Balance pass of max temp of parts

[Paul Kingtiger]

Stock parts have amazingly high heat tolerances!

Heatshields and plane parts I can understand as they would have special coatings to survive reentry. But even delicate things like science experiments have max temp ratings of 2000

Steel melts at 1500

Aluminium alloy it 650

My suggestion is to lower temperatures across the board, then adjust atmospheric heating to balance. The result would increase the educational value of the game and simply make more sense.

[Fel]

Failure shouldn't even be when the sheath starts melting; structural failure can occur far before then.

I think pretty much everything should have a heat shield component, significantly less than heat-shields themselves, of course; and then be very delicate once that component burns off. That outer coating is only going to last so long.

[frizzank]

I think all temps are in Kelvin so add 272 to those numbers.

[Paul Kingtiger]

Using the thermometer on the launch pad you get a reading of 287 so I think you're right.

2000 Kelvin is still above the melting point of steel though, 1000 would be more like it.

[Renegrade]

Yeah it was confirmed to be kelvins. I noticed that a lot of parts have the exact same rating - I smell placeholder values!

Good thing we're still alpha beta er, that Electronic Arts made it such that a product isn't complete until the 50th patch five years AFTER official release...

[rkman]

Spaceplane parts should at least be made of titanium, which has a melting point of 1668c, and which would make those parts very expensive.

[Chris_2]

The biggest problem of the new system is the way too high thermal conduction. Heat should be much more localized to the place where the heat is generated. In what reality does the cockpit of a spaceplane heat to 1500°C from burning a rocket engine? Sure, the engine might get hot (well, actually, just the nozzle and combustion chamber of the rocket will heat or else there will be serious problems...), but now -my entire spaceplane- becomes glowing hot. So, decreasing the heat resistance of parts (that shouldn't have heat resistance) is not really possible, as these parts would then be destroyed as the spacecraft becomes 'uniformely hot' during an LV-N burn or reëntry. The solution is obvious: increase the thermal capacity of parts; decrease the thermal conduction between parts; then heat will become much more localized and only then the heat resistance of some can be decreased.

Edited May 1, 2015 by Chris_2