salvage/debris

[Keon]

As in KSP doesn't simulate n-body stuff so you can't have Lagrange points. Gravity is between the spacecraft and one thing with gravity that would affect it most.

[fr0stbyte124]

Well that sucks.

Executive decision just now: we need Lagrange points as a big middle finger to KSP's lazy rocket science physics.

[Keon]

You can code the rocket science.

[joykler]

i suggested that and you where like meh...

[fr0stbyte124]

Celestial motion was always the plan. Since the beginning.

[joykler]

but the lagrange points

[Keon]

Celestial motion was always the plan. Since the beginning.

It still requires time warp.

[fr0stbyte124]

Just because it would be relatively slow at the scale we have doesn't mean its not worth doing. I'll need to do some back of the envelope math to double-check this will all work for our values, but I think it should be fine.

@joykler
You suggested Lagrange points? I don't think I ever saw that post.

[Keon]

Just because it would be relatively slow at the scale we have doesn't mean its not worth doing. I'll need to do some back of the envelope math to double-check this will all work for our values, but I think it should be fine.

@joykler
You suggested Lagrange points? I don't think I ever saw that post.

No no no. These are minecrafters! You can't seriously ask them to do orbital dynamics! Maybe have planets move slowly if you must.

[fr0stbyte124]

Nah, we can let the engine calculate where they would be and make them targetable waypoints. Once there the velocity required to match that frame of reference is constant, so you could become stationary without any additional programming.

[Professor Fenway]

Remember my old Derelict idea? Some ships may be merely disabled, not destroyed. These destroyed ships would drift, and are generally easy to find after a battle. You find it, repair some stuff (After exploring the super-creepy ship with creepy atmosphere to find what needs fixing) and then tow it home. They cannot be damaged from inside, since the ship's destabilized electronics/reactors causes an intense EMP effect around it. Power arcs from conduits, haywire defenses, doors opening and closing randomly/not functional, etc. Fun and easy to do too. Just take the damages, add EMP effect, power arcs, and randomize door states (making sure there is a path that a person can go through to the reactor/things needing fixing) and you're done.

[Chairman_Tiel]

I like that. It's sorta like buying a haunted mansion from your mexican friend. Always good fun.

[Instinct-XIV]

Great idea. Makes me think of dead space, just don't add space aliens inside.

[Prototype]

Space aliens, no
Necromorphs however...

[Instinct-XIV]

Space aliens, no
Necromorphs however...

Don't even think about it.