Rover wheels won't work on Eve when they did on Kerbin.

[Vee]

So I have a remote controlled rover on Eve. The brakes are not on, and I can control it, but I can't get the wheels to spin. It worked perfectly on kerbin. Any ideas?

Edited July 1, 2020 by Vee

[king of nowhere]

maybe in eve gravity the rover is too heavy for the wheels? i had a similar issue, with a rover tested on kerbin that worked perfectly on lower gravity worlds.

[bewing]

Sometimes the brakes lock up even if the "brake" light is not turned on. Try turning the brakes on and then off again and see what happens.

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

Do you have power? Are the wheel motors switched on? Do you have a CommNet connection (if using CommNet)? Is the control point facing the right way? (Control point facing up has scuppered a few of my rovers over time)

Eve has high gravity compared to Kerbin so rovers will struggle more. Try letting the rover roll without brakes and if it still doesn’t move then either a brake is stuck on or you have a physics glitch. Try switching to another craft and then back, rebooting the game/your PC and if all else fails just launch a second rover, make sure it works on Kerbin and then cheat it to the same location on Eve (a stock function in 1.9/1.10, for earlier versions you’ll need a mod like hyperedit)- if that one also doesn’t work then it’s a design issue but if it does, the first rover is glitched and should be written off.

[Vee]

5 hours ago, jimmymcgoochie said:

Do you have power? Are the wheel motors switched on? Do you have a CommNet connection (if using CommNet)? Is the control point facing the right way? (Control point facing up has scuppered a few of my rovers over time)

Eve has high gravity compared to Kerbin so rovers will struggle more. Try letting the rover roll without brakes and if it still doesn’t move then either a brake is stuck on or you have a physics glitch. Try switching to another craft and then back, rebooting the game/your PC and if all else fails just launch a second rover, make sure it works on Kerbin and then cheat it to the same location on Eve (a stock function in 1.9/1.10, for earlier versions you’ll need a mod like hyperedit)- if that one also doesn’t work then it’s a design issue but if it does, the first rover is glitched and should be written off.

Yes to everything except the control point thing, but I doubt that an issue. I'm thinking it might be the gravity.

[Geonovast]

Are they broken?  Eve's gravity can easily break the wheels if you don't have enough of them.