Rover testing area

[justuks97]

Hey,

My name is Justas and I have played KSP for 2 years. I thought that KSC should need some kind of Rover testing park (Like nasa does). I would find that really handy and I suppose that others will too. What do you think? Is it worth being put into the next update?

[The Aziz]

This. And maybe.. ability to put Kerbals into external seats from SPH?

[CaptainTurbomuffin]

put Kerbals into external seats from SPH

External seats are incredibly overpowered. They are 16.8 times lighter than a conventional Mk1 cockpit, meaning that you need a 16.8 times smaller rocket, and 16.8 times less cash. I use them in career as often as I can. Not being able to start them manned is a kind of nerf, but that won't stop me from putting the kerbal in from a later decoupled and recovered cockpit. Starting seats manned could be even more overpowered for rockets. But if the rover tester was an enclosed area, and you couldn't launch planes and rockets from there, that would be excellent an place for testing rovers, and starting with manned seats.

[nikokespprfan]

This is Sooo handy if you want to test your rover in highly reliefed enviroments while building it, without having to drive it of to the nearest hilly terrain.

(You could have it the testing grounds be an inside facility, then you will not be able to launch anything out of it.)

[322997am]

If you had a separate building for rovers where you could put a guy in a seat from the editor that would be AWESOME. I will abuse this for planes tho

[Darnok]

Yeah would be nice, it could be also used as landers testing ground, since planets are not perfectly flat

also would be nice to use something more than just wheels, since we are going to explore different planets we could use more advanced configurations

[Tex_NL]

Time to once again dust off the good old Already Suggested List.

Question remains: Why has the Already Suggested List not been re-stickied yet?

[Starhawk]

The crawlerway and launch pad make pretty good rover testing grounds, IME.

Happy landings!