Lagrange points without 3-body solvers

[Kerbart]

On 1/19/2021 at 12:09 AM, Corona688 said:

We have now come full circle.

 

Just to be clear, that circle is made out of rails, right?

[Guest]

This might come off as terrifyingly naive but I think it would be enough just to set up a few weak, invisible spheres of influence (with masked singularities) at the most interesting Lagrange points, and put those on rails. I know it's not realistic but from a gameplay perspective IMO it would be good enough -- the main reason I'm interested in them is that you can park stuff in some of them, and if the game allows that, then great.

[Bej Kerman]

2 hours ago, Brikoleur said:

This might come off as terrifyingly naive but I think it would be enough just to set up a few weak, invisible spheres of influence (with masked singularities) at the most interesting Lagrange points, and put those on rails. I know it's not realistic but from a gameplay perspective IMO it would be good enough -- the main reason I'm interested in them is that you can park stuff in some of them, and if the game allows that, then great.

Gravity would have to get weaker closer to the center and stronger closer to the edge, this would be asinine behaviour to sane laws of physics and I'm not even sure if KSP would be capable of this without rewriting the physics. 

[ricikap7]

Even in the kerbin system, the mun screws up anything not going to it, and minmus is still close enough to affect your orbit enough to make you collide with/miss the mun.