Fuel Stoichiometer/Rationer (Mod Request)

[Samniss Arandeen]

Ever notice that spaceplanes tend not to have perfect, balanced 9 LF to 11 OX ratios? Nuclear engined craft also suffer from this as the Nerv now only consumes liquid fuel.

This becomes an issue for spaceplane pilots who want to know how much jet/rocket fuel they have remaining. Having Liquid Fuel only shown as one singular "lump" in the resources panel (even with Alternate Resource Panel, whose closest feature is the stage-by-stage fuel bars) means not only precalculating how much fuel I have to react with the oxidizer and how much I have to use on its own, but using the displayed fuel and oxidizer values to do mental math while trying to fly at the same time.

That's where this theoretical mod comes in. It's a quality-of-life mod that takes the amount of oxidizer aboard ship and, in real time, computes the amount of liquid fuel necessary to react with it, displaying the Oxidizer and resulting Liquid Fuel stoich values. It also displays any surplus LF amount as its own meter, with low fuel alarms of its own - and fuel deficit alarms if your LF engines eat into the rocket fuel supply.

 

Optional additions may include:

The ability to specify exactly how much fuel is allowed to be used by a particular engine or cluster of engines, displaying each as its own meter

Forcibly cutting an engine/cluster when its rationed fuel supply runs out

Excluding certain fuel tanks and their contents from consideration/display (e.g., because they're payload)

Applying the above to Electric Charge and power consumption