bad neighborhood

[Kruleworld]

so i parked my munbuggy in the street and the next morning, some thieves had stolen my wheels

(the lander legs on top are for flipping it over after a roll)

[Odo]

Whyd you park in the Mun Ghetto? Its common sense not to park in the Mun Ghetto.

[Kruleworld]

i made it to the mun (moon). now, how do i get back?

[elxverde]

That's definitely a shady area.

[Apollo1391]

Yep the kraken isn't a good neighbor

[katateochi]

hmmm, there is actually quite a bit of crime in this solar system. I've not had my wheels jacked before, but I've quite often had solar panels pinched while parked on planets with atmo's. I've learnt to always lock solar panels away before going for a hike but you can't do that with tyres, at least you can re inflate them!

[Madrias]

Yeah, the crime's high on the Mun. Some jerks flipped my rover down a hill. It was parked while I was busy gathering samples, come back from planting a flag and it's upside down and in pieces.

[Tw1]

but I've quite often had solar panels pinched while parked on planets with atmo's.

I particularly liked the comment about that when I was watching your Constelation video.

Just the other night, I had a whole space shuttle stollen. Yep.

Sh'tuule TT was on its way to Minmus, to serve as my base's emergency return vehicle.

Next time I played, it was gone.

Nothing of it in map view, tracking station, kerbal alarm clock, nope, nada.

There is a tiny chance it impacted Minmus while I was doing something with another member of that flotilla, but I'm sure it didn't have that low a periapsis.

Lucky it was unmanned, and there weren't any kerbals abducted as well.

Edited November 14, 2013 by Tw1

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

I've had solar panels vanish.

[ecat]

I remember one day having the legs pinched off my my Mun lander! While is was still in orbit! Twice!

Probably a similar kind of invisible creatures as the pen and sock steeling ones we have here on earth.

[Rowsdower]

If only they made lojack for spaceships.

[regex]

"I gotta get my mom's car out of this Bad Area."

[jwenting]

hmm, I've had entire rockets vanish. Switch out of map view, rocket gone, just a black screen...

[katateochi]

*snip Just the other night, I had a whole space shuttle stollen. snip*

A whole ship stolen!! wtf! Call the Kolice! I've not had that happen thankfully! Maddening!

As others have mentioned the theft of solar panels, just fyi, its to do with having a craft on a planet with an atmo and the craft being loaded as you approach it. Momentary forces act on it as if it was moving through the atmo and that breaks the panels. You just have to remember to fold them up before leaving a craft when in an atmo.

I wonder if a similar thing is causing the wheels to be broken, loading forces pushing the craft against the ground too hard or something?

[GamerMitch]

I've never had anything stolen from me,Just one time my mun rover rolled 1.5km away from the lander before I caught it,breaking one of the solar panels in the process...

[shoveycat]

As a good rule of thumb, stay as far away from Spacetroit as possible.

[Tw1]

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I wonder if a similar thing is causing the wheels to be broken, loading forces pushing the craft against the ground too hard or something?

It reminds me of a problem I had with a vehicle I landed on Minmus, each time I reloaded, the thing would jump up ten meters with the wheels broken. I suspected something was up with the terrain and the wheel's colliders, and added on legs with a kerbal and KAS's part attaching feature. It was fine after that.