This is how I drive

[RocketPilot573]

I noticed that the new wheels in .20 seem to cause rovers to shake uncontrollably. So I tried to "fix" them by messing with the config file. This was the result:

[Iren]

This is the most kerbal way I've seen for a rover to drive around XD

[SmallChange]

Yeah, I had one like that too.

Per KasperVld, it has to do with starting the craft with a physicsless part, such as a girder. Evidently it's a known bug.

Not a bad way to get around though!

[Shrike42]

Spider-rover, spider rover, does whatever a spider-rover does...

[rodion_herrera]

I launched another Eve Rover mission, but this time, instead of landing the Rover on Eve, I went to Gilly, and forgot about the superlight gravity...result...

Here is the lander tumbling end-over-end, with its "braking block". It almost never wanted to stop and settle...well, almost.

After I extended my PV's, it did somehow finally managed to settle down. If you take a good look in the distance, to the left of the rover, the "braking block" (now debris) also managed to settle on Gilly's surface on its own.

And here's a neat discovery I made. Even though I lacked RCS or SAS/ASAS, I still was able to somehow orient the rover by SPINNING THE WHEELS. Wow, does that mean Squad implemented gyroscopic effects? I should post a video of that.

...so after a few yaws, pitches and rolls with my new "rover wheel gyros", I tore off one of the PVs

Edited May 26, 2013 by rodion_herrera

[Tw1]

I think you broke something.

Looks like the edits you made caused the engineers to stick the side of the wheel to the axle, rather than the middle. Maybe you should fix that. If you don't want awesome bumper wheels.

[satcharna]

Congratulations, OP! You just won Kerbal!

[RocketPilot573]

I think you broke something.

Looks like the edits you made caused the engineers to stick the side of the wheel to the axle, rather than the middle. Maybe you should fix that. If you don't want awesome bumper wheels.

I thought I was changing the suspension! Not the way the wheel rotates. Those part files really need to be labeled more clearly.