Mission Continuation

[goldfang35]

My suggestion is to continue the mission when you leave it e.g./ I realised this problem when i left a mission before finishing my orbital burn. I had an orbit oh 40 by 100 and should have come in contact whit the atmosphere and yet it just kept spinning around and around. This is more of a bug report but could also be useful for mod users such as the kethane mod. The kethane mod has a drill that drills for kethane however you have to stay on the mission and wait until it is finished if you were to leave the mission it wont drill while you are doing something else. radar mods don't work and it is quite a pain to do this hopefully someone agrees with me thanks for the read .

[TheAquired]

Hi

As far as I am aware, the reason for this not being feasible is due to the way Squad has designed the game to keep it from lagging. When an object has your focus, then all the physics will be calculated on that object, however, all the other objects, far away and near, will be on what Squad calls "Rails". This means the game jsut moves the object along, where it calculates it should be based on the last orbit trajectory it had. If every single object, near and far had to be having physics calculations being applied constantly to them, then things would turn ugly fast.

There would be so much lag no computer could hope to try run it. (Especially with Unity's current limitation of only using 1 core of the CPU).

Obviously a perfectly simulated universe would be best, but Squad has done very well to make it as close as possible, while still keeping the game fun and playable.

Hope that makes sense, I'm pretty tired right now

[goldfang35]

I understand that there are a lot of lag reasons in KSP. but like they did with the terrain they had a turn on turn off option. I have a pretty beast computer it might be a good test to see if a few computers can handle it

[TheAquired]

Well maybe squad could think about that in the future, however, if you compare this sort of thing, to the major goals and content that Squad currently is working on, I think we will have to wait quite a long time before they relook at things they have already "finished"