On rails asteroids

[Layereddiagram]

After looking at some pictures of large asteroids and comets that space probes have visited, I realized how cool it would be to land on the more irregular ones. Basically, I think it would be a good idea to have some very large, named, non-procedural, on rails asteroids with very irregular potato-ish shapes. They could be a few km in diameter ( or however you measure something that irregular ) and be placed somewhere near Dres's orbit. They would definitely spice up that region of space.

I mean, look how amazing this would be to land on.

Edited July 17, 2015 by Layereddiagram

[HoloYolo]

Yes please. Also add hooks so we don't bounce like Rosetta.

[mythbusters844]

Agreed, but it seems that any fun suggestion such as this will be instantly written off as "out of scope" by Squad.

[spudman2]

Yes please. Also add hooks so we don't bounce like Rosetta.

I'm nitpicking, but it was Philae that bounced. Unless I'm unaware of a very interesting event.

[HoloYolo]

I'm nitpicking, but it was Philae that bounced. Unless I'm unaware of a very interesting event.

You're right, I forgot what was what.

[Commander Jebidiah]

Yes Squad wont impliment this however many people ask for it. Unless they do it just to spite me and regex.

This however would be a nice feature especially with very small gravitational fields.

Outerplanet mod has a moon which is a few km accross and has an irregular shape IIRC

[Layereddiagram]

Oops, I just realized that asteroids were on the "what not to suggest list" under the same bullet as new planets, stars e.t.c.

shh! Don't tell anyone.

[Joonatan1998]

Is there a mod that does this?

I don't know of any.

Because there seem to be no mods for this I think there may be some technical issue.

Maybe they would use too much RAM?

[Layereddiagram]

I don't know of any either.

I would assume that the limiting factor would be creating something that irregular and (relatively) small without causing glitches and bugs. Plus something that size would have practically non-existent gravity or none at all and due to its non spherical shape, they wouldn't be able to just have gravity radiating from a point at the center.

Those are just guesses though. I have the same level of knowledge about coding as a fuel tank.

[Commander Jebidiah]

you should ask the creator off outer planets mod to make some, they already have one.

[samstarman5]

As an alternative, perhaps the NK Asteroids that we can track, find, capture, or redirect be reshaped to more potatoes and such. The trade-off being more difficulty in towing or pushing them as the center of gravity for them would be crazy hard to adjust for.

[CaptainTurbomuffin]

Gilly

[Whirligig Girl]

Yes please. Also add hooks so we don't bounce like Rosetta.

Alternate idea: Make claws of probe size and also make it so that claws can grab onto planetary surfaces like they were meant to in the first place.

[Layereddiagram]

Gilly

I was thinking less Vesta shaped and more Eros shaped.