Anyone remember that discord server where they were gonna make a community rocket to places?
Well, surprise surprise after a flurry of activity, they've got stuck without anything. No landers, motherships, transfer stages, launch vehicles, nothing.
I've tried helping cos I'm a beneficent Warmaster, offering out technical advice and numbers.
Anyway, conversation turns to dry mass, and how only android players get told their dry mass in game (we don't) and you must use blueprint editing (you don't). So I showed them how to work out dry mass of tankage.
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And he starts complaining about how difficult it is to keep track of a hundred parts and a few buildscreens when working out dry mass.
So I tell him I have a 4,400 part rocket. Which he rubbishes because the lag it generates takes too long and he could deliver more mass to orbit in less time with much smaller and less laggy rockets.
Unfortunately, he forgets just how many trips he'd need to do with his little rocket to match one lift of Komodo
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I was doing mental arithmetic at the time so I under sold it. It's actually 290 round trips at 20 minutes a trip = 5800 minutes or 96.6 hours just to match one Komodo launch.
If it came down to a race, I think I'd be fine.