Setting science cap (not transmission cap!) per part

[monstah]

Hi folks. I once played around BTSM, and liked some things very much. Some of its features weren't to my liking, tho, so I decided making some .cfgs of my own, inspired by said nice mod.

One thing I liked in principle, but not implementation, were probe reports:

The way it is, if I send a probe and later a Kerbal, the Kerbal will still have have an entire experiment's worth of SCIENCE! when it does its own report; the way I envision, a probe report is the same experiment as a Kerbal's screwup report, but limited to, say, 30% it's SCIENCE! value (still 100% transmittable!), and if a Kerbal screws up makes a report on the same location, there's only 70% of it left.

Is it possible? I have only found SCIENCE definitions on the cfg pertaining to experiments, not parts...

Edited February 13, 2015 by monstah

[Kryxal]

It looks like the science cfg file refers to experiments, and the parts are set up in their cfg files to be able to run specific experiments. There also appears to be a way to modify the cfgs for the parts that BTSM uses...

[monstah]

Yes, that is right. My question is: how do I get two parts to perform the same experiment (easy), but have one be more limited than the other in terms of max science (not easy)?

[Kryxal]

I don't think you can ... but if I'm reading it right, what you CAN do is alter the transmission value. That would mean that returned probes would get the full value, but those probes you're sending on one-way trips wouldn't.