almisami

Fiddled with it like you said, found out the top node needs to have a direct connection towards the ''prime'' part. Why it does that, I have no idea. Thanks.

Here is another screencap that demonstrated how the micronode has the same behaviour.

I meant something along the lines of

Shoving a big chunk of Iron into the sun would cause a massive solar flare that would roast earth like a BBQ. Taking this up to 11 on paper would cause the star to go off main sequence in about 30'000 years and destroy the solar system. Technically speaking, it would be much more easy to kill humanity using nuclear weapons or by shifting the moon just enough to cause the tides to destroy every major city. Theory-wise, if someone could drop a 4 megaton thermonuclear device into the lower mantle (or into one of the supervolcanos' chambers like Yellowstone at the very least) and fire it, we'd have massive volcano eruptions which would coat the world in ash and usher in a new ice age. Nudging a comet to crash into the earth isn't such a far-fetched idea either...

So here I was trying to mount a Rockomax HubMax multi-point connector when I realized it doesn't want to be placed unless it's connected vertically (or horizontally in the spaceplane hangar) with whatever my ''prime'' part is. Has anyone found a workaround to this besides assembling my ship in orbit, because I'm getting tired of having to use eight geriatric clap-o-trons on my cubic ships to make them not tear apart past 1/4 throttle. Also, is this a bug, or a ''feature'' designed so we can't launch half-built space stations? EDIT: Found a workaround, although this should probably be filed under as a bug report as soon as I can figure out what or how its actually behaving. As rodion made me work out, the ''top'' of the node needs to be facing the ''prime'' part of the rocket.