[1.3.1] Stockalike Station Parts Expansion (October 27)

A couple more thoughts:

The original USI-LS docs had these as guidelines: //Suggested settings are based on part mass for consistency. // //For dedicated hab parts (no other generators, etc.):// Kerbal Months should equal mass * 5// ReplacementParts = 100 * crew capacity + 100 * Kerbal Months. ////For parts that act as hab multipliers (dedicated or bundled with other functions/converters),//a multiplier equal to the tonnage works well.////For recyclers, their percentage should be mass / crew capcity (i.e. the UKS Pioneer Module at 3.75t = 75%)//at crew capacity 5. Increasing crew cap should result in an increase in mass.//i.e. a 12-crew recycler that weighs 7.5 tons should have a recycler percentage equal to 7.5 / 12 = 62.5%//Recyclers require (per crew capacity) 0.2 EC and 0.000002 ReplacementParts with a cap of 75%.//If water is used as an input (0.0002 per crew capacity) the cap can be extended to 90%

I think a lot of the formulae and balance fudging have changed since then.

I believe the default BaseHabTime is currently 0.25 kmonth per seat.

That means the above "Soyuz" arrangement would have 1 kmonth base hab time, so 2 Kerbals = 15 days.

If this had +1 additional kmonth bonus, that would mean a 30 day hab time for 2 Kerbals.

The above part mass is 1.25 tons (which seems okay to me). I could easily see this having a kmonths bonus equal to mass (+1.25 kmonths)

(Hitchhiker pod is 2.5 tons and provides 21 bonus kmonths. The issue here is that the mass of the Hitchhiker pod has always been a bit weird).

In general, I'm not terribly happy about the idea that kmonths scale with mass. Volume would seem an awful lot more sensible to me.[1.3.1] Stockalike Station Parts Expansion (October 27)

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