Can a rocket/plane be 'Cursed' ?

[Megadeath]

The other day, trying to put a fairly small mining vessel in orbit. The design was a very slight modification (recently unlocked gigantor solar panels, switched mk2 to mk1 lights, etc.) to a previous design that was fine, but without changing it I apparently broke the ascent stage. Got so sick of flipping I eventually turned it into a gigantic vertically launched plane, added moar boosters and success!

[Goddess Bhavani]

Yes, there are such things as cursed ships. Or haunted, or possessed by demonic entities. CoL and CoM setup just right, but acts totally and completely off, but to be fair it's because I was attempting to 'bluff' the game into ignoring aerodynamic parts by doing such things as using procedural fairings as cargo plane fuselages!

I've had possessed ships when I create a design that requires a very high part count or adds a metric ton of nods to the SPH/VAB display, especially when I continually take the office-building-sized thing apart to remedy structural defects (oh my) while continually using the Undo command when inevitably, I click something by accident that causes total disassembly of the vehicle or mutates it into a ten winged crooked monster of evil.

Sometimes I would not even detect the part symmetry errors until the first test flight, weeks later, and wonder why the CoM is far off the actual centerline of the craft. And further messing around with massive numbers of structural beams and struts inevitably causes the craft file itself to break!

In such a circumstance, I highly recommend exorcism as a cure - start afresh with a reference screenshot of the cursed model in hand, rebuild it with a careful hand and an eye to reduce part count and simplify (sub) assembly configuration, etc.

Two of my 'cursed' designs can be found in this obsolete showcase thread of obsolete aircraft with obsolete designs. Obsolete enough yet?

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/107690-Strategic-Bacon-Lifters-Obsolete-Planes-of-Pure-Pork-and-Utter-Crap

Edited May 28, 2015 by pandoras kitten