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A continuation of StretchySRBs, which is a continuation of StretchyTanks
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Suggested fix to LiquidFuel-only & Oxidizer-only tanks #162

Closed Entropy2016 closed 5 years ago

Entropy2016 commented 9 years ago

A PP LiquidFuel-only tank (no oxidizer) only holds 294.5 units of LiquidFuel (not approximately 400, which it should be based on the stock MK1 fuel tank). The tank only lets you carry 73% of what it ought to. This is easy to fix, and oxidizer-only tanks should be buffed in proportion with it. Lastly, a small fine-tuning of mixed fuel tanks can get PP tanks to hold EXACTLY the same amount of fuel stock ones do.

  1. unitsPerT for PP LiquidFuel tanks should be changed from 1280 to 1739.13 (significant buff)
  2. unitsPerT for PP Oxidizer tanks should be changed from 1563 to 2125.603 (significant buff)
  3. unitsPerT for PP Mixed tanks should be changed from (720 / 880) to (718.2761 / 877.893) (negligible nerf)

For more details:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/106975-1-0-4-Procedural-Parts-Parts-the-way-you-want-em-v1-1-7-July-14?p=2193996&viewfull=1#post2193996

At the link is a cfg patch you can use to test the proposed changes.

Entropy2016 commented 9 years ago

I'm revising my recommendation. The previous suggestion only got fuel-units to match stock tanks, but not the dry mass. You can get both fuel-units and dry mass to match stock by doing this:

  1. dryDensity changed to 0.10864979 for mixed, liquid, and oxidizer tanks.
  2. unitsPerT for PP LiquidFuel tanks should be changed from 1280 to 1600
  3. unitsPerT for PP LiquidFuel tanks should be changed from 1563 to 1600 or 1952 depending on whether you want to honor the fact that oxidizer and liquidFuel have the same density, or whether you want to have oxidizer-only tanks and liquidFuel-only tanks of the same size consume fuel evenly (9 to 11 ratio).