it should be given the same treatment as the other engine types in terms of customisability, I'm not sure exactly how they work so I don't know what those options would be but they could allow you to prioritise thrust vs efficiency or how much propellant is burned vs how much electricity is drained, it could also get a second propellant type, krypton, which would less efficient but significantly cheaper although this could wait until a future career mode when it starts being useful.
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Fixed in 0.9.906
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Dev Pedro+2 2.7 years ago
We have improved the exhaust and added a scale parameter that affects thrust, mass and price. As well as xml parameters to change the colors of the exhaust.
Hopefully that should be enough.
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40.7k KellyNyanbinary5.4 years ago
And ion engines done have much customizability to them. Maybe efficiency versus thrust. But besides ion, there are tens of methods that electricity can be used to accelerate propellant. Learn more about them here
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40.7k KellyNyanbinary5.4 years ago
Krypton and Xenon aren’t fuel, they are propellant, since they are only accelerated rather than combusted to provide the energy. The energy is provided by the batteries instead.
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Is this post the reason why they changed the ion engine thrust particle? If it is I would to downvote this