Tazin Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 I had a 3 man capsule orbiting ike, with my A-team on it: jeb, bill and bob. They were stranded waiting for some fuel to get there, with loads of science from Duna and Ike. I warped about 100 days and launched a 4.5tn tank of fuel completely off the window, took me 3800ms to get a duna encounter. When i try to fine tune the encounter to see if i can get a rendezvous started, the capsue just isn't there anymore. All i can gather is that my three kerbonauts are KIA in the complex.1.- Is there any way i can find out what happened? 2.- Is there any way i can restore my vessel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachoftree Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 1. I have no idea2. reload a quick save if you have one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snark Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Maybe a stretch, but... They weren't orbiting really low (i.e. so low that running into a high mountain is a possibility), or anything like that, were they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoda Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 well its known bug that vessels can disappear, try to revert to old save (use save function of menu often so it wont be overwritten), other than that you cant do much.You could try to recreate ship in save file, but that would require a lot of precision, too much work and would probably be badly executed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belphegor Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 have you deleted debris in the tracking station? i've had it happen twice now that i terminate a piece of debris and something else gets deleted instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpy Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 BTW, if you detect something like this, and are reasonably sure this happened very recently (scarce minutes) ago, and didn't switch vessels or go to KSC, just quit the game through alt-F4, or whatever quick methods of quitting it without going to KSC you have, and restart. It will start from the latest autosave and the craft may still be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Ike encounter tossed 'em into deep space or into Duna's surface maybe? You need to be really darn careful with Ike when leaving a craft in Duna orbit for an extended period of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazin Posted August 21, 2015 Author Share Posted August 21, 2015 Is there a log of what happens to a ship? Or is everything deleted when the ship is destroyed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoda Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 log about ships is actually save file, so if you dont have save file that you can open you dont have either a log of your ship. also it is not crash so no log also even tho crash logs only WHY it crashed.short answer no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachoftree Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 If you make regular backups of your computer, you could restore your savefile from a time when it was still working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warzouz Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 One of my ship disappeared once. I opened a old save file, copies the vessel part and copied it in the actual save file. The ship was back and never went off again. No need to revert to a old file, just edit the current one. Don't forget backup though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlextheBodacious Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 same thing happened to venera niine. contact lost 25 km above surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FancyMouse Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Two reasons I had disappearing stuff1. Periapsis too low, and it legitimately disappeared.2. This one is debris only. Max persistent debris setting too small. I once set it to 25 according to some suggestions, and I found I didn't spawn any debris even if I meant to (I had many ships flying but no debris). Changing the value back to infinite solves the problem - apparently it seems this value might be interpreted as "debris can't be spawned when number of current ship+debris exceeds that value". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireblade274 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 (edited) I've had that happen to me before, only to realize its because I turned off the "lander" tab from the tracking station. Because of this, I couldn't even see my own ship (a lander) on the orbital view while I was controlling it still. Also made it hard when docking with things; I fixed it by making lander's visible again in the tracking stationMiss-read the post; if your peeps are dead yea i dont know whats going on (the above happens though) Edited August 23, 2015 by fireblade274 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admac Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I've had this happen to me a fair bit, I'm going to assume you get frequent crashed to desktop for memory overruns?About 10% of the time it crashed to desktop, it'll delete the active ship. I think it happens on certain types of scene changes I've lost a lot of pretty long missions to that specific breed of Kraken, and you can usually restore from a quick save and it's all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snark Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 This thread is well over two years old, and involves older versions of KSP. Presumably everyone in the original thread has long since found their answers and moved on. If you've got a technical problem or a gameplay question now, there's a good chance that it's for a completely different technical reason (since we're on a newer KSP with substantially changed code), which means it's unhelpful to post / ask about it here. Accordingly, locking this thread to prevent further confusion. If you've got a technical problem or gameplay question, please feel free to post a new thread of your own-- it's unhelpful to revive a years-dead one. Additionally: several posts have been pruned from this thread due to off-topic ranting, baseless accusations, and personal insults. Please remember that we're a friendly community of civil adults, here, and it's never okay to make personal insults. You're more than welcome to post your feedback about "I don't like this" or "I think that is wrong" or what-have-you (the KSP Discussion and Suggestions sub-forums are good for this), but please do so like a responsible adult, and stay civil. Thank you for your understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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