More Warp to Mornings

[peachoftree]

The KSC warp to morning feature is great and all, but I find myself wanting to warp to morning on the launchpad far more often. It would be awesome if we could warp to morning whenever the craft is landed and has timewarp available.

[Nothalogh]

Warp to morning at KSC

This would be very useful while in orbit

[SebLavK]

The developers said long ago that they wanted to keep the ui minimal and functional. Just by reading the OP's title I started thinking of buttons near the warp arrows.

Although it's a nice idea, I feel many would complain about having a button that did X, and not a button that did Y. A lot of games have a clutter of icons that will do things you'll only need every so often, and that just take space and complicate things.

I like KSP because it's very straight forward in the way it looks, with the right amount of minimalism. Besides, there's so many things to think about already...

[Superfluous J]

Although it's a nice idea, I feel many would complain about having a button that did X, and not a button that did Y. A lot of games have a clutter of icons that will do things you'll only need every so often, and that just take space and complicate things.

While I agree in general, in this specific case morning is an important time in a lot of situations. Ground bases may want to get solar power. A landed ship may want to lift off to the East (into the sun) at local dawn. In this one case, I can see the argument for it.

Also, if there are 30 other potential options, add 'em in! Let the player decide which ones will show up. I may only care about 1 or 2, and you only care about a different 1 or 2, but we'll both get what we want.

I'd actually prefer "warp until the sun is hitting my craft" as a more generic button. Then it'd work in orbit too.

[SebLavK]

Ground bases may want to get solar power. A landed ship may want to lift off to the East (into the sun) at local dawn. In this one case, I can see the argument for it.

Also, if there are 30 other potential options, add 'em in! Let the player decide which ones will show up. I may only care about 1 or 2, and you only care about a different 1 or 2, but we'll both get what we want.

I'd actually prefer "warp until the sun is hitting my craft" as a more generic button. Then it'd work in orbit too.

(I'm on my phone, so bear with me)

Now that you mention it that way, instead of a lot of options to configure (which might look horrendous with everything enabled, and would not be as obvious that it's configurable) this could be a "programmable" warp.

This button, perhaps, would pop up a small window with simple settings:

Warp to > Ap, Pe, AN, DN, sunrise, midday, sunset, midnight, etc...

Warp for a set amount of time > DD,HH,

MM

Warp until > Ore depleted, electricity recharged, altitude X...

Seems like a big feature, and more of a mod description. Not quick or simple to implement.

My opinion remains, I think it would go against the simplicity the developers want for the ui and the controls

[peachoftree]

If this were implemented as a mod, it would work quite well as a KAC update, I'll give it a stab to see if I can get it to work and post a pull request