Asteroid Bases?

[Mystique]

As long you are tracking it in the observatory or have at least 1 part attached they wont despawn.

Are you sure it's "or"? I.e. if I claw anything to asteroid and stop tracking it, will it still be there?

By the way, is it possible to attached multiple claws based on one craft to an asteroid? Or it'll be the same problem as docking using multiple ports, when only first one connects and other don't?

[electronicfox]

Are you sure it's "or"? I.e. if I claw anything to asteroid and stop tracking it, will it still be there?

By the way, is it possible to attached multiple claws based on one craft to an asteroid? Or it'll be the same problem as docking using multiple ports, when only first one connects and other don't?

Its how I've been dealing with the larger asteroids (See image in earlier post). Once the first claw grabs the rock, you can nudge the others to the surface by powering the engines a little, or using RCS, and theyll grab hold when the touch the rock too.

edit: I'd imagine the robotics mod would work wonders for this too.

Edit 2: Also the winch mod...you could quite easilly setup a towing craft with a claw on a winch.

Edited April 3, 2014 by electronicfox

[cesarcurado]

This is my next objective in ksp, the moment the update was announced that was the first thing i thought of

[Mystique]

Edit 2: Also the winch mod...you could quite easilly setup a towing craft with a claw on a winch.

That one will surely cause some bad things, from my towing experience. Especially when you'll decide to change direction or play with throttle a bit)

Though robotics mod parts can be really useful here.

Did anyone try to connect several asteroids together? Like attach tugboat to one having docking port away from roid; set an orbit; capture another one with different tugboat, rendezvous with first and dock tugboats together. I have some funny ideas, but Kraken is just going to eat them most likely =\

Edited April 4, 2014 by Mystique

[ThomJ]

Figured I might try to revive this thread

Here is my base that I have built so far on a class E in LKO.

http://imgur.com/a/Njv8a

[diegzumillo]

I put an asteroid on my space station and it bugged the whole thing. I realized something was off during docking phase, it felt that they docked already but the ports weren't connected so I loaded to a few moments before and retried this a few times. Eventually it seemed docked... but now the whole station starts to wobble increasingly stronger until it crashes. So, just be warned that you could brick your space station