Wheel Slip, Grip, and Suspension

[Stargate525]

So. Rovers. The wheels currently in the game, as far as I can tell, have 100% grip when I don't want it, and no grip when I do. Their performance is, to me, rather counterintuitive. For example, when I'm ascending a hill at an angle I find myself slipping down the slope when my wheels are moving, but not when I'm braking. I don't think it should matter when the wheels are perpendicular.

Sudden turns also cause the wheels to dig in, flipping even the heaviest stuff I have built. However, at the same speed, braking head-on can let the same vessel travel an additional 200 meters before coming to a halt.

None of that is new, but I've also recently noticed that my wheels' suspensions have a tendency to 'lock up.' When a rover goes over a rise, or any time the wheels reach their furthest suspension extension, they seem to be stuck there, bouncing my vessel along the surface until they get a hard enough shock to jolt it into working properly. It's this lockup that seems to kill my rovers the most often; when they're stiff like that, there is zero elasticity in the part which exaggerates any bump the vessel receives, and typically causes a fatal rollover.

My question is, can this be fixed in Unity, and is there any way to let us adjust the suspension stiffness, either in the VAB or via EVA?

[vexx32]

If the first Tweakables update doesn't have suspension modifiers, I'm thinking it's pretty certain that a future one will, hopefully not too far away. And yes, I'm sure all these issues can be fixed,or worked around if necessary.

[Force21]

Maybe tweaking your wheels to have more powerful suspension could cost a constant flow of electricity? That makes sense to me, cause if they have that power all the time with no cost, why not use it? It'll also make the non-kerbolarpanel electric generator more effective cause its smaller and can work at night, and the only reason you should have to increase suspension strength is if the rover is already really heavy.

[Stargate525]

Ironically, I don't want to stiffen suspension, I want to let it almost all out. I can recover from a lean of the suspension slumping on one side when I turn. What I can't recover from is the stiff suspension sending me into a weak rendition of Dukes of Hazzard every time it hits a bit of a bump.

My rovers usually sport 6 or eight wheels anyway. Load limit is not an issue.

[koshelenkovv]

Medium black wheels were broken from the start and still are broken.

Use other type of wheels.