OK, what's with this "cannot activate while stowed" stupidity?

[steve_v]

Right, so I build an apollo style Mun mission, get to Mun and discover my lander engines won't fire because they're "stowed"? Hello, no bloody fairing anymore.

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This is ridiculous. Do I really have to hack my save file every time I put an engine in a fairing? Who came up with this idiocy?

Can we please get rid of this? It's dumb, and there's no logical reason for it. Even if it worked correctly, which it doesn't, why can't I fire an engine in a fairing if I want to?

[/rant]

Ok so I'm having a bad day, not helped by the idiotic new docking controls. But this "feature" is just plain stupid.

Granted I probably should have put a decoupler on top of said fairing base, but hang on, they HAVE a decoupler already (or at least they decouple where wanted) What Gives?

All in all, stock fairings appear to be inferior to every singe fairing mod ever created. Is there actually a way to do build an interstage without encountering this issue?

On the topic of fairings, why the **** can I not strut from a fairing base? you know, the logical way to support the stack? If fairings actually reinforced the joint properly, that would be fine. But they don't.

Edited June 2, 2015 by steve_v

[Fun1k]

This isn't just Linux issue. It annoys me on Windows too. Quicksave and quickload usually gets it to work though.

[steve_v]

Yeah, limited options for the title. Would have picked "Support - all platforms" if available.

Or better yet, "Support - Yet another rage inducing brand new bug."

Edited June 2, 2015 by steve_v

[John FX]

For some reasons you have stated and some of my own I have decided to just stick with procedural fairings.

They autostrut your payload, split off in a better looking way, look better on the craft, are smoother (therefore better during transonics) for those of us who use Nu-FAR etc etc

As far as the issue with being stowed, that is an issue with linux, PC, OsX. Stock fairings and procedural fairings.

It will be a fine day when that bug is gone.

[basic.syntax]

You are stuck with engines inside a stock fairing being disabled, by design.

Stock fairings don't make solid interstage fairings, because they don't make a top node.

While you can't strut FROM the fairing base, I have strutted TO the fairing base, and strut links seem to stick there. (Engine nozzles work the same way.)

[steve_v]

Which means the struts add mass and considerable drag to the upper stage, rather than staying with the jettisoned parts. Naf.