Birds chirping at night at the Kerbal Space Center?

[Rascal Nag]

So, as night fell on the space center, I noticed that the birds happened to still be singing.

I was wondering if this could be changed; perhaps it could be replaced with crickets?

Obviously, this is not exactly the most important feature out there - just a little pet peeve...

[jshier]

I noticed that too. The new KSC looks gorgeous at night though, awesome work.

[skyace65]

wow I just realized that, your right. would be a nice change if they have the time

[DannySwish]

Crickets would be cool.

[TwoHedWlf]

So, as night fell on the space center, I noticed that the birds happened to still be singing.

I was wondering if this could be changed; perhaps it could be replaced with crickets?

Obviously, this is not exactly the most important feature out there - just a little pet peeve...

How do you know they're birds? It could be some kind of mobile fungus that uses a chirping noise to navigate. Why would it care if it's day or night?

[CosmicX1]

Perhaps we could have owls hooting or crickets at night.

Well whatever those things are. The only organisms I know of are Kerbals, giant grass and trees!

[Sean Mirrsen]

The problem isn't so much with the singing, it's just that's it's a very sharp, repetitive soundbite, that you hear every time you are in the Space Center scene. Plus it's not affected by the Environment or Music volume sliders. Some variation to it, and some other sounds than just birds at different times of day (chirping crickets at night would be nice), would make it a lot more bearable and interesting. Maybe add in a rooster if you time it exactly right and have the scene open at sunrise.

[Anizer]

Trees would be a good idea too. I find it pretty funny how the atmosphere still exists without trees.

[Pachi3080]

Trees would be a good idea too. I find it pretty funny how the atmosphere still exists without trees.

Actually, there ARE trees, you just have to activate the scatters on the graphics menu...

[Kimberly]

Trees would be a good idea too. I find it pretty funny how the atmosphere still exists without trees.

Works for Laythe!

[Kopykat99]

also did anybody else noticed if you keep the main screen on long enough with the kerbals in orbit you hear a motorcycle? might be changed in 0.21 iam on 0.20.2

because i cant handle 0.21

[Tw1]

Well, it's night here, and I can still hear birds.

Wait, they're going quiet just as I type.

Sneaky things.

[LoneRider]

The space center looks great at night... but if you go in the VAB building to build a rocket, look out of the door - it is daytime!

[mesahorny]

My issues with the aforementioned birds extend far beyond the petty confines of just being a "meager" complaint. No, my hatred for this soundbite sits festering deep within me.

Now, that being said... Let me just point out a few of the brain scattering inconsistencies that drive me bonkers:

1. The camera is sitting at an altitude that is much too high to hear any ground activity that would be carried out by a bird. At that height, the audible sounds would mostly be just crashing waves, and blowing wind.

2. Even with terrain scatters turned on, there are no trees on the KSC grounds. What are these, all ground dwelling; flightless birds?

3. And even if they are all ground dwelling; flightless birds, that's not what their chirping sounds like... Actually, it sounds more like a lazy dev just stuck a mic in his parakeet's cage.

But yeah, other than that, the game is amazing! (Except for that horrid sounding rocket audio. **shudders**)

[Skorpychan]

Those aren't birds. That's actually a speaker system set up to replace the birds, after the trainee kerbonauts complained about the silence. The actual birds died when early rockets exploded on the pad.

[Rage097]

Crickets would be cool.

I second this. Birds during the day, Crickets at night. or Katydids in the late afternoon if you want to annoy the daylights out of people.