Lightspeed Travel

[Tristen Simon]

If it isn't already decided, what about warp drives? Don't we need those for interstellar travel? To get to the nearest KSP stars, (besides Kerbol) they're distance is to be estimated at 1 lightyear.

[Vanamonde]

There is apparently NOT going to be some form in KSP2, but KSP1 is just one solar system so there's little need. 

Edited because I was apparently thinking of something else when I posted this. 

Edited December 12, 2020 by Vanamonde
Dumbness.

[kerbiloid]

Iirc, the KSP-2 authors rejected both warps and FTLs.

[Bej Kerman]

On 12/8/2020 at 10:49 PM, Vanamonde said:

There is apparently going to be some form in KSP2, but KSP1 is just one solar system so there's little need. 

False

[Snark]

On 12/8/2020 at 11:47 AM, Tristen Simon said:

If it isn't already decided, what about warp drives? Don't we need those for interstellar travel? To get to the nearest KSP stars, (besides Kerbol) they're distance is to be estimated at 1 lightyear.

My understanding (possibly out of date) is that they intend to handle interstellar travel as just conventional rocket propulsion, but with extremely high Isp engines that can maintain continuous acceleration for long periods.

Thus, no "warp drive" required.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Snark said:

My understanding (possibly out of date) is that they intend to handle interstellar travel as just conventional rocket propulsion, but with extremely high Isp engines that can maintain continuous acceleration for long periods.

Thus, no "warp drive" required.

that's what I've heard

[Snark]

8 hours ago, The Doodling Astronaut said:

that's what I've heard

Yes, that was what I heard, too, when I was with a few other fortunate folks visiting the Star Theory dev studios in August 2019 shortly after the KSP2 announcement, and we got to ask questions like this to Nate Simpson and the developers, face-to-face. 

It was pretty clear at the time that they had no plans for FTL.

However, that was well over a year ago at this point; and since then, Star Theory has gone defunct and the development has moved over to a new dev studio.  I haven't been following recent developments closely, so it's possible I could be out of date.

However, I note that it's still the same people in charge of the overall project, though (e.g. Nate's still the creative director), and I haven't heard anything to make me think that the overall creative direction of the game has changed significantly, so I'd expect that the "no warp drive" design to still be in place.,