Docking port...Dangerous to dock.

[Sirine]

Version 21.1.

The docking somehow causing non-stop irregular vibration among the crafts and my cause serious explosion or something very bad.

This happened to me so many times and from various docking port (Jr. to normal to Sr. size).

I will have to quick save and load many times before a success docking.

It is repeatable by just connecting the docking as U shape. or many to many docking (such as 2 to 2 docking at the same time)

Even 1 to 1 Sr. docking port with only Jumbo Fuel tank from each other might cause the non-stop vibration.

So, is this a bug? I have try to deactivate the ASAS from both side, but they produce the same result.

Sorry. Please redirect me, if I'm posting to wrong channel.

Any solution for this?

Edited August 17, 2013 by Sirine
Solution found.

[Tripzter]

What is your solution that you've found?

[pebble_garden]

Oh man, it's so tantalizing when they don't post the solution.

[Amoun]

Could the torque have been on? O___o

First thing that came to mind.

[Sirine]

Put (EAS-4 strut connector) x4 at the docking port to your main mass body.

Reduce the docking to 0.05m/s....super slow. It shows 0m/s but still moving, and "straight forward" only.

Always quick save, and pray and hope for the best. (Sorry, but that is my solution.)

[MiniMatt]

I think I've seen something similar to this a couple of times. Successful dock is immediately followed by a resonating wobble which amplifies until pretty explosions are seen high in the night sky.

Hunch would be something to do with high part counts, something like the physics calculations not being able to parse through every part in the window provided by a single update resulting in an accumulation effect.

Partial solution I found was to - immediately upon dock completing - exit to the space centre, from there head back into the tracking station and fly your newly docked contraption once more from there. Quitting direct control of the ship I guess nullifies all physics calculations allowing you to a return to a completely reset and stable ship.

[Dkmdlb]

Any chance SAS is involved here?

[Frederf]

The problem is the massive magical magnetism associated with docking so players don't have to be so precise. No matter how slowly you approach, you will impact with some minimum violence due to this "helper" system. Things get really destructive if the resulting wobble clips some parts together which will react with the force of a thousand suns.

I suggest sas off rcs off and time accel just after to freeze physics.

[Tripzter]

Yeah time warp makes it worse when you have bigger stations. You gotta turn off SAS and let stuff calm down a tiny bit before you can time warp.