Show units

[Dan-K]

Hello!

I would like to make a suggestion that I think is very important: showing units in the game.

I think this would improve the game because it would help with calculations the user might be making. It would also bolster the confidence in the physics if actual units were listed. Lastly, certain parameters in the game seem to be ambiguously labelled and showing units would clear up confusions users will have.

It's true that users can just point their browsers to the wiki page and get the units from there. But I believe it would be great if this information was available in the game as well. Also, wiki seems to have a few mistakes regarding untis as well.

At the time of this post, I have been running the paid version of v0.21.0.272 from steam.

Here's the list of a few ambiguously named parameters I mentioned earlier:

Reference: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Parts

• Max Power: According to wiki this are labelled as "Thrust" and measured in newtons (N). Power on the other hand is measured in watts (W)
  
• Torque: Wiki doesn't show any units for this. Is the game using newton-meters? (N*m)
  
• ElectricCharge: Wiki lists the unit as (e) and consumption as (e/s). Wiki seems to make a few leaps of faith considering units (such as with power and thurst), but I don't know what wiki was trying here . Electricity should be measured in units of joules (J) and consumption in watts (W).
  

Cheers!

- Daniel K.

[Themohawkninja]

Yeah, since they show mass units in-flight, they might as well show all of the rest of the units.