Satellites and the tech tree

[Paul G]

I'm in two minds as to whether this is a tech tree suggestion, or something that would be covered in the future 'missions' area of KSP, but how about making satellite constellations a requirement for orbital outposts (or planetary bases) e.g. providing comms, or imaging. They could be an alternate source of science to goo.

Also deep space probes, telescopes etc could aid asteroid discovery.

Rgds

Paul

Edited April 7, 2014 by Paul G

[astropapi1]

...(or planetary vases)...

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You might want to change that.

[regex]

I am against anything that requires me to leave a craft (or multiple craft) in orbit for no other reason than to fly another. That leads to lag and save file bloating, and those are the last thing I need. RT2 can provide that experience if you really want it.

Regarding space telescopes, I like the idea but I also don't think it should be anything like a "constellation"; maybe one or two craft at most if they're going to hang around.

An example of a multiple craft experiment that is really fun to play is the seismic impactor experiment in KSPI (using up to six "listener" landers) because it takes a little skill to set up and presents some design challenges to overcome in order to do it all in one flight. And at the end, you can simply terminate those probes.

[Paul G]

I had not thought about any performance hit, good point. I guess I was more focussing more on the mission structure, rather than the craft left behind at the end.