Ability to use planets from real space database

[dimmy]

like it done in http://spaceengine.org

with automatically procedural generation of planets surface and atmosphere.

What about to add more planets, and even real planets and star systems?

[Sirrobert]

Everyone in this game has the same solar system.

We may get additional ones, very far down the line

[Kegereneku]

Short answer of what I learned here :

Real time procedural generation, even with the same seed, would require a lot of computing power. KSP isn't and will never be like Spaceengine which doesn't have to calculate a complex physics for 400parts spaceship. Plus KSP is using Unity which isn't optimized for that.

Furthermore reproducing real planet would require a lot of work, and the alternative of pseudo-random procedural generation isn't necessarily more fun since you have far more chance to generate a system of boring planet than a solar system you would want to play it for hours in Career-mode.

Hope that answer any question one might ask.