Taxing

[hempa2]

Just a small thing, if you tax your plane into the SPH doors then you will enter the SPH

(docked things will be in the SPH too)

[Slouch]

First off, it's called taxiing (taxi) not taxing (tax).

Second why would you do this? What would the game play benefits be?

[BudgetHedgehog]

Second why would you do this? What would the game play benefits be?

Say I land successfully and want to send out my spaceplane again with a new payload. To do this currently, I need to recover the craft, wait for the loading screen to finish, click on the SPH, wait for the loading screen to finish and finally, load up my saved craft.

The change would mean I have to taxi to the SPH and wait for the loading screen to finish.

This is debatably quicker (I so want proper taxiways), adds to immersion (which I love) and might be beneficial in career mode, depending on how the refunds in budgets is implemented.*

^{*if the refund is only a percentage of the original cost of the parts, it makes no sense - the plane is still flyable, all relevant (i.e. non-payload) parts are still there, all it need is fuel. I don't want to launch a new plane with new parts, I want to launch this plane. I've already paid for it, I just need fuel. There's a lot of changes that need to be made if spaceplanes are going to make sense - either this change, or a full refund on recovery, or ability to refuel on runway without launching an entirely new vehicle just to transport the fuel... if it stays the same, it just plain won't make sense and considering the plane parts are being revamped, it'd be a shame to not want to use them because of a broken system.}

Edited June 30, 2014 by ObsessedWithKSP

[hempa2]

First off, it's called taxiing (taxi) not taxing (tax).

Second why would you do this? What would the game play benefits be?

Sorry im from sweden, And benefit: it wont be good now but in 0.24 when money come then it would be useful to taxi your SSTOs back into the hangar instead of recovering, clicking the SPH, waiting for loading screen, and click saves go to Auto-Saved Ship and now you got the same thing but without the docked part! and its more realistic

[Vindelle_Sunveam]

All the way with OP.

Immersion is good, and you can just have to tweak the fuel and plug an new payload as you need.

It would be cool if this reduces recovery costs to 0 as there was none of it (refurbishing doesn't make sense to me, gameplay-wise, if you made an S-grade flight back keep all the money !). Refuelling and the new payload will cost you anyway.