deaththrower

It think this is a great idea!

I have jotted down all my ideas so far on how KSP could be improved. I will try to list them but not make a wall of text at the same time. 1. Controlled Leakage Valve- You can attach this to your ship, and if you are, say, trying to get out of orbit but your ship is too heavy, you can click on this valve and adjust the flow. You can see a stream of fuel coming out of your ship and your craft will lose fuel weight. 2. Different sized ion engine- Simple, different sized ion engines. 3. Supercharged ion engine- Varying sizes, uses 5x more energy and fuel, has 3x as much thrust. This way if you have to leave a small moon, and a regular ion engine isn't enough but you need something with a large efficiency, then you can use this. 4. Secondary engines platform- A small sized thing that you can attach to the side of your craft, you can add an extra small sized engine to your ship, if you need the extra power. 5. Coolant tank- When they adjust the heating mechanics (I know they will because I have NEVER EVER had problems with heat. (EVER)), it looks like a liquid fuel tank except it carries water that, when turned on, is slowly fed into engine to cool it? (Sorta not sure on that one, doesn't seem like it would be useful or practical) 6. Coating- You can apply coatings, they look like paint, to parts of your spaceship. They increase heat resistance but also increase your amount of drag. Another variant could decrease your drag but also decrease your heat resistance. 7. Explosions push- Explosions are the heart of the engines. but when you are docking and something goes wrong and explodes, it doesn't push you away. I feel like space should be more dangerous, because it needs more excitement that monotonously going around and around the sun or planets. 8. Gas giant mayhem- The earth's atmosphere is gas. But you can go through that. Why can't you go through a gas giant? This is what I'm thinking. you can travel partway (not all the way) into a gas giant. The atmosphere gets very thick very quickly, but if you apply a pressure resistant coating (see #6) you can go a little farther into the gas giant. It could be two different biomes, surface gas giant and deep gas giant. Even with the coating going too far would kill you. 9. Radar- Detects space junk, see next. 10. Space junk- There you are, floating on your way to Jool. all of a sudden your radar beeps softly. You look over to see an stray asteroid passing by. It passes, but you shudder to think what might have happened if it was another 30 meters closer..... What I mean is as you are going through space asteroids will generate occasionally and pass by you, or hit you. If time is sped up it will automatically pull you out of time warp and warn you. This could be one of the things that make interstellar travel more dangerous, because it's boring going around and around waiting for you to get to your maneuver node. I hope you like my ideas, if you have anything to add or comment please do.