Question.

[Hank]

Okay so theoretically IF i perhaps put a bunch of moons and asteroids in mars's orbit (19 currently, there's gonna be way more soon.) How HARD would it be to land on mars?


Some asteroids and moons vary
Moons: 1000-1500
Major asteroids 100-500
Small asteroids 5-50
(In meters)

 

[Darthan]

By 'Mars orbit' do you mean orbiting Mars, or the same orbit as Mars? Also are those dimensions 'scaled to Normal' or actual size. My guess is actual size, otherwise the Moons would be bigger than Mars! It probably depends on how many of them are Moon sized. If in orbit around Mars, Moon-sized satellites could help a little by providing gravity assists, if there are not too many of them. If they ate in Mars orbit they could get in the way of a Mars transfer orbit if the are any the are close to Mars - so make Mars landings harder.

 

[Hank]

By 'Mars orbit' do you mean orbiting Mars, or the same orbit as Mars? Also are those dimensions 'scaled to Normal' or actual size. My guess is actual size, otherwise the Moons would be bigger than Mars! It probably depends on how many of them are Moon sized. If in orbit around Mars, Moon-sized satellites could help a little by providing gravity assists, if there are not too many of them. If they ate in Mars orbit they could get in the way of a Mars transfer orbit if the are any the are close to Mars - so make Mars landings harder.

I mean orbiting mars, and there's like 28-30 moons and asteroids.

 

[Darthan]

You could try it and see? You could test it with minimum detail first to see how it affects landings before spending time creating all the planet pack details.

 

[Hank]

You could try it and see? You could test it with minimum detail first to see how it affects landings before spending time creating all the planet pack details.

Uh, okay ig?

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Okay so theoretically IF i perhaps put a bunch of moons and asteroids in mars's orbit (19 currently, there's gonna be way more soon.) How HARD would it be to land on mars?


Some asteroids and moons vary
Moons: 1000-1500
Major asteroids 100-500
Small asteroids 5-50
(In meters)

From a realistic standpoint this would be impossible, as the mass of the stuff orbiting Mars would reach and/or surpass Mars. This would tear the entire system apart gravitationally.

From a game standpoint, just 10 moon-sized objects should make it hard enough. Transfers to the Martian moons from LMO would be a severe pain in the ass (from all the encounters with the moons) and landings would be a pain because you would have no idea how to deorbit, while not entering the SOI of a moon. All the gravity assists from the objects would not make this nicer, but if they were massive enough, they could be used to capture or escape the Mars system.

Just my thoughts.