BrotherBunsen

Howdy, how's it going. I'm new here, been playing KSP for about a month. Really dig the community here, hope to return from time to time, if only for the tutorials. Anyhow, I hope to see you all out among the stars!

On the topic of graphics and stars, did anybody else notice the corners of the skybox becoming remarkably pronounced with the last update? I never noticed them before, but now I'm seeing them every time I turn a ship around.

I've been enjoying the aspects of the KSC that were added in the last update, and it makes me wish there were more to do on the ground, such as it is. One thing that I wish we had, which the Tracking Center hints at, would be an astrological/meteorological observatory. This might not do much right now, but could prove to be a very useful structure in the campaign for mission planning, site location, exploration of the system, tracking of weather/cloud cover/launch conditions if weather is added in future updates. It would be fun to check on Münar landing sites and topography in a telescopic 1st person view, along with flight tracking, sure, but there would be a lot of other creative ways to utilize such a facility. There are a lot of options out there for ways to utilize such a facility if one were interested, including rough estimation of astral body sizes, gravitational fields, composition, distance, rotation speeds, etc.. Radio and optical options for observatories both offer interesting opportunities to limit the information available to players prior to probes/manned exploration in the campaign. Like I said, this is a long term wish for me - especially because I realize it's not terribly useful in the sandbox mode where the solar system is your oyster from program day 1. However, if it's useful for the campaign, I think it could be a really positive addition. Combining it and the features of the tracking center together would be helpful to avoid overwhelming players with facilities and functions. This also brings about the possibility of orbital or deep space telescopes as parts for future updates, as well. It would be fun to launch and service a Hubble-style mission eventually, yes? I did a cursory search on this topic before suggesting it, and saw that a couple of people had mentioned the possibility, but not really gone into details. So I thought it might be an interesting topic of discussion - if there were an observatory/multiple observatories around Kerbin, what would you like to do with them? Or would you not want them at all? Too complicated? Too cool? Also, first post, yada yada yada. Howdy, y'all.