new navball marker: the CRASH marker.

[nikokespprfan]

The idea is simple:

When \SHIP\ is \#\ meters above the surface of \BODY\ and on an impact trajectory, then a brownish marker will appear on your navball.

This marker will be at the position of your ships level indicator marker when it manages to succesfully land on the spot of impact. This way, you can see on the navball if the landing spot you've chosen is level (granting a safe landing) or not (granting a spectacular explosion...sometimes).

I think this feature would come in handy in particular for IVA pilots.

[Starwhip]

So, a slope indicator? That seems kind of cheaty unless you are fairly close.

[nikokespprfan]

That seems kind of cheaty unless you are fairly close.

You are right, players shouldn't have the marker whenever they are on a impact trajectory. And they do not need them as this marker would be misleading (curvature of orbited body, which isn't accounted for in the marker, and new players could fall in this trap and crash due to the crash marker, irony and pun intended) and would indicate a landing spot on which the player isn't going to land anyways (slowing down by atmosphere or touchdown-burn, changing the spot and thus the slope significantly). The fairly close thing is indeed essential.