Cat's general difficulty suggestions V 0.1

[CatWithAJetpack]

Hello! welcome to my sizeable list of suggestions to make the game more difficult / fun! 

 These range from Science to Life support, remember these are all my opinion, you may not like these suggestions, so please discuss below. 

 

1 - Parts / Structures

 - Structural failure

Structural failure refers to parts falling off of your rocket / plane similar to what we see here. The chance of this happening should be changed by multiple factors such as the amount of weight/force on the decoupler, the size of the decoupler, and the amount of research on the decoupler. For example, the formula could be:

(((W x F)/S)/Si)/100)/100, so say you have a booster with a weight of 1000 kgs, it is pushing with 2 Gs, and is on a size 2 decoupler with a research value of 1; that would mean you have a 10% chance of the decoupler breaking. Now there are a few problems with this:

A - performance could take a big hit for all the math involved. 

B- It may just become annoying.

 - Engine failure

This would be similar to structural failure, but these could be fixed with an engineer Kerbal. I would also imagine that SRBs would explode on failure.

The Reason these could be nice additions is that it will make for more interesting rocket designs, you would have to have a launch escape system, and redundant parts. I think these should only be enabled for the Rocket Scientist difficulty just because you can reset below hard, and hard shouldn't have to worry about failures in hard mode.

2 - Science

TBD

 

 

Yes, I know there isn't much here for now, but there will be more soon.