Gametime passing in real time?

[rotorwashed]

has squad ever mentioned anything about the possibility of time in world passing while out of the game? it could run on the computers clock.

thoughts?

[swiftgates24]

That'd really wouldn't work. Say, you have to go while on a transfer to the Mun, then come back to find yourself in orbit around the Sun.

[Superfluous J]

That is a terrible idea. How would you handle collision detection, SOI changes, and any other thing that needs to be actually run through the simulator, if the program is not running? I suppose you could, when the program is started, just run really fast, inaccurate simulations to get to current time, but then I have to ask why would you want that? The only significant thing that this could affect is that you'd end up missing a window due to real life cropping up, and your ship would crash into Jool instead of orbiting Laythe.

[lincourtl]

You could have an option to use "frozen" time (as the game is now), or "liquid" time saves (the OP's suggestion). But it'd still be a PITA because then KSP would have to do a whole gob of physics calculations just to start up.

[Teodzero]

If you Alt+Tab out of the game it won't pause itself. Is this what you need?

[FITorion]

... just leave it running...

run it in windowed mode if you do. Apparently fullscreen mode doesn't like it very much when you ALT+TAB out of it. Windowed mode works fine in that regard.