Fly Closer

The problem with Fly Closer To Planets in Cruise Mode is it changes the fCruisePlanetandMoonAccelerationMult game setting from 80k to 10k. This setting decreases Cruise Speed when in orbit, which then drastically increases Cruise mode travel time as it takes much longer to get out of orbit.

It's almost double the amount of time to Cruise with that setting set to 10k. For example, Cruising from Jemison to Gagarin in vanilla is about 1 minute. With Fly Closer To Planets it's 2 minutes.

This mod allows you to fly closer to planets and stars without changing Cruise travel time/ speed.

The two setting changes:

• []fMinimumCelestialOrbitRadiusMultiplierCruise from 1. 5 to 1. 1 (the other mod set this to 1. 05, 1. 1 still looks and feels very close to the planet surface)[/]

  []fMinimumOrbitalDistancefromStarKM from 100,000,000 to 1,000,000 (the other mod set this to 75,000 which felt unrealistically close to stars)[/]

  Additional Info

  The only reason I am posting this as a separate mod instead of on my Patch Hub is to share this info with others. It's hard to know what mods are doing internally, so when findings like this are discovered I share them as separate mods. Like my NPC Height Variation Toolkit - Free Lanes Compatibility Patch.

  Works great with Seamless Planet Takeoffs SFSE

  Credit

  Thank you to Shakes, a user in the Novafield Discord, for reporting and testing that something was drastically slowing Cruise travel time compared to vanilla. I was able to narrow it down to Fly Closer to Planets in Cruise Mode.