Can't use stages.

[stinkee]

Whenever I try to stage I cannot. The stage light is purple indicating it is locked. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing. Alt-L does nothing.

Occasionally it will allow me to stage but then it stops letting me halfway through the flight.

[Elementus]

Do you have any mods? What are you trying to stage?

[Manwith Noname]

Is the flight "manned"?

[Gunch]

do you have control? like if you put a booster on the pad with nothing else it wont do anything.
also, if your using a probe core or computer core of somekind, make sure it has batteries and charge.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Shadow Dragon:

make sure it has batteries and charge.

And communication.

[stinkee]

Originally posted by Elementus:

Do you have any mods? What are you trying to stage?

Just any part of a rocket, it won't stage. Doesn't happen to any one part of a rocket specifically. Seems to be a random pattern. I had mods but got rid of them all and the problem still persists.

Originally posted by Manwith Noname:

Is the flight "manned"?

Yes, all of these flights I'm doing are manned.

Originally posted by Shadow Dragon:

do you have control? like if you put a booster on the pad with nothing else it wont do anything.
also, if your using a probe core or computer core of somekind, make sure it has batteries and charge.

I have charge, and I have control. I'm pretty sure the game physically will not let you attempt to build a rocket without placing a command object first.

Originally posted by Washell:

Originally posted by Shadow Dragon:

make sure it has batteries and charge.

And communication.

These are all manned flights so they shouldn't need it, but they do have communication abilities.

[Elementus]

Can you show us screenshot of your problem

[RC735i]

Same thing here... staging is purple, can't do anything to change. Alt-L does nothing, you can fully activate everything manually, but staging is broken.

[RC735i]

SOLVED!!!!!

For some reason, the staging overlay in the bottom left is broken. It will stage lock with no way to unlock manually. Only way to solve is change to some other overlay (docking or orbital) and switch back to staging. Alternatively, click the staging button while you're already in staging to hide the left menu of stages (thus locking stages), then click it again to expand the left menu and unlock staging.

[Kazeck]

Thank you so much RC735. I was about to rage-quit after building a huge rocket and being unable to launch.

[XIII]

Yeh man, the staging function in general is one of the oldest and most byzantine pieces of code in the entire game. Couldnt replace it without breaking a lot of stuff in the game, thats why it has those weird behaviours.

KSP 2 will prolly be the fix for that.

[MechBFP]

This isn’t a game problem. I have NEVER had this happen.

[RC735i]

Glad to help Seth! Thanks for the relevant reply too and not just coming in here complaining for no reason at all about a problem you're not experiencing in the first place. That would be really stupid and a waste of time for everyone. ಠ_ಠ