Engines not firing on staging trigger.

[SSSPutnik]

Argh, landing on Tylo, I start descent on nukes, fine, but I have a cluster of 4 aerospikes to trigger next, shortly before touchdown.

I hit stage, and the stage triggers, but the engines, they do nutting!

If I right click, I can activate, (but go into crazy spin as only one of 4 activated) and I don't have time to cut thrust and manual activate them all before lithobraking.

I did rearrange staging before descent. Any ideas? Using MJ.

Edited January 26, 2014 by SSSPutnik
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[Captain Sierra]

Um, pictures? preferably with your staging visible would do wonders to help diagnose the problem. I assume since you can manually trigger one that fuel feed is not the problem.

[SSSPutnik]

Yeah, I think its MJ. If I do manual descent it works...

MJ triggers the stage but the engines stay off

Looks like manual it is !

[MaverickSawyer]

Hmm... did you enable autostaging? It's in the "Utilities" section.

[Rhomphaia]

Have you fired the aerospikes before and then manually shut them down? IIRC staging wont activate them again. Action groups are what you need.

[SSSPutnik]

Yeah, they were activated by mistake briefly, hmm that could be it then.

Can't create action groups around Tylo orbit Next ship, definitely.

Yes, tried with and without auto stage.

[SSSPutnik]

Turns out its probably due to the engines being previously used, they won't auto trigger again apparently.

[Roxette]

Can't create action groups around Tylo orbit

You could with this addon

[Pecan]

You could with this addon

Or http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/61263