What the potato?

[Starwhip]

Has anyone else gotten asteroids that, when you click on them as if you were to target the CoM or take a sample, have the heading: "a potato-like rock"?

They don't give you science, and you can EVA right through them. (But you can still claw them.)

Mine was a D-Class on direct impact to Kerbin, heavy as a whale but extremely small.

Edited April 14, 2014 by KasperVld

[Starwhip]

Am I the only one? Really?

That's bizarre. I noticed it in the config a while ago, but I didn't realize what it meant.

[SkyRender]

It gets better. At least one of the asteroid model names is "potatoroid". You can find this by, for example, blasting the surface of one with your engines.

[Cmdr. Arn1e]

Yup, had heard this - and if a solar panel is blocked by an asteroid, it says "Blocked by potatoroid" hehe

[NecroBones]

Yeah, the asteroid item type in the save-files is "PotatoRoid".

[Shna_na]

Yup, had heard this - and if a solar panel is blocked by an asteroid, it says "Blocked by potatoroid" hehe

That would be a fun way to lose a mission.

"We've lost all power to the probe core."

"What?! How?"

"It turns out that the solar panels are "blocked by potatoroid"... Gah, again? We'll send another one up."

"Scrap that, try longer solar panels."

"You sure that'll work? This is a Class E potatoroid we're talking about here."

"More boosters? Struts? Crewed missions? I'll do anything to turn that potatoroid into a station, even if it kills me!"

"Come on, Jeb, you've already died 61 times this year."

"Then number 62 should be a breeze..."

Edited April 15, 2014 by Shna_na

[Starwhip]

Hey, I found the screenshot!

[Shna_na]

Hey, I found the screenshot!

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That's a very plain and low-res asteroid... Are the others like that for you? Is it your settings or a bug? Or a feature of the famed potatoroid?

[Starwhip]

The answer?

No, they're not all like that. That seems to be something with the potatoroid.

[Shna_na]

The answer?

-snip-

No, they're not all like that. That seems to be something with the potatoroid.

Ah. I see. In that case, potatoroids might just use the textures for terrain scatter, that's my guess.