Structural part suggestions

[Rejected Spawn]

First up, I haven't been sacrificing every moment of my life to the Kraken by browsing the KSP forums day and night so maybe this stuff has been covered in some post I've somehow missed, should this be the case then I guess this thread is far less relevant. WIth that out of the way let's delve into my suggestions. Would much appreciate some thoughts from others on how appealing these things would be.

1: Panel shape variants - rather than always being flat and straight edged they could be rounded, inverse rounded, curved and domed. Example of 90 degree rounded and curved on the right below, painted like the standard size 12 structural panels in KSP1 to make them a bit more relatable. Having 60 and 45 degree options would be nice as well but let's set aside the exact design variants for now.

2: Glass panels - same shape options as regular panels but transparent, fragile, heavy, sensitive to heat and generally useless. But would look great on things like the simple cockpit of the... thing... in the above picture. Optionally they may be well suited to having a bordered/borderless toggle in the shape of a slim metal frame.

3: Extended stack split/merge options, including twin stack fuel parts, extra wide cockpits and crew quarters, and maybe interesting engine mounts with more creative node options. Unlike KSP1 some parts would have an attachment node for other twin stacks rather than being entirely restricted to separated standard round stacks.

4: Cargo bays that allow for more oddly shaped cargo. One example would be a twin stack version that when mounted flat in a space plane could have its "floor" flip down to become a ramp for ease of use with small rovers, or extend the entire flat bottom section with pistons to ground level for ease of access. Alternate "door" options would be to have the rounded sides open like the current round cargo bays in KSP1.

 

Lastly I'd also suggest having an external seat for custom cockpits but one that isn't meant for pilots. It would probably be a bit much to ask that it provides actual real time information but if it came in one variant for scientists that had a screen with some random garbled "science looking" data on it that would be nice, engineers could get a couple of buttons and a smaller display that says some useless thing like "craft currently 80% unlikely to explode" or whatever other fluff might look funny on close inspection. Seat options are not structural things but this forum is still being drenched in new threads and I don't want to add another for such a minor suggestion.

[magnemoe]

This sounds more like an DLC for me. Perfect for an DLC as it will be popular in modded crafts who push people downloading it to purchasing the DLC  

[The_Arcitect]

On 10/21/2020 at 7:34 AM, magnemoe said:

Perfect for an DLC as it will be popular in modded crafts...

Wait, I thought the panels were DLC.

[Rejected Spawn]

Hmm, I was hoping for a few more votes by now. Anyway regarding you fellows DLC comments, I'm assuming most if not all of the KSP1 DLC parts will be integrated into the main game for KSP2 since it won't be popular with many players to have to buy the extras separately all over again, and I'd be surprised (in a bad way) if the devs were already making plans for DLC a year ahead of release.

What I'm trying to accomplish with this little poll is to get a good idea of things the devs can put on the list of stuff that can be added "if the part creation specialists end up with time on their hands" due to finishing early. As far as I understand the main reason the release has been pushed so very far into the future is because the programming work turned out to be a much bigger task than they had anticipated, this doesn't mean the other devs don't have anything to do for the last year but there's a fair chance their workload is lower than initially projected. Better that they know about which little extras players would be delighted to see and how badly we'd like them, also several of the devs are KSP players themselves and may find motivation to put a bit of effort into fun extras if they get a nice little serving of inspiration.