Minor damage and Repairs

[Radhoste]

Hi everyone, just a small suggestion that I thought could be a good and fun idea. Basically I thought that vessels could sustain damage over time (but never be completely non-functional) and that you could do an EVA to repair components such as solar panels and other small or big parts.

Have fun

[Kasuha]

You can already repair broken rover wheels and landing legs. Hopefully this will extend to solar panels and other parts that can get the "broken" status.

[ravener]

tanks should have a damaged state too (was it you Kasuha that mad a post about this?).

lets say a tank has 100 hp

90-100 undamaged, the tank is preforming flawlessly.

70-90 surface damage, the tank has some dents and fuel transfer is 50% slower.

50-70 minor leaking. not enough to drain the tank during a landing, but during the coast to the moon it would maybe drain 80% of the fuel. there is a small jet of fuel vapor escaping the tank

30-50 major leak. if you are lucky you may salvage a landing, but the fuel is truly guzzeling out now.

1-30 skeleton, the panels are blown off and the cryogenic tank is ruptured on two sides so you can see thrugh the large gap.

0 poof, all links to nearby tanks are severed and the skeleton floats away.

-10 or more despawn the part.

just my thoughts

[Kasuha]

tanks should have a damaged state too (was it you Kasuha that mad a post about this?).

I think it wasn't me but I think we may already have something like that in the game already. I did not do any experiments to confirm or deny it but it seems to me that if a part gets damaged (e.g. by sepatron exhaust) it is more susceptible to failures later during flight.

It's not about leaks, but its connections to other parts seem to be weaker.

[boomerdog2000]

I don't know, if the parts are never non-functional, do they lose any functionality or is it just aesthetics? If they lose functionality can kerbals repair them back to full? Does it take some sort of resource to repair them?

[Alex_Leonardo]

If you look on planned features on the wiki they have only "partially" implemented damage effects.

My guess is that this is already planned to be implemented.

[Alex_Leonardo]

I don't know, if the parts are never non-functional, do they lose any functionality or is it just aesthetics? If they lose functionality can kerbals repair them back to full? Does it take some sort of resource to repair them?

Yes, they lose functionality.

Yes, Kerbals can repair.

No, it doesn't

[Radhoste]

It wasn't until I posted this that I looked at the planned features on the KSP wiki, and I hope that this feature will be released very soon.