Diving bell issues

[MaverickSawyer]

I modified the config file on the KAS radial winch to allow it to stretch more than a kilometer, and slung a 1.25m ore tank off the end of the cable, and attached it to the bottom of a boat. Motored the boat out a couple of kilometers off the coast and let the cable out at ~1 m/s. Got it down to just shy of 400 meters deep and stuff started exploding due to overpressure at 4 kPa.

Do any parts have higher pressure tolerances than 4kPa, or will I have to turn the pressure damage off to drop payloads even deeper than that?

[bewing]

No, you'll have to turn off the pressure damage in the difficulty settings. The most fragile parts in the game have a pressure tolerance of 4000kPa. The parts in the game that are made out of solid metal have pressure tolerances of 4000kPa.

 

[Spricigo]

Something in this numbers seems odd,  @bewing

[bewing]

You think?

[DrLicor]

@bewing, both fragile and strongest parts have the same critical number of pressure according to your comment, typo or is it just how they are configured? 

[bewing]

It's basically a new feature that has only been partially implemented. At some point, somebody has to spend the time to go through every single last part and put sane and balanced values onto them (and then the whole team has to verify that they are sane and balanced), and nobody has done it yet.

 

Edited May 13, 2017 by bewing

[DrLicor]

@bewing, ah that way, thanks for explaining

[Spricigo]

4 hours ago, bewing said:

 (and then the whole team has to verify that they are sane and balanced), and nobody has done it yet.

This sound so much more interesting out of context that I can't resist. Would explain a lot about KSP,  also

[MaverickSawyer]

10 hours ago, bewing said:

It's basically a new feature that has only been partially implemented. At some point, somebody has to spend the time to go through every single last part and put sane and balanced values onto them (and then the whole team has to verify that they are sane and balanced), and nobody has done it yet.

 

Fair enough.

Safeties disabled. DIVE AWAY!