Spontaneous Combustion

[Omaha]

Here's a video of my experience.  I've edited out the loading screens, making it appear extremely snappy.  For some reason the ship seems to be floating when it loads.  That doesn't always happen, but the destruction is consistent.

Last night I tried landing the second ship nearby.  I actually managed to land 200m down range from this ship.  It looked fine from that viewpoint. But as soon as I switch to it (via [ or ]) it self destructs.  Also, if I go back to KSC and then try to switch back to either landed ship, it explodes.  I believe the only way I'm getting these ships home is via the debug menu and disabling collisions.  The lesson learned:  Gilly is fun to visit, but don't spend the night.

 

[Omaha]

On 11/30/2017 at 7:04 PM, katateochi said:

My work around has been to open the debug menu and switch on unbreakable joints and no crash damage before switching to the base, wait for it to load and physics to kick in and then switch those options off again.

I've tried this but the ship is still thrown violently into the air at load.  Luckily the gravity on Gilly is so low that there is plenty of time to stop the spinning and correct the attitude, but for a station I could see it being just as fatal as a spontaneous detonation.  I think my only solution is to do this to safely reactivate the ships and then put them back into orbit before exiting.