Rover Question

[funkcanna]

Hi All,

Ive never really played around with Rovers much but I've started a Hard career game so want to send a rover to the Mun to find a good landing place for a base without murdering Kerbals! Anyway I've made a simple Rover but when I test it on the Runway it drives in reverse by itself. I.e. without any keyboard input, it just reverses. Brakes do not even stop it. ITs basically just a frame with wheels!

Any ideas, I've attached a pic.

[Shpaget]

Most likely your trim is set to non zero.

Alt + X should clear that up.

[funkcanna]

Hey, didn't even know about trim! However Ive tried resetting with Alt+x but no change, the thing just likes to reverse!

[funkcanna]

Also, the arrows for Roll, Yaw and Pitch are all centred so pretty sure its not trim. This is happening with all rovers I try to make but rockets handle perfectly (i.e. they don't move by themselves!)

EDIT: This is also happening with the Stock Rover which I loaded up in the VAB indicating this is a fault and not something I'm doing wrong! Maybe someone can move this thread to the support forum?

Edited May 9, 2015 by funkcanna

[TopGull]

Are you playing with a joystick? I had a similar problem several months ago with my rovers. It turned out that the throttle on my joystick was mapped to the wheel speed, and 0% throttle was actually full reverse.

[FancyMouse]

don't assume your land is flat, even runway.

pressing B is like F for SAS - you'll need to click the brake indicator at the top to persist brake.

Are you saying it is not braking even your brake indicator is always on?

[Beowolf]

It's a bug in 1.0.2. There's a community bugfix plugin here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/97285-KSP-v1-0-2-Stock-Bug-Fix-Modules-%28Release-v1-0-2c-2-9-May-15%29-now-includes-Stock-Plus

Even after the fix, I find the brakes don't hold well until after the wheel motors have started. In other words, landing with the brakes on doesn't work, but once I command the rover to move, then the brakes will have a proper grip. Weird, but as long as there's a circumvention I'll cope.

Edited May 11, 2015 by Beowolf