Enhancing The Flight Planner

[Corona688]

I really love it, a way to plot courses without it actually flying for me. I've been able to get away with not using mods to plot courses to distant planets and back. I've never touched mechjeb. A few things would make it even better:

1) Persistence. If I save and quit, it'd be lovely to not lose my planned courses.

2) Wake-ups. All too often I've blown past my planned course corrections on high timewarp. It makes sense for the game to wake up when crossing times I've explicitly marked for it.

I know there's probably mods for this but something built-in would be much simpler and more elegant. Mods tend to accumulate a lot of baggage.

Edited November 18, 2013 by Corona688

[Hanoj]

1. Yes, this would also be handy for quick-saves.

2. As tempted as I am to say "there's a mod for this", I would like this to be vanilla.

[Kasuha]

I know there's probably mods for this but something built-in would be much simpler and more elegant. Mods tend to accumulate a lot of baggage.

There indeed is a mod called Kerbal Alarm Clock which does exactly that.

My own opinion on mods is that they have their own life cycles. They may stop working with any update to the game and it's up to the author of the mod to make it compatible again. And if he lost interest in KSP in the meantime you may suddenly lose a function you grew accustomed to.

[RadHazard]

Another feature I'd like is a "Preview mode" in the Tracking Center that lets you adjust the clock as you see fit. That way, you could plan out an interplanetary journey, say, 3 months ahead of time, and then set a reminder that'll pop up when the launch window comes up.

A stock precise node editor like one of the 3 mods that currently exist wouldn't be a bad idea either.

[Corona688]

There indeed is a mod called Kerbal Alarm Clock which does exactly that.

Yes, and what else?

My own opinion on mods is that they have their own life cycles. They may stop working with any update to the game and it's up to the author of the mod to make it compatible again. And if he lost interest in KSP in the meantime you may suddenly lose a function you grew accustomed to.

Mods seem to accumulate featuritis far faster than the game itself does, since they can't integrate the way a real improvement does. One cleanly integrated feature takes a dozen little knobs to replace when you have to nail it to the side.