globe encompassing station

[SteevyT]

Of course, the came will not load physics on objects over 2.5km. This can be increased with the lasor mod (or any of it's standalones) up to 99000 if memory serves but that still wont be enough and bad things happen when your craft is out of physics range of itself (such has been learned from guys doing experiments with KAS XD).

Do you still have the link for that experiment? I kind of want to see the results.

[leax256]

isn't there an asteroids mod that creates a SOI on some of the asteroids?

[togfox]

The original question is both stupid and genius. I gave it one positive rep point and one negative rep point.

[Nzen]

You might want to try it from a smaller scale. Just go to the "tiny" moon like Ike. And start your "big" project there.

That's a better than the reply I prefer: build a prototype on kerbin. Specifically, wheel out a ground-based chain of tanks or beams stretching out from the runway. See if you can stretch it across the peninsula.

The better way to 'discourage' this question (or exosolar planets or a salvage navy) is to emphasize scale. Computational limits & orbital mechanics represent real challenges, but don't forget your audience. Someone has asked if 'cool thing I've heard of' is possible in KSP.

This probably isn't someone who calculates the deltaV of his'o'er craft. That sort would already recognize the changing center of mass aspect.

This probably isn't someone who has fifty craft in a base on the Mun and experienced the. heart. stopping. lag. of. so.. many... parts....

This someone, though, is curious. Curious may propel so&so into eventually investigating deltaV and more rigorous (mathematical) interaction with KSP's constraints. But, curious met with flat no's may turn to other venues where meaningful goals are possible. It may behoove us to stoke a candle of hope in curious, by suggesting sh'o'he attempt a proof of concept that sounds 'reasonable.' That way, the frustration is likely to come back as a 'why' or 'just how big is kerbin?'

Those are questions to meet with advanced mechanics, because the poster has confronted the discontinuities in his'o'er abstraction and is ready for more precision. It may not be as nice as the ego-stroke of pointing out the logical consequences of the craft, but cultivates a culture of independent study.

Maybe. A little bit. If everyone did it.