Looking to dev my own tech tree -- changing data size of experiments?

[Zeroignite]

Hi folks,

I'd like to dev my own tech tree using TreeEdit and heavy use of ModuleManger. The goal is to have it initially focused on aircraft and basic instrumentation, with space capabilities and material studies coming a bit later.

The one stumbling block I'm having is science yield and data size in Mits of experiments. I'd like to make the atmospheric scanner a relatively early-game part, but the 200 Mit datasize makes that not really feasible. Is the variable for that user-exposed? If so, how can I change it nondestructively? Digging through the config files hasn't helped me yet.

Would folks here being interested in playing a tree that primarily relies on aircraft and transmission with sample return coming a bit later? I'm thinking of significant integration with SCANsat and Kethane (later-tree), weighted so solids are earlier than liquids, and the LV-N and heavy lifting are relatively expensive in terms of science --- the goal is to make light one-way probe missions feasable midgame, but require interplanetary levels of science before getting the top-end unlocks.

[DMagic]

I believe you're looking for the 'dataScale' value in the ScienceDefs.cfg file. This is multiplied by the total science value for that experiment to give the total data size. Most experiments use dataScale = 1, but a few of the later ones use much higher values.

Reducing the 'baseValue' setting will also lower the amount of data, but it will obviously lower the amount of science too.

[Zeroignite]

I believe you're looking for the 'dataScale' value in the ScienceDefs.cfg file. This is multiplied by the total science value for that experiment to give the total data size. Most experiments use dataScale = 1, but a few of the later ones use much higher values.

Reducing the 'baseValue' setting will also lower the amount of data, but it will obviously lower the amount of science too.

Perfect! So science points is base * situation multiplier * repeat or transmission loss, and experiment size is base * datascale?

[DMagic]

Perfect! So science points is base * situation multiplier * repeat or transmission loss, and experiment size is base * datascale?

Basically. Here is the complete breakdown of how it all works: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/62657-Understanding-Science-Points

[Zeroignite]

Hah, knew I'd read that thread, couldn't find it. Time to start the flowchart and make a human-readable index of part names...