Bonneville Salt Flats Spawn for Fastest Ground Vehicle Competitions

[Idahobo]

It would be fun to have a Bonneville Salt Flats Spawn for Kebals Fastest Land Speed Records

[NaughtyMonster]

Agreed; there should be a salt flat somewhere on Kerbin with a marked mile/kilometre/whatever to do land speed record attempts and, as Idahobo suggests, this should be a spawn option (unless part of the challenge would be to transport one's craft to the flats?).

If this were implemented might it be possible to code a speed recorder into the course? So we can have properly measured average speeds over the whole course length.

A record would only be set by (at least) two runs in opposite directions within a specific time limit (to prevent "suicide" vehicles/runs!).

[BowlerHatGuy3]

On 6/23/2023 at 10:39 AM, NaughtyMonster said:

Agreed; there should be a salt flat somewhere on Kerbin with a marked mile/kilometre/whatever to do land speed record attempts and, as Idahobo suggests, this should be a spawn option (unless part of the challenge would be to transport one's craft to the flats?).

If this were implemented might it be possible to code a speed recorder into the course? So we can have properly measured average speeds over the whole course length.

A record would only be set by (at least) two runs in opposite directions within a specific time limit (to prevent "suicide" vehicles/runs!).

I think it’d be cooler if you were to discover it by yourself. It’d add to the colony building and exploration stuff.

[Strawberry]

The poles used to serve as this and readding a flat area to one of them would be cool

[NaughtyMonster]

On 6/29/2023 at 12:39 AM, BowlerHatGuy3 said:

I think it’d be cooler if you were to discover it by yourself. It’d add to the colony building and exploration stuff.

Good idea. So perhaps only being able to spawn to it only after you'd discovered it?

[pandaman]

Why not use the runways.   They are pretty long as they are.