Keeping my stages tidy?

[maceemiller]

Hi all. So Im getting on with my Jool 5 challenge and have built my 3 landers. Im working on putting them on a tug yet when I place them where I want them the stages get all messed up. The picture shows my 3 landers on a platform (probably not what I will use but in testing phase at the moment) so my question is is there anyway I can keep my individual lander stages neat and tidy in their own little "spaces" or do I just have to use the [] keys to choose which lander I want when I want it?

I hope someone understands what im on about 

[Nicias]

I have given up on this problem. I just check my staging anytime I dock or undock anything staged.

[Spricigo]

16 minutes ago, Nicias said:

I have given up on this problem.

Same here...seems to be standard procedure.

designing the landers individually and latter joining it together seems to be slight less problematic, but still...

[maceemiller]

16 minutes ago, Nicias said:

I have given up on this problem. I just check my staging anytime I dock or undock anything staged.

I do the same...check after I undock.  It would be great if I could see "this landers stages and that landers stages" as separate entities whilst building though, not a mish-mash I have to get my head around. It's hard enough building these creations let alone decipher whats going on when X meets Y

2 minutes ago, Spricigo said:

Same here...seems to be standard procedure.

designing the landers individually and latter joining it together seems to be slight less problematic, but still...

That's what I've done..built 3 working and tested landers then stick them all together and I have no idea where to start untangling the mess I'm presented with!

[Spricigo]

22 minutes ago, maceemiller said:

That's what I've done..built 3 working and tested landers then stick them all together and I have no idea where to start untangling the mess I'm presented with!

 

Probably the kind of mess I imagined when writing "but still..." And slight less problematic was not supposed to mean acceptable at all.

[Reusables]

I've encountered a similar issue, and got a workaround by adding empty stages for other lander/tug before putting them together.

Probably stages on the same stage number get merged when merging two ships. Separate these stages by adding empty stages before merging in VAB/docking.

Edited April 21, 2017 by Reusables