No Minmus fast forward below 3000 ?

[Nicklas]

Can it really be true that I'm not able to fast forward on Minmus if I'm below 3000 meters ?

Also everytime I cut acceleration, it shows the 1x time warp on the mid screen.

[Melkor X]

You can use physical time acceleration up to 4x by holding the modifier key (Alt on Windows) and using the normal time acceleration keys.

[Deutherius]

Every celestial body in the game has altitude constrained zones of maximum time warp - you can find out the altitudes at KSP wiki (here's Minmus).

[Nicklas]

Thanks

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Also just found out that my solar pannels can charge even though the sun is on the other sight of the planet.

[michaelhester07]

Think that's bad wait till you get to Gilly.

[Phil deCube]

There is a mod which allows you to change the warp factors for anywhere.

This is it http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/69363

It is for an older version of KSP. I don't know if it works in 0.90.

[Venusgate]

I'm fairly sure the purpose of this is that some planet(oids) have wildly varying terrain, and even with a perfect 3km orbit, you might warp into a mountain.

[Streetwind]

It's also (mainly even, I'd wager) so you don't hammer yourself facefirst into the planet's surface while coming out of a transfer and/or approaching to land.

I cannot count the number of times my Mun lander was returning to Kerbin on a direct reentry trajectory and I accidentally warped too fast (or worse, hit timewarp+ instead of timewarp- because my hand was placed wrong!)

The altitude timewarp limits automatically pull your timewarp down the closer you get to the planet, ensuring that it's impossible to collide with it accidentally.

[jarmund]

Also everytime I cut acceleration, it shows the 1x time warp on the mid screen.

I have that too. I thought it was related to the fact that I've rebound almost every key, as I'm a dvorak user.

I cannot remember seeing this when I ran KSP on Windows 7 a while back, despite also using dvorak then. (I'm now on Linux Mint 17)

[ElWanderer]

I have that too. I thought it was related to the fact that I've rebound almost every key, as I'm a dvorak user.

I cannot remember seeing this when I ran KSP on Windows 7 a while back, despite also using dvorak then. (I'm now on Linux Mint 17)

There is a setting, not sure if it is stock or Kerbal Alarm Clock (the only mod I'm using currently), that lets you kill timewarp when you kill the throttle. This can be useful occasionally, but it does mean seeing the x1 message a lot. It also likes to complain when activated below the minimum altitude for timewarp.

[eddiew]

It is for an older version of KSP. I don't know if it works in 0.90.

It works fine, I've been using it since December

[el_coyoto]

The wiki gives, for each body, the maximum timewarp for a given altitude. It's in the "Reference Frames" chapter.

For example, Minmus has the following table :

[table=width: 500, class: grid]

[tr]

[td]Rotational/Inertial transition[/td]

[td]100 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]Warp[/td]

[td]Minimum Altitude[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]1×[/td]

[td]Any[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]5×[/td]

[td]3 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]10×[/td]

[td]3 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]50×[/td]

[td]6 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]100×[/td]

[td]12 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]1 000×[/td]

[td]24 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]10 000×[/td]

[td]48 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[tr]

[td]100 000×[/td]

[td]60 000 m[/td]

[/tr]

[/table]

source : http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Minmus#Reference_Frames