It would be nice to see the first rockets in the game using early liquid rocket fuels like ethanol or naphtha rather than hydrogen. Also, the most important distinction between a rocket engine and an air breathing engine is that the rocket engine carries its oxidizer - so it would be nice if the rocket platform also had a port for some oxidizer like LOX (liquid oxygen), which I suppose could be made in the chemical plant from gaseous oxygen similar to the liquid nitrogen recipe.
Early rocket fuels and LOX
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To be fair, "liquid nitrogen" just got renamed to "nitrogen canister".
I'm not 100% sure this is a good change gameplay-wise, at least not unless the devs do something like a space race DLC. Right now, the rocket is meant to be a capstone achievement using some of the most difficult resources to obtain, and with the possible exception of ethanol, hydrogen is the hardest fuel to obtain.
Also, realistically, you'd never feed a rocket with raw naphtha; RP-1 and similar kerosene rocket fuels are very highly refined products.
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