and learn Acarii Drives seriously. He has a good point, they are really cheaty, unstable, and annoying as hell to optimize. I guess I'm doing this to fill demotivation yap
Something Danny mentioned is who the hell is really gonna use and learn Acarii Drives seriously. He has a good point, they are really cheaty, unstable, and annoying as hell to optimize. I guess I'm doing this to fill demotivation yap
Although Danny's drives were pretty damn strong they lacked reusability. Something I want to incorporate along with the compactness that he taught me. But I suppose his are very for LEO and Venus environments.
Something Danny mentioned is who the hell is really gonna use and learn Acarii Drives seriously. He has a good point, they are really cheaty, unstable, and annoying as hell to optimize. I guess I'm doing this to fill demotivation yap
Something Danny mentioned is who the hell is really gonna use and learn Acarii Drives seriously. He has a good point, they are really cheaty, unstable, and annoying as hell to optimize. I guess I'm doing this to fill demotivation yap
Tis a fun gimmick, however to get one properly reusable would either mean sacrificing power, further limiting its already limited capability, or simply making it massive, and i hate it when things are not compact.
For example this is my current most powerful Acari drive, Balloon 2.0 haha . It is just about lifting its bodyweight, tell me acari drives would be lifting that mass 3 years ago and id laugh at you.
For what it can do, its extremely compact, just not reusable, I tried at its current power, it rips itself apart, though fun to see, not very useful
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Recent reusable version I made, had to get this out quickly because my phone was about to die and I wanted to put it into steam sfs.
It can lift 15t
Solar panels on the side are to make the middle area slide smoothly and in one place. The wheels are because letting it sit on a retracting solar panel just breaks things. Seems like they work fine at high speeds in the atmosphere and while physics time warping.
Here I got past the Karmen line without any problems, I broke it after.
Fairings and nose cones are not really needed, infinite delta v remember.
Slowly lifting 10 t
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It can lift 15t
Solar panels on the side are to make the middle area slide smoothly and in one place. The wheels are because letting it sit on a retracting solar panel just breaks things. Seems like they work fine at high speeds in the atmosphere and while physics time warping.
Here I got past the Karmen line without any problems, I broke it after.
Fairings and nose cones are not really needed, infinite delta v remember.
Slowly lifting 10 t
Thank you, actually that is foremost the reason why they aren't reusable, I figured out how to get the strongest reaction out of a port, if I try to pull that port away by any means, it literally breaks those means.
Tis a fun gimmick, however to get one properly reusable would either mean sacrificing power, further limiting its already limited capability, or simply making it massive, and i hate it when things are not compact.
For example this is my current most powerful Acari drive, Balloon 2.0 haha . It is just about lifting its bodyweight, tell me acari drives would be lifting that mass 3 years ago and id laugh at you.
For what it can do, its extremely compact, just not reusable, I tried at its current power, it rips itself apart, though fun to see, not very useful
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Tis a fun gimmick, however to get one properly reusable would either mean sacrificing power, further limiting its already limited capability, or simply making it massive, and i hate it when things are not compact.
For example this is my current most powerful Acari drive, Balloon 2.0 haha . It is just about lifting its bodyweight, tell me acari drives would be lifting that mass 3 years ago and id laugh at you.
For what it can do, its extremely compact, just not reusable, I tried at its current power, it rips itself apart, though fun to see, not very useful
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I didn't knew about this bug, that is very funny one. I made a rocket from generic default parts, no bp editing, no parts editing, no stretching, not a single clipping.
Its mass is 44 tons, it has solar panels to switch off and switch on all entire system. And it can lift up to 26 tons of payload from Earth in addition to those 44 tons of self-weight.
This can be extended in size, like 88 tons can lift 52 tons and so on, as much as blueprint space allows.
Thus BP editing is not necessary. Just set port's magnetic power to maximum allowed by it's original settings.
Its mass is 44 tons, it has solar panels to switch off and switch on all entire system. And it can lift up to 26 tons of payload from Earth in addition to those 44 tons of self-weight.
This can be extended in size, like 88 tons can lift 52 tons and so on, as much as blueprint space allows.
Thus BP editing is not necessary. Just set port's magnetic power to maximum allowed by it's original settings.
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Heres Robotug, used for exploration
https://sharing.spaceflightsimulator.app/rocket/6_MUGrCkEe21J4E9QGRKkw
And the 20t lifter
https://sharing.spaceflightsimulator.app/rocket/JalkRrClEe21J4E9QGRKkw
Use em carefully
https://sharing.spaceflightsimulator.app/rocket/6_MUGrCkEe21J4E9QGRKkw
And the 20t lifter
https://sharing.spaceflightsimulator.app/rocket/JalkRrClEe21J4E9QGRKkw
Use em carefully
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