Problem: 4 radially symmetric tanks somehow drain at different fuel priorities
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have main fuel tank > pick up decoupler, switch on radial symmetry, set to 4 times
attach decoupler to main tank
enable decoupler crossfeed
pick up smaller fuel tank, symmetry still set as radial 4 times
attach small tank to decoupler, 1 becomes 4
enable fuel delivery overlay
= despite the fuel tanks being identical due to 4 times radial symmetry, their fuel priority is different:
> the ones on VAB East and South (2 on the left in the attached image) are at prio 70, while North and West are at prio 60..
>increasing the fuel priority to the 60 ones also increases the fuel priority to the 70 ones, as seen in the screenshot.
..I don't understand what is happening.
Of course I can just disable symmetry and attach all decouplers and tanks 1 by 1, even though that just increases the likelihood of wobble during flight, so be it.
But the problem still doesn't make sense based on what I've learned about the game so far.. is there some auto priority balancing happening based on something else in the rest of the craft?
I've already checked all the staging and possible balance issues in the rest of the ship, and everything seems fine, there's nothing the game would need to automatically re-balance for.
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Problem: 4 radially symmetric tanks somehow drain at different fuel priorities
Description:
= despite the fuel tanks being identical due to 4 times radial symmetry, their fuel priority is different:
> the ones on VAB East and South (2 on the left in the attached image) are at prio 70, while North and West are at prio 60..
>increasing the fuel priority to the 60 ones also increases the fuel priority to the 70 ones, as seen in the screenshot.
..I don't understand what is happening.
Of course I can just disable symmetry and attach all decouplers and tanks 1 by 1, even though that just increases the likelihood of wobble during flight, so be it.
But the problem still doesn't make sense based on what I've learned about the game so far.. is there some auto priority balancing happening based on something else in the rest of the craft?
I've already checked all the staging and possible balance issues in the rest of the ship, and everything seems fine, there's nothing the game would need to automatically re-balance for.
Help?
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