New Planets

[PootDispenseHimHere]

So on the news today we found out that nasa had discovered not just one but 7 new planets. Since this happened I wanted to know if you guys out there at squad are going to add these planets to the game. I do know that we will not have these immediatelly and if you guys do add these new planets it wont be for a long time and that we will have to wait for several months or even a year depending on how big these new planets are. I do also know that the planets in real life have not been named yet so if you do decide to add them they need to be named after they are named in real life. I hope someone from squad can respond and can see what this will be like if you decide to add them.

[Chibbity]

KSP has it's own solar system.

Why would they add more planets based on something that happened IRL?

The KSP solar system isn't based on Earth's or any real, existing SS, the fact that Kerbin has two moons is evidence of that.

[Drewskii]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

KSP has it's own solar system.

Why would they add more planets based on something that happened IRL?

The KSP solar system isn't based on Earth's or any real, existing SS, the fact that Kerbin has two moons is evidence of that.

The Kerbal System is actually based off the Solar System. Squad only wanted to put a little twist on it by changing the color of Jool and adding Minmus. Why do you think they changed astronauts to Kerbonaughts? They wanted to make the game based on RL but add a small twist on it.

[OneMuskyOx]

Moho, Eve, Kerbin, Duna, Dres, Jool, and Eeloo are fairly analogous to Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, a combo of Saturn/Jupiter, and Pluto respectively.

They are not all identical, mind you. While Moho's pretty damn similar to Mercury, Venus doesn't have liquid oceans and its gravitational pull is slightly less than ours. Eve's greater mass than Kerbin is different, as well as its moon Gilly. Kerbin is like Earth (duh, habitable planet with large moon). Earth even has a second "mini" moon, though its relation is complicated.

Dres is a fatter Ceres, Duna is obviously Mars, though Ike is different; Mars doesn't have much for moons. Jool is much like Jupiter, having several rocky bodied moons and and a couple of ice balls. Laythe REALLY stands out, though it would not be farfetched to affiliate Laythe with Titan. Titan has no Oxygen, obviously.

Eeloo lacks moons, though it is VERY NOT OBVIOUSLY implied it's pretty much Pluto:

"There’s been a considerable amount of controversy status of Eeloo as being a proper planet or just a lump of ice going around the sun. The debate is still ongoing, as most academic summits held to address the issue have devolved into, on good days, petty name calling, and on worse ones, all-out brawls."

(Thanks a lot, Neil Degrasse Tyson)

Long story short, The Kerbol System's pretty much a zany Solar System, and its moonscapes really stand out. The Solar System doesn't have such interesting moons like Minmus, Laythe, and Tylo

[Purplefairy22]

Moho is also the name for the boundary between the Earths crust and the mantle.

[AlexMBrennan]

We currently know of more than 500 solar systems, of which 1x is represented in KSP game so I don't think that they'll get around to adding the 7 newest discoveries for quite some time.

[Zorlond]

Of course, for any practical exploration of a second solar system within KSP, it'd need a usable FTL engine, unless people really want to spend multiple game-decades of travel. Yeah, there's at least one mod out there that can do FTL, but Squad would have to adopt it into the base game first.

[OneMuskyOx]

Originally posted by Purplefairy22:

Moho is also the name for the boundary between the Earths crust and the mantle.

Eve is also a biblical woman. That being said, I wasn't actually aware of the geological terminology until I looked up Moho.

[OneMuskyOx]

Originally posted by Zorlond:

Of course, for any practical exploration of a second solar system within KSP, it'd need a usable FTL engine, unless people really want to spend multiple game-decades of travel. Yeah, there's at least one mod out there that can do FTL, but Squad would have to adopt it into the base game first.

Not to mention KSP loses its ♥♥♥♥ when forced to do math outside of Kerbol's SOI

[tunamansquare]

think about it can you put kerbin in orbit of jool with the moon orbiting kerbin? (using hyperedit of course) so you have a object orbiting an object orbiting an object if it works using a mod why not include extra solar systems tho there needs to be a faster time warp setting and huge antenae

[Zorlond]

Fair point, that. You'd need a 'galactic center' to take over the Infinite SOI that Kerbol currently has, then just make Kerbol have some suitably massive but finite SOI, and do the same with the new star.

Just spitballing here, dunno if the engine could handle that.

[PootDispenseHimHere]

Thanks this is useful information I knew that the games solar system was based on ours. The thing that I was thinking though was more of sinc 3 of them are alot like Earth or Kerbin I thought that they might add a new feature with newer rocket designs or high level research that you can only get for exploring every planent and gathering science data to combine into one powerful final rocket to launch of into a new solar system. I know that thats not very realistic I just thougt that it would be cool to go to a new solar system with stuff like ice, water, lava, and other planets. Or make a new type of structure that we can launch to other planets that can rebuild rocket ships. There are a couple of mods out there that do that but a launchable building that needs resource from those planets or moon would be a pretty good feature. So say you got to the edge of the solar system. Instead of like normal having all the UI functions glitch out have the map expand outward more and show the other galaxies we know. One other thing that I thought would be cool to see would be stars that we can harvest energy and hydrogen/fuel from. You all were very helpful thank you again.

[Docsprock]

Proxima Centauri even has at least one planet in its habitable zone. There are several others that are 'close by' too.

Squad would need to rebuild the Kerbol system to be a galactic quadrant in order to accommodate new star systems. Might be the basis for a KSP2?

[drwily2000]

I'm reading it the other way. We've got a star with seven confirmed exoplanets, right? Somebody please tell me the IAU is going to name the third planet Kerbin.
Maybe the "guys" from Squad know something that we don't? 395 light years is a ways away, but kerbals don't seem to require any sort of life support, and we don't know how long they live, do we?

[maj.solo]

we are missing some gas giants and some planetoids.

[Hitori]

Actually i believe your missinformed, these 7 planets you are talking about is most likely the 7 earth sized ones that NASA found in a specific solarsystem far away.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/new-solar-system-found-have-7-earth-size-planets

To reach those in KSP would require a advanced warp drive far beyond the one that NASA currently is trying to develop.

We already know our own solarsystem quite well, as far as i can tell the 3 latest planets to be found in our solarsystem is Pluto (that they say is not a planet), the second moon of the earth, and the 9'th planet that have not been located yet, they currently suspect it exist because of calculations that have been made, and if they do locate it, it's orbit is so far out that it's orbital year is over 10000 years (that is a 5000 years long summer/winter).

So all the accounted for planets are currently in the game (including the extra moon). :P