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SkyRender

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So I take it my experience with ASAS is abnormal in that it only overcompensates on me very occasionally? Or am I one of the few who knows to turn off gimballing for side engines? Seriously, that tames the ASAS to a huge degree.

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Flixxbeatz

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I once strapped an ASAS into a multi-winged atmospheric aircraft before. It didn't end well...

ASAS: I CAN WING THIS!

*switches on*

ASAS: HAHA! JUST KIDDING! *proceeds to spaz the control surfaces, making the aircaft nose-down*

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Piggius_Max

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This player is attempting to dock at a space station. To assist, I must put full thrust in every possible f@#$ing direction to ensure maximum stability.

Try making sure the RCS is equal distances above and below THAT stage's centre of mass. Then all should be fine for the majority of these RCS problems.

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SkyRender

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For truly wild oscillations via ASAS, you really need to set your rocket up to be highly impractical. We're talking extremely tall and with huge branches sticking out of it at the top. Watch as your rocket-tree oscillates like it's trying to swing a hula hoop. Great fun. For added challenge, see if you can't actually get it into orbit too.

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ASAS: What a nice day! We're flying a manual ascent so I'm not needed...

Me: OK...time to switch on ASAS...

ASAS: What?

Me: I SAID Switch on ASAS.

ASAS: Oh, OK... WIBBLE WOBBLE LEFT RIGHT UP DOWN GOT TO FLIP HELL YEAH GANGNAM STYLE UP RIGHT UP DOWN LEFT UP DOWN WOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!

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tom1499

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Station One ASAS: Station attitude nominal.

Shuttle ASAS: Shuttle attitude nominal, making final docking corrections.

Mission Control: Congratulations, capture and hard dock!

Shuttle ASAS: Correcting attitude:<UP>

Station ASAS: Correcting Attitude:<DOWN>

Shuttle ASAS: Correcting attitude:<UP>

*UP*

*DOWN*

*UP*

*DOWN*

*UPDOWNUP*

*UODWNUPWONDWIANDWADHWAUBBQUPDOWNLEFTRIGHTINFINITYWHATISHAPPENINGJDIWADJHUHFRUIQAGRFOIQEW*

*UPDOWNROLLDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE*

<>:/WARNING STATION SHAKING APART <>:/WARNINGWARNIGNWATNIEGNISNFIDDDDDDDDDDDISSSSSSSSSSSCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOO

*boom*

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Rage097

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Me: okay let's point the station north.

ASAS: South.

Me: ...North

ASAS: south.

Me: NORTH RCS on!

ASAS: meh, fine.

Later

Me: preparing to dock new vessle to station, pointing north.

ASAS: Okay, fine.

Me: almost docked...There!

ASAS: OHGOD WHYWOULDYOUDOTHIS NOSTOPAHHHAGGAGHSGHHGHAG WHYYMEEEEEEE!? UPNODOWNLEFTCIRCULSUNTOTHESUNNO! NORTHSOUTHSOUTHMYGODITSFULLOFSTARS!

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leopardenthusiast

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Me: Alright, ASAS, I'm going to turn the RCS on. It's balanced perfectly, with absolutely no rotational control, and you're the only ASAS in orbit right now. We'll be docking to a station.

ASAS: Sure! I can handle that!

Me: Alright, ASAS, I'm going to turn the RCS on. This is a perfectly-balanced station module, which means that it has RCS at each end. Be VERY gentle, or it'll spin out of control.

ASAS: Uhh... I don't think that's such a good ideAAAAAAAGHGH YAWPITCHROLLROLLROLLROLLROLLPITCHYAWROLLROLLROLLROLLROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me: damnit, ASAS...

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Ekku Zakku

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I've got another one, happened SO many times that I eventually made a habit of resetting the ASAS whenever I stage (hitting the spacebar and F at the same time):

Me: "Ah, dead straight ascent with ASAS on, I should end up in a perfectly equatorial orbit when I circularize. Oh, fuel is almost gone, time to stage!"

*stages without resetting the ASAS*

ASAS: "All the weight and stuff just changed, I'm gonna point 5 degrees to the North just to spite you."

Me: "FFFFFFFFFFFFFF"

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Deadweasel

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Also a good practice to turn it off before staging if you have wings on your discarded tanks.

Took me a few mid-flight "profile deviations" (read: horrible fatal explosions on ascent) to realize that the whatever full deflection the wings were at at the moment of staging, that's what they were stuck on as the tanks left the vehicle, usually guiding the tanks to careen right back into the rest of the ship and blowing everything apart.

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Merinsan

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So I take it my experience with ASAS is abnormal in that it only overcompensates on me very occasionally? Or am I one of the few who knows to turn off gimballing for side engines? Seriously, that tames the ASAS to a huge degree.

I frequently have my ASAS decide to burn off RCS while trying to dock, when I don't even press a button. It's like it knows I want to dock and says "Nope, not on my watch!"

I now prefer docking with SAS only.

Also, when jettisoning the second last stage of my launch stages, it freaks out, smashing the last engine into the empty fuel tanks I just jettisoned. Because of this I now am forced to turn it off while doing the staging. I guess the ASAS just wants to make sure I jettisoned the right part.

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Maddmatts

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|:"Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, Start, Select. Wait, why isn't it working? It always works in the sims! Argh! Mash all the buttons!!! I know! I'll try again" :|repeat

Morale of the story: Don't outsource ASAS coding to Konami.

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ASAS-derped-out
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Mubzat

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*T*

ASAS: "Automated Suicide Assistance System engaged"

ASAS: "Maintaining current heading"

ASAS: "Bored of current heading"

ASAS: "Pitching 180°"

ASAS: "Initiating structural dissasembly rotation"

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ASAS: Aww, another routine station module launch? Here, let me liven things up for you a bit!

[ship begins rotating at 300rpm]

Me: OH GOD THROTTLE DOWN SAS OFF! MANUAL ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL–

[ship begins drifting steadily into a nose-down attitude while still spinning]

ASAS: Let me help you with that!

[boosters fly off, engines tear apart, rocket rips in half and explodes]

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Bob: "Hey ASAS, why are you whistling? Concentrate on the steering!"

ASAS: "... OK ..."

Bob: "We're going to dump the first stage now! Three, two, one, Staging!"

ASAS: "I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER! I GOT THE MOOHOOHOOHOOHOOHOOHOOHOO"

Connection lost.

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