Why is my ship not obeing to me!

[Cant think of a username]

I have just launch a test rocket into a really oval oval orbit around kerbin. After a few days, I came back and tried to fire the engine at the ap to reenter earth. But my ship just won't do anything and it wouldn't allow me to turn off sas! What is going on?

[Spricigo]

1st guess: no electricity 

2nd:  no signal.

3rd guess requires a picture. 

[jimmymcgoochie]

Probably out of power. Unless you put solar panels on it, the probe core will gradually use power even in 'hibernate' mode and the batteries will run down. Nothing you can really do about it except either turn on the 'infinite electricity' cheat or destroy the rocket in the tracking station.

[Cant think of a username]

8 hours ago, jimmymcgoochie said:

Probably out of power. Unless you put solar panels on it, the probe core will gradually use power even in 'hibernate' mode and the batteries will run down. Nothing you can really do about it except either turn on the 'infinite electricity' cheat or destroy the rocket in the tracking station.

I have crew aboard

[AHHans]

3 hours ago, Cant think of a username said:

I have crew aboard

Is there a pilot on board and in a command pod, or "only" scientists and engineers?

Also, if you ran out of electricity then the reaction wheels (e.g. the RWs in the command pod(s)) cannot turn the craft anymore. So the craft won't move when you try to turn it. (Hmmm... but switching SAS state should work with a Kerbal in control.)

[king of nowhere]

sometimes i had a bug where a ship would not obey commands. it fixed by saving and reloading.

[Cant think of a username]

16 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

sometimes i had a bug where a ship would not obey commands. it fixed by saving and reloading.

Thanks for the tip.

 

18 hours ago, AHHans said:

Is there a pilot on board and in a command pod, or "only" scientists and engineers?

Also, if you ran out of electricity then the reaction wheels (e.g. the RWs in the command pod(s)) cannot turn the craft anymore. So the craft won't move when you try to turn it. (Hmmm... but switching SAS state should work with a Kerbal in control.)

I had a pilot (jeb) aboard. And I had plenty of electricity left.

[AHHans]

On 6/8/2020 at 1:35 AM, king of nowhere said:

sometimes i had a bug where a ship would not obey commands. it fixed by saving and reloading.

Ah, yes.

Sometimes there is a bug, in which the game doesn't accept any "normal" input. Saving and reloading fixes that, but also opening the cheat menu (<R-Shift> - <F12> on Linux, AFAIK <Alt> - <F12> on Windows) and selecting "clear all input locks" can usually fix this.

[Cant think of a username]

On 6/9/2020 at 11:55 AM, AHHans said:

but also opening the cheat menu (<R-Shift> - <F12> on Linux, AFAIK <Alt> - <F12> on Windows) and selecting "clear all input locks" can usually fix this.

Ah Yes. The good old cheat menu. That's how I got my ship home after it stopped obeying me.

[AHHans]

27 minutes ago, Cant think of a username said:

Ah Yes. The good old cheat menu.

Well, yes. But in this case it's more like a debug menu. Unlocking inputs that shouldn't be locked in the first place isn't really cheating.

[Cant think of a username]

26 minutes ago, AHHans said:

Well, yes. But in this case it's more like a debug menu. Unlocking inputs that shouldn't be locked in the first place isn't really cheating.

Yea Right.  but there is an old saying from my other game: "Cheats help more than thinking"