moar planets!

[Starchaser]

Right now, I'm still fairly early in my KSP career. I'm building a small comm network of 3 R-15 satellites at 90° intervals in Kerbin's orbit (so a square with Kerbin at 1 corner.) which I started before I read the comm net tutorial. And my first probe is on it's way to Duna.

Thinking ahead though, I am likely going to want to get an extended planets mod. I'm asking for advice on which ones are thought to be the best. Which one is your favorite and why? And if the answer is 'none' an explanation of that would also be appreciated.

Also, right now I'm playing with the Near Future set of parts. If I want to play with Interstellar extended, am I asking for a world of too much complexity and I should stick to one or the other? Or is using both a viable choice? 

[Guest]

There is ALOT of planet packs out there, could you be more specific, like are they close or are they not? (I've downloaded literally all the planet packs, over 20 gb, so I can just go to tracking station and check) If it's close, I suggest Outer Planet Mod, if its far, I suggest maybe RSS and Constallations

[Kerbinchaser]

I agree with @HueHanaejistla. OPM is a great planet pack.

[MrChumley]

Asclepius is just 1 planet and a moon. 

[bigcalm]

45 minutes ago, Starchaser said:

Right now, I'm still fairly early in my KSP career. I'm building a small comm network of 3 R-15 satellites at 90° intervals in Kerbin's orbit (so a square with Kerbin at 1 corner.) which I started before I read the comm net tutorial. And my first probe is on it's way to Duna.

Thinking ahead though, I am likely going to want to get an extended planets mod. I'm asking for advice on which ones are thought to be the best. Which one is your favorite and why? And if the answer is 'none' an explanation of that would also be appreciated.

Also, right now I'm playing with the Near Future set of parts. If I want to play with Interstellar extended, am I asking for a world of too much complexity and I should stick to one or the other? Or is using both a viable choice? 

I've played with a few planet packs, and Outer Planets mod is probably the best to add to the stock game.  That said, I'd like to see a stripped out version that just includes the extra "interesting" places and not just "oh god another small moon with tiny gravity and no atmosphere" - basically, a gas giant with rings (Saturn analogue) ; a moon with a very dense oxygenless atmosphere (Titan analogue) ; A retrograde moon (Triton analogue) ; An Eve-sized planet with oxygen in the atmosphere (Tellumo in GPP); A burnt cinder much nearer to the sun than Moho (various planet packs have this) ;

That said, you're still early on your career - you have a long journey ahead of you.  Go and have fun with Duna - at least it's easy to get to, and up next in your easy transfer windows is likely to be Eve.  Go and try and tackle the purple monster and her tiny daughter first before worrying about more far flung places :-)

Edited November 3, 2017 by bigcalm

[Starchaser]

 

I was looking at OPM at one point, but it kept crashing on load. 

....However that was probably the same problem that was causing my crashes in game. Running out of memory not realizing I was launching the 32 bit version.

I will look back at OPM

[SamBelanger]

DD adds a lot of planets, moons and stars