Ships on orbit visible from surface

[kiwiak]

No, i am not suggesting expanding phisics bubble to 1000km. Just put white dot moving across sky, in place that ship currently is.

Just like we in real life can observe satellites with naked eye.

[r4pt0r]

i support this, and propose it extends to almost all planets. a green pixel or 4 for jool, so on and so on.

[Tex_NL]

It never ceases to amaze me how certain 'suggestions' come up over and over and over again.

[vexx32]

All planets are already visible, if you zoom enough. Not easy to spot at all, though.

But yeah, being able to see orbiting craft would be awesome

[jwenting]

and would involve extending the physics engine to several hundred kilometers because you'd need to keep track of everything hundreds of kilometers out in real time to place the dots.

Which'd cause massive lag.

[Awaras]

and would involve extending the physics engine to several hundred kilometers because you'd need to keep track of everything hundreds of kilometers out in real time to place the dots.

Which'd cause massive lag.

Everything is tracked already. You can see icons for things closer than 100km right now. I don't think a tiny star-like particle or something similar would be all that hardware intensive...

[Kasuha]

All planets are already visible, if you zoom enough. Not easy to spot at all, though.

They are visible but render in their standard colors which are too dark to recognize if it's just one pixel. A bright spot against the dark sky would be much nicer.