Anyone use snacks?

[Vault Crawler]

I'm trying it, as I am looking for a hassle free life support mod.
So I sent an mk1-2 to minmus, to dock with a station, with two tourists inside and 150 snacks. Calculated for over a month. I know it says it's an estimation, but Damn!

By the time they arrived at the minmus station, a few days later, they had gone thru the whole supply of snacks.

Dude, I never knew astronaut food tasted so good, because it was a 5 day trip. They managed to eat 15 snacks a day each. Try that yourself. 15 snacks a day for 5 days. They must have packed some weight in those 5 days.

A day is 6 hours long, so they have eaten a snack every 24 minutes. Not accounting for sleep. I don't know if kerbals sleep.

Anyway, on the last hour before they docked with the station, where there was a lot of snacks, they fainted. That failed the mission. Bummer.

So they docked and met Jeb.

He could not stay on the station, so I decided to send him back. Her boarded the tourists craft and drove them home.

On the way back, the same thing happened. I filled the pod with snacks for the trip and they managed to eat the whole stash before they were even close to Kerbin.

The end result is that I lost some 200 rep on this mission. Because some tourists had the munchies.

[Vault Crawler]

As a matter of fact I believe it has something to do with time wrap, but I confess I did not check the settings for the mod. I will look into it to see if I can fix this there. If I can't, the mod is pretty much broken, as I can't wrap with it, because it makes the kerbals very hungry.

Maybe time travel does that to you.

[Operation40]

I used snacks a while back and had the same issue -- it's estimates are total bunk..

to be fair, I don't know that any of the life support mods can handle 10,000X time warp *while focused on the vehicle*. I play with TAC-LS these days and do big timewarps at the tracking station.

[Vault Crawler]

You are 100% correct. Same trip at 1000x and they behaved much better. Still are a lot more than they should, but made 5 days in space. Will dock and feed them though.