CITIES

[Alex Vovk]

It would be cool if there were cities and towns in KSP, and city lights will light up on the darker part of Kerbin, so Kerbin will look more realistic from space. And maybe colonisation, and that you could sell ore to Kerbin and earn money from that.

[Wjolcz]

What's with these pink posts recently? I've never seen them before.

On topic: it's been discussed many times in the past.

[HoloYolo]

3 minutes ago, Veeltch said:

What's with these pink posts recently? I've never seen them before.

On topic: it's been discussed many times in the past.

To answer you, I think it's the OP, not sure (Actual reason is that he posted the OP 3 times and either automatically or an admin hid the first two)

Back to topic, I feel like cities would just cause more issues are they are useless and require time coding, stuff that would rather be used on more important things.

Edited December 5, 2016 by HoloYolo
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[CommanderSmith]

2 hours ago, Alex Vovk said:

…and city lights will light up on the darker part of Kerbin, so Kerbin will look more realistic from space…

If you're willing to install mods, then you can look into Environmental Visual Enhancements. It adds city lights along with clouds, and makes everything look so much more beautiful.
If you're not willing to install mods, then I think you're stuck, because I don't think it's within the developers' scope to do that in the near future.

[Matuchkin]

3 hours ago, Alex Vovk said:

It would be cool if there were cities and towns in KSP, and city lights will light up on the darker part of Kerbin, so Kerbin will look more realistic from space. And maybe colonisation, and that you could sell ore to Kerbin and earn money from that.

It also would be cool if Kerbals had an actual consciousness, functioning digestive, integumentary, etc systems, and antibodies, also if Kerbin had planetary layers, actual tectonic movement, had life, followed biological cycles, had social media and actual countries with actual political situations. Problem? RAM limit and physical capabilities of a computer script.

Not trying to be rude, but it seems that many such requests are a bit far-fetched, and would cause a lot of unpleasant things to a computer. I think it would be better if we just had static models of buildings bunched together. That will still look good from space.

Edited December 5, 2016 by Matuchkin

[The_Rocketeer]

1 hour ago, CommanderSmith said:

look into Environmental Visual Enhancements. It adds city lights along with clouds, and makes everything look so much more beautiful.

Unless you're one of those people who realises that modern light pollution is one of the biggest energy wastage disgraces in human history, in which case it uglies the crap out of Kerbin's unmolested wilderness. Personally I love EVE's clouds, but the city lights go straight in the trash.

[panzer1b]

The only practical implementation i can think of is something akin to an easter egg with a few buildings bunched together (something like the pyramid one but looks like a bunch of modern buildings).

Its not really hard to do or anything, but it seems that graphics in general are not something the new dev team cares about enough to bother implementing anything from clouds to better looking parts to a few city like easter eggs...

Gotta check if the city mod was updated for 1.2, that mod was incredible, but last i checked it was for like 1.0.5 or so...

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

47 minutes ago, panzer1b said:

Gotta check if the city mod was updated for 1.2, that mod was incredible, but last i checked it was for like 1.0.5 or so...

It wasn't, although with minor tweaks it works ok with KerbalKonstructs and 1.2.1,  That said it's already possible to construct towns with KK, i wouldn't go for cities until some major model optimisations are done , but towns are doable .  

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