Should batteries be lower density than fuel?

[rkman]

In KSP a battery has about half the mass as a fuel tank (including fuel) of the same volume, iow: about half the density.

edit: it's worse than that, i had modded the batteries to have double the mass of stock batteries. Batteries have about 1/4 the density of fuel tanks.

If you could drop a KSP battery in KSP rocket fuel, the battery would float.

KSP is not reality so liberties can be taken with a material's density, but this seems to be taking it a bit to far.

Changing the density of fuel would completely upset the game balance, so it would probably be best to increase the mass of batteries by at least a factor 3 or so.

Edited July 14, 2014 by rkman

[Sky_walker]

They'd probably have to make a one huge run through all of the parts to ensure that mass and density are a things that make some logical sense. I wouldn't get my hopes up when it comes to that.

They can always blame it on a cartoon stylization and ignore it completely.

[vexx32]

Well, I'm all for realism, but before you push for realistic densities, shouldn't you (you know) do the math and figure out what it really ought to be, using plausible real-life materials, before posting a suggestion like this?

[rkman]

I'm not aiming for realism (and i think neither is Squad), i'm just aiming for 'not totally out there in fantasy land'.