will escaping kerbol crash the game?

[deepspacecreeper]

hello, ive heard that escaping kerbol and at a certain distance away from the kerbol system will crash the game. is this true?

[FoxKit]

If I'm not mistaken, I think in the current version of the game, Kerbol's SOI extends to infinity and cannot be escaped. I haven't heard of crashes per say, but I can't imagine space in the game itself extends infinitely, so I'd expect the ship to be destroyed or the game to crash. Try turning on infinite fuel and heading our to see for yourself. n.n

[SRV Ron]

If it doesn't crash the game, the Voyager mission drives the computer nuts. Examples of one such mission in Career Mode;

After I switched to flying it to send data on a materials bay, the view was tumbling wildly until I hit Esc;

What map mode looked like afterwards as it changed flight paths wildly.

[TechnicalK3rbal]

You can escape it and the game will not crash. You just keep goin infinitely and there nothing there. I think it will crash when you get really, REALLY far away.

[SRV Ron]

If you check the mass from Mission control and then the mass from Map Mode, it is obvious that the probe has self destruct leaving only the probe battery as a resource. The Material Bay, thruster pack, solar panels, etc... are now missing. About a billion meters appears to be the point where the physics of the game fail. That is when I last accessed the probe to transmit data.

Notice the probe's speed has gone crazy.

[Iridium616]

How on kerbin did you reach that speed??

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[SRV Ron]

I didn't, It happened when the probe was destroyed when I switched to control mode while outside the range of the Kerbal Solar System. The correct speed is in the view from Mission Control.

[iamaphazael]

As was said, you cannot escape Kerbol, but you can get arbitrarily far from it on an "escape trajectory". It will not crash the game, but it can cause ships that are in orbits around other planets or moons (especially moons, it seems) to simply disappear after you return from being focused on the escaping object. Probably has something to do with how floating point numbers have larger and larger rounding errors the larger they get, since the game measures all distances from the focused object

[Iridium616]

As was said, you cannot escape Kerbol, but you can get arbitrarily far from it on an "escape trajectory". It will not crash the game, but it can cause ships that are in orbits around other planets or moons (especially moons, it seems) to simply disappear after you return from being focused on the escaping object. Probably has something to do with how floating point numbers have larger and larger rounding errors the larger they get, since the game measures all distances from the focused object

Does that mean... interestellar travel won't be possible on KSP? : (

[Jordanpumah]

it will later, when they find some way to push the kraken further away.

[Blue]

I've actually put a voyager-like probe on a 33-year long comet-like orbit, with the hope that after 33 in-game years I'll be able to rendezvous with it, slow it down and return it to Kerbin.

[Mmmmyum]

I found that it breaks the game at around a thousand petameters (1.0 × 10^18 meters or 1000000000000000000m)

[Xetalim]

Does that mean... interestellar travel won't be possible on KSP? : (

You will never know, perhaps squad is going to add other star systems, would be an interesting idea.

[numerobis]

10^18 takes about 60 bits; not too surprising things would break down then.

[mux]

One version of multiplayer gaming: Craft that escapes Kerbol planetary system will disappear and spawns in another random player's game, coming from outer space.

[Penguinhero]

one version of multiplayer gaming: Craft that escapes kerbol planetary system will disappear and spawns in another random player's game, coming from outer space.

squad make this a thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!