Display recovery percentage vs. launch cost

[Kanukki]

I initially thought that this was already implemented, but I understand now that the 'recovery percentage' is just the multiplier based on how far from KSC you land. It would be nice to also display your launch cost and show your recovered parts as a percentage value of that as well.

[Godot]

But how much sense does it make?

separated parts that don´t go more far away than 2.5 km during descent can be recovered as well ...

so the recovery percentage of the main body of your spaceship wouldn´t tell you the whole story

[Sky_walker]

Yes, please.

It'd make it easier for a new players to figure out that the money return rate depends on a landing location, and what's the exact correlation.

[BudgetHedgehog]

No. Sometimes, the vessel you land isn't the vessel you took off with. Other times, it would be hard to track, considering you can have a multiple-launch mission, or recover half a craft later after undocking in orbit. It needs to wait until a mission concept actually exists in game, to which you attach contracts and launches.

Credit to /u/LoSboccacc on Reddit for these very good reasons.

Edited July 19, 2014 by ObsessedWithKSP

[Kanukki]

Fair point about the possible changes between launch and recovered craft. Maybe just a clearer way to show gains/losses in funds would suffice.