Random hinge failure.

[boriz]

Plan: Build a heavy VTOL capable of recovering craft manually, rather than just clicking ‘recover’, which is very convenient but I’d like to roleplay the recovery.

Problem: The aircraft is coming together nicely, but I’m facing a bizarre intermittent issue that I can’t pin down. I’m using the large G-11 Hinge to articulate the engines on four nacelles. Sometimes they all work, sometimes one or more don’t, and there seems to be no pattern. I just took some screenshots, exited to desktop, loaded the game and tried the same thing again and got different results. What’s going on with these hinges? Is there a workaround?

The hinge I'm using:

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In situ:

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Before operating the hinges, which are all linked to action group 1:

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After operating the hinges, two failed:

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After exiting the game, and trying the exact same thing again, one failed. A different one:

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Edited 12 hours ago by boriz

[DennisB]

I can't imagine at a plane of that size, but the symptom is like, you wouldn't have enough power generation/EC storage to operate all of them at the same time.