Maximum number of flights

[Richy teh space man]

Does anyone know what this is? And has anyone come close to hitting it?

60 + flights here so far..

[QuantumFlux]

Unless it is limited by the engine or the GUI somehow, you should be able to get to either 256 (8bit, char), 65536 (16bit, short), or 4294967296 (32bit, int) flights (I don't think they would use a 64bit integer for this...).

However, long before you hit the 16bit border, you will see the game being rendered completely unplayable by the large amount of floating point operatons being done to update the positions of all the stuff...

[Kiershar]

Don't think there's a limit beside lag. One time i had a moon base with 12 EVA kermans, 3 rovers, 2 rocketcrafts and nice pile of 30+ debris stacked with my bulldozer. Flew one last ship at that base and the lag became so bad i had to end a couple flights.

[Richy teh space man]

Yeah I guess there will be a point where the game starts to break down.. I guess that'll be the time I do a persistence zap..

[Kiershar]

I think the worse is when you have crafts on every planets and then you try to target a planet to be able to pan the camera better and it switch you to a craft on that planet. So frustrating, i keep having to remake new saves because of that issue.

[Richy teh space man]

The fact that individual Kerbals count as seperate flights means I have a lot more flights then ships too.. maybe if I stuff em back in a ship it'll help with lag..

[Elmach]

Whatever you set in your config file.

[spikeyhat09]

if you ran it on the worlds most powerful supercomputer, you'd probably starve to death before you launched the most flights possible.

[TheDarkStar]

I've had a few hundred debris parts, kerbals, and ships out before. This was actually in .16, without this version's optimization.

[Cesc]

On 10/10/2012 at 4:26 AM, spikeyhat09 said:

if you ran it on the worlds most powerful supercomputer, you'd probably starve to death before you launched the most flights possible.

Probably not. Supercomputers work differently than desktop computers. Besides ... if KSP barely uses multiple cores it will be crap on a supercomputer. Just saying because sometimes I like to be "that guy" :P.

[Ultimate Steve]

It is over 1000. I do space battles from time to time and that can easily get to over 1000 debris fairly quickly.