Solar System Ideas!

Air

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Put your solar system or planet ideas here:

I think there should be more ocean planets because KSP's planets where just a bunch of rocks.

It would be cool if we could have a binary star system some time in the future. Players would have to get used to crazy gravity and wacky time zones.1761562040959.png
 
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Without n-body physics I wonder how a lot of the binary stuff would have to be coded in as an “exception” to the normal physics. It definitely would be cool, especially if you think long term for game mechanics. Permanent bases with electrical and and thermal management needs having to handle something like that P-type planet would be an interesting challenge.
 
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I think some ocean planets would be a fun addition- especially if players could choose which solar system they wanted to play in. (Real life system, water system, kitten-themed system, binary system, etc)

Players could land on a mostly liquid planet and deploy a submarine to explore the watery depths. If alien life is added, players could explore and study the fishes for science. Maybe even take a few back to their homeworld.
 
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I think some ocean planets would be a fun addition- especially if players could choose which solar system they wanted to play in. (Real life system, water system, kitten-themed system, binary system, etc)

Players could land on a mostly liquid planet and deploy a submarine to explore the watery depths. If alien life is added, players could explore and study the fishes for science. Maybe even take a few back to their homeworld.
This would be good, but I suspect the devs will leave much of it to modders; what you are saying sounds very much like a system editing mod like Kopernicus with lots of planet packs available.
 
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Oceanic worlds could definitely be interesting. Especially with all the water tech already laid out. You could have a really “stormy” one with big waves or one with some weird density that would permit very heavy vessels to float or the opposite.
 
I think some ocean planets would be a fun addition- especially if players could choose which solar system they wanted to play in. (Real life system, water system, kitten-themed system, binary system, etc)

Players could land on a mostly liquid planet and deploy a submarine to explore the watery depths. If alien life is added, players could explore and study the fishes for science. Maybe even take a few back to their homeworld.
Yes! There are no hycean planets in KSP, and barely any mods adding them.
 
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dumb planet idea: the entire thing is a giant neodynium magnet. it disrupts signals/communications on vehicles close to its surface or landed on it, and within 10m of the surface there is a motion-dampening effect and 100x gravity for any defenitely magnetic ferrous components.

best method to leave it is to add a "seperator" truss block under your lander to keep its engine and launcher stage far enough from the surface to not get stuck.
 
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