outpost icon to vessel naming

[vv3k70r]

There is a lot of missions in career about building outpost.

Can there be added icon for marking outpost/colony?

[Caerfinon]

There is the Ground base icon, which you can select when you rename your vessel.  

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/File:IconBase.png

[vv3k70r]

Thank You - I missed this one.

[vv3k70r]

Could You explain naming priority?

I docked rockets, rovers and base together (refueling, filling mission by number of Kerbals and power) and after undocking they didnt get own names back (and icons). And because I run lot of missions altogether it is quite an issue to find who iwho and what is pourpose of vehicle in almost same place in tracking center.

Worst - one dock consider not to be docked and would not relieve one of rockets.

[Caerfinon]

When several vessels are docked together the name of the total vessel changes to the highest priority name. (Example several ships docked to a station) when a vessel undocks it's name returns to the original value set in in the naming priority fields

A more detailed explanation is here;

 

 

 

[vv3k70r]

40 minutes ago, Caerfinon said:

(Example several ships docked to a station) when a vessel undocks it's name returns to the original value set in in the naming priority fields

If I dock everything to one vessel it works that way. But when I dock chain of already docked units something else happen.

I have this issue only on the ground where one vessel is towing enother to already conected vessels. Two basic vessels now do not consider to disconect both docks dosent have undock option. And name of rocket connected to tractor changed to tractor after disconecting. Personaly I blame daKraken, but I think it hase something to do witch hierarchy on priority. I just spend some time renaming them back.

Is there any trick to undock docks that forgot they conecting separate vessels? I changed they docking force to zero, but it didnt help.

Edited November 19, 2020 by vv3k70r

[Caerfinon]

I've never really encountered that situation you describe.

I usually set the priority of the vessel I want to be the primary name to 20

For other ships that connect to it I typically make the priority 10

For craft that might be attached already to one of the other ships I make the priority 5 

For undocking I usually us a mod called The Undockinator;

 

[vv3k70r]

1 hour ago, Caerfinon said:

I've never really encountered that situation you describe.

It looks like this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2291936900

[Caerfinon]

That may be related to a bug with Docking Port Jr.  see: https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/24435

I hardly ever use the Docking Port Jr pieces for anything I build so perhaps this explains why I haven't  seen it happen to me. 

[vv3k70r]

In career I do not have any better docking ports for now. Nor expecting to have soon. So da bug - I send another mission to take this load of fuel and Kerbals.

[Serenity]

7 hours ago, vv3k70r said:

In career I do not have any better docking ports for now. Nor expecting to have soon. So da bug - I send another mission to take this load of fuel and Kerbals.

There was a neat program that easily helped you fix all these stuff with docking ports with just one button.

Its a bit outdated but it should/hopefully still work.

You can also manually fix it in persistence file but you should google that, i don't remember exactly what lines you need to fix.

And of course always backup before you try anything.

 

 

[vv3k70r]

10 hours ago, Boyster said:

You can also manually fix it in persistence

I did, it didnt help (I changed state od docking port to same as all other undocked). I think its occured when I acomplish mission of building outpost (by docking them), since then it is considered as one vessel.

I can live with that - technology sometimes dosent work, I blame part manufacturer.

Edited November 20, 2020 by vv3k70r