do you delete your debris?

[lammatt]

sometimes i do... when it starts to lag...

[Guest]

I do now, but when I start a 0.21 save I plan to keep it until the lag is unbearable.

[Eleven]

Where is the option for 'I don't have debris cause I found the setting to eliminate it'?

[RuBisCO]

^ yeah that the option I did.

[lammatt]

Where is the option for 'I don't have debris cause I found the setting to eliminate it'?

that's essentially deleting~

[Goldham]

I dont delete them. There will be a day when Kerbin will have Rings! Muahahahahaha!

[Kimberly]

I only do it around the Space Center, so it's no so cluttered. The rest, I try not to leave up there, but if I do then it stays up.

[Flixxbeatz]

You should add another option:

"I set persistent debris to 0. What is this debris deletion you ask?"

[astropapi1]

I do a lot of spaceplane... testing.

So there's lots of debris around the space center and I don't really like it. That's the only debris i delete, because my upper stages always deorbit themselves. No cluttered orbits.

[Benie]

"I set persistent debris to 0. What is this debris deletion you ask?"

This. (10 char)

[spikeyhat09]

i delete debris around the space center because of lag (my computer isnt very beefy to be wasting parts) but i dont delete orbital debris because its almost always outside the 2.6 km range for physics, and now with 0.20 you dont see it in map view without the tab enabled

[IllicitMedic]

No, thats very unrealistic, I try to design my stuff for as little debris as possible. Anything that manages to stay in orbit, is stuck there.

[Sir Nahme]

A large debris pile is the sign of a kerbal space program, deleting it is sacrelige!

[Flixxbeatz]

A large debris pile is the sign of a kerbal space program, deleting it is sacrelige!

Unless if your computer are the ones who start to freak out with a few pieces of debris in.

[Sir Nahme]

Then sir, LET THE KRAKEN HAVE IT! (I'm sympathetic, but dammit I can't back down )

[TheHengeProphet]

I de-orbit my debris, so I leave minial in orbit; however, when planes crash at the end of the runway and land wing and winglets in the water, the game becomes unplayable until said debris is deleted...

[justchad]

No, thats very unrealistic, I try to design my stuff for as little debris as possible. Anything that manages to stay in orbit, is stuck there.

^^ This

Not lagging atm but if I start to I might start trying to de-orbit some of it, if its planetside I would delete it, as me kerbals retrieve anything I destroy on the ground ;-)

[spikeyhat09]

also, why delete when you can WHACK A KERBAL >: D

[lammatt]

also, why delete when you can WHACK A KERBAL >: D

O... ya ... i totally forget about the fun of this...

nice idea

[WhiteThane]

I enjoy my debris, its interesting to see bits of old rockets float by. Plus scavenging fuel from the debris field (LKO) is actually really cool.

Although my failed aircraft lagged out the launch pad and airfield so it had to go

[dharak1]

350 pieces of debris in orbit and counting

[TheHockeyPlayer]

I hate debris, no matter what kind it is or where it came from. I always switch to it and "End Flight". I think with 0.21, since I won't be able to do that anymore, I'm gonna find some way to get rid of it without cheating.

[DisarmingBaton5]

I just leave it. It doesn't bother me, (since debris received a toggle in 0.20) and if I ever find too much lag, I'll start deleting the stuff in LKO.

[katateochi]

No, thats very unrealistic, I try to design my stuff for as little debris as possible. Anything that manages to stay in orbit, is stuck there.

Yep, this. Didn't really seem to be an option for that in the poll. I really like the added challenge of designing craft to not leave any debris in orbit. I have 1 bit of wayward debris in orbit in my 25 year old space program so I'm quite pleased about that, thou Mun is a fast becoming a landfill site as its a testing ground. If I crash land then I leave that debris as a memorial.

Ground debris round KSC, well, that's what I have FRANK for! He makes debris removal fun, like a little mini game.

[Clouds]

"I set persistent debris to 0. What is this debris deletion you ask?"

...and if a piece had a probe core on it for extra torque (or temporary persistence), it gets ended from the tracking station.