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Come now, everyone knows you use asparagus staging for this kind of thing. What happens when you start jettisoning empty machine guns as you go?


The ammunition mass is a more effective way of increasing your stored energy than extra rifles, so it is at least addressed implicitly in the section that examines the ammo to carry (1 gun with 2 bullets obviously beats 2 guns with single bullets, I guess more complicated situations would follow).

You always want to fly with the minimum number of guns necessary to provide your desired thrust and then as much ammo in addition to that.


Yeah, but the optimal amount of thrust need decreases as your mass decreases.




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