orbital ring

[shylocke]

Has anyone completed or tried to build a complete orbital ring either around kerbin or one of its moons? I shall be beginning my attempt when my new PC is delivered I. A few weeks.

[shylocke]

Less mods is better.

[Spartwo]

Don't bother KSP doesn't load craft more than 2.5 kilometers away,not even big enough for Gilly.Although I don't know if this is true with KMP.You can always wait for the asteroid expansion as they most likely won't be larger than 2.5km in diameter.

EDIT:People did try but they ran into the 2.5km thing.

Edited February 8, 2014 by Spartwo

[shylocke]

Damn. Have you tried docking ships together to make a line over that distance? My friends all think if it would load that far, the ship would snap as it tried to bend around a planet

[Comrade Jenkens]

Don't bother KSP doesn't load craft more than 2.5 kilometers away,not even big enough for Gilly.Although I don't know if this is true with KMP.You can always wait for the asteroid expansion as they most likely won't be larger than 2.5km in diameter.

As soon as even part of the vessel comes near it loads. Ships don't load piece by piece as you cross the 2.5km threshold but in one go. However the part count would just be too high.

I'm started a large ring in space but it won't be even close to that size.

[Captain Sierra]

Building a ring space station is fun. Building a ring around a planet simply is not possible in KSP.

[Spartwo]

As soon as even part of the vessel comes near it loads.

Oh...TO GILLY!!

Actually I'll test first.

Edited February 8, 2014 by Spartwo

[shylocke]

Well the game isn't finished yet. And if you had a good enough PC. You might be able to

Do a smaller moon or planet.

[Comrade Jenkens]

Back when I was a bottle rocketeer (on my first account before the great derp) I started building a large ring in space. I got over a third of the way round before my PC just said no. It was huge though and I'm sure its completable with all the optimisations.

[Spartwo]

Got to got to 800m before physics noped 1.7km in length and the opening was immediate.

It split into two...Jumbo 64s multiply via mitosis.

[ihtoit]

yeah... I dunno. I think the 32-bit memory space might be a problem with this one even if the 2.5km thing wasn't, even with welding. You could always just whack up a load of satellites in precisely matched orbits (by which I mean, within 10m maximum orbital inclination distance and perfectly period-synchronised to guarantee no collisions), but that just gets tedious.

[DaveofDefeat]

You tend to run into memory limits.

[Jodo42]

I'm waiting for someone to build a ring around one of those 20-30m asteroids in the NASA pack. Probably not too hard, but cool nonetheless.

[lajoswinkler]

Solid orbiting rings are not stable objects. They would crash even if the game didn't have named restrictions. Every now and then a thread like this comes along.

[ihtoit]

I have a problem when constructing very large stations, in that when I get to a certain point, I don't know if it's part density or what, I could be approaching with another segment and pretty much the second the remote physics kicks in the target structure explodes into a zillion pieces - a good few of the persistent bits of debris (marked as "probes" even though there are no probe cores on them!) are ejected across the system at relativistic speed! Often the ship I'm riding in on explodes as well...

Some sort of Kraken? Funny thing is, it does not happen if I have *many* independent satellites floating around (not docked to each other)...