Better Asteroids (and ships)

[DiamondExcavater]

Asteroids are currently just ships with a lot of mass and ships are just a bunch of surfaces with mass, but i would love to see gravity added to these amazing beasts, even the smallest amount would seem more realistic! A bit of gravitational mass for the hard to reach space stations so it could draw you in if your smaller or visa versa (0.000054 gravitational force for example) as for asteroids, i have sent very small probes to land on some but they always slowly fall off no matter what u do, and hooks and anchors are way too heavy and big!

tell me what you think

ps. i know about a mod but it doesn't spawn the asteroids with gravity (its only asteroids any way)

[Anquietas314]

While this would be cool to see, I think adding gravity to ships and stations would be both nonsensical and a huge performance hit since you'd probably want it to be a per-part thing (so big heavy parts have more gravity than, say, a girder). For asteroids, all you really need to do is make them (a lot) bigger for the gravity to be worthwhile... though then you wouldn't really be able to move them (see Scott Manley's old video on why you can't deorbit Gilly - and its gravity is almost non-existent). I suppose bigger asteroids might be considered "planets"/"More interesting planetary surfaces" though, which are on the do not suggest list.

[Bill Phil]

In order for asteroids to have gravity, they must be on rails. Which would defeat the purpose.

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

In order for asteroids to have gravity, they must be on rails. Which would defeat the purpose.

Nope .

[Bill Phil]

Nope .

Hmm. Interesting. Although that's only when not time-warping. To have gravity during warp, it would need to be on rails.