What is a "Base"?

[orfest]

Hi,

The filtering bar in the map view has a button "Base" (between buttons "Station" and "Kerbonaut"), what is this button for?

Can you build bases in vanilla KSP 0.23.5?

Image from HarvesteR's Dev Blag:

[AndreyATGB]

You can build whatever you want. Right clicking on the command pod allows you to rename and change that vessel's category. I think if you have "base" in its name it automatically tags it as such.

[KingMatthew]

Yes, you can build bases. That button that says bases is a way to categorize your ships. You can change what category it is in by going to your ship and right clicking the command module.

[Taki117]

Bases are like space stations, but on the ground. Currently they serve no real purpose, and have to be designated as a base (There is no "base" part like there is a "Station" part. I.e there is no part that will automatically designate your craft a s a base, but the cupola will designate it as a station)

[orfest]

Thanks for the responses.

[Pecan]

Bases are like space stations, but on the ground. Currently they serve no real purpose, and have to be designated as a base (There is no "base" part like there is a "Station" part. I.e there is no part that will automatically designate your craft a s a base, but the cupola will designate it as a station)

I'm not sure there is any part that designates a station, is there? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/79594-Docking-and-Vessel-Type-Rules-%280-23-5%29 Captain Sierra's post (#5) suggests the cupola will normally designate a vehicle as 'lander'.

[Sirrobert]

Anything you call a base, is a base

[RW-1]

I had three in orbit around minimus once, the forth was called home plate.

[Claw]

I'm not sure there is any part that designates a station, is there? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/79594-Docking-and-Vessel-Type-Rules-%280-23-5%29 Captain Sierra's post (#5) suggests the cupola will normally designate a vehicle as 'lander'.

Yes, I can confirm that the stock cupola does not designate the vessel as a station. It actually defaults to a lander...

[Taki117]

Yes, I can confirm that the stock cupola does not designate the vessel as a station. It actually defaults to a lander...

My mistake. I have had parts default to station though. i just dont remember which ones...

[MainSailor]

My mistake. I have had parts default to station though. i just dont remember which ones...

I believe some of the Kosmos parts do, and perhaps Bobcat's Mir parts. I don't remember if the ISS pack does.

I'm pretty sure there's no stock command pods or probes that do.

[HafCoJoe]

Yeah like everyone else is saying, that button is used to view all the ships you've renamed to be a base. Right click on a ships pod or probe core and you can set the ship to be "debris", "base", "probe"... The button in the tracking station views all the vessels you've renamed as a base or whatever other vessel you've named to be whatever other button you click on. Hope this helps

Later.

[problemecium]

In case you didn't know, you can rename any "craft", including flags, asteroids, and debris, from the tracking station; this is relevant because I've started marking things like Kerbal Space Center with a flag marked as a Base so I can easily tell where home is.

[Captain Sierra]

Yes, I can confirm that the stock cupola does not designate the vessel as a station. It actually defaults to a lander...

This is true, unless you pull a Sierra and rename the VesselType line to read Station instead of Lander, because pure stock is sometimes dumb, so when in doubt, do it yourself.