Robbwiththehair

The reason why I said I thought a faster time acceleration "warp drive" would be a much better idea was it wouldn't actually take away from the semi-realistic look of KSP. I have always preferred when the game isn't based around objectives that are simply non-existent in the real world (Kethane Mining etc.) so having a big red button on the cabin's dashboard that sends them to 10,000,000,000x time acceleration until they reach the SOI of another star system wouldn't actually break the rules of physics (or time) any more than KSP does already.

Well KSP is currently only like 1.3GB in size, if they were to add another 5 systems of the current game's entire size I don't see how that could tip over 5-6 GB, as some of that is Models for ship parts etc. Surely if the game was to be expanded in this way it would make sense for it to be just like adding planets, but in a separate system, just the way the planets/moons have been added procedurally so far?

Another idea that I had was that you could have stations in each system, orbiting close to the systems star or central mass, working like mass relays in Mass Effect. You know, a "slingshot to the stars" kind of thing? It would be really quite cool to see a little cut-scene of Jebediah screaming his butt of going into hyperspace :')

I know this is thinking REALLY big, way beyond any foreseeable future update, but I'd love to know what the KSP community thinks would be the best way to make more than one star system a possibility. Obviously there's the fact that these systems are light-years away irl that we'd have to get around in some way, and that the systems would have to far away enough that there would be no major gravitational interaction between systems (although that WOULD give interesting results), and still keep them close enough that a player could feasably reach them in less than say, half an hour of in game warped time. I personally would love it if you could have a "Warp Speed" time acceleration mode only available if you are in an escape trajectory from a system, so you could warp to your destination at a much, much quicker speed. Edit: Sorry for the typo in the title, it's 4:45 AM here, and all out of Alcohol and Energy drinks