Keyboard lock bug or "feature"?

[LameLefty]

Is there a some key combo that locks the keyboard entirely that I have hit accidentally (ie a gameplay "feature") or do I have a bug? I was sending a rover to the Mün and came out of warp about 1 minute or so prior to my braking burn and discovered after I hit F5 to Quicksave (or actually fn-F5 on my Mac) that none of my keyboard commands are working - no attitude controls, no engine thrust controls, nothing. My system keyboard itself is fine - the caps lock key button lights up normally, screen brightness and sound volume keys work, and all my other apps are fine. I quit the game and haven't restarted yet. I wanted to post this and see if what happened to me is some kind of feature that I didn't know about or if my game glitched somehow.

Thanks.

EDITED TO ADD: Answered now, see below. Thanks very much!

Edited August 3, 2013 by LameLefty

[ChrisWill]

This happened to me check your electric charge probably ran out of power.

[Jarin]

The power thing happened to me, too. See that escape tag on my solar ribbon? That would be an interplanetary drive test that I forgot to put solar panels on, and the controls died at full burn.

[SRV Ron]

Also fatal, staging the capsule accidentally while on powered flight. A noobie did that launching Jeb into solar orbit as the third stage continuing burning until all its fuel was gone. Now, he is stranded with no power and no way home.

[LameLefty]

This happened to me check your electric charge probably ran out of power.

D'oh!!! That was it. Turns out neither the booster nor the rover/lander I threw together had a battery. And while there were ample solar cells, I was on a trajectory directly away from the sun. When I told my teenage daughter about my mistake (she's watched me play a bit before) she responded appropriately: "Rookie mistake, Dad. Rookie mistake." LOL

Thus endeth the Lunokkerbal-2 mission: a dead rover/lander and upper stage, looping endlessly around the Kerbin/Mün system in a highly elliptical orbit. Lunokkerbal-3 was amply provisioned with both batteries AND solar cells (including an articulated array on the upper stage) to prevent this kind of rookie mistake in the future. Unfortunately, I missed my optimal launch window and tried to brute force it. I ended up depleting my upper stage before my periapsis lowering burn near the Mün and had to use my lander's smaller engines to try to kill too much horizontal velocity. I might have made it except I came down in rough terrain and ran out of altitude. Oops.

But try try again is our motto and Lunonkkerbal-4 landed successfully after riding a substantially larger upper stage all the way to a stable Münar orbit! Of course, in true Kerbal fashion, I killed my horizontal velocity at much higher altitude than planned; my lander stage depleted its tanks at about 30 or 40 meters above the surface. My landed survived the low-g drop to the surface, and staging resulted in a less-than-optimal separation event; it sort of just rolled off the rover and fell over, like the shell of a molting insect. But it's down. Huzzah!

[ChrisWill]

Awesome, looks like your rover is set to roam the Mun for years.

[razark]

This happened to me check your electric charge probably ran out of power.

That was it.

Dang. After glancing at this thread earlier, I had my controls stop responding, just before I hit my docking target at 10+ m/s. I was able to go to the map, but not control the ship. I know it was not a power issue. I finally hit Esc, and "Resume Flight", and control was returned (About ten times further from my target than I started at...)

I was hoping someone could explain it.

[zxcvbnmhgfdsadfghjkhgfdawq]

The exact same thing happened to me, but it's not batteries. When I try to use the symmetry feature (X) or even type a name in for a spacecraft it won't let me use my keyboard. I deleted all my mods and rebooted my computer. And as you can see I can type perfectly fine here, just not use any keys in KSP.

 

I also use a Mac (non-Steam)

Edited November 14, 2016 by zxcvbnmhgfdsadfghjkhgfdawq
extra clarification to problem

[Palaceviking]

On 03/08/2013 at 3:49 AM, razark said:

Dang. After glancing at this thread earlier, I had my controls stop responding, just before I hit my docking target at 10+ m/s. I was able to go to the map, but not control the ship. I know it was not a power issue. I finally hit Esc, and "Resume Flight", and control was returned (About ten times further from my target than I started at...)

I was hoping someone could explain it.

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