"You know you messed it up when..." thread

[DarthJazno]

Near the end of your 10 minute Dres orbital burn you notice your Kethane miner landers have no Kethane tanks. Better you notice the same thing after landing on the Mun.

During your Mun insertion burn you notice your landers have no RCS thrusters. Plenty of RCS fuel, but no thrusters.

[Windchild]

When you have no control suddenly after finally getting to orbit...

A staging mishap! :(

This was after trying for three hours to get it into orbit...

[Geschosskopf]

You know you messed up when the only flags you've ever planted are all scattered about KSC and have names like "Obcott Kerman Crash #5". Must not be landing fast enough

[NeoMorph]

When you have no control suddenly after finally getting to orbit...

A staging mishap! :(

This was after trying for three hours to get it into orbit...

God I hate that... All because of a broken connection between stages. I equally hate it when you cut the engines... and they continue to burn because of this problem.

[SkyRender]

You know you messed up when you discover that you obstructed the hatch. This realization tends to come right around when you get to the surface of Duna/Eve/Laythe/wherever you happened to be going.

[T3rran]

You know you've messed up when you go to dock your space station parts, but time warp it too far, and by sheer luck of the draw, smash the two parts into one another.

Then spend the next five minutes wondering what happened while you were in the restroom, letting this goof up happen.

[Strategia]

You know something is very, very wrong when your ion engines explode from overheating.

[Sephta]

...you try to turn your ship prograde in your aero-break over Eve and you can't...

[Narfmeister]

You insert your probe into an orbit too high around Duna causing Ike to pull your probe into a crash course with its surface.

I know you love me Ike but this probe has chutes for a reason...

[Brun]

When you realize you just spent an hour building a lander/rover but forgot to load your pre-built launching vehicle first.

[Flixxbeatz]

You forgot to put fuel lines on your lifter.

[FlamedSteak]

When you think you have enough support struts.

[Bekiekutmoar]

When you flew all the way to Jool and hit the F9-button to quicksave and then suddenly find yourself on the launchpad again ...

[Flixxbeatz]

When you flew all the way to Jool and hit the F9-button to quicksave and then suddenly find yourself on the launchpad again ...

I did something like this before, while descending to Mun in a botched landing attempt pressed and held F9 to quickload and I found myself sitting in the launchpad again.

[Merinsan]

When you hit F5 to quicksave while trying to land, about 100 meters off the ground. Then when quickloading, you find the ship is rotated 90 degrees from when you saved it.

[Guest Brody_Peffley]

when you forgot the docking port and wasted your life trying to dock

[joppiesaus]

When you don't use F5.

[ninjaADude]

When you forgot to turn symmetry on for one strut and all of the sudden

[Tristavius]

When you realize halfway through a landing you messed up your action groups... only when your decent engines not only ignite, but jettison ans shoot back into space.

[CHR1SZ]

When you retract your solar panels in preparation for landing your first probe on Eve and realise that the probe has no batteries...

[DChurchill]

When you hit the space bar after a successful landing on another body, like you would to ignite the first stage at KSC, and the capsule pops off the stack and you haven't hit F5.

[The Jedi Master]

When you realize that you have nowhere near enough fuel to get the rescue team off the Mun. (happened to me so many times!)

When you realize you forgot to extend the solar panels on the probe. (also happens to me a lot)

[Ford_Prefect]

You know you messed it up, when you finally, after one hour, are 20 centimeters from your half-built stations Sr. Docking Port with your asymmetrical ship, which only features a Mainsail and no RCS, ready to dock, and realize, that you put the Sr. Docking Port of the station the wrong way around.

Seriously, why do both ends look so similar?

I started a new save after that one...

[Fried]

when you accidently hit space with your srbs lit... when you dock and relies it is the wrong port... when your rover flips during a speed run.

[Windchild]

When you are reentering and realize that you forgot parachutes and only have a pair of nuclear engines...

God I hate that... All because of a broken connection between stages. I equally hate it when you cut the engines... and they continue to burn because of this problem.

I wish they had kept burning....

I just needed 20,000m to get into orbit

I did relaunch it with the fix, and have got a 393t ship into orbit

It has just over 4 orange tanks (11520 L) spare fuel in the launch stage (which is 108t)

The final ship after using up what is left in the launch stage is 285t, including 20160 L of fuel and 5250 L of RCS...