Probably bug on unmanned offline ships

[thyriel]

KSP Version: 0.25.0.642 (x64)

An offline spacecraft (unmanned, not enough electricity) can not be controlled in any way, but there is one exception to this that seems like a bug to me. I had a xenon driven satellite out there. While the ion drive used a bit more electricity then was powered through solar panels and i wasn't super concentrated, i reached the point it went offline. Ion drive was still active, as electricity was slowly generated, but there was no way to make it react again, or go to spacecenter without abandoning the satellite (no loading allowed, it was still under accelleration because without the power to balance it, it began spinning around).

But what i could still control was the xenon tank. Clicked the symbol to lock the tank, this powered off the ion drive and solars could start again loading batteries.

Not sure if that's a feature to have a little chance or if its a bug and offline ships should stay offline.

[sal_vager]

Offline craft shouldn't stay offline, but the power was being consumed by the drive before the probe could react, mixed up priorities there :/

[thyriel]

i know, but its strange that i can still lock / unlock resources while it's not reacting to anything else

[sal_vager]

Oh that, no that's deliberate, if you really need to justify it, think of it as a low voltage wake-up circuit.