Make all hatches boardable

[Mat2ch]

Hi,

I just tried to build something like the ascend vehicle from The Martian, but soon realised that the hitchhiker pod can't be boarded from the round thing, which looks like a hatch.

This go me thinking, which pods are boardable through the inner doors and which are not. I thought there may be some logic behind it, but nope. It seems that all the round hatches are not boardable, but only some of the square ones, found on MK2 and MK3 parts are.

It would be great to have them all available for crew actions.

My test stand, for goofiness:

[Sir_Robert]

Seems silly that some of those hatches on an attachment node are functional at all

[Nich]

Cargo bays allow access

[Mat2ch]

1 hour ago, Sir_Robert said:

Seems silly that some of those hatches on an attachment node are functional at all

I like being able to exit from the back door of the MK3 pod to a cargo bay. You can walk to a car parked in a plane this way and make it fall out of it

Also some more hollow elements would be nice, like the multipoint connector.

24 minutes ago, Nich said:

Cargo bays allow access

Sadly, they don't.

Edited February 26, 2016 by Mat2ch

[Nich]

 Only the MK2 and MK3 have cargo bays that can attached to them. All of the other command pods don't have a good way to access a node that should be closed. you could argue that craft only have one working airlock but at the same time it would be nice for design flexibility that all of them work

[Mat2ch]

Well, there are hollow tubes, which you can exit to. And iirc the MK1 inline cabin allows this.