Fuel Tank Mass Ratio - Something seems off

[Red Iron Crown]

It was 272kg on a dry mass of 26-35t (depending on the tank version), that's about a 1% change. So on a 10t wet tank, with 1t of dry mass - painted version would be 1:10 ratio, unpainted would be 1:10.1 ratio.

I'd still like to see a slight improvement of +0.2 to +0.5 to the dry:wet mass ratio for unpainted.

That 26-35t is dry mass. So for a 10t wet tank it would be 1t dry unpainted or 1.01t painted. I don't think this is significant enough to be worth bothering to model.

[basic.syntax]

Porkjet wrote about the Mk2 tank balance (link) on Reddit, including his own rationalization & expectation that it's due for a rebalance.

[Renegrade]

This is one of those things where it would be nice if you could upgrade tanks through further research. For instance, a 10t wet tank might have 0.5t unavoidable dry-mass and 1.0t dry mass that can be reduced through further research. So initially, you have a dry:wet mass ratio of 6.67. Research the part again and you cut that 1.0 in half to get a 1:10 ratio tank. Research it again and you have a 0.75t:10t ratio (13.33).

I'd definitely like to see upgrades in the tech tree.. There's a thread going on in the suggestions and development forum about that right now in fact..

0.625m parts end up with a 1:8 dry:wet ratio, 1.25m parts end up with a 1:9 ratio, 2.5m parts end up with a 1:10 ratio, and 3.75m parts have a 1:11 ratio.

That would be fine by me. Right now, they're all over the place without rhyme or reason... :/

Unpainted parts should definitely have better dry:wet ratios, but not drastically better. So a painted 2.5m tank would have 1:10, but the unpainted version might be 1:11 or 1:12 ratio.

As was pointed out, we should probably ignore the unpainted business. Besides, kerbal science could easily produce massless paint.

[RobotsAndSpaceships]

This is why I roll my eyes when someone complains a mod isn't balanced with stock.

[boxley]

in my head i like to think the oscar b tank is made of like, a cross section of a pipe or somethin cheap, so itll be nicely tiny but fairly heavy. basically a tiny tank for use with retrorockets or short range sattelite deployment

[Renegrade]

in my head i like to think the oscar b tank is made of like, a cross section of a pipe or somethin cheap, so itll be nicely tiny but fairly heavy. basically a tiny tank for use with retrorockets or short range sattelite deployment

It's actually quite good when paired with an LV-1 for an ultra-light final stage. Dry mass matters