DSN stations are pretty explosive

[GeneCash]

So this weekend I got bored and visited the Kerbin DSN stations... the huge ones that are just a dish on a cylindrical base.

Turns out if you're on one (or even touching) and you switch to map mode... KABOOM! your plane/rover and/or Kerbal explodes and you get a message like "Jeb Kerman collided with Base01"

I reloaded the save and rolled the rover off, but because of the slope of the hill, it rolled back so it touched the cylindrical base and that was enough to make it explode on switching to map mode.

Is this a bug or a "supposed to do that"? I didn't have any mods except MechJeb, which I used so I could fly to the coordinates in an old forum post.

[bewing]

Nope, that's a bug all right. If you write it up, please post the bugtracker number here for me.

 

 

[klesh]

I'd give this a test via spawning a kerbal near them via the mission builder, but I have no idea where they are and just scrolling around aint gonna work.  The best I can find is this post, but the coordinates aren't the same the mission builder wants.

 

 

 

[GeneCash]

11 hours ago, klesh said:

the coordinates aren't the same the mission builder wants

Yeah, it wants decimalized degrees, which is the same thing HyperEdit wants, and you can find a handy converter at http://www.onlineconversion.com/map_decimaldegrees.htm - you can paste "9° 27' 0" N" and it'll come back with "9.45"

Darn it, you made me have to figure out the mission builder, enough to spawn a vehicle myself!

So... I did so, and spawned Jeb in a Mk1 capsule. It spawned in the actual dish. I EVAed Jeb so he was hanging outside, switched to map, switched back, and the capsule exploded. Jeb fell through the dish and ragdolled on the base. I stood him up and switched to map and back, and boom, puff of Kerbal dust. I'll log a bug.

That's the same post I used, and a couple are slightly off. For reference, they're at:

Location	Latitude	Longitude	Latitude (decimal)	Longitude (decimal)
Crater Rim tracking station (on top of a precarious mountain)	9° 27' 0" N	172° 6' 37" W	9.4500	-172.1103
Harvester Massif tracking station (on a green hilltop)	11° 57' 0" S	33° 44' 25" E	-11.9500	33.7403
Nye Island tracking station	5° 21' 35" N	108° 32' 59" E	5.3597	108.5497
North Station One tracking station (partially buried in the mountain)	63° 5' 42" N	90° 4' 47" W	63.0950	-90.0797
Mesa South tracking station (on top of one hell of a mountain)	59° 35' 24" S	25° 52' 11" W	-59.5900	-25.8697

[GeneCash]

12 hours ago, bewing said:

please post the bugtracker number here for me

Filed bug #18500

https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/18500

Thanks!