Warp limit in low altitude is way too low.

[The Aziz]

I mean, really. I'm over 10km ASL above Minmus and I can only warp 4x. Orbiting to sunlit side of the moon takes forever.

[Lyneira]

Agreed. Trying to get to Gilly's surface from low orbit is even worse, as the orbital speed is far lower than even Minmus. Better off using extra delta-v to boost yourself at the moon, but it should be possible to timewarp through this at higher speeds.

[DibzNr]

Yeah, it's incredibly annoying

[The Aziz]

Hopping back in because it's still annoying. On minmus, for example, for whatever reason, it's 15100m ASL. Which is way way waaaay above any obstacles.

[Superfluous J]

Hopefully someone will make a time warp mod like the ones we had for KSP1.

There should be no limit to time warp save for what your computer can handle.

[The Aziz]

What the game can handle*. In KSP1 there were issues on SOI change on high warp, this was solved by forcing the limit to x50 on approach to SOI. Not annoying in the slightest, ensured safe passage. It would only limit the warp significantly when on crashing trajectory, and that was also fine. Here, now, it isn't.

[Spicat]

2 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

Hopefully someone will make a time warp mod like the ones we had for KSP1.

https://spacedock.info/mod/3386/Even Better Time Warp#info

Already exist

[Superfluous J]

8 hours ago, Spicat said:

https://spacedock.info/mod/3386/Even Better Time Warp#info

Already exist

Haha I should have known.

[The Aziz]

On Mun apparently it's 9318m.
Can someone with more experience in KSP2's outer space pinpoint the altitudes on other bodies?

[HebaruSan]

Sad that the most egregious design fail in the first game has been carried forward. 

This needs to be brought up with the devs; they're not going to notice us just venting here. Would it make sense to report this as a bug? If not, are there any other options?

[The Aziz]

20872(!) on Ike.

Edited October 1, 2023 by The Aziz

[HebaruSan]

Hi @Dakota, it never made sense to limit time warp in a safe orbit (periapsis outside of atmosphere, not exiting the SOI), since you're guaranteed to still be on that same ellipse no matter how far ahead you warp. Can you please draw some developer attention this way? Removing this limitation should be a very easy change (just taking out the 'if' statements that enforce the limits), and many people will be much happier with your product (scroll up for a small representative sample).

If there's any controversy internally among the team, I'd suggest removing it temporarily for a few releases and seeing if anybody complains. (Nobody will!)

Edited September 30, 2023 by HebaruSan

[The Aziz]

11900 for Gilly.

[cocoscacao]

Yep. Boring. Handholding here is just an annoyance. 

[Lowi_Sace]

Maybe an option to deload vehicle in tracking station would make higher timewarp possible in terms of performance 

[NaughtyMonster]

Yep, it is one of the many infuriating aspects of this game.

[HebaruSan]

To anyone who's interested in this, there's a bug tracker entry about it that has started to get some traction. If you upvote it, there's a chance it'll appear in future K.E.R.B. posts and hopefully something will be done about it:

[The Aziz]

So the only way to get attention from devs is by posting a bug report now?

Anyway I will post my findings there.

[HebaruSan]

3 minutes ago, The Aziz said:

So the only way to get attention from devs is by posting a bug report now?

Only? I have no idea. But given that it has an upvote mechanism and that there's a weekly status report covering highly upvoted bug reports, it's probably the most promising way.