What is your part limit?

[Roflcopterkklol]

I seem to build craft, upload them then hardly anyone can actually use them, my PC starts to slow down at around 1000 parts personally, how about you guys?

[sal_vager]

1000 parts?! Wow!

I try to keep my craft within the 100-200 parts range, mostly because I got used to that with Linux KSP being a bit slower than Windows (It's better now though)

It's just the way I prefer it, doing as much as possible with as few parts as possible

[Rainbowtrout]

The highest I've dared to go is 600. I think small, so my normal projects are 200 parts at most.

[Roflcopterkklol]

1000 parts?! Wow!

I try to keep my craft within the 100-200 parts range, mostly because I got used to that with Linux KSP being a bit slower than Windows (It's better now though)

It's just the way I prefer it, doing as much as possible with as few parts as possible

An example, i just finished building this SSTO reusable fuel station, it is 650 parts, and that is after cutting it back from 890 because i though i should share it at some point lol.

[Caelib]

I don't need a limit because building small crafts are the best design anyway

[EladDv]

part limit? i didnt even knew that those words can be put together in that order....it frightens me *runs into the distance screaming*

[Stratzenblitz75]

I start to have noticeable, but minor slowdown at around 400-500 parts. It gets worse, but still very playable in the 500-1000 part range. I don't know where the part count becomes unplayable since I rarely build anything in the 1000 part range range. I think the only thing I ever built that was more than 1000 parts was this thing...

[Engineer of Stuff]

I'm pretty sure it is around 1000 parts for me. It just slows during loading.

Edited October 24, 2014 by Engineer Of Stuff
Tested my limit.

[Roflcopterkklol]

I don't need a limit because building small crafts are the best design anyway

I cant seem to find anything to do with small craft, like a small SSTO, idk what to do with one once i have made it, i mean i tried making a small SSTO with cargo bays for an example, and this is my version of small (360 parts)

[Rainbow-Dashie]

I have never built a craft that had much more then 230+ parts, and that ran fine on my computer. I assume i could handle maybe 400-500 but, dont see why I would need that many.

[Kerano]

I've worked with up to 1000 from time to time, but I generally prefer to play with not much more than 500 parts in physics range at once. Just a more enjoyable experience when it's not stuttering like crazy.

[montyben101]

My ISS (see in my sig) is about 250 parts and when a shuttle is docked it probably goes to about 350 and lags quite badly. (still bearable though since i kind of get used to it...)

[Slam_Jones]

My PC starts slowing down around 300 parts or so (if I did a deep-cleaning and got all the dust out, it'd probably be much higher), and becomes nearly unplayable when approaching 1000 parts.

[Roflcopterkklol]

I have never built a craft that had much more then 230+ parts, and that ran fine on my computer. I assume i could handle maybe 400-500 but, dont see why I would need that many.

If i could build 2000+ part craft, damn i could built some neat things in this game lol

[Wallace]

At launch I will go up to about 500, but only if I am going to be shedding most of them very quickly during launch, leaving less than 100 when I reach orbit.

[problemecium]

Start to lag? 200 parts.

When do I conclude the game is unplayable, or when is it more likely than not to crash or turn into Kerbal Slideshow Program? 2000 parts.

[Vagani]

I run at around 10 at max graphics at around 2000 parts, but i dont normally go that high

[ArmchairGravy]

250 is when I start getting a yellow timer, but I need a RAM upgrade. (3GB installed, 1GB video card.)

[RocketPilot573]

The chart is symmetrical around 300-500. Interesting. So since I chose 300-500 I guess I'm "average." Meanwhile an equal amount of people start lagging really fast and others never lag at all.

[BDelacroix]

I haven't the foggiest idea.

Those big luxury stations I have are the only things that slow down my computer (timer turns yellow). I don't know how many parts they are.

[Guz]

1864 parts , the agamemnon

on my grand tour it landed on all bodies and moons (except tylo,moho & eve) and returned to kerbin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyClNp7fsGY&list=UUok0KC9bFXjee3ve7pOJ15Q

the lag got acceptable for me at laythe when it had about 800 parts ...

Edited October 23, 2014 by Guz

[Majorjim!]

This is a hard one to answer.

My betting is nobody's computer doesn't lag in KSP. Every ship over 400 parts say, will cause a reduction in frames per second.

It depends on at what point you feel that slowing of FPS. It will vary between different people due their own sensitivity to it and also their KSP

delta time setting.

I notice a slowing of FPS at around 500 parts, fewer when near the space center. My limit for tolerance of lag is a ship of around 700-1000 parts.

That's at full settings, delta time set all the way to the right.

MJ

[SkyHook]

Well I have a system that's designed on a Per-function basis:

Stations/Bases: 150 parts max, including rovers and other accessories.

Rockets/Lifters: 30 Parts or so.

Payloads: 30 parts or so. This means satellites, etc.

Rovers: 25 parts or so.

Shuttles: Under 75 parts.

These guidelines are put in place for the sake of both part count and structural stability. In KSP, less parts means less wobble, and higher framerates.

[zekes]

1100 parts, 20 FPS but it takes about 6 seconds IRL for one second....

EDIT: Oh yeah I put two of them next to each other, that was fun....

[Pecan]

I cant seem to find anything to do with small craft...

How about going everywhere, landing and returning?

I've just checked - the highest part-count vehicle in the whole of my tutorial would be 112 parts (interplanetary tractor medium with 4 x engine modules) plus whatever its payload is, at most a spacestation so another 104 parts; total 216. Apart from that tractor and the spacestation itself the highest part-count vehicle is the (4 person) crew shuttle spaceplane at 54 parts. Most of the rest are in the 30-part range but, eg; 30-parts launcher, 30-parts transfer vehicle, 30-parts payload).

So your 'small' spaceplane (360 parts) is almost 7 times the size of my 'big' ^^. How does your budget work!?

On the question of the thread though; I start to lag around 10 parts, because my machine has never met KSP minimum specifications anyway and I run quite a few mods.