More Science : Data and Computers

[sol_invictus]

Hi everyone, I was thinking it would be cool to increase the science and research part in the game.

Why ? Because SCIENCE !

Here are few ideas about this, which could be cool :

- Add a stock part which would be a Data Computer

What would the Data Computer do :

Data Computer could be use to store informations gathered by all the sensors, not having one would just do like this version of the game : you can manually check the data by clicking the sensor, but they wont be stored and unless you are taking huge amount of notes on paper, you wouldn't be able to do anything with it.

These Data could be sent via communication stuff to the KSC ( here come a use for the communotron ).

We could imagine a debit system in bit/s ( or kerbit/s ) which would be another characteristic making a difference Between Communotron 88-88 and Communotron 16, a certain amount of data would take a certain amount of time to reach the KSC ( but a reasonable amount of time though, considerig the speed of light as information speed ).

Data received in the KSC could get stored in a research facility and we could use them for scientific purpose, such as : GRAPHS

Making graphs to study, by exemple, temperature in function of altitude, or air pressure in fonction of temperature, etc.

All we would have to do is choose the bank of data, then choose which one goes on Abscissa and which one on Ordinate.

In addition, there could be a mapping system ( like ISA Mapsat ) compatible with the Data computer, allowing people to see on which point of the planet they took their measure ( could be then usefull for future mining update ), and access these measures by clicking the point on the map.

a GPS system could be used, with some condition, by exemple if you have a constellation of at least 4 GPS Satellites orbiting Kerbol you could be able to make a 3D map of your flight and access informations you gathered via this map, just like with the map system. Basically this 3D Map would be the orbit view with the trajectory of the vessel/satellite you launched during the whole mission ( perhaps could get some improvement by only drawing trajectory when it changes, preventing useless resources use by drawing stable orbiting probe's trajectory ).

And finally, there could be more scientific stuff, we already have a gravity sensor, a thermometer, a barometer and an accelerometer, which is already awesome, but there could be others like, as I saw on other suggest, Geiger counters, luxmeters, teslameters ...

It would be really cool and we could really use this informations ( by exemple pressure/altitude to find which altitude is flyable for a jet plane depending of planets etc ).

Hope you'll like my ideas !

[Seret]

Hi everyone, I was thinking it would be cool to increase the science and research part in the game.

This is pretty likely for career mode IMO. Why else do you think we've been given comms gear and sensors? I'd imagine collecting data will be important on some of the missions that career mode will cough up.

[sol_invictus]

It can be usefull in sandbox mod too, to calculate the mass of an object, optimum altitude for planes etc.

[Ki11aWi11]

Then using say a probe to land on a body using both the data computer and several sensors, plus a communication dish would allow you to transmit data back to Kerbin then allowing you, with an ASAS to calculate aerobrakes and targeted landings on atmospheric bodies on the map screen!

[Deejay2000]

Either I'm having deja vu, or I've seen this thread before. I would enjoy "MOAR SCIENCE". I'm sure much of this is already planned for future updates somewhere down the line, regardless, I agree with you.

SCIENCE!

[Themohawkninja]

As a future scientist, I am all for more science parts... but can we actually have some practical use for them first?

[GermanB]

Well, as I think, it will make space less well-know as it is now because of the wiki, with such ingame recording device devs can make an ingame wiki, wich will be filled by player. That reduces the amount of "spoilers", and I think, the game will have even wider range of missions.

[sol_invictus]

Either I'm having deja vu, or I've seen this thread before. I would enjoy "MOAR SCIENCE". I'm sure much of this is already planned for future updates somewhere down the line, regardless, I agree with you.

SCIENCE!

Yep, I already did a thread but it has been moved to Archive and I don't know how to take it back from it