Staging icons have an asterisk (*) attached to them when moved, any deeper meaning?

[wiswariat]

When I just click together a spaceship, the stages are automatically sorted, and once I move some around every stage has an asterisk next to it. Reset would dischard these reorderings.

Is there a deeper meaning to this other than letting me know that the staging was changed? Can I save stagings to recall them mid flight? Can I reset only part of the staging?

Edited August 4, 2014 by wiswariat

[UmbralRaptor]

The meaning is literally that they have been reordered. Stages can be dragged around in flight, though often action groups serve the same purpose better.

[wiswariat]

I also prefer action groups, but contracts can only be fulfilled via staging. Fiddling with that I think I found a bug when doing that too much in flight.

And I expected the asterisk to be used for something more sophisticated..., but thanks for the answer anyhow

[Vanamonde]

What? I have been playing this game for 2 years, and never noticed that. Is it a new feature?

[Master Tao]

Huh... They're present in the 18.3 demo, but not 12.2.

[UmbralRaptor]

What? I have been playing this game for 2 years, and never noticed that. Is it a new feature?

The asterisk was added in 0.13.2

(Which seems sort of ironic, given that 0.13.x had ongoing issues with staging bugs)

Edited August 5, 2014 by UmbralRaptor