Catastrophic Undocking

[Odo]

As I was messing around in KSC being bored and wondering what to do, I switched to my station and saw I still had a craft docked to it. Well it wasnt needed anymore so I decided I was gonna undock it, land it at KSC, with whatever crew from the station I chose fit to get a vacation.

Welp thats all well and good, right? Nope!

Instead the game decides to curse me with some terrible bug. Some terrible bug you ask? Thats right!

As I undocked my station literally took a dead drop. Just straight down. Its periapsis vanished, and along with it, its orbit. Now moments ago this was in a stable orbit of 80km x 80km. But nope, now its 80km by 0 with no arc.

So basically as soon as I undock, my station literally fell straight out of the sky, ramming my now terrified crew (the ones who were going back down) to be slammed into the solarpanel arrays shattering tanks rupturing crew modules, basically just plowing its way through a station now falling ontop of it.

My first station, a month of docking and hard work destroyed because of some stupid weird bug.

Can someone tell me what the hell happened? No mods are installed, and no cheats were enabled on debug menu.

[Odo]

Ive reloaded a save from a few days ago and it still happens. Every single time I undock that craft it just makes my space station plummet.. T_T

Help someone?

[Lazro]

Do you have hyperedit? If not, get it and change the orbit of your station as soon as you undock. If that fails, you could edit your save file if you know how.

[Odo]

Do you have hyperedit? If not, get it and change the orbit of your station as soon as you undock. If that fails, you could edit your save file if you know how.

Not sure if Hyperedit works on Macs...?

I also checked its thread and doesnt look like it has the most updated version.

No. I dont know how to edit my save file, have never cheated before :/

[Decoherent]

"Mike broke the Hubble!"

[Lazro]

Hyperedit actually has its own webpage, I think.

http://www.kerbaltekaerospace.com/

[Odo]

Ill try hyperedit

Does anyone know what might be causing this though?

[Odo]

FIxed it guys!

The problem lied somewhere in the engine and fuel tank on the docked craft.

I decoupled that whole section (there is still retro SRBS on the capsule to deorbit) and when I undocked nothing weird happened. I deorbitted it and they are happily landed at KSC with teh rest of the station also happily orbiting

Crises averted!

On the downside said undocked kerbins died on re entry..

I forgot to stop timewarping and their chutes snapped when they fully opened which resulted in them turning into a firey explosion.

Thus are the dangers of playing a game in alpha.

Edited October 5, 2013 by Odo