[Request] More classifications for ships, or custom categories.

[NictraSavios]

Is it a lander? Is it a ship? Is it a space station?

No, its a plane!

Planes, Rigs, Boats, Submarines, Airships, Jeb's Fail Experiments, FTL Craft, Power Stations, Power Beamers, Communications Satellites, Satellites in general.

What do all of these have in common? None of them have a catagory that makes much sense.

Planes aren't Ships, Satellites aren't probes and neither is an asteroid mining rig.

[nikokespprfan]

and also

extraterrestrial/orbital contruction centers

VTOL's

kubesats

Rockets/missiles (not just BDarmoury, but also sounding rockets and stuff.)

skycranes

Dyson spheres

krakens

The comms sattelites and and planes especially are important IMO.

[ToukieToucan]

and also

extraterrestrial/orbital contruction centers

VTOL's

kubesats

Rockets/missiles (not just BDarmoury, but also sounding rockets and stuff.)

skycranes

Dyson spheres

krakens

The comms sattelites and and planes especially are important IMO.

how does one even make a dyson sphere in ksp

[regex]

Honestly, we really only need a few categories.

Kerbal

Spacecraft

Terrestrial Craft

Debris

Flag

That should cover pretty much all cases.

[Guest]

how does one even make a dyson sphere in ksp

Cheating, of course!

[Alshain]

Honestly, we really only need a few categories.

Kerbal

Spacecraft

Terrestrial Craft

Debris

Flag

That should cover pretty much all cases.

That would be horrible. Besides, this is a mod request, not a stock suggestion.

[NictraSavios]

Honestly, we really only need a few categories.

Kerbal

Spacecraft

Terrestrial Craft

Debris

Flag

That should cover pretty much all cases.

What about planes, boats, Stations (They aren't "space craft"), bases?

[meyerweb]

Not that I disagree in principle, but how would you classify a spaceplane like the Aeris 4A or Stearwing D45? Plane or spacecraft?

[FungusForge]

Not that I disagree in principle, but how would you classify a spaceplane like the Aeris 4A or Stearwing D45? Plane or spacecraft?

There could be a Spaceplane class as well.

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Honestly, we really only need a few categories.

Kerbal

Spacecraft

Terrestrial Craft

Debris

Flag

That should cover pretty much all cases.

I don't know about you, but I quite like being able to tell my stations from my tugs without clicking on them.

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Also if a mod for this could be made, being able to make our own in game would be amazing.

Edited October 26, 2015 by FungusForge

[kujuman]

I looked into this several months back, and from what I recall it looked pretty difficult/impossible to mod in the way it's designed. But (1) I'm not the most knowledgeable programmer (2) it's worth taking a look again anyway, because custom categories would be super amazing.

[Alshain]

1.1 might make this more possible. We may just have to wait. This could be a symptom of the mix of systems in the UI as it is now. If they are adding a satellite system, then satellites should have their own group in stock anyway. Planes should really be in stock as well, though I don't think I would distinguish space planes and atmospheric planes. The rest of these would be best for a mod.

[Racescort666]

Yes! With RemoteTech, my probe list is hugely cluttered with my satellite networks. It makes finding the actual probes in the tracking station a little hard to find and the list and orbit paths are very cluttered.

[NictraSavios]

Some categories are obvious frivolous, but there are definitely differences between probes and satellites, spaceships (currently just known as ships), spaceplanes and their landed counterpart. Terrestrial Craft would be a good way to group Airplanes, Boats and Rovers into one catagory. (That shouldn't be an issue, I can't think of a situation where you have so many rovers and planes that it would be beneficial to your problem to separate them.)

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1.1 might make this more possible. We may just have to wait. This could be a symptom of the mix of systems in the UI as it is now. If they are adding a satellite system, then satellites should have their own group in stock anyway. Planes should really be in stock as well, though I don't think I would distinguish space planes and atmospheric planes. The rest of these would be best for a mod.

To be honest, most of what I suggested is.... well, just to throw mud.

Planes and Satellites is what is boils down to.