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[prullenbak]

Hey everyone

After a very long trip all the way to the Jool system, Cthulhu has knocked one of the nuclear engines off my lander. This prevents me from going full throttle to slow my descent.

If I use 'Disable Flow' on the fuel tanks above the nuclear engines it disables all of them, and the Poodle engine in the middle is not enough to slow my descent by itself.

I've also tried smashing Kerbals into the engine I want to disable, hopefully knocking off the engine so that it's balanced again. Cruel, but neccesary I thought. This destroys either the entire ship or does nothing at all, watching the guy bounce off until he regains consciousness.

So, yeah is there any way to fix this? Maybe editing the savefile to destroy the other nuclear engine?

Here's a picture of my lander.

http://imgur.com/xNU0I

Look at my Kerbals, they're all panicking because the thing cannot land like this.

Edited October 2, 2012 by prullenbak

[sal_vager]

Actually prullenbak, there is something you can do, first back up your persistence file as it's going to take some surgery.....

With your persistence file safely backed up, load up your craft in the VAB and remove everything below the lander but don't save the ship, now hit launch.

With just the lander on the pad, exit to the space center and open your persistence file (not with wordpad, never with wordpad (you remembered to back it up yes?))

You'll have two near identical craft here, one in space and one on the pad, what you need to do is find the one that is at prelaunch and copy everything from just below the command pod all the way down to the last engine.

It'll look something like this.

Make a note of how much fuel your orbiting lander has in each tank then paste this info over the top of the info of the orbiting craft, edit the fuel levels to match what you have used.

Now, if all has gone perfectly, when you go to the tracking station and back to your orbiting lander it'll be in one piece, ready for landing

Edited October 2, 2012 by sal_vager

[PakledHostage]

I can't see the image you posted (it shows as a broken link on my computer), but why not try to limp home to Kerbin if you can? Live to fly another day...