Choosing which KSC to use

[Geo793]

As most of us know, there is a second KSC that can be found on Kerbin. As an easter egg it is cool little place, but wouldn't be great to be able to use it? Like every time we start a new game that there is a third option on the menu that allows you to choose between the classic KSC and the second KSC. Not only would it be a nice change in the environment, it would also provide its own challenges since it is surrounded by mountains that airplanes and returning spacecraft can crash into.

[Bessy]

maybe choosing where your space center is placed on the planet might be even better rather than just choosing out of the 2 perhaps u get to drag and drop your center anywhere on kerbin ... im sure it wouldnt be too hard for the devs to make u able have this feature with it all being 1 instance now

[iStickyDuck]

This would be cool, but I think you should be able to snap the space center to the equator so that it's easier to launch into an equatorial orbit

[Tex]

KSC1 is already on the equator.

It would be sorta nice to have KSC2 for launching things into different kinds of orbit, though!

[MKI]

I feel the idea of having secondary launch (and landing spots) should be a serious consideration. KSC 2 for starters would be a nice place holder as a secondary launch and landing facility. I personally do not know how much work would be involved to make multiple launch pads around Kerbin. But i know making multiple functional landing strips should be much easier.

I feel adding more than two, all with their own unique graphics should be a good thing to add before the game is released. The airfield is already a form of another KSC, with only landing facilities. With the addition of budgets and the ability to recover parts, landing facilities should become more abundant. Which would add multiple levels of new game play with just additions of more landing strips. (Airports anyone?)

Plus the addition of new code to support multiple "KSC"s would help support modders who want to implement MORE launch sites and landing strips. All in all the addition of a secondary KSC would open up many doors, from game play implications to modding implications. Best part is it isn't attached to any other updates, adding it would be a task but the models are already there (use old KSC models as placeholders) but it could easily be done in the background of other updates when there is spare time.

[Red Iron Crown]

Why would landing strips be any easier than launch pads?

[KaBob]

I'd love to be able to actually spend my hard earned contract money to build launch pads/etc in a variety of locations on Kerbin.

[MKI]

Why would landing strips be any easier than launch pads?

Strict landing strips already exist. The secondary landing strip at the original KSC is already labeled as THE landing strip. The game already recognizes there is something on ONE of the strips, just not which one and recovers it. A strict landing strip for landing only, only takes a new biome to be implemented(or a generic change to the original landing strip biome) and consideration in the recover mechanism for budgets. (which isn't implemented yet anyways)

Where as getting a launch pad to work would require a way to launch rockets in different places/spawn them and be able to change between them. Same would go for a fully usable landing strip (spawn a plane on it).

Main thing is getting stuff to spawn elsewhere is a little trickier than just making models to land on.

[Red Iron Crown]

Ah, I was assuming that you were talking about a new spawn point in both cases.

[KaBob]

I doubt that spawning stuff at different launch pads would be all that difficult compared to most of the crazy things they have to program in KSP.