What do I install to increase RCS fuel?

[Brandemihl]

I am stumped .. I know its nitrogen. But not much else...

[Hye_Phin]

You need the N2 canisters placed or installed into an intake slot. Regular intakes have one slot, Miura have four. The intake must be powered.

[Brandemihl]

Thanks so much! In your opinion, is it better to have a smaller ship? Or a big one with a multitude/array of rcs intakes? BTW: how much mass does a Miura give you with all four slots filled with N2?

[Hye_Phin]

That's a serious opinion. I horde things, so I like to have floorspace. But it's easier to learn and maintain a small ship. The reactors don't really have a use right now until you have 100,000s of credits. I just upgrade as I find spaceworthy vessels that will widen whatever is bottlenecking my income.

I think N2s are just 374.68kg per. So, a Miura is 1,498.72kgs RCS mass. I have three on switches, but I'm piloting a spacebarge. The benefit is not paying frequent docking fees.

[Shenji]

I like bigger ships, now I changed mine to a cargo ship, it has much more space for storage and upgrade, so I travel much less between k-leg and derelicts. It's a bit slow but then I have more time to nap. Only downside is it deaccelerates/brakes very slow so you better drive slower to avoid crash. And I installed 2 more reverse thrusters, works better.

[maximustrajan23]

is there anyone on youtube who can do a turtorial on engineering in this game that you guys know of? thanks

[Nordak Balrem]

Originally posted by Brandemihl:

Thanks so much! In your opinion, is it better to have a smaller ship? Or a big one with a multitude/array of rcs intakes? BTW: how much mass does a Miura give you with all four slots filled with N2?

Best is a big ship using the lightweight pieces from Venus. 0 weight floors are OP.

[Shenji]

After go to Venus, you can just drain Venusian atmo into your gas tanks, as much as you want. And I just found that you can drain gas into reactor fuel tanks, and that also works as RCS fuels.
And you don't even have to INSTALL the gas cans/tanks, just put it under the intake of regulator/pump then it should work. Just don't put any tank/can under the pump outlets.

[sir Evans]

You can drain atmo on Cassini base as well.

[Agent Lonergan]

dont forget, if your in a pinch and run out of N2 you can swap the small canisters for an O2 one :)

[Xzystance:TTV]

Originally posted by Agent Lonergan:

dont forget, if your in a pinch and run out of N2 you can swap the small canisters for an O2 one :)

Can confirm, had to do this coming out of a torch travel gone horribly wrong... had to slow down from 50km/s on RCS..... After i burned all my N2, I finally realized that O2 works on the intakes as well... shutting down/stealing my life support tanks and adding my extra o2 tanks i had been salvaging, i managed to get barely enough Delta-V to slow down and drift back to port LOL

[Shenji]

Originally posted by Xzystance:TTV:

Originally posted by Agent Lonergan:

dont forget, if your in a pinch and run out of N2 you can swap the small canisters for an O2 one :)

Can confirm, had to do this coming out of a torch travel gone horribly wrong... had to slow down from 50km/s on RCS..... After i burned all my N2, I finally realized that O2 works on the intakes as well... shutting down/stealing my life support tanks and adding my extra o2 tanks i had been salvaging, i managed to get barely enough Delta-V to slow down and drift back to port LOL

Sounds like a wonderful story to tell your grandsons ;)