Will part costs be adjusted for the 0.24 update?

[hydropos]

In advance of the update, I've started taking cost into consideration when building my rockets. I've noticed that the costs of many parts seem inconsistent for their relative size or utility. If you look at fuel tanks, some of the smallest liquid tanks cost the same amount as the largest SRB's. One big orange tank costs more than double one the white half-tanks. I can't remember all of the examples I found, but there were a lot. I found myself making counter-intuitive and bizarre design choices to save on cost.

I guess I'm wondering, have the Dev's have addressed this, and are there plans to adjust these costs prior to 0.24?

[Pthigrivi]

We'll probably find out in the next week or so

[Eric S]

They've already done some adjustments, at one time, most of the rocket engines all had the same cost. I expect that they'll continue tweaking the prices until the final release.

[regex]

Of course the part costs will be adjusted, it's pretty clear the old values were simply placeholders. There are probably a ton of balancing passes that'll need to happen to the values as well.

[Red Iron Crown]

I really hope so. As you noticed, some of the fuel tank pricing is just weird. Cubic octagonal struts and RCS thrusters seem overpriced, too. I can't imagine that no one will notice that during testing.

[Whirligig Girl]

I hope struts are almost free.

[hydropos]

I hope struts are almost free.

Ironically, based on how useful they are, I thought that price was not unfair. I was a bit mad about the cost of canards. $3000 a pair? This is madness!

[KaBob]

They just didn't have much incentive to make them logical when they served no in game purpose =p Better to put stuff like that off until necessary so that they don't have to constantly rebalance worthless values.

[Comrade Jenkens]

I assume some of the more obvious ones but it will be a long term balancing challenge for the devs. Parts will be getting prices adjusted in pretty much every update from now on I reckon as ppl find something that stands out.

[Javster]

Ironically, based on how useful they are, I thought that price was not unfair. I was a bit mad about the cost of canards. $3000 a pair? This is madness!

That depends on how much you get per flight... If a simple capsule test gets you 100000, then you're fine!

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They just didn't have much incentive to make them logical when they served no in game purpose =p Better to put stuff like that off until necessary so that they don't have to constantly rebalance worthless values.

Did they just have them there for the sake of it?

Seems a bit pointless.

[KaBob]

Pretty much, they just existed to show that someday there will be a currency system. I'm guessing they decided to add the placeholder numbers when they designed the GUI so they wouldn't have to go back and edit the GUI later.

[asdfCYBER]

I hope they'll make their economy like Mission Controller Extended, with contracts, missions and price based on weight and usefulness

[Ikaneko]

Without a doubt, I mean, the 1.5 metre stack decoupler is more expensive than the 3.5 metre one!