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Next additions to the Kerbol System?

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LaydeeDem

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I thought we already knew what was next?

Some general concepts for changes and addition that are drifting around my head (not to say this is the way they'll be though, we've all gotta generally agree what to implement and this is just my take! Plus discovery mechanics and hence the rest of the system won't happen for many updates)

Jool: Actually the second-smallest gas giant, with unusually large moons. All other gas giants would have objects smaller than or comparable to Moho.

- Laythe: Very volcanic because of its proximity and the tidal forces from the other moons. Still oceans of water, but now with actual active volcanos with lava lakes (that destroy things)

- Vall: Never liked the design of vall too much. I'd like to make it a bit more like eeloo, with large cracks in the ice and a more chaotic surface.

- Tylo: Never liked this either, also needs to be redone. Perhaps turned into a highly-contrasting body like Iapetus.

- More tiny moons: Just a bunch of small moonlets, at least 20. Probably would be nameable by the player or given designations (ex. J-17 for the 17th moon of Jool discovered)

Gas planet 2: ~50% larger than Jool, with rings. Early version shown on a stream a while ago.

- Eeloo: Relocated to orbit GP2, now with large geysers that can knock your ship around (prototyped several weeks ago, they function quite well)

- Daphy: Unusually smooth and round ball of fluff. An asteroid which has accumulated material from the rings, practically no gravity.

- Potatus: Small moon with relatively high inclination relative to GP2's equator. Composed of ices surrounding a highly dense core. Very rapid rotation (21 minutes) causes it to be stretched into an oblate spheroid (prototyped a while ago, the physics actually work and are really cool)

- Fonso: Largest moon, ~300 km radius. Very mountainous, with a thick atmosphere that only extends partway up the mountains (as in, the mountain peaks are in vacuum, while the proper surface is at two atmospheres)

- Tiny moons: Same case as Jool

Gas planet 3: Perhaps not an actual gas planet, could be a 2000km rocky planet with a thick atmosphere (have fun landing under 6g and 30 atmospheres of pressure)

- Moon with rings? Would have to be diffuse rings as well as recent, fully-formed rings wouldn't last long in that position.

Gas planet 4: Who knows.

Beyond: Who knows x2

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Whackjob

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I'd like to see a gigantic non-kerbal spaceship wreckage. Something the size of a small Mun. A trajectory like a comet. With debris ahead and behind it in orbit, with some chunks in actual orbit around the remains of the ship.

Maybe science goo to find inside the wreckage.

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s9m

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I would love to see a lot more moons, of all different sizes,shapes and colors.

They potentially give players a lot more things to accomplish, while at the same time not having to expand

the overall footprint of the solar system.

Also more variation of scale of the planets.

From gas giants with incredible gravitational influences to tiny planets with slight gravitational influences.

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Henry01

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Maybe the rings could have many harmless decals that fly around like parts of the ring then the occasional big asteroid with it's own gravitational pull that could affect your spacecraft and would get marked on the map and named like the moonlets nova talked about.

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Whackjob

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The ship would have to be hidden, though. Like not plotted on the map. It would have to be discovered the hard way: Observation. Flight to and orbit around would require the Mk1 eyeball plus Kentucky windage.

Success would be very unlikely.

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Ignamious

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I think the rings can easily be done like ground scatter is done now. from afar you see them as one mass, using a single texture, as you get close a new texture loads (just like it does now) and as you get close enough to discern objects like the ground scatter on planets you start to see the "Ring Scatter" until unity goes 64 bit this could be an easy work around, as the technology advances to the point where said "ring" scatter gets a collision mesh. With resources each ring layer would contain different materials just like the real rings do. most gas giants have a ring, i think that saturn has a ring on it that is actually produced by one of it's moons. might be one of the other planets it's been a while and i'm to lazy to wiki crawl.

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Hannu

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I hope inclined planets too. Squad could add inclination of 10-30 degrees to at least some existing planets and introduce a new large planet with 60-120 degrees inclination like Uranus.

What is particle density in Saturn's rings? It it possible to see anything if you go through? Good easy approximation could be planar rings, which disappears when you go through.

One probably easy thing would be to make planets visible from distances. Just bright star like spots like in our solar system.

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