The KAL controller is broken

[Nazalassa]

According to the official KSP wiki,

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Controller priority does nothing if you only have one controller. Otherwise, they obey these undocumented rules:

• Paused controllers are ignored. An active low-priority controller will "win" over a paused high-priority controller.

• If two or more active controllers are controlling the same part, the highest-priority controller wins outright. Other controllers are ignored.

• If two active controllers have the same priority controlling the same part, their output is averaged.

It is important to not let your controllers become paused if you wish priority or averaging to occur.

However I made some tests. Here are the surprising results:

• Controller priority does nothing. If I try to change the priority of a controller, it's like it has never changed and nothing updates.
• The output is not averaged. If I change the play position of a controller, all fields it controls are changed to match the values they are on in the KAL's track editor, regardless of priority or other controllers having effect on the given field, even if they have higher priorities.

So, has ayone else got these problems? They're frustrating and if the wiki is wrong, that's been at least two years these informations are on it, and I'm very surprised they haven't been removed yet if they were wrong.

If this is a bug, could @SQUAD please give some informations about it? Thanks.

Edited October 14, 2022 by Nazalassa

[Gargamel]

As I don’t play with the controller much, I can’t say if you’re right or wrong here, but there’s a couple red flags in your theory.  
 

As you say, If it has been been broken for a few years, the wiki would have been updated most likely.    
 

Again if it was broken for that long, there would be some threads on it most likely.   Do a deep search on the topic to see if you get any hits.    
 

Anytime I’m doing something similar and I get results that don’t seem to be right, I always try to go back and double check my methods to make sure I’m not the cause of the error.     Double check your work to make sure you are, in fact, doing everything correctly.    Once you’ve ruled out user error, then there is probably a problem. 
 

And nobody really uses the SQUAD account much anymore.    Especially since the game has ceased development, its best to ask within the community first.