S2 crew tank kerbal count

Need bac9's input on this,

Problem: 28 kerbals in one IVA drops your FPS badly.

Solutions I and Tav have come up with:

Bottom floor contains fuel:

(1/3~ as much as dedicated fuel parts), cuts kerbals in half, makes the missing volume below make sense.

Pros: Obvious solution, you're likely to need fuel on a plane with crew anyway, 28 crew is a bit excessive (even if that many fit nicely). Helps lower the count in a way that makes sense.

Cons: Lowers crew count to 12 crew (might be a con for some situations).

Bottom floor "contains" kerbals you can't IVA to:

(keep crew count, ditch seats. props, and kerbal transforms for bottom floor)

Pros: Keeps the kerbal count, for the edge-cases that actually need 28 kerbals in a part that size.

Cons: It's less clear cut, you can't see that many kerbals if you look around and count, you can see the ladder down but you can't actually "go there".

Multiple parts:

Each part has it's own IVA that is instanced/culled from each other, could make each floor it's own part (with one part, most likely top also having end-caps), could even have a crew or fuel version of the bottom part.

Pros: Solves the problem neatly.

Cons: Causes other problems (increased part count, increased complexity)

Bottom floor contains fuel:

Bottom floor "contains" kerbals you can't IVA to:

Multiple parts:

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